Alternatives
Self-hosted alternatives to Fireflies.ai
Projects in the registry that can run on your own hardware and serve at least one of the same use cases as Fireflies.ai.
- Source
- Registry relations over fetched repository records — the evidence sits on each repository page
- Verified
- Evidence not verified
- Confidence
- High
01How this list was built
- Compared against
- Fireflies.ai
- Delivery
- SaaS products
- Shared use cases
- Meeting transcription, CRM call summaries, Call transcription
- Selection rule
- open source, or self-hostable, and shares a use case
- Candidates found
- 5
02Alternatives
faster-whisper
Libraries
Reimplementation of Whisper on CTranslate2 with substantially lower memory use and faster inference, including int8 execution on CPU. The usual engine behind self-hosted transcription.
- Repository
- SYSTRAN/faster-whisper
- Stars
- 25,259
- Licence
- MIT
- In stacks
- 2
Shares: Meeting transcription · Call transcription
LiveKit Agents
Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
Framework for real-time voice and video agents on LiveKit’s WebRTC infrastructure, with turn detection, interruption handling and pluggable speech and model providers.
- Repository
- livekit/agents
- Stars
- 14,030
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- In stacks
- 1
Shares: Call transcription
LocalAI
Model servers
Drop-in OpenAI-compatible API server that runs text, embedding, image and audio models locally across several back ends, including CPU-only deployments.
- Repository
- mudler/LocalAI
- Stars
- 49,166
- Licence
- MIT
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Meeting transcription
n8n
Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
Workflow automation tool with several hundred integrations, branching logic, code steps and AI nodes. Can be self-hosted, which is why it appears in on-premise automation stacks.
- Repository
- n8n-io/n8n
- Stars
- 202,375
- Licence
- Other
- In stacks
- 4
Shares: Crm call summaries
WhisperX
Libraries
Whisper-based transcription pipeline adding word-level timestamps, forced alignment and speaker diarisation. Runs locally on GPU for batch transcription of recordings.
- Repository
- m-bain/whisperX
- Stars
- 24,121
- Licence
- BSD-2-Clause
- In stacks
- 1
Shares: Meeting transcription · Call transcription
03Repository facts
| Repository | Stars | Health |
|---|---|---|
| SYSTRAN/faster-whisperFaster Whisper transcription with CTranslate2 | 25k | Maintenance 20%, Releases 20%, Contributors 50%, Issues 87%, Community 88%48 |
| livekit/agentsA framework for building realtime voice AI agents | 14k | Maintenance 60%, Releases 60%, Contributors 50%, Issues 44%, Community 83%63 |
| mudler/LocalAILocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required. | 49k | Maintenance 80%, Releases 80%, Contributors 50%, Issues 97%, Community 94%81 |
| n8n-io/n8nFair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations. | 202k | Maintenance 60%, Releases 60%, Contributors 50%, Issues 95%, Community 100%72 |
| m-bain/whisperXWhisperX: Automatic Speech Recognition with Word-level Timestamps (& Diarization) | 24k | Maintenance 60%, Releases 40%, Contributors 50%, Issues 91%, Community 88%65 |
04Ask about your own case
Which alternative is right depends on how many people will use it, what the data is and what you can operate. Ask and the answer is researched for your organisation.