Donna vs Fellow
Donna or Fellow? Pick Fellow if you want meeting-management workflow — agendas, templates and botless recording in one place. Pick Donna if the meeting record must stay on your own infrastructure and you want analysis beyond summaries — verbatim receipts, tensions, position shifts, and the room read, all from a bot on your own server.
Fellow is the most complete meeting-workflow product in this comparison, and if your problem is that meetings are badly run rather than badly remembered, it is probably the right buy. Donna solves the other half: not how the meeting was structured, but what it revealed — and where the record of it lives afterwards.
Side by side, structurally
| Axis | Fellow | Donna |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Fellow’s cloud (SaaS) | Your own server (privately hosted) |
| Where your recordings live | Stored and processed on Fellow’s servers | Your server’s disk and your own database — nothing on a vendor cloud |
| How it attends meetings | Both — a notetaker bot and a botless recording mode | Joins Google Meet as a visible participant — on demand, or auto-joined from your calendar’s iCal feed |
| Meeting video capture | Recording with AI notes on paid plans | Yes — screen video + audio, compressed server-side after the call |
| Transcription engine | Vendor-managed, very broad language support | Flocci Speech Recognition, with your key |
| Who owns the AI keys | Fellow | You — your Flocci Speech Recognition and Flocci Intelligence keys |
| What you get after the call | Agenda-linked notes, AI summaries, action items, CRM and tool integrations | Meeting intelligence through one of six lenses: decisions with tradeoffs, exact-quote receipts, tensions, what nobody said, position shifts, the room read, and orders |
| Pricing model | Free plan with lifetime caps; per-seat plans above it | No per-seat fee — credit-metered usage on the hosted service, or only your own infrastructure and API usage when deployed privately |
Where Fellow genuinely wins
- It manages the meeting, not just the recording — collaborative agendas, templates and follow-ups make the whole cycle better, which no analysis tool alone can do.
- Both capture modes in one product, so a team can use a bot internally and botless recording for client calls.
- Enterprise breadth: very wide language coverage, admin controls and an integration catalog built for large organisations.
Where Donna wins
- Fellow’s notes are organised around the agenda you wrote. Donna reports the meeting that actually happened — including the decision nobody put on the agenda and the item that was skipped in silence.
- Agenda-linked summaries do not tell you who conceded, who never got the floor, or which commitment came wrapped in a hedge. That is the entire content of Donna’s report.
- Per-seat pricing means a company-wide rollout is a headcount multiplication. Donna meters the work — minutes and reports — so a colleague who attends one review a month costs almost nothing.
The data question, since nobody else leads with it
Fellow: Stored and processed on Fellow’s servers. Donna: your server’s disk and your own database — nothing on a vendor cloud. For boards, client work, hiring, negotiations, and one-on-ones, that line is usually the whole decision.
What each one charges
| Fellow | Donna | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 5 AI notes and 5 AI recordings per user, lifetime | One-time credit grant plus a monthly free allowance |
| Paid | Team $7/user/month annual or $11 monthly; Business $15 or $23; Enterprise $25 annual | Credit-metered usage — meetings attended, minutes transcribed, reports delivered. No seat licence. |
Fellow’s figures were read from their own pricing page on 29 July 2026; check it before you buy, because plans change without notice. Donna’s current credit costs live on your billing page at account.flocci.in.
Questions, answered straight
Does Donna manage agendas like Fellow?
No. Donna has no agenda, template or meeting-workflow layer; she attends, records and reports. Teams often run both — Fellow to structure the meeting, Donna to read what happened in it.
Fellow has botless recording. Why is Donna bot-only?
Because a bot attends meetings you cannot and records the shared screen. Botless capture trades that coverage for smoother admission — a real trade-off, made explicit on the bot versus bot-free answer page here.
Which is better for a large organisation?
For meeting hygiene at scale with admin controls and broad integrations, Fellow. For high-stakes rooms where the record must stay inside your own perimeter and the analysis has to go past a summary, Donna — and the two do not conflict.
Put Donna in your next meeting
Access is open — sign in with your Google account and she’s in your dashboard in minutes. Rolling out to a whole team, or want a hand with the server setup? We’re glad to help.