Vauta vs Fireflies.ai
Looking for an alternative to Fireflies.ai that keeps your meetings on your Mac? Vauta captures any call, transcribes it on your Mac and writes the minutes: decisions, tasks and open questions. No bot, no cloud, no account, and it is free and open source.
Side by side
Its bot joins all your meetings by default, and they are processed in the cloud.
Vauta is ahead on 6 of 9 · level on 2 · behind on 1
Meeting notes cost (Vauta ahead)
Vauta: Free
Fireflies.ai: Free with limited summaries and 400 min of storage, then paid
Open source (Vauta ahead)
Vauta: Yes, Apache-2.0
Fireflies.ai: No
Where your call is transcribed (Vauta ahead)
Vauta: On your Mac
Fireflies.ai: Cloud services
Account (Vauta ahead)
Vauta: None
Fireflies.ai: Fireflies account
Run the AI on your own hardware (Vauta ahead)
Vauta: Yes: your Mac or your own server
Fireflies.ai: No
A bot in your call (Vauta ahead)
Vauta: Never
Fireflies.ai: Joins all meetings by default; desktop app optional
Your meetings train their AI (Level)
Vauta: Never: nothing leaves your Mac or network
Fireflies.ai: No
Works with (Level)
Vauta: Any call app on your Mac
Fireflies.ai: Major platforms; desktop app for others
Runs on (Rival ahead)
Vauta: Mac with Apple silicon
Fireflies.ai: Web, Mac, Windows and mobile
Sources · Fireflies.ai: Pricing · Auto-join · Privacy policy
Where Fireflies.ai is better
- Runs on: Web, Mac, Windows and mobile (Vauta: Mac with Apple silicon)
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