Donna vs Fireflies.ai
Donna or Fireflies? Pick Fireflies if you want automatic CRM logging and the widest integration catalog. Pick Donna if you want analysis beyond summaries — six lenses, verbatim receipts, tensions, position shifts, and the room read — from a Flocci product that treats sharing as a decision.
Fireflies is built for teams that want every call funneled into their CRM automatically, and at that job it is the category leader. Donna takes the opposite bet: a report sharp enough that you don’t need six tools to interpret the meeting, in a private Flocci archive you control access to.
Side by side, structurally
| Axis | Fireflies.ai | Donna |
|---|---|---|
| How it attends meetings | The “Fred” bot joins your calls | Joins Google Meet as a visible participant — on demand, or auto-joined from your calendar |
| Meeting video capture | Video capture on higher tiers | Yes — screen video and audio, compressed after the call |
| Transcription | Vendor-managed, multilingual | Flocci Speech Recognition, with real speaker names from Meet captions |
| What you get after the call | Transcript, summary, action items, topic trackers, CRM sync | 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 | Free tier; per-seat subscriptions for storage, video, and admin features | Credits by usage — no per-seat fee |
Where Fireflies genuinely wins
- Unmatched integration catalog — Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, and dozens more get transcripts pushed automatically.
- A mature, polished ask-your-meetings experience (AskFred) refined over years — Donna’s archive chat is newer.
- Broad multilingual support out of the box.
Where Donna wins
- Fireflies’ value depends on pushing your conversations into more tools. Donna’s value is the read itself: one private archive, six lenses, and sharing that only happens when you decide.
- Topic trackers count keywords; Donna reads dynamics — who pushed back, who conceded, which commitment came with a soft deadline.
- No per-seat math. A sales team of twenty pays Fireflies twenty times; Donna meters the meeting, not the headcount.
The read, since summaries are not the product
Fireflies: Transcript, summary, action items, topic trackers, CRM sync. Donna: Meeting intelligence through one of six lenses: decisions with tradeoffs, exact-quote receipts, tensions, what nobody said, position shifts, the room read, and orders. For boards, client work, hiring, negotiations, and one-on-ones, that line is usually the whole decision.
What each one charges
| Fireflies | Donna | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Free forever plan; 400 storage minutes per team | One-time credit grant plus a monthly free allowance |
| Paid | Pro $18/seat monthly or $10 annual; Business $29 monthly or $19 annual; Enterprise $39 annual | Credit-metered usage — meetings attended, minutes transcribed, reports delivered. No seat licence. |
Fireflies’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
Is Donna a private alternative to Fireflies.ai?
Donna joins Google Meet like Fireflies’ Fred does, then writes a deeper report into your private Donna workspace — Google sign-in, explicit sharing, credit-metered usage, no per-seat subscription. If automatic Salesforce logging is the job, Fireflies still wins that catalog.
Does Donna integrate with CRMs like Fireflies does?
Not today. Meetings, transcripts, and reports live in your Donna archive and you can export them — but there is no one-click CRM catalog. If automatic Salesforce logging is your core need, Fireflies serves it better.
How does Donna’s report differ from Fireflies’ summaries?
Fireflies produces summaries, action items, and keyword-based topic tracking. Donna runs a two-pass analysis that extracts decisions with their tradeoffs, exact-quote commitments with timestamps, tensions, position shifts, and power dynamics — a reading of the meeting, not just a recap of it.
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.