Comparison
txscribe vs Fireflies, for recordings you already have
Fireflies is a meeting notetaker: a bot that joins your calls, live notes, apps for phone and desktop. If a bot in your meetings is what you need, it does things we don't.
It also takes uploads, and that is what this page compares: how long a recording can be, what each plan lets you download, and what happens to your recordings.
Fireflies's details checked on its own pages on ; each links to its source. Plans and prices change — if something here is out of date, tell us at support@txscribe.ai.
Price
txscribe
Pro: $24.99 a month, billed monthly. One plan, no seats.
Fireflies
Pro $18 per seat a month, or $10 a month billed annually; Business $29, or $19 billed annually; Enterprise $39 per seat a month, billed annually only. Source
Time included
txscribe
Pro: 30 hours a month. Without an account: one recording, up to 10 minutes.
Fireflies
Uploads on paid plans: up to 3,000 minutes per user a month, then $0.01 a minute. Free: each upload uses one transcription credit, and a new account made on the web starts with 3. Stored minutes are capped in total, not monthly: 400 per team on Free (its help centre says per seat), 8,000 per seat on Pro, unlimited on Business and above. Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Longest recording
txscribe
Up to 8 hours per file on Pro. Without an account, the first 10 minutes of one recording.
Fireflies
Uploads up to 150 minutes on every plan; video files up to 100 MB on Free and 2 GB on paid plans, audio up to 500 MB. Source
Languages
txscribe
82 languages (110 regional variants in the picker). Speaker labels offered in all of them — in 96, only on recordings of up to 2 hours, and not where that pass fails.
Speaker names
txscribe
Speakers come back numbered. Rename one once and every line follows; names you have used before are offered again.
Fireflies
Uploaded files are split into Speaker 1, Speaker 2 and so on, which the file's owner can rename. Source
Exports
txscribe
TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT, Final Cut Pro captions, Premiere Pro markers, transcripts for NVivo, MAXQDA and ATLAS.ti, and JSON, on every plan, including Free. Up to 100 transcripts at once as one ZIP, and the audio or video file you uploaded can be downloaded again.
Fireflies
Downloads on Pro and above: transcripts as PDF, DOCX, SRT, CSV, JSON or MD, and the recording as MP3 or MP4. Source
Checking against the audio
txscribe
Words come back with timestamps: click any line to jump to that moment in the recording. A line you correct keeps its paragraph's timing rather than per-word timing. Answers to questions about a transcript link to the moments they came from.
Training on your recordings
txscribe
We do not use your recordings or transcripts to train models.
Fireflies
Its Terms say it will not use your content to train generative AI models, though it may derive usage and statistical data from it to improve the service; its help centre says "No AI Training. Ever.", and its security page lists "No Data Training" and says it doesn't train on your data "by default". Sources 1, 2, 3
Where Fireflies is the better choice
- Meetings. A bot for Zoom, Meet, Teams and more, live transcription, a Chrome extension that records without the bot, and mobile and desktop apps, on every plan. Source txscribe has no meeting bot; it can show live captions while you record in the browser, but the transcript you edit comes afterwards.
- Price and volume, billed yearly. Pro $18 per seat a month, or $10 a month billed annually; Business $29, or $19 billed annually; Enterprise $39 per seat a month, billed annually only. Source Billed yearly or monthly, Fireflies Pro costs less a month than txscribe Pro, which is billed monthly only, and allows more upload minutes a month — though it keeps only a fixed total of stored minutes, and each upload is shorter.
- More languages. Its help centre says 100+ languages; a multi-language mode for recordings that switch language is in beta, on Business and Enterprise only. Sources 1, 2 That is more languages than txscribe transcribes.
- Compliance on every plan. Its pricing lists SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance on every plan, and HIPAA on Enterprise. Sources 1, 2, 3 We have no SOC 2 report.
What txscribe doesn't do well
- Speaker labels stop at 2 hours in 96 of our 110 language variants: there a separate pass labels the speakers, and a longer recording — or one whose pass fails — comes back without labels and says so, with no speakers to rename.
- A recording that switches language partway may come back translated rather than transcribed — or not at all — and nothing marks it as missing. Name the main language instead of leaving it on automatic.
- Summaries do not point back to the moment each line came from. Answers to questions do.
Try it on one of your recordings.
Up to 10 minutes, no account and no card. A table can tell you the limits; only your own audio tells you whether the transcript holds.
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