A second workspace is not where your desk lives
Fireflies transcribes your meetings very capably and files them in Fireflies. Then somebody has to get the important part onto the candidate, the client and the job — which is the actual work. Recruitly starts there, because it is the system holding all three.
Per seat, plus credits
Their published plans are per seat per month with annual and monthly rates, plus credit pools for AI features and paid bundles beyond them. Checked 22 August 2026.
One system, one search, one bill
The meeting is on the record with the calls and the emails.
You are paying for chairs, then paying again for the AI
A per-seat licence charges for the consultant who had two meetings this month as if she had forty, and the credit meter charges again for the part that was supposed to be the point.
A recruiter with 2 meetings
A full seat, plus credits
Fireflies
About three dollars
Recruitly
A desk of 10
10 seats, every month
Fireflies
The hours you actually attended
Recruitly
The AI features
Credit pools and bundles
Fireflies
In the price, first hour free
Recruitly
Based on Fireflies’ published plans and credit bundles, checked 22 August 2026. Their pricing moves often — check their site, and hold ours to the same standard.
What a notetaker cannot do without your database
Written onto the record
Notes land on the client, the candidate and the job in the CRM your agency already runs on. Nothing to copy, nothing to file, nothing to reconcile.
The call becomes the job
A client briefing drafts the vacancy: requirements, band, process and fee, ready to publish and match against the same afternoon.
Commitments become tasks
Every promise made in the room becomes a task with an owner and a date, or a callback in the queue. Not a bullet in a document.
The rest of the desk
Jobs, candidates, shortlists, placements, billings, campaigns, WhatsApp and an AI phone system — in the same subscription.
Horizontal tool, vertical desk
The same notetaker is sold to a sales team, a product team, a law firm and you. It knows what a meeting is. It does not know what a shortlist is.
So it summarises the hour beautifully and stops, because everything that comes next needs objects it has never seen: a candidate at second stage, a vacancy with a band and a fee, a pipeline that ought to move, a callback that ought to be queued.
Recruitly only serves recruitment agencies. The meeting assistant writes onto the job, drafts the vacancy from the intake call, moves the stage after the debrief and queues the promise you made — because the meeting and the database are one product.
Recruitly vs Fireflies
One files the meeting. One does something about it.
| What you licence | Hours attended | Seats, per person |
| AI charged separately | No | Credit pools and bundles |
| Where the notes live | On the candidate, client and job | Its own workspace |
| Built for recruitment | Included | — |
| Drafts a vacancy from a client briefing | Included | — |
| Action items become owned CRM tasks | Included | Exported to your tools |
| Scorecard prefill after a screen | Included | — |
| Applicant tracking system | Included | — |
| Recruitment CRM | Included | — |
| AI phone system in the same product | Included | — |
| Cost of a quiet month | Nothing | The full seat |
Capability comparison against Fireflies’s published plans, checked 22 August 2026.
Questions before you move
Fireflies integrates with our CRM. Is that not the same?
An integration can push a summary into a notes field. It cannot decide the notes also belong on the job, turn the client’s requirements into a drafted vacancy, move a candidate’s stage or queue tomorrow’s callback — because those are objects in our database that it has no concept of. That is the difference between a notetaker that talks to your CRM and a notetaker that is your CRM.
Their transcription is excellent though.
It is, and so is ours — meeting platforms hand over real participant identities, so the transcript names Priya Nair rather than Speaker 2, with no voice-matching to get wrong. Transcription stopped being the differentiator in this category about two years ago. What happens to the transcript is the whole game now.
What does yours actually cost?
$1.50 per hour of meeting attended, charged by the second, with the first hour free for every user, riding on the $25 a month Simi add-on that turns the AI on across the product. No seats, no credit bundles, no annual tier to jump to for the feature you needed.
Can we run both for a while?
Yes, and plenty of people do at first. Invite both to the same meeting and compare what you have an hour later: one of you will have a document, and the other will have a drafted job, four tasks with owners, and notes on three records.
Stop paying per chair for notes you then have to file.
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