Sistava vs Fireflies
AI Meeting Assistants
Sistava vs Fireflies
Fireflies is built around transcribing, summarizing, and analyzing conversations. It adds live assist, topic tracking, filters, and a large library of AI skills for teams that want deeper call analysis and workflow automation around meetings.
Profile
- Pricing
- Free plan, then paid team plans and enterprise pricing.
- Founded
- 2017, San Francisco, California
- Funding
- Private
- Focus
- AI meeting assistant with conversation intelligence, live assist, and AI skills
Why Sistava
- Fireflies distinctive gap is tying meeting outcomes back to org systems. The skills library transforms transcripts; turning that into work elsewhere (Jira tickets, CRM updates, project plans) still relies on Zapier or manual steps. Sistava does the cross-system work as part of the same employee.
- Fireflies skills are AI prompts you run on a transcript. Sistava duties are continuous behaviors a hired employee follows across meetings, email, and chat (e.g., always update the CRM after a sales call, always file action items as Jira tickets).
- Sistava keeps the same context across meetings, threads, and projects, so the next call already knows what was unresolved last time.
- Sistava plugs into thousands of apps natively, so action items become real tickets rather than bullet points piped through Zapier.
- Fireflies wins if you want deep meeting analytics and a large skills library to apply to transcripts. Sistava wins if you want the meetings outputs to actually move work forward.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Fireflies | Sistava |
|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | |
| Fred meeting bot | Via Attendee meeting bot | |
| Via Zapier or manual | ✓ | |
| Meeting search and analytics | Graph + episodic, persistent | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| CRM, Slack, Zapier, API | thousands of apps plus MCP | |
| 200+ skills (one-shot prompts) | Skills are continuous behaviors, not one-shot prompts | |
| ✓ | ✓ | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| ✓ | ✓ | |
| ✗ | ✓ |