# Fireflies.ai: MCP server status, API access gate and what it does > Records and transcribes meetings and exposes the data through an open GraphQL API and an in-app AI assistant... Official MCP, Free to start. Checked 2026-09-07. *Markdown twin of the HTML page at the same path. Same content, no navigation, no styling, no scripts. Links below point at other twins. Site map for machines: [llms.txt](../llms.txt). The whole dataset: [directory.json](../data/directory.json).* *Maintained by Andrew McGuire (https://andrewcmcguire.com), who also publishes https://gtmsignals.co and https://justsaid.ai.* --- [Directory](../index.md) / [Conversation Intel](../categories/conversation-intel.md) / Fireflies.ai # Fireflies.ai [Official MCP](../mcp/official.md) [Free to start](../gates/free.md) [Conversation Intel](../categories/conversation-intel.md) RESEARCHED Checked 2026-09-07 CLI: fireflies (community) > **RESEARCHED** Facts from public sources with URLs. No usage claims. Nobody has run this tool. The other tier is BENCH-TESTED, which means Andrew personally ran the tool on a stated date and cannot be bought at any price. Across the whole directory that count is 1. Vendor: [fireflies.ai](https://fireflies.ai) · entry id 03-fireflies-ai · source 03-conversation-intel.md line 87 **What it does** Records and transcribes meetings and exposes the data through an open GraphQL API and an in-app AI assistant ("AskFred") for summaries, search, and CRM writeback. **AI features, separated from automation with an AI label on it** Meeting summarization, AskFred conversational Q&A over transcript history, action-item extraction. "AI credits" gate some advanced AI actions even on paid plans; core transcription is ASR/automation. **RevOps role** Low-friction, developer-accessible conversation-data layer - the clearest solo-operator-friendly option among the recording-based tools. **MCP server** - **Status bucket**: Official MCP - **Auth**: OAuth (Google/Microsoft, recommended) or manual API key for Claude Desktop and other MCP clients. - **Parsed URLs**: 2 found in the mcp_url field - **Endpoint probe**: did not answer - **Probed**: 2026-09-04, HTTP None The vendor ships and maintains the server itself. A wrapper built by Zapier, Composio or a similar third party does not count as official. The status was established by hand on 2026-09-07. On 2026-09-04 no recorded MCP URL answered. mcp_status, verbatim from the file: official mcp_url, verbatim from the file: https://api.fireflies.ai/mcp ; https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/8272956938-learn-about-the-fireflies-mcp-server-model-context-protocol (server endpoint https://api.fireflies.ai/mcp) - [https://api.fireflies.ai/mcp](https://api.fireflies.ai/mcp) - [https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/8272956938-learn-about-the-fireflies-mcp-server-model-context-protocol](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/8272956938-learn-about-the-fireflies-mcp-server-model-context-protocol) **What this server exposes** - **Tools named**: 3 - **Strongest evidence**: in the vendor docs - **Harvested**: 2026-09-27 - **Catalogue shape**: a fixed catalogue the vendor publishes A tool below is one the server NAMES. Nobody has called it. That is the same two tier honesty rule the rest of the directory runs on: a named tool is research, and BENCH-TESTED stays the only claim that anybody ran anything. - **get_transcript** Retrieve a full transcript using transcriptId evidence: in the vendor docs · calling it reads · required: transcriptId - **get_transcripts** Search across past transcripts with filters evidence: in the vendor docs · calling it reads - **get_user** Returns your user profile info evidence: in the vendor docs · calling it reads 141 of the 741 entries that record an official or community MCP server carry a harvested tool list. The other 600 are unmeasured, which is not the same as empty. Harvest last run 2026-09-27. Every name across every server is on the [tools index](../tools-index.md). **Command line** This is a third party's CLI. It was published by somebody other than the vendor, so it is that author's surface for the vendor's API and not the vendor's published surface. The two must not be read as the same thing. - **Binary**: fireflies - **Status**: community CLI, third party - **Strongest evidence**: npm - **Harvested**: 2026-09-27 Install, as the source shows it: ``` npm install -g @cli4ai/fireflies ``` quoted from [https://www.npmjs.com/package/@cli4ai/fireflies](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@cli4ai/fireflies) on 2026-09-27, via npm, a third party source ``` npm install -g fireflies-export ``` quoted from [https://www.npmjs.com/package/fireflies-export](https://www.npmjs.com/package/fireflies-export) on 2026-09-27, via npm, a third party source ``` pip install fireflies-cli ``` quoted from [https://pypi.org/project/fireflies-cli/](https://pypi.org/project/fireflies-cli/) on 2026-09-27, via pypi, a third party source Packages seen, with the version on 2026-09-27: - [npm: @cli4ai/fireflies 1.0.11, third party](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@cli4ai/fireflies) - [npm: fireflies-export 0.1.6, third party](https://www.npmjs.com/package/fireflies-export) - [pypi: fireflies-cli 0.1.0, third party](https://pypi.org/project/fireflies-cli/) - [pypi: fireflies-cli 0.1.0, third party](https://pypi.org/project/fireflies-cli/) A CLI being listed means the harvest found an install command or a package on a stated date. Nobody has run it. Every command is quoted verbatim from the URL beneath it. Harvest date 2026-09-27. **Access gate** - **Gate bucket**: Free to start - **Can a solo operator reach it**: Yes, without talking to anyone api_gate, verbatim from the file: free (probable, not fully confirmed). The GraphQL API key is generated from Account → Integrations with no plan restriction stated in Fireflies' own quickstart docs, and multiple secondary sources report API access on every tier including free - but no primary Fireflies source explicitly states "the free tier includes API access," so treat as probable rather than certain. **API documentation** No documentation URL recorded. 727 of 1252 entries are in the same position. Blank is legal and it is published as blank. **GitHub health** Not measured. github_url, github_stars, github_last_commit and github_archived are null on every entry in this build. The refresh rail specced in SPEC section 7.2 has not been run. An unstamped star count is a lie, so nothing is shown rather than something stale. **On GitHub** [github.com/firefliesai](https://github.com/firefliesai) tied to the vendor by rule 3, account website https://fireflies.ai has the vendor's domain, confidence strong - **Public repositories**: 11, forks excluded, as read on 2026-09-08 - **Mention MCP**: 0 of them - **Look like CLIs**: 0 of them - **Latest push**: 2026-07-16 The five most recently pushed, on 2026-09-08: | Repository | Kind | Description | Stars | Pushed | Latest release | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | [n8n-nodes-fireflies](https://github.com/firefliesai/n8n-nodes-fireflies) | plugin or integration | | 3 | 2026-07-16 | v2.2.2 | | [fireflies-node-sdk](https://github.com/firefliesai/fireflies-node-sdk) | SDK | | 2 | 2026-06-10 | | | [schema-forge](https://github.com/firefliesai/schema-forge) | other | Transform TypeScript classes into JSON Schema definitions with automatic support for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google... | 4 | 2026-05-18 | | | [.github](https://github.com/firefliesai/.github) | other | | 0 | 2025-12-20 | | | [public-helm-charts](https://github.com/firefliesai/public-helm-charts) | infrastructure | | 0 | 2025-12-15 | redis-cluster-13.0.4 | Kind is a heuristic guessed from the repository name, topics and description, not a fact the vendor stated. A repository count is activity, not a verdict. Read 2026-09-08. **Jobs it can do** - [Fetch a call transcript](../jobs/fetch-call-transcript.md) - [Search across recorded calls](../jobs/search-call-library.md) - [Summarize a meeting](../jobs/summarize-meeting.md) - [Write CRM records](../jobs/write-crm-records.md) A job tag means the vendor says the tool does this. It is not a test result, not proof the capability is reachable through the tool's MCP server, and not proof it is available on the gate this entry records. Tagged by machine-pass on 2026-08-25 against the closed 56 job vocabulary. 271 of 1,252 entries carry at least one tag; 849 tags are assigned in total. **Sources** - [https://docs.fireflies.ai/getting-started/introduction](https://docs.fireflies.ai/getting-started/introduction) - [https://docs.fireflies.ai/getting-started/quickstart](https://docs.fireflies.ai/getting-started/quickstart) - [https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/8272956938-learn-about-the-fireflies-mcp-server-model-context-protocol](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/8272956938-learn-about-the-fireflies-mcp-server-model-context-protocol) - [https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/3734844560-learn-about-the-fireflies-pricing-plans](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/3734844560-learn-about-the-fireflies-pricing-plans) - [https://api.fireflies.ai/mcp](https://api.fireflies.ai/mcp) 5 source URLs. Raw sources field, verbatim: https://docs.fireflies.ai/getting-started/introduction, https://docs.fireflies.ai/getting-started/quickstart, https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/8272956938-learn-about-the-fireflies-mcp-server-model-context-protocol, https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/3734844560-learn-about-the-fireflies-pricing-plans, https://api.fireflies.ai/mcp **Notes, verbatim from the file** This is the Gong-vs-Fireflies contrast the directory is built to surface: an open, self-serve GraphQL API plus an official MCP server, versus Gong's sales-gated everything. 2026-09-07: https://api.fireflies.ai/mcp returned 401 to an MCP initialize POST (https://api.fireflies.ai/mcp). **Provenance** - **Entry id**: 03-fireflies-ai - **Source file**: 03-conversation-intel.md - **Source line**: 87 - **Tier**: RESEARCHED - **last_checked**: 2026-09-07 - **Data baked**: 2026-09-27 Every field above is rendered from directory.json exactly as the build produced it. Nothing is summarised and nothing is dropped. The one change made at render time is typographic and it is disclosed on the [methodology page](../methodology.md).