Fireflies.ai
An AI notetaker that joins meetings on more than a dozen apps, writes summaries, and sends notes to your CRM.
AI transcription, live coaching, and call summaries built directly into a business phone and meeting system, not a bot that joins someone else's call.
Dialpad Ai is the AI built into Dialpad's business phone, meeting, and contact-center system. It transcribes calls in real time, analyzes sentiment, and scores calls automatically. Sales and support staff get AI Live Coach, which gives guidance during a live conversation, and AI Recaps, which summarize a call and suggest next steps. A newer AI Agent can handle some customer inquiries on its own, priced through a separate pool of usage credits. It is not a separate add-on; it has been part of Dialpad since 2018. Dialpad states compliance with SOC 2, ISO standards, HIPAA, GDPR, and CSA, and says customer conversations are not shared outside the account.
This fits a company ready to replace its phone system, not one looking for a notetaker to add to existing Zoom calls, since the AI is built into Dialpad's core platform. It suits sales and support teams that want live coaching during a call, not just a summary afterward. Dialpad does not publish per-seat pricing for its core plans, and the AI Agent uses a separate credit-based price, so get a full quote covering both before comparing it to a simpler meeting-notes tool. Switching phone systems is a bigger project than adding a notetaker, so plan a longer evaluation and migration window. The main risk is treating this as a lightweight add-on when it is really a full phone-system decision. The URL on file was only a login page; the correct sources are Dialpad's AI and pricing pages.
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These estimates cover licensing, setup, integrations, staff time, security, administration, and support.
| Cost measure | Low | Base | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| First-year total | $10.6K | $16.9K | $27.7K |
| Three-year total | $20.5K | $31.6K | $50.2K |
| First-year cost per unit | $529 | $847 | $1.4K |
| Average annual cost per unit (over three years) | $341 | $527 | $836 |
| Component | Low | Base | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Licensing and usage | $525 | $700 | $945 |
| Implementation | $2.4K | $4K | $6.8K |
| Integration | $1.8K | $3.2K | $5.8K |
| Staff time and change management | $1.8K | $2.6K | $3.6K |
| Security | $1.5K | $2.2K | $3.3K |
| Administration | $1.4K | $1.8K | $2.4K |
| Support | $675 | $900 | $1.2K |
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Benefits have not been estimated: The current research does not estimate potential savings, return on investment, or how long it would take to recover the cost. Earlier benefit estimates are excluded.
Confirm current product identity, commercial packaging, data processing terms, sign-in and access rules, retention, integrations, support model, implementation effort, and rollback conditions.
Verify identity, package, availability, ownership, pricing, and security evidence before approving a pilot
Do not approve a pilot yet. Verify the current product identity, package, availability, owner, pricing, and security evidence; then define one workflow, a baseline, and rollback criteria.
Define what success looks like for a test of Dialpad AI and assign someone to lead it.
Once the requirements above are met, compare a small trial with how your team works today.
Track adoption, output quality, business results, and actual costs against the estimate.
Use the results to decide whether to stop, adjust, or expand the pilot.
Confirm encryption, how the vendor uses your data, customer data separation, how long data stays and how to delete it, activity records, sign-in and user setup, where data is handled, other companies that process data, past incidents, and what your team must manage.
Review before rollout: confirm how to export your data, revoke access, and return to your existing workflow. Assign an owner and test the rollback plan before expanding use.
Do not approve a pilot yet. Verify the current product identity, package, availability, owner, pricing, and security evidence; then define one workflow, a baseline, and rollback criteria.
An AI notetaker that joins meetings on more than a dozen apps, writes summaries, and sends notes to your CRM.
An AI notetaker that turns meetings into live, searchable transcripts and summaries, with a generous free plan for solo use.
An AI meeting assistant for sales teams that records calls, writes notes, and updates the CRM, with paid add-ons for call scoring.
An AI notetaker that records sales calls and writes the notes straight into CRM fields, with a free plan to start.
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Research observations recorded: 1. Evidence quality: Some support.
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