Cal.AI vs Fireflies.ai

Which should you choose?

Cal.com and Fireflies.ai solve fundamentally different problems. Cal.com prevents meetings from happening poorly; Fireflies.ai extracts value from meetings that already happened. Choose Cal.com if your bottleneck is scheduling friction—double bookings, timezone chaos, manual back-and-forth. Its open-source flexibility and multi-calendar sync beat competitors for teams that need control. Choose Fireflies.ai if you're drowning in meeting noise—your team runs dozens of calls weekly and needs searchable records, CRM auto-population, and AI summaries to surface action items. Fireflies wins for sales ops and distributed teams; Cal.com wins for anyone tired of Calendly's limitations. They're complementary, not competitive.