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ElevenLabs vs Fireflies.ai
A plain-English comparison to help you choose between them.
Opposite directions through the same microphone: one synthesises speech, the other listens to it. ElevenLabs generates realistic voice from text, with tone, emotion and pacing under control, consented cloning, dubbing across languages and conversational agents built on its API. Fireflies records and transcribes the team's calls, summarises them into decisions and actions, and syncs what mattered into the CRM, turning the archive into queryable meeting memory. Pick ElevenLabs to produce audio; pick Fireflies to understand conversations; the pairing is possible but the jobs never blur.
Side by side
- Summary
ElevenLabs is an AI audio platform best known for generating highly realistic speech from written text.
- Best for
- Creating realistic voiceovers without hiring a recording artist
- Translating and dubbing videos into multiple languages
- Producing narration for podcasts, audiobooks and training content
- Cost
- Freemium (Free tier + paid plans)
- Ease
- Openness
- Hosted service
- Data
- All products draw from one shared credit pool, so dubbing drains the text-to-speech budget fast; premium voices cost more per character and Conversational AI bills separately by active hour. The sticker price is not the bill. Consumer-tier default-training terms are weak/unverified: use enterprise/DPA tiers for confidential audio and human-review outputs.
- Summary
Fireflies is meeting intelligence wired into the revenue stack: it records and transcribes calls across a very wide language set, summarises them into decisions and actions, and syncs what mattered into the CRM and the team's other systems.
- Best for
- Transcription across a very wide language set
- Meeting summaries synced into the CRM automatically
- Questioning the whole meeting archive by asking
- Cost
- Freemium (Free tier + paid plans)
- Ease
- Openness
- Hosted service
- Data
- Meeting audio and transcripts store in Fireflies' cloud; check retention settings against your policies.
Pricing
- ElevenLabs
Free·$6·$22·$99·$299·$990·Custom
Prices as of August 2026.
- Free
- Free
- Starter
- $6per monthbilled monthly
- Creator
- $22per monthbilled monthly
- Pro
- $99per monthbilled monthly
- Scale
- $299per monthbilled monthly
- Business
- $990per monthbilled monthly
- Enterprise
- Price on applicationno list price published
- Fireflies.ai
Free$10/user·$19/user·$39/user
Prices as of August 2026.
- Free
- Free
- Pro
- $10per user, per monthbilled annually; $18 per user per month if billed monthly
- Business
- $19per user, per monthbilled annually; $29 per user per month if billed monthly
- Enterprise
- $39per user, per monthbilled annually
Common questions
Why do these two end up on one shortlist?
Because voice AI is one budget line at many companies, covering production and intelligence at once. A team building a voice agent may want ElevenLabs for the speaking half and a recorder for the listening half, and procurement meets them together. Feature-wise they touch only at conversational agents, and even there one supplies the voice, the other the record.
What consent duties come with each?
Real ones on both, differently shaped. ElevenLabs' voice cloning must be handled with appropriate consent, rights and disclosure, since the risk is synthesising someone. Fireflies inherits the recorder's obligations: consent norms, retention policy and bot-in-the-room etiquette before a team-wide rollout, since the risk is capturing someone. Neither duty transfers to the vendor.
Where do both stop short?
ElevenLabs is not a full audio-production suite: advanced mixing, music editing and sound design still need specialist software, and mispronounced names can take several attempts. Fireflies is a recorder-and-sync layer, not a conversation-intelligence coach, with scoring and pipeline coaching belonging to the revenue-intelligence platforms. Both are sharp at their centre and honest about their edges.
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Tool facts last checked August 2026