Claryoo vs Fireflies.ai
Fireflies transcribes meetings and routes outputs across 100+ apps after the call. Claryoo runs during the call as a private host-side panel. When to pick each, and when running both makes sense.
Claryoo and Fireflies.ai both run AI on your meetings, but at opposite ends of the workflow. Fireflies is built for routing: its bot transcribes in 100+ languages, generates summaries and Soundbites, and pushes outputs into Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, Notion, Asana, ATSes. AskFred lets you query past meetings conversationally. Claryoo shows the host one thing during the call: a private panel of live signals.
One is built for what happens after. The other for what happens during.
New to this category? See How to read the room in virtual meetings for the four approaches hosts can take.
TL;DR
Fireflies.ai is a workflow-first AI notetaker. Bot joins, transcribes, summarizes, routes outputs across 100+ integrations. Free: 800 minutes/seat. Pro: $10/month (annual). Business: $19/month (annual). Enterprise: $39/month (annual) with HIPAA, SSO, SCIM.
Claryoo is a live host intelligence panel. It reads chat and audio during the call and surfaces signals in a host-only view. Nothing is sent to your attendees. Works on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams; start free, no card.
Pick Fireflies when downstream automation is the win: searchable transcripts, auto-populated CRM, action items routed into Asana or Linear, Soundbites shared in Slack.
Pick Claryoo when the in-meeting moment drives the outcome: demos, pitches, onboarding, recruiter screens.
Feature comparison
 Claryoo | Fireflies.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| When it runs | During the call | During (transcribing) + after (workflow push) |
| Primary output | Live signals in a host-side panel | Transcript, summary, Soundbites, routed actions |
| Visibility | Host-only | Distributed: Slack, CRM, project tools, email |
| Data persistence | Transcript kept for your recap; audio auto-deleted after 7 days | Transcripts + recordings stored |
| Real-time signal detection | Yes | No (transcription only) |
| Searchable archive | No | Yes (AskFred AI search) |
| Audio clip sharing | No | Yes (Soundbites) |
| Workflow integrations | None | 50+ (Salesforce, HubSpot, Asana, Trello, Lever, Greenhouse, Slack) |
| Language coverage | English (more soon) | 100+ languages |
| Platforms |  Zoom (Meet, Teams coming) | Zoom, Meet, Teams + audio/video upload |
| Free tier | 2 session hours/month, forever | 800 mins/seat, forever |
| Paid entry | TBD post-launch | $10/mo (annual Pro) |
| HIPAA / Compliance | Not yet | Enterprise tier |
Pick Fireflies when
- A revenue team where every customer call needs to land in Salesforce or HubSpot with action items already created in Asana.
- A multilingual sales org running calls in Spanish, Mandarin, Portuguese, and German that needs accurate transcripts across all of them.
- A marketing team that wants Soundbites of customer quotes extracted automatically for case studies.
- An enterprise with HIPAA, SOC2, or SSO requirements.
- Any team where "what was said three weeks ago in the Acme call?" gets asked weekly.
Pick Claryoo when
- A founder running back-to-back investor pitches who needs to catch the moment a partner leans away from the deck.
- A sales engineer in a demo who needs to surface the buried objection before the call ends.
- A customer success manager on a renewal where silence is the danger signal.
- A trainer sharing a screen on Zoom who can't see who looks lost.
- A recruiter doing screens where the pause matters more than the answer.
Can you use both?
Technically yes. Both join as bots; both run cleanly side by side. The dual-bot trade-off applies: two bots in the participant list is fine on internal calls, more noticeable on external ones.
The pattern: Fireflies where downstream automation is the win (CRM hygiene, customer-quote sourcing, multilingual transcript archives). Claryoo where the in-meeting moment drives the outcome.
Pricing
Fireflies has a free tier (800 minutes per seat, unlimited transcription, limited AI summaries). Pro is $10/month annual ($18 monthly) with 8,000 minutes/seat, unlimited summaries, and personal assistant features. Business is $19/month annual ($29 monthly) with unlimited storage, video recording, multi-language mode, and conversation intelligence. Enterprise is $39/month annual with private storage, HIPAA, SSO/SCIM, and a rules engine. Annual billing saves up to 44%. See fireflies.ai/pricing.
Claryoo has a Free plan with 2 session hours a month. Starter is $19/month for 8 hours and Pro is $39/month for 25 hours. Every account starts with 14 days of Pro, no card. See pricing.
What about Read.ai, Otter, Slido, or Mentimeter?
Fireflies sits in the same category as Read.ai and Otter.ai. All three are post-meeting notetakers; choice between them usually comes down to language coverage (Fireflies wins), CRM-native integrations (Read.ai and Fireflies both deep), or ecosystem fit. The longer Claryoo vs Read.ai post covers the post-meeting category in detail.
Slido and Mentimeter are audience-input tools. Different category from both Fireflies and Claryoo.
FAQ
Is Claryoo a replacement for Fireflies? No. Fireflies is a notetaker and workflow automation tool. Claryoo is a live host panel. Different jobs, different timing.
Does Claryoo create transcripts or Soundbites? Claryoo transcribes the call live to read the room and build your recap. Call audio is deleted automatically after 7 days.
Does Fireflies do anything in real time? Live transcription, yes. "Real-time" in Fireflies means captions appearing as people speak, not host-side signal detection.
Which is better for a multilingual sales team? Fireflies. Its 100+ language coverage is designed for that case.
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