Key Takeaways
- Fireflies if a visible bot and US processing are acceptable; Log if either is not. Everything below follows from that one decision.
- Fireflies is the most complete bot-based notetaker; Log removes the bot. Fred joins from your calendar and feeds a large integration ecosystem. Log records locally with nothing visible in the call.
- Both advertise unlimited transcription, with different catches. Fireflies meters storage, 400 minutes per team free, and AI credits. Log meters neither.
- Fireflies wins breadth: 100+ languages and the deepest integration list. Log answers with 40+ local Whisper languages, EU hosting and a suite.
Fireflies.ai is what most people picture when they hear "AI meeting assistant": a bot in the participant list, transcripts in a searchable workspace, connectors into everything. meetergo Log is the German counter-proposal, with no bot and local processing. Honest comparison as of August 2026.
Looking wider? We rank nine tools by where the audio goes in best AI note taker, list replacements in the Fireflies alternatives roundup, and index every matchup in the AI notetaker comparison.
Fireflies vs meetergo Log at a glance
| Fireflies.ai | meetergo Log | |
|---|---|---|
Capture | Bot (Fred) auto-joins Zoom, Teams, Meet | Bot-free local recording; optional cloud notetaker |
Capture Fireflies.aiBot (Fred) auto-joins Zoom, Teams, Meet meetergo LogBot-free local recording; optional cloud notetaker | ||
Free plan | Unlimited transcription, but 400 min storage per team, 20 AI credits | No storage or minute meter at all; recording and transcription need no account, summaries free |
Free plan Fireflies.aiUnlimited transcription, but 400 min storage per team, 20 AI credits meetergo LogNo storage or minute meter at all; recording and transcription need no account, summaries free | ||
Paid entry | Pro $10/user/month annual (reg. $18), 8,000 min storage per seat | Light 9.90 EUR/user/month for speaker labels and templates |
Paid entry Fireflies.aiPro $10/user/month annual (reg. $18), 8,000 min storage per seat meetergo LogLight 9.90 EUR/user/month for speaker labels and templates | ||
Languages | 100+ with auto-detect (Pro and up) | 40+ (Whisper, local) |
Languages Fireflies.ai100+ with auto-detect (Pro and up) meetergo Log40+ (Whisper, local) | ||
Data location | US cloud; SOC 2, GDPR claimed, no EU residency statement | Local by default; EU-hosted cloud option |
Data location Fireflies.aiUS cloud; SOC 2, GDPR claimed, no EU residency statement meetergo LogLocal by default; EU-hosted cloud option | ||
Integrations | CRMs, dialers, Slack, Zapier, deep API | The meetergo suite itself (scheduling, CRM, e-signatures) |
Integrations Fireflies.aiCRMs, dialers, Slack, Zapier, deep API meetergo LogThe meetergo suite itself (scheduling, CRM, e-signatures) | ||
Speaker separation | Yes | From Light (9.90 EUR) |
Speaker separation Fireflies.aiYes meetergo LogFrom Light (9.90 EUR) | ||
Who is Fireflies best for?
Fireflies fits sales and customer-facing teams that want every call captured automatically and pushed where work happens: CRM fields updated, snippets to Slack, tasks to Asana. The 100+ language support with automatic detection is the widest in the category, and the Pro plan at $10 on annual billing is aggressive pricing for what it does, as its published tiers show. If a visible bot is acceptable to your counterparties and your data can live in a US cloud, Fireflies is the most feature-complete option in this space.
Who is meetergo Log best for?
meetergo Log fits teams whose counterparties do not accept bots, whose compliance does not accept US processing, or whose usage does not fit storage meters. Law firms, healthcare, finance and public-sector adjacent teams in the DACH region are the obvious cases, but so is any founder who finds bots awkward in first conversations.
The suite argument matters too: Fireflies exports your meeting content into other tools; Log keeps it beside the scheduling page that booked the call and the CRM record that owns the relationship.
