name: Fireflies.ai FinOps Framework
description: FinOps Framework 1.0 FOCUS-aligned cost management guide for Fireflies.ai API consumption
version: '1.0'
provider: Fireflies.ai
url: https://fireflies.ai/pricing
currency: USD
billingModels:
  - type: SeatBased
    description: Per-user/per-month subscription pricing for all plan tiers
    billingCycles:
      - monthly
      - annual
    annualDiscount: up to 44%
  - type: Consumption
    description: Overage charges for transcription minutes exceeding monthly quota
    unit: minute
    rate: 0.01
    currency: USD
costCategories:
  - category: Subscription
    description: Fixed monthly or annual seat-based license cost
    plans:
      - name: Free
        monthlyCostPerSeat: 0
        annualCostPerSeat: 0
      - name: Pro
        monthlyCostPerSeat: 18
        annualCostPerSeat: 120
      - name: Business
        monthlyCostPerSeat: 29
        annualCostPerSeat: 228
      - name: Enterprise
        monthlyCostPerSeat: 39
        annualCostPerSeat: 468
  - category: Overage
    description: Additional charges when monthly transcription minutes are exceeded
    rate: 0.01
    unit: per extra minute
    billingCycle: monthly
    notes: Billed in the following billing cycle
costAllocation:
  dimensions:
    - name: Plan Tier
      description: Cost bucket by subscription tier (Free, Pro, Business, Enterprise)
    - name: Seat Count
      description: Number of licensed users driving total subscription spend
    - name: Transcription Minutes
      description: Volume of audio/video processed; key consumption driver for overages
    - name: API Requests
      description: Volume of GraphQL API calls; relevant for tracking integration usage
    - name: AI Credits
      description: Credits consumed by AskFred AI and advanced AI features
optimization:
  recommendations:
    - id: right-size-plan
      title: Right-size plan to API request volume
      description: Free and Pro plans are request-per-day limited; teams making frequent programmatic queries should evaluate Business tier for per-minute rate limits
      impact: medium
    - id: annual-billing
      title: Commit to annual billing for predictable workloads
      description: Annual plans save up to 44% vs monthly; appropriate for teams with stable seat counts
      impact: high
    - id: monitor-overage-minutes
      title: Monitor transcription minute consumption to avoid overages
      description: Track monthly minutes processed via the Analytics API; implement alerts when approaching 80% of the 3,000 min/user quota to prevent $0.01/min overages
      impact: high
    - id: exempt-live-meetings
      title: Use live bot meetings to avoid upload quota consumption
      description: Live meetings joined by the Fireflies bot are exempt from monthly minute caps; prefer bot-joined meetings over manual uploads where possible
      impact: medium
    - id: pool-team-minutes
      title: Pool minutes across team seats
      description: Team accounts pool minutes per source (3,000 min/user), so distributing upload load across team members maximizes effective quota
      impact: low
reporting:
  metrics:
    - name: Cost Per Meeting
      formula: totalSubscriptionCost / meetingsTranscribed
      unit: USD/meeting
    - name: Cost Per Transcription Minute
      formula: (subscriptionCost + overageCost) / totalMinutesTranscribed
      unit: USD/minute
    - name: API Request Utilization Rate
      formula: (requestsUsed / requestLimit) * 100
      unit: percent
      notes: Track per plan to identify upgrade triggers
    - name: Overage Exposure
      formula: max(0, minutesProcessed - monthlyQuota) * 0.01
      unit: USD
      notes: Estimated overage cost for current billing period
focus:
  version: '1.0'
  columns:
    - ChargePeriodStart
    - ChargePeriodEnd
    - ChargeCategory
    - ServiceName
    - SkuId
    - SkuPriceId
    - BilledCost
    - EffectiveCost
    - ResourceId
    - Tags
  serviceMapping:
    ServiceName: Fireflies.ai
    ServiceCategory: AI Meeting Intelligence
    Provider: Fireflies Inc.