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Fireflies.ai vs Gladia

The verdict
  • Fireflies.ai has a free tier to start; Gladia does not.
ComparedFireflies.aiGladia
Starting price$18/mo$0.61/hr
Free tierYes
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Feature by feature

FeatureFireflies.aiGladia
Languages100+100+
APIYesYes (core product)
Real-timeNoYes
Speaker labelsYesYes (diarization)
Export formatsTXT, SRT, DOCX, PDF, JSONJSON, SRT, VTT
Human optionNoNo

Fireflies.ai

Teams that want an AI notetaker to auto-join meetings and generate searchable summaries.

  • +Auto-joins Zoom, Meet, and Teams
  • +AI summaries, action items, topic tracking
  • +Searchable archive across all meetings
  • +GraphQL API and CRM integrations

Gladia

Developers who need cheap, high-volume speech-to-text with real-time streaming and diarization in a single API.

  • +Very low per-hour cost, especially at committed volume
  • +100+ languages with automatic language detection
  • +Async and real-time streaming in one API
  • +10 free hours every month

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