Pricing
Fireflies.ai
Free: unlimited transcription with 400 minutes of storage per team and 20 AI credits. Pro: $10 per user per month on annual billing (regular $18) with 8,000 minutes of storage per seat. Business: $19 annual (regular $29) with unlimited storage. Enterprise: $39, annual only. All from Fireflies' pricing page. The word unlimited applies to transcription; storage and AI credits are the levers that move you up tiers.
meetergo Log
The free tier has no meter of any kind. Recording, transcription, dictation and export work without an account; summaries and search are free as well. The 9.90 EUR Light tier buys speaker labels, your own templates, the full AI workflow and 10 cloud notetaker recaps. What it does not buy is storage, because Log meters none. Suite at 29.90 EUR extends to automatic capture and the full toolset.
Verdict
Fireflies Pro is cheap for its breadth, and the free plan's 400-minute team storage evaporates fast in a real team. Log is the only one of the two where heavy usage costs nothing. Price the storage you will actually need, not the transcription.
Capture: a bot in every meeting, or none
Fireflies.ai
Fred joins as a participant, from the calendar, on autopilot. That is the convenience and the cost: every external guest sees it, some will ask about it, and regulated counterparties may refuse it. Fireflies without the bot loses most of its automation.
meetergo Log
Log records locally on your machine, invisible to the other side, identical across Zoom, Teams, Meet, phone calls through the laptop, and in-person conversations. Disclosure to participants remains your obligation; what changes is that no third-party process sits in the call and no platform can block it.
Verdict
Bot capture automates better; bot-free capture survives more rooms. Teams that sell into enterprises or regulated industries usually discover the difference the first time a prospect kicks the bot out.
Data protection and hosting
Fireflies.ai
Fireflies lists SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and HIPAA on its security page, and its privacy policy describes processing in the US cloud with no published EU residency option. For EU customers that means the standard transfer machinery applies, and every recorded meeting is a record held by a US processor.
meetergo Log
Transcription runs locally by default, so in the standard setup neither the audio nor the transcript reaches a server. The optional cloud path is EU-hosted under a German company, with no US corporate parent in the chain. That collapses the assessment rather than documenting it: no transfer, no third-party processor holding a copy. Our guide to GDPR-compliant AI meeting notes covers what a DPO asks.
Verdict
Compliance labels are not architectures. If your DPO's question is "where is the audio processed", Fireflies answers "US cloud" and Log answers "on the laptop". For EU-sensitive meetings that settles it.
Transcription, languages and AI
Fireflies.ai
The widest breadth in the category: 100+ languages with auto-detection from Pro, smart search across the archive, topic trackers, conversation intelligence built for sales review, and AI credits that power summaries and AskFred. Nothing else here matches the language count.
meetergo Log
40+ languages through Whisper running locally, summaries and structured minutes from nine ready-made formats, dictation, and search across recordings. Speaker separation with Light. No conversation-intelligence dashboards; Log optimizes for the finished minutes and the suite follow-up rather than analytics. The same structure is available as a free meeting minutes template if you want to see the output shape first.
Verdict
Fireflies wins languages and analytics; Log wins the local pipeline and unmetered output. A bilingual EU sales team genuinely has to choose which trade matters more.
What reviewers say
On G2, Fireflies.ai holds 4.7/5 from 752 reviews as of August 2026, the largest sample of any dedicated notetaker in the AI meeting assistants category.
Fireflies' 752-review base is the largest among the dedicated notetakers here, and the praise clusters on transcription breadth and the CRM handoffs. It also holds 4.4/5 from 746 reviews on Trustpilot (checked September 2026), which is unusually consistent across two platforms. Curtis Fee, in a five-star review from August 2026, gives the clearest version of the upside: "I am able to be fully present … the key elements of the meeting are accurately recorded".
The recurring criticisms are the storage meters on lower plans, AI credits running out, and counterparties reacting to Fred appearing in calls.
The number to check first: 400 minutes of storage per team on the free plan. That is roughly one week of normal use for a team of three, after which old meetings age out whether or not you still need them.
meetergo Log's review trail is much smaller; Fireflies is the more battle-tested product on paper. Weigh that against the architectural difference, which no review count changes: one records in your call from the cloud, one records on your machine.
Where each falls short
Fireflies.ai
Storage is the real meter: 400 minutes per team on the free plan disappears within a week, and old meetings age out. AI credits cap summarisation on every tier. The bot is visible in every call and blockable by hosts. Processing is US cloud only, with compliance labels but no EU residency, so the GDPR posture rests on paperwork.
meetergo Log
No conversation-intelligence layer: no topic trackers, no talk-time analytics, no deal dashboards, and teams that manage by those will miss them. Third-party integrations are far fewer than Fireflies' list; the suite is the intended substitute, not a connector marketplace. Speaker labels and templates need Light. And 40+ languages is less than Fireflies' 100+, if your meetings span beyond the major European languages.
How to choose
Will your counterparties tolerate a bot?
If you sell into enterprises, banks or the public sector, assume some will not. Fred appears in the participant list, guests ask what it is, and a host with the right policy can remove it mid-call. Bot-free capture never starts that conversation, because there is nothing for the other side to see or block. Test it on your five most sensitive accounts before you standardise.
Where must the audio be processed?
Fireflies is fine if a US cloud is acceptable to your compliance team. If processing must stay EU-only or on-device, Log is the answer, and the difference is architectural rather than contractual. Compliance labels are not architectures: SOC 2 and a GDPR statement describe how a US processor behaves, not whether a transfer happens at all.
Do you need conversation analytics or finished minutes?
Fireflies produces dashboards about your calls: talk ratios, topic trackers, deal-level rollups a manager reviews weekly. Log produces the artifact instead, the minutes and the summary, then routes it into the suite that owns the relationship. These are different products in the same category, and buying the wrong one is the most common mistake here.
Fireflies vs meetergo Log: which should you choose?
Choose Fireflies if you want maximum automation, the widest language support and deep integrations, and a US-cloud bot fits your policies. Choose meetergo Log if you need bot-free capture, local or EU processing, unmetered free transcription, or notes that live inside your scheduling and CRM. More options in our Fireflies alternatives roundup and in meeting minutes software; for one-off files there is the free browser transcription tool.
FAQs
Is Fireflies transcription really unlimited on the free plan?
Transcription is unlimited, storage is not: 400 minutes per team on the free plan, 8,000 per seat on Pro. Old meetings age out unless you pay for storage.
Is Fireflies GDPR compliant?
Fireflies claims GDPR compliance, processes in the US cloud and publishes no EU residency option, so EU customers need SCCs and a transfer assessment. meetergo Log's local default avoids the transfer entirely.
Can meetergo Log auto-join meetings like Fred does?
Optionally, yes: a cloud notetaker can join meetergo connect, Google Meet, Teams and Zoom, with 10 recaps per month on Light. The default and the point of Log is local capture without any participant. See how the two capture models compare across the field in our best AI note taker roundup.
Which handles more languages?
Fireflies, with 100+ and auto-detect, against Log's 40+. Log's counterargument is that its transcription runs on your device. We cover the engines behind both in our explainer on AI transcription.
How does Fireflies compare to Otter?
Both are US bot-based tools; Fireflies has more languages and integrations, Otter better live collaboration. See Otter.ai vs meetergo Log for that side of the triangle.
Where do these numbers come from?
fireflies.ai/pricing and meetergo.com as of August 2026. Verify before you buy; vendors move prices.
Booking + video conferencing in one tool.
Booking + video conferencing in one tool.
Sources
- Fireflies plans, storage and AI credits: fireflies.ai/pricing (checked August 2026)
- Fireflies compliance and data handling: fireflies.ai/security and fireflies.ai/privacy-policy (checked August 2026)
- Fireflies G2 rating and review count: G2: Fireflies.ai reviews (captured August 2026), category context: G2: AI meeting assistants
- meetergo Log pricing and features: meetergo.com/en/apps/ai-notes (checked August 2026)
