AI Meeting Assistants & Notetakers · head-to-head
Fireflies.ai vs tl;dv
As of 6 Nov 2026, the panel rates Fireflies.ai 3/5 and tl;dv 3.5/5 in AI Meeting Assistants & Notetakers. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 1 of the 6 judges picks Fireflies.ai and 4 pick tl;dv, 1 calls it a tie. Fireflies.ai scores higher on 2 of 7 criteria (Consent, participant rights & works council and Retention, AI training & administration). tl;dv scores higher on 3 of 7 criteria (European sovereignty, Pricing transparency and Integrations, API & workflow). Provenance — Fireflies.ai: Rest of world; tl;dv: EU-Made. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
The short answer
Neither product takes the page: the benches split by concern. Fireflies.ai is ahead on consent and co-determination, 6.2 to 4.0 with six judges leaning its way, and on data control and administration, 7.8 to 6.7 with five leaning and one tie; its verdict credits custom data retention, SSO with SCIM, an audit logs API and customer content excluded from model training by default. tl;dv is ahead on sovereignty, 7.7 to 4.0, and on pricing transparency, 6.3 to 4.2, with six judges leaning tl;dv on each; Fireflies.ai's verdict names a United States contracting entity and US-based subprocessors. Integrations and workflow goes to tl;dv, 7.8 to 7.5, but only two judges lean that way and four tie. Capture and transcription and summaries and knowledge sit level at 7.0 apiece, six ties each. Weighted, four judges put tl;dv ahead, one puts Fireflies.ai ahead 6.5 to 6.4, and one is level at 6.2.
Choose Fireflies.ai if
- Your works council must clear consent handling and co-determination before rollout, the criterion where six judges lean Fireflies.ai, 6.2 to 4.0.
- You need custom data retention, SSO with SCIM, an audit logs API and a super admin role, the admin controls named in Fireflies.ai's verdict, where five judges lean its way, 7.8 to 6.7.
- Your legal review requires customer content excluded from model training by default and contractually at vendors, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 42001 stated, and named subprocessors under a zero-day retention policy.
- Your priorities mirror the IT lead's weighting, the one judge whose total has Fireflies.ai ahead, 6.5 to 6.4.
Choose tl;dv if
- You need published tier prices to compare before committing, the criterion where six judges lean tl;dv, 6.3 to 4.2.
- Sovereignty leads your requirements: six judges lean tl;dv, 7.7 to 4.0, and its verdict names tldx Solutions GmbH of Aachen as the company.
- You need a native HubSpot connector with per-field prompt mapping plus a documented REST API, webhooks and an MCP server, the integration set behind tl;dv's 7.8, where two judges lean its way and four tie.
- Your buyer group matches the consultant, sales lead, data protection officer or skeptic weightings, whose totals put tl;dv ahead at 6.8 to 6.6, 6.8 to 6.3, 6.5 to 6.2 and 6.4 to 6.2.
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The bench's picks
Same scores, different priorities: each judge's weighting applied to both products. The split is the finding.
- The Management Consultant Fireflies.ai tl;dv picks tl;dv
- The Sales Team Lead Fireflies.ai tl;dv picks tl;dv
- The Works Council Chair Fireflies.ai tl;dv tie
- The Data Protection Officer Fireflies.ai tl;dv picks tl;dv
- The IT Lead Fireflies.ai tl;dv picks Fireflies.ai
- The Skeptic Fireflies.ai tl;dv picks tl;dv
Criterion by criterion
| Criterion | Fireflies.ai | tl;dv |
|---|---|---|
| Recording, transcription & languages | 3.5 of 5 | 3.5 of 5 |
| Summaries, action items & meeting knowledge | 3.5 of 5 | 3.5 of 5 |
| Integrations, API & workflow | 4 of 5 | 4 of 5 |
| Consent, participant rights & works council | 3 of 5 | 2 of 5 |
| Retention, AI training & administration | 4 of 5 | 3.5 of 5 |
| European sovereignty | 2 of 5 | 4 of 5 |
| Pricing transparency | 2 of 5 | 3 of 5 |
| Criterion | Fireflies.ai | tl;dv | The bench leans |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recording, transcription & languages | split 0–0 | ||
| Summaries, action items & meeting knowledge | split 0–0 | ||
| Integrations, API & workflow | tl;dv, 2 of 6 judges | ||
| Consent, participant rights & works council | Fireflies.ai, 6 of 6 judges | ||
| Retention, AI training & administration | Fireflies.ai, 5 of 6 judges | ||
| European sovereignty | tl;dv, 6 of 6 judges | ||
| Pricing transparency | tl;dv, 6 of 6 judges |
Stars show the bench average per criterion; the lean counts which product each judge scored higher. Open a judge's tab for their reasoning on both sides.
