ElevenLabs vs Fireflies.ai
A feature-by-feature comparison of ElevenLabs and Fireflies.ai across 7 capability categories.
Modalities — ElevenLabs Wins
| Feature | ElevenLabs | Fireflies.ai |
|---|---|---|
Text Input | Yes | Yes, requires free plan. AskFred answers questions over your meeting library in the web app. |
Image Upload / Vision | No | No. Meeting recorder, not a vision model. |
Image Generation | No | No. Does not generate images. |
Voice Mode | Yes | Partial. Captures spoken meetings. Not a two-way voice assistant. |
Video Understanding | No | No. Records call audio. It does not watch the video as a vision model. |
Video Generation | No. Not a video generation product. | No. Not a video generation product. |
File Upload (PDF, DOCX) | Yes | Partial. Upload recordings. Not a general PDF chat product. |
Code Execution | No | No. Not a code sandbox. |
Audio Input | Yes | Yes, requires free plan. Records Zoom, Meet, Teams and more. Free plan exists; Pro/Business add minutes and integrations. |
Canvas / Artifact Editor | No | No. Transcript UI, not a canvas. |
Screen Sharing / Computer Use | No | No. No computer-use takeover. |
Memory & Context — Tie
| Feature | ElevenLabs | Fireflies.ai |
|---|---|---|
Persistent Memory | No | Partial. AskFred searches past meetings. Not a personal-facts memory profile. |
Large Context Window | No | No. Limits are storage/minutes, not an LLM token window. |
Custom Instructions | No | Unknown. Custom vocabulary was not re-checked on the pricing table. |
Conversation History | Yes | Yes, requires free plan. Meetings and AskFred threads persist in the account. |
Integrations — Fireflies.ai Wins
| Feature | ElevenLabs | Fireflies.ai |
|---|---|---|
Web Search / Browsing | No | No. Searches your conversations, not the live web. |
Plugins / Extensions | No | Yes, requires pro plan. Integrations (CRM, etc.) on paid; Zapier listed. Not a GPT plugin store. |
API Access | Yes | Yes, requires pro plan. API is listed on Business in the public pricing comparison. |
Zapier Integration | No | Yes, requires pro plan. Zapier is listed among Fireflies integrations. |
Custom GPTs / Bots | No | No. No custom-GPT store. |
Real-time Collaboration | Yes | Partial. Shared meeting workspace. Not a multiplayer AI doc. |
Live Social Data Integration | No. No live social firehose. | |
Live Citation Mapping | No. Citations are to your meetings. |
Developer — ElevenLabs Wins
| Feature | ElevenLabs | Fireflies.ai |
|---|---|---|
Function Calling | No | Unknown. AskFred is Q&A. A developer function-calling API was not separately confirmed. |
Streaming Responses | Yes | Yes, requires free plan. Live notes during the call. |
Fine-Tuning | Yes | No. You do not train Fireflies’ models. |
Embeddings API | No | No. Not an embeddings API product. |
Structured Output (JSON) | No | Partial. Summaries, action items, conversation intelligence. Not arbitrary JSON schema. |
Reasoning / Thinking Mode | No | No. AskFred is retrieval over meetings, not a Deep Think mode. |
Local Execution | No. Cloud SaaS. | |
Open Weights | No. Closed models. | |
Multi-Agent Orchestration | No. Not an orchestrator. |
Platforms — Fireflies.ai Wins
| Feature | ElevenLabs | Fireflies.ai |
|---|---|---|
Web App | Yes | Yes, requires free plan. fireflies.ai web app. |
iOS App | Yes | Yes, requires free plan. iOS app is listed. |
Android App | Yes | Yes, requires free plan. Android app is listed. |
Desktop App | No | Yes, requires free plan. Desktop app is listed alongside the Chrome extension. |
Chrome Extension | No | Yes, requires free plan. Chrome extension for bot-free capture. |
Privacy — Tie
| Feature | ElevenLabs | Fireflies.ai |
|---|---|---|
GDPR Compliant | Yes | Yes, requires free plan. Pricing page lists GDPR (and SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA). |
Opt Out of Data Training | Yes | Yes, requires free plan. Pricing page: they do not train on your data. |
Enterprise Privacy Mode | Yes | Yes, requires enterprise plan. SSO, SOC 2, HIPAA listed. Seat dollars were not extracted from the public table. |
Workspaces — ElevenLabs Wins
| Feature | ElevenLabs | Fireflies.ai |
|---|---|---|
Projects / Folders | Yes | Unknown. Overlapping columns disagreed (partial vs yes); left unverified rather than copying a no. |