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Go from Fireflies.ai to Fathom

The job: AI meeting notes (Notetaker for Zoom, Google Meet and Teams, Transcription, AI meeting summaries, Search across meetings). Pick where you are today and where you want to land; the move below follows your pick.

From · what you pay for now
Fireflies.ai
Fireflies.ai Pro · $18/mo
Year one+$166modeled
To · your pickBest fit
Fathom
Free plan · $0 a month
Change where you land

The money

$18/mo today , then $0/mo

Fireflies.ai Pro

Year one, net+$166
Pays back in2.8 months

Modeled from public list prices, with your time at $50 an hour. Show the math

Does it do the job? 4 of 4 covered

  • Covered: Notetaker for Zoom, Google Meet and Teams
  • Covered: Transcription
  • Covered: AI meeting summaries
  • Covered: Search across meetings

The work

Setup
About 1 h
Upkeep
None
Watch out
Check first: You only rely on: Notetaker for Zoom, Google Meet and Teams, Transcription, AI meeting summaries, Search across meetings

Make the move in four steps

  1. Export from Fireflies.ai

    All meetings and file recordings (audio, and video if available), transcripts with speaker identification, AI summaries and attendee information. Format: Audio MP3, video MP4…

    Export steps
  2. Set up Fathom

    Suits individuals and small teams that want free, unlimited recordings with AI summaries in Zoom, Meet or Teams; action items, Ask Fathom and CRM sync need a paid plan.

    Details
  3. Switch links and integrations

    Point links, embeds and integrations at Fathom, then send a test through every one.

  4. Cancel Fireflies.ai

    Turn off renewal before your renewal date, once the new setup works. Access runs until: The end of the current billing period.

    How to cancel Fireflies.ai
Open FathomHow to cancel Fireflies.ai
Modeled, not measured. Savings use public prices and planning assumptions: the bill you stop paying, minus the new tool, your upkeep time and your setup time at $50/hour, over the first 12 months. Paths marked Tested by Stackcut were run end to end by us on our own products. They're our tests, not customer results. Check the must-haves in each recipe before you switch.

The whole recipe: 4 ways out, best first

What you use

  • Notetaker for Zoom, Google Meet and Teams
  • Transcription
  • AI meeting summaries
  • Search across meetings

Not covered

  • Action items and task detection
  • AskFred AI chat over meetings
  • Video recording and downloads
  • CRM and app integrations

Check before switching

  • You only rely on: Notetaker for Zoom, Google Meet and Teams, Transcription, AI meeting summaries, Search across meetings
  • Export your data from Fireflies.ai before canceling

Agents: get_recipe("replace-fireflies") on the Stackcut MCP server.

4 ways out, best first

Cheaper planFireflies.ai (free tier)Saves $204 in year one
$18/mo today → $0/mo · setup 0.25 h · then $216/yr · payback 0.7 mo
If your use fits the free tier (Free forever: unlimited transcription only with calendar auto-join on (otherwise 3 meeting transcriptions); AI summaries use a few sign-up credits (3 via the website bot); 20 AI credits a month; 400 minutes of stored meetings (pricing page says per team, help center says per seat); 2-hour recording limit; no downloads or video recording; all integrations included).
Covers 75% of the core features (not: AI meeting summaries)
Suits light users: the notetaker, search and integrations are free and transcripts are unlimited with auto-join on, but AI summaries run on a few sign-up credits, storage is 400 minutes and recordings stop at 2 hours.
How we got this
You pay now: Fireflies.ai Pro$18/user/mo × 1 user$18/mo
New cost: Fireflies.ai (free tier)free plan$0/mo
Difference each month$18 − $0+$18/mo
Over 12 months+$18 × 12+$216
Setup, once0.25 h × $50/h−$12
Year one+$216 − $12+$204
  • Not counting your time (0.25 h in year one): saves $216 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Already includedZoom WorkplaceSaves $191 in year one
$18/mo today → $0/mo · setup 0.5 h · then $216/yr · payback 1.4 mo
Covers 50% of the core features (not: Notetaker for Zoom, Google Meet and Teams, Search across meetings)
Suits teams already paying for Zoom Workplace Pro or Business, where AI Companion meeting summaries and My Notes AI note-taking are unlimited (Basic gets 3 a month).
How we got this
You pay now: Fireflies.ai Pro$18/user/mo × 1 user$18/mo
New cost: Zoom Workplacealready in a plan you pay for$0/mo
Difference each month$18 − $0+$18/mo
Over 12 months+$18 × 12+$216
Setup, once0.5 h × $50/h−$25
Year one+$216 − $25+$191
  • Not counting your time (0.5 h in year one): saves $216 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Switch vendorFathom (free tier)Saves $166 in year one
$18/mo today → $0/mo · setup 1 h · then $216/yr · payback 2.8 mo
If your use fits the free tier (Free forever: unlimited recordings and transcriptions, instant AI call summaries, clips and search (no numeric caps published)).
Covers 100% of the core features
Suits individuals and small teams that want free, unlimited recordings with AI summaries in Zoom, Meet or Teams; action items, Ask Fathom and CRM sync need a paid plan.
How we got this
You pay now: Fireflies.ai Pro$18/user/mo × 1 user$18/mo
New cost: Fathom (free tier)free plan$0/mo
Difference each month$18 − $0+$18/mo
Over 12 months+$18 × 12+$216
Setup, once1 h × $50/h−$50
Year one+$216 − $50+$166
  • Not counting your time (1 h in year one): saves $216 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Open sourceMeetilySaves $166 in year one
$18/mo today → $0/mo · setup 1 h · then $216/yr · payback 2.8 mo
Covers 50% of the core features (not: Notetaker for Zoom, Google Meet and Teams, Search across meetings)
Suits privacy-minded users who can run a desktop app: it transcribes on their own computer and summarizes with a local model or their own API key, but no bot joins and there is no cross-meeting search.
License: open_source
How we got this
You pay now: Fireflies.ai Pro$18/user/mo × 1 user$18/mo
New cost: Meetilyruns on your own machine$0/mo
Difference each month$18 − $0+$18/mo
Over 12 months+$18 × 12+$216
Setup, once1 h × $50/h−$50
Year one+$216 − $50+$166
  • Not counting your time (1 h in year one): saves $216 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

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