Fireflies.ai vs Granola

as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-09-14

brag about it: X · LinkedIn

Fireflies.ai edges Granola in how AI assistants talk about note takers, with an overall score of 55 versus 44 and a mention rate of 49 of 62 answers compared to Granola's 38 of 62. Fireflies.ai leads on 10 questions, Granola leads on 3, and they tie on 7. Both are named in every answer to "What's the best AI note taker for a startup team?" Fireflies.ai also shows up in all answers about free note takers, non-English meetings, and CRM-updating sales tools, while Granola never gets named for the non-English or CRM questions. Score-wise, Claude rates Granola higher at 58, but Perplexity rates it lowest at 27.

Head to head

metric	Fireflies.ai	Granola
score	55	44
questions won	18	17

By assistant

Fireflies.ai

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	56	68% of answers	#2.5
Claude	55	90% of answers	#5.2
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	56	75% of answers	#3.3

Granola

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	49	58% of answers	#2.2
Claude	58	85% of answers	#4.1
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	27	40% of answers	#4.4

Where they differ

Only Fireflies.ai gets named for

What's the best AI note taker for meetings in languages other than English?
What's the best AI note taker for sales calls that updates the CRM?

Only Granola gets named for

What's the best AI note taker for Mac that records system audio?

More comparisons

Not sold on either?

Scores count how often each assistant names a product, weighted by position. How the score works · Full AI meeting note takers leaderboard