Comparison
Fireflies.ai records the call. Minuta helps you answer in it.
Fireflies is a strong team notetaker for recordings, transcripts, summaries, and CRM workflows after the meeting. Minuta is for the moment inside a difficult customer or discovery call when you need the next answer now.
Before, during and after
Pick the right one
Fireflies.ai
- You want recordings, transcripts, and summaries available for the team after the call.
- You want the deepest CRM stack — HubSpot, Salesforce, Affinity, Wealthbox, Greenhouse all preconfigured.
- A bot in the call is fine for your prospects and clients, and a visible notetaker helps your workflow.
- You're enterprise-led and SOC 2 + HIPAA-BAA on Enterprise covers your buyer.
- Your team works in 5+ video platforms and you want one notetaker for all of them.
- You are in a hard sales, customer, or discovery call in English, Portuguese, or Spanish and need help answering while the call is still happening.
- Your customer's policy blocks third-party bots — sales into legal, healthcare, finance, public sector.
- You want local audio capture and local meeting records, with cloud AI processing instead of a meeting bot joining as another participant.
- You speak Portuguese or Spanish and want the website, not just the transcription engine, in your language.
- You want a real-time answer copilot, not just a post-meeting summary.
Side by side
| Feature | Fireflies | Minuta |
|---|---|---|
| Bot in the meeting | Yes — RecorderBot ("Fred") joins as participant↗ | No — no bot, no participant |
| Audio processing | Cloud (US/EU regions)↗ | Local capture; cloud AI processing (internet required) |
| Native PT website | No localized PT site found in the cited snapshot (transcription supports multiple languages)↗ | Yes — full PT-BR site |
| Native ES website | No localized ES site found in the cited snapshot | Yes — full ES site |
| Live answer copilot | Not confirmed in the cited snapshot; positioned around meeting notes | Yes (Pro) |
| Works offline | No | No (requires internet) |
| CRM integrations | ~42 — HubSpot, Salesforce, Affinity, Wealthbox, Greenhouse↗ | Stripe + Cognito (CRM via export) |
| Compliance | SOC 2 II, GDPR, HIPAA-BAA (Enterprise)↗ | Local meeting records; cloud AI processing |
| Platform | Mac, Windows, mobile, Chrome↗ | macOS, Windows & Linux |
| Free tier | Free $0 — 800 min/mo↗ | 7-day trial: 120 minutes total · then 60 shared minutes/month Free |
| Paid (per user, annual) | From $10/u/mo Pro↗ | Pro: see current plans |
Pricing as of 2026-04-30; check each vendor for the current numbers.
Where Minuta wins
- The live moment matters more than the archive. Fireflies is built for recordings, summaries, and follow-up workflows after the meeting. Minuta is built for the answer you need before the call moves on.
- Hard live calls are the problem. Minuta captures audio locally and drafts an answer in your tone while the customer is still waiting.
- Bots can be the wrong shape. Fireflies is transparent about Fred joining as a participant; that works for many teams. In regulated or sensitive sales calls, Minuta stays off the participant list.
- The data flow is different. Minuta avoids the meeting bot, stores meeting records in the desktop app, and sends audio or text excerpts to cloud AI for transcription and answers.
- Brazilian and LatAm buyers. In the cited snapshot, Fireflies supported multilingual transcription but no localized PT/ES site was found. Minuta publishes native PT-BR and ES pages.
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