Scriben vs Fireflies.ai
No bot joins the meeting.
Fireflies.ai puts an assistant into your calls and is good at what happens afterwards — search, summaries, CRM sync. Scriben captures the conversations a bot cannot reach, from a pen already on the table, and nobody in the room watches a notetaker arrive.
- What it actually is
- SoftwareA notetaker that joins the call
- A penIts own hardware, syncs to iOS
- Three years, one person
- $684Business, at $19 per seat per month billed annually
- $129Pen purchase. Free software plan included
- What has to be running
- A deviceSigned in, with the app or the call open
- NothingNo phone, no app, no network
- Writes on paper
- NoIt is software
- YesA real 0.6mm ballpoint
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What Fireflies does better.
Fireflies has the deeper software story for a sales team: conversation intelligence, CRM field sync, team analytics and a genuinely useful free tier with unlimited transcription. If your pipeline lives in recorded video calls, that is a real advantage and a pen will not replace it.
Beyond the recording
Capture is only the first step.
Scriben combines purpose-built hardware, durable memory and agents that can move approved work through the tools you already use.
Where each one works
The same week, on both.
Not a feature list. The actual situations a working week is made of, and what happens in each.
- A video call with a bot in the room
- ✓
- —
- A call where nobody should see a notetaker
- —
- ✓
- A meeting across a table, laptop shut
- Phone app
- ✓
- A site visit or a corridor conversation
- Phone app
- ✓
- Somewhere with no signal
- —
- ✓
- Capturing with nothing switched on at all
- —
- ✓
- Writing on paper while it captures
- —
- ✓
Fireflies joins meetings on Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and others as a notetaker, and also accepts uploaded audio. Where a row says Phone app, Fireflies can do it — on a phone you are holding out. Checked on 15 September 2026 on fireflies.ai.
Over time
Per seat, per month, for three years.
Fireflies’ free tier includes transcription but limits AI summaries and gives 400 minutes of storage for the whole team. The bars price Business, the tier with unlimited storage.
After one year
After two years
After three years
Fireflies figures checked on 15 September 2026 on fireflies.ai/pricing: Free at $0 with unlimited transcription, limited AI summaries and 400 minutes of storage per team; Pro $18 per seat per month, or $10 billed annually, with 8,000 minutes of storage per seat; Business $29 per seat per month, or $19 billed annually, with unlimited storage; Enterprise $39 per seat per month, annual billing only. The bars use the annual rate, which is Fireflies’ cheaper one, for one seat over three years. Prices change — check theirs before you decide. The Scriben bar is the Free plan at $0 a month after the $129 pen. Our Pro plan is $12.99 a month, and on Pro our three-year total would be $597 — still under Fireflies Business.
Questions
The ones people actually ask.
Is Scriben a Fireflies alternative?
Does a bot join my meeting with Scriben?
What does Fireflies cost?
Can I still use Fireflies for calls and Scriben for the room?
Which should I buy?
Also worth comparing
The other three.
Anyone choosing between two of these is usually choosing between several. Every page uses the same rules and dates its sources.
Honestly
Which one to buy.
Fireflies if your work is recorded calls and a CRM. Scriben if the conversations that matter happen in rooms, and if a visible notetaker would change how people speak.