Fireflies.ai AI Footnotes
What Fireflies.ai's AI features do with your data, as Fireflies.ai publishes it. Checked October 31, 2026. Fireflies.ai in the Directory.
Agent access
Fireflies MCP Server at https://api.fireflies.ai/mcp (Streamable HTTP), with tools to search and read transcripts, summaries, soundbites, channels and user data, and to share or move meetings and create soundbites; fireflies_search and fireflies_fetch are experimental. Listed in the Claude connector directory and usable from ChatGPT. The Fireflies GraphQL API at https://api.fireflies.ai/graphql is listed on every plan, including Free. Zero data retention does not apply once data leaves Fireflies through MCP. source, source 2, source 3, source 4, source 5, source 6 · checked October 31, 2026
Fireflies Notetaker (Fred) and transcription
Fireflies (Free, Pro, Business, Enterprise)
| On by default? | On by default for the user: auto-join calendar meetings is set to All meetings. For a team, the admin setting defaults to Allow teammates to choose. source, source 2 · checked October 31, 2026 |
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| How an admin turns it off | Admins: Settings > Team tab > Recording & Privacy > Recording > Auto-record meetings, choosing Only when invited (or another rule) instead of Allow teammates to choose. Users: Settings > Recording & Privacy (Personal tab) > turn off Auto-record meetings. Record and restriction rules can skip meetings by title keyword, email or domain. source, source 2 · checked October 31, 2026 |
| Trains on customer data? | No, on all plans: Fireflies does not use User Content to train generative AI models, and its vendors are contractually barred from training on it. source, source 2, source 3 · checked October 31, 2026 |
| Retention | Meetings are kept until deleted. Enterprise admins can set auto-delete for the workspace from 1 week to 1 year (Settings > Team > Recording & Privacy > Auto-delete meetings). Third-party vendors keep no meeting content after processing (zero data retention). Account data is deleted within 30 days of closing the account. source, source 2, source 3 · checked October 31, 2026 |
| Where data is processed | Stored and processed in the United States on AWS and Google Cloud by default. Enterprise customers can use Private Storage or bring their own AWS S3 or Google Cloud Storage bucket; processing stays in the US. source, source 2 · checked October 31, 2026 |
| Model providers | Transcription: Assembly.ai and Soniox. Language models: OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq and Baseten; ElevenLabs for audio and Perplexity for search. All are listed in the US except Baseten, for which no location is given. source, source 2 · checked October 31, 2026 |
| Price | Included on every plan. Free: unlimited transcription, 400 minutes of storage per team. Pro: $18 per seat per month, or $10 billed annually. Business: $29, or $19 billed annually. Enterprise: $39 per seat per month, annual only. Transcription does not use AI credits. source, source 2 · checked October 31, 2026 |
AI meeting summaries
Fireflies (all plans; limited on Free)
| On by default? | Not published as of October 31, 2026 |
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| How an admin turns it off | Settings > Team > Recording & Privacy > Recording format controls whether audio, transcript and summary are saved for each meeting. Settings > Team > AI settings > Meeting Summaries enforces a summary template for the workspace or a user group. source · checked October 31, 2026 |
| Trains on customer data? | No, on all plans. source · checked October 31, 2026 |
| Retention | Summaries are meeting content: kept until the meeting is deleted or Enterprise auto-delete removes it. Model vendors keep nothing after processing. source · checked October 31, 2026 |
| Where data is processed | Not published as of October 31, 2026 |
| Model providers | OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq and Baseten are listed as LLM services; the security policy names OpenAI and Anthropic. source, source 2 · checked October 31, 2026 |
| Price | Included: limited on Free, unlimited on Pro and above. Summary templates and reprocessing use no AI credits; custom summary sections do. source, source 2 · checked October 31, 2026 |
AskFred (AI assistant across meetings, connected apps and web search)
Fireflies (all plans; limited on Free)
| On by default? | Not published as of October 31, 2026 |
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| How an admin turns it off | Not published as of October 31, 2026 |
| Trains on customer data? | No, on all plans. AskFred chats are user content under the same no-training terms. source, source 2 · checked October 31, 2026 |
| Retention | Zero data retention with model vendors covers AskFred. It does not cover data sent to outside tools through MCP connectors. source · checked October 31, 2026 |
| Where data is processed | Not published as of October 31, 2026 |
| Model providers | User-selectable Anthropic, OpenAI and Google models, defaulting to an Anthropic Sonnet model; Perplexity for web search. The sub-processor list names Anthropic and OpenAI as LLM services and lists Google only as Google Cloud Platform (compute) and Google Workspace. source, source 2, source 3, source 4 · checked October 31, 2026 |
| Price | Limited on Free, included on paid plans. Global AskFred and AskFred in Live Assist consume AI credits per request, priced by complexity. Each workspace gets one-time credits (Free 20, Pro 20, Business 30, Enterprise 50). Add-on packs, on paid plans only, start at $5 a month for 50 credits, 20% less billed annually. When plan credits run out, Fireflies subscribes a paid workspace to the $5 tier automatically; Free users see a paywall instead. source, source 2, source 3, source 4, source 5 · checked October 31, 2026 |
AI Personal Assistant (Daily Digest, Meeting Prep, Tasks)
Fireflies Pro and above
| On by default? | On by default: Daily Digest and Meeting Prep run on a schedule and consume AI credits until a user or admin turns them off. Tasks is always on and uses no credits. source · checked October 31, 2026 |
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| How an admin turns it off | Settings > Team > AI settings > Personal Assistant: enable, disable or let teammates choose, and turn Daily Digest and Meeting Prep on or off for the workspace. source · checked October 31, 2026 |
| Trains on customer data? | No, on all plans. source · checked October 31, 2026 |
| Retention | Not published as of October 31, 2026 |
| Where data is processed | Not published as of October 31, 2026 |
| Model providers | Not published as of October 31, 2026 |
| Price | Listed from the Pro plan up; Daily Digest and Meeting Prep consume AI credits, priced per query by complexity. source, source 2 · checked October 31, 2026 |
Connections to outside MCP servers
AskFred connects to pre-built connectors (Gmail, Slack, HubSpot, Notion, Google Drive, Jira and others) and to any remote MCP server added as a Custom Connector, with OAuth 2.0 or an API key. Each user adds, enables and limits connectors. source, source 2, source 3 · checked October 31, 2026
Compliance
- HIPAA: Enterprise plan only, and only with Private Storage turned on and a signed BAA. Downgrading the plan or turning off Private Storage disables it. source, source 2 · checked October 31, 2026
- FERPA: Enterprise plan with Private Storage and a signed Data Sharing Agreement. source · checked October 31, 2026
- ISO/IEC 42001: Certified for AI management. source · checked October 31, 2026
- SOC 2: SOC 2 Type II certified; report on request through the trust center. source · checked October 31, 2026
Not published by Fireflies.ai as of October 31, 2026
- An admin switch that turns off AskFred for the whole workspace
- An admin control over AskFred connectors and custom MCP servers
- Retention period for AskFred chat history
- Where Private Storage keeps data: Fireflies' pages differ (one help page says the EU, another says Google Cloud US West, Los Angeles)
- Data processing outside the United States
- Release stage of the Fireflies MCP Server and of AskFred custom MCP connectors
- FedRAMP authorization
- EU AI Act statement (Fireflies.ai is not on the European Commission GPAI Code of Practice or AI Pact signatory lists on the check date)
Changes
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