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Fireflies is a deep, integration-heavy notetaker built around a cloud archive of your calls. If you want 100+ integrations and a big searchable cloud, it’s strong. But it’s per-seat, meters advanced AI behind AI credits, and everything lives in Fireflies’ cloud. Raven keeps meetings in a local database, has no seat fee or credits, adds live help during the call, and is open source.

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At a glance

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Price

Fireflies’ free tier records and transcribes, but caps storage and hands you a small one-time pool of AI credits - the advanced summaries and AskFred draw them down, so heavy use pushes you to Pro at $10/user/mo (annual; $18 monthly) and integrations/CRM depth to Business at $19/user/mo. Every tier is per seat. Raven’s AI is unlimited because you bill your own provider for usage - typically a few dollars a month - with no seat fee and no credit system.

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Where your meetings live

Fireflies stores your recordings and transcripts in its cloud so it can offer archive-wide search and integrations. Raven keeps everything in a local SQLite database on your machine - no account, no server - and its Ask feature searches your history from a local index. Audio only goes to the providers you chose with your own keys, and because Raven is open source, that path is auditable.

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What Fireflies does better (honestly)

  • Integration breadth - 100+ apps, deep CRM (HubSpot/Salesforce/Zoho/Pipedrive), and AskFred.
  • A big cloud archive with cross-meeting search and analytics on higher tiers.
  • Mature mobile apps and team features.
If your workflow is “route meeting data into a dozen other tools,” Fireflies is built for that.

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When Raven wins

  • You don’t want a per-seat subscription or AI-credit metering.
  • You want meetings on your machine, not a cloud archive.
  • You want live help during the call, not just a recap.
  • You want to audit the tool (open source) and pay your AI provider cents.

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Switching from Fireflies

  1. Export any transcripts you want to keep from Fireflies.
  2. Download Raven, add your keys, enable meeting auto-start.
  3. Run both for a week; cancel Fireflies once Raven covers your notes habit. (Importers are on the roadmap.)

Download Raven

Free, open source, Mac + Windows. Bring your own keys.

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Fireflies pricing verified August 2026 (fireflies.ai/pricing). Vendors change pricing often - confirm before relying on a figure.