Sovereignty, side by side
| Dimension | Fireflies.ai | tl;dv |
|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | Not determined |
| Hosting location | Not determined | Not determined |
| Hosting options | Not determined | Not determined |
| Open source | Not determined | Not determined |
| Data processing agreement | Not determined | Not determined |
| Transfer impact assessment | Not determined | Not determined |
Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
| Compliance · Encryption | yes · yes1 | yes · yes2 |
|---|---|---|
| Compliance · GDPR | yes3 | yes4 |
| Compliance · Owasp | yes1 | yes4 |
| Compliance · SOC 2 | yes3 | yes4 |
| Compliance · SOC 2 type2 | yes5 | yes6 |
| Integrations · Categories | Design · Calendaring · Applicant Tracking System · Note Taking · Email · Custom · Project Management · Videoconferencing · Storage · Audio Recording · Collaboration · Dialer · CRM7 | Calendar · Collaboration · CRMs · Note Taking · Project Management · Storage · Video Conferencing8 |
| Integrations · Count | 100+ apps9 | 600010 |
| Integrations · Dropbox | Dropbox9 | Dropbox · integrate meetings into Dropbox8 |
| Integrations · Hubspot | Hubspot9 | HubSpot · auto-sync AI meeting notes and transcripts to CRM timeline8 |
| Integrations · Named | Google · Microsoft · Slack · Webex · Zoom11 | Slack · CRMs · Notion · Google Docs2 |
| Integrations · Slack | yes5 | Slack · push key takeaways and video highlights to Slack threads8 |
| Integrations · Webhooks | transcribed · summary_ready · notetaker_joined · yes · yes12 | yes13 |
| Integrations · Zapier | yes14 | 5000 · Zapier8 |
| Legal · Entity | Fireflies.ai Corp.11 | Kaiser-Friedrich-Allee 51, 52074 Aachen, Germany · Tldx Solutions GmbH · Amtsgericht Aachen · Mr. Raphaël ALLSTADT · HRB 2373015 |
| Pricing · Annual discount | Save up to 44% with annual billing3 | Annual billing advertised as up to 40% off16 |
| Product · AI summaries | yes5 | yes17 |
| Product · Description | Autonomous AI meeting teammate for transcribing, summarizing, and analyzing meetings18 | AI-powered meeting platform for recording, transcribing, and summarizing calls6 |
| Product · Languages | 100+3 | 302 |
| Product · Platforms | Desktop App · iOS App · Android App · Chrome Extension9 | Google Meet · Microsoft Teams · Zoom4 |
| Product · Speaker recognition | yes5 | yes10 |
| Product · SSO | yes19 | yes4 |
| Product · Transcript search | yes20 | yes10 |
| Support · Privacy contact | support@fireflies.ai11 | privacy@tldv.io · bereavement and POA requests21 |
Questions about Fireflies.ai and tl;dv
Which is better, Fireflies.ai or tl;dv?
As of 6 Nov 2026, the panel rates tl;dv higher: 3.5/5 against 3/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 1 of the 6 judges picks Fireflies.ai and 4 pick tl;dv, 1 calls it a tie. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is Fireflies.ai or tl;dv European?
Fireflies.ai is not European by provenance (Rest of world). tl;dv is European (EU-Made). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.
Where do Fireflies.ai and tl;dv store customer data?
Per the vendors’ own pages as captured — Fireflies.ai: its pages as captured do not say. tl;dv: Default not stated; pages mention the EU and Europe.
Do Fireflies.ai and tl;dv have a free plan?
As of 6 Nov 2026, tl;dv’s own pages state a free plan; Fireflies.ai’s pages as captured do not. Each product page links the pricing page it was read from.