Fireflies: free plan and promo codes
In short
Fireflies is an AI meeting secretary that joins your online calls and returns a speaker-labelled transcript. The free version is available as soon as you connect a calendar. Separately, paying for one month ($18) triggers an emailed invite to a year of Perplexity Pro (≈$240).
What is Fireflies.ai?
Fireflies is a meeting-transcription service. You connect your work calendar and its bot joins your Zoom, Google Meet or Teams calls, records them, and returns text labelled by speaker plus a short summary and a list of action items. You search the meeting by text instead of scrubbing a recording.
What you get
The free plan gives transcription and search with basic limits on volume and retention — enough to see whether the tool fits your workflow. The first-month bonus (a year of Perplexity Pro by invite) is Fireflies' own offer, not our promise: verify it on their site before paying. This is an affiliate link: you pay exactly the same, and the project gets a small referral bonus.
How to get access
- Click «Open» to go to Fireflies.
- Sign up and connect your work calendar (Google or Outlook).
- Tell participants a transcription bot will be on the call — in several jurisdictions that is a legal requirement, and it is simply polite.
- Run one real meeting and check transcript quality in the language you actually speak.
- Need bigger limits? Move to a paid plan.
Questions and answers
Does Fireflies have a free plan?
Yes, the free version is available immediately: meeting transcription and search, with limits on volume and retention. Paid tiers lift those limits and add integrations.
How does meeting transcription work?
Fireflies connects to your calendar and joins scheduled calls as a separate participant. Afterwards it returns speaker-labelled text, a short summary and a list of action items, all searchable by keyword.
Which languages does it transcribe?
Many, including Ukrainian. Quality depends heavily on audio: a headset produces a noticeably cleaner transcript than a laptop microphone in an echoey room.
Fireflies or Zoom's built-in recording?
Zoom gives you a file you still have to re-listen to. Fireflies gives you searchable text, a summary and action items. Once you have a lot of meetings, the difference is not the recording — it is how long it takes to find the one minute you need.
Related services
Provider terms change without notice — check the current pricing on the provider's own site before paying.