Fireflies vs tl;dv

What Fireflies does

Fireflies captures calls through its Fred participant, a bot-free Chrome extension for Google Meet, desktop and mobile apps, dialers, and uploads. Transcripts feed summaries, topics, soundbites, AI search, speaker analytics, and many integrations.

Conversation Intelligence on the Business plan adds team-level metrics. Fireflies is particularly attractive when a company has calls coming from several platforms or needs multilingual transcription at scale.

What tl;dv does

tl;dv records Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, then connects the video to a transcript, notes, clips, timestamps, and AI reports. Its free plan includes unlimited recordings and transcripts, with monthly limits on advanced AI work.

Business features focus on revenue teams: sales playbooks, objection handling, scorecards, CRM fields, and reports that synthesize themes across multiple meetings. A desktop capture option also supports bot-free meetings.

At a glance

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Capture and platform support

Fireflies has the broader ingestion layer. Teams can capture normal video calls, selected Google Meet sessions without a bot, mobile or desktop audio, dialer calls, and existing recordings. This flexibility helps organizations standardize meeting data across varied tools.

tl;dv is more concentrated on Zoom, Meet, and Teams. Its visible recorder is easy to automate, while desktop capture handles situations where a bot is unwanted. The meeting video remains central to review and sharing.

Notes, search, and workflows

Fireflies excels at moving structured information out of the transcript. Topics, custom fields, AI Apps, integrations, and soundbites support many departmental workflows. Its conversation analytics can compare speakers and calls across a team.

tl;dv goes deeper into repeated sales analysis. Users can define a playbook, inspect objections, score calls, and ask for recurring reports across many meetings. This can reduce manual call review for sales managers and customer-facing teams.

Free plans and pricing

Fireflies Pro costs $10 per user per month billed annually or $18 monthly. Business is $19 annually or $29 monthly and adds Conversation Intelligence. Enterprise is listed at $39 annually. See Fireflies pricing.

tl;dv Pro costs $18 per user per month billed annually or $29 monthly. Business is $29 annually or $39 monthly and includes playbooks, objection handling, scorecards, and more AI. See tl;dv pricing.

Privacy and AI training

Fireflies says it and its AI providers do not train models on customer meeting content. Its published controls include SOC 2 Type II and GDPR. Workspace administrators should still set recording consent, retention, and external-sharing rules.

tl;dv says it does not train AI on customer meetings. It offers EU storage and a choice of EU or US AI hosting, encrypts data in transit and at rest, and describes sending randomized, anonymized chunks to AI providers. See its security commitment.

A different option: coaching for the person in the meeting

Both products in this comparison are built to preserve and distribute what happened. That still leaves a personal question unanswered: how well did you handle the conversation?

Work Coach records locally on Mac or Windows with no bot, then coaches only the account owner. It applies role-aware rubrics, links feedback to timestamped evidence, counts filler words with playback, reviews voice delivery, and turns real moments into voice practice. The results never appear in a manager dashboard or shared meeting report. It costs $50 a month after a two-week free trial.

Which one should you pick?

Frequently asked questions

Is Fireflies or tl;dv cheaper?

Fireflies has lower published annual prices for both Pro and Business. Compare included AI limits and the exact sales features you need, since the plan names do not contain identical capabilities.

Which supports more languages?

Fireflies advertises more than 100 languages. tl;dv advertises more than 30.

Which is better for sales coaching?

tl;dv is stronger for playbooks, objection tracking, scorecards, and recurring multi-meeting reports. Fireflies offers useful speaker analytics and Conversation Intelligence at a lower Business-tier price.

Can both record without a bot?

Yes, in supported workflows. Fireflies has a bot-free Google Meet extension and other apps. tl;dv provides desktop capture in addition to its meeting participant.

Do Fireflies or tl;dv train AI on meeting content?

Both publish commitments that customer meeting content is not used to train AI. Buyers should still review subprocessors, region settings, retention, and the contract for their plan.