# Fathom vs Fireflies.ai (slim)

> Fireflies.ai and Fathom score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.6 (C) and 59.7 (C). Fathom leads on reliability. Both do meetings transcript. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Fireflies.ai and Fathom score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.6 (C) and 59.7 (C). Fathom leads on reliability. Both do meetings transcript.

- Fathom: C 59.7, rank #490 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fathom.min.md
- Fireflies.ai: C 60.6, rank #456 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fireflies.min.md
- Fathom, good for Teams already recording meetings in Fathom who want an agent to read transcripts, summaries, action items and recordings. Ahead on Reliability, 71 against 60.
- Fireflies.ai, good for Teams already recording meetings in Fireflies who want an agent to search, summarise and organise them. Ahead on Security & auth, 51 against 42; Maintenance & community, 69 against 59.

| Category | Fathom | Fireflies.ai |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 71 | 60 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 64 | 68 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 42 | 51 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 59 | 69 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 67 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Fathom | Fireflies.ai |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Fathom Video Inc. | Fireflies.AI Corp. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.fathom.ai/external/v1` | `https://api.fireflies.ai` |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Fathom's terms of service. The TypeScript and Python SDKs are published on npm and PyPI with no licence in the package metadata | Proprietary service under Fireflies' terms of service. The Node SDK on GitHub and npm is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 19 |
| MCP registry | `ai.fathom.api/mcp` | `ai.fireflies/fireflies` |
| Last release | 2026-07-29 | 2026-09-14 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-03-04 | 2026-09-28 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-16 | 2026-09-28 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 83k npm/wk, 58k PyPI/wk | 2 stars, 329 npm/wk |