Cluely alternatives for sales calls
Cluely is a desktop meeting assistant that gives real-time answers without a meeting bot 1. If you sell for a living and want live help tied to your product and playbook, these tools are worth a look. Each one offers some form of help during the call.
What to look for
- Knows your product: can it answer from your docs and competitor content?
- Live help: does it act during the call or only after?
- Bot or no bot: does a recorder join the meeting?
- Where audio goes: is call audio saved or sent to the cloud?
- Price: listed or contact sales?
1. Ghost
The AI sales coach that knows your product. Train it on your website, docs, competitor pages and files, then get answers with sources during the call. Market packs cover competitors and battle cards for 20 software markets. Coaches to MEDDICC or BANT live. No bot; transcription runs on your computer and call audio is never saved. Mac and Windows. Free, Pro $19/month, Team $29/person/month.
Best for: sellers who field technical and competitive questions and want to control where their data goes. Not the best fit: teams that need a call recorder, CRM write-back or manager dashboards.
2. Fireflies.ai
Fireflies has a Windows and macOS desktop app with Live Assist for real-time notes and suggestions 26. Its Sales Assist gives real-time answers from a knowledge base you upload, and requires the Fireflies Notetaker bot in the meeting 26. Botless recording uses system audio and does not save audio or video files 27. Free, Pro $10, Business $19, Enterprise $39 per seat per month billed annually 28.
Best for: teams that want a meeting notetaker with live suggestions.
3. Avoma
Avoma is an AI meeting assistant and conversation intelligence platform 25. Its real-time guidance shows answer cards on triggers and objections, an in-call overlay for MEDDIC, BANT and SPIN, and mid-call questions to CRM data 24. It supports bot-based and bot-less recording 23. Plans start at $19 per recorder seat per month billed annually; the Real-time Answer Assistant is part of the Conversation Intelligence add-on 23.
Best for: teams that want recording, CRM sync and admin-built answer cards in one tool.
4. Outreach Kaia
Kaia is Outreach's live meeting assistant. It shows live transcription and content cards for competitor, product and pricing info 18. The Kaia Assistant joins Zoom or Teams meetings as a participant 18, and also works on Outreach Voice calls for licensed users 19. Pricing is contact sales 20.
Best for: teams already running on Outreach.
5. Trellus
Trellus adds power and parallel dialing inside your CRM, with suggested replies to questions and objections during the call 29. Real-time coaching is on the Business plan, which is custom priced 30.
Best for: SDR teams making high volumes of cold calls.
| Criteria | Ghost | Cluely | Fireflies | Avoma | Outreach Kaia | Trellus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knows your product | Your site, docs, competitor pages, files; sources shown | Uploaded files 2; enterprise knowledge base 3 | Uploaded knowledge base for Sales Assist 26 | Admin-built answer cards 24 | Content cards 18 | Not stated |
| Live help | Yes | Yes 1 | Yes 26 | Yes, add-on 2324 | Yes 18 | Business plan 30 |
| Meeting bot | None | None 1 | Required for Sales Assist 26 | Bot or bot-less 23 | Joins as participant 18 | Dialer via Chrome extension 29 |
| Call audio | Never saved | Not saved 5 | Not saved when botless 27 | Records calls 25 | Recordings kept 2 years by default 19 | Records calls 29 |
| Platforms | Mac, Windows | Mac, Windows 6 | Mac, Windows 26 | Mobile apps listed 25 | Zoom or Teams; Outreach Voice 18 | Chrome extension 29 |
| Price | Free; $19; $29/person | Free; $19.99; $149.99 2 | Free; $10 to $39/seat 28 | From $19/seat 23 | Contact sales 20 | From $99.99/seat; coaching custom 30 |
Questions
What is the closest Cluely alternative?
Ghost. Both are desktop apps with no meeting bot 1. Ghost focuses on sales: product answers with sources, battle cards and live playbook coaching.
Which alternative keeps call audio off the cloud?
Ghost transcribes on your computer and never saves or sends call audio. Fireflies' botless mode also does not save audio or video files 27.
Which one writes call notes back to my CRM?
Cluely's enterprise plan writes summaries and action items back to HubSpot, Salesforce and other CRMs 4. Ghost reads your CRM for briefings and does not write back.
Is there a free option?
Ghost and Fireflies both have free plans 28.
Sources
Pages read on 2026-10-24. Facts about other products come from these pages; tell us at hello@ghostsales.ai if something changed.
- cluely.com (vendor)
- cluely.com/pricing (vendor)
- docs.cluely.com/ (vendor docs, "Cluely for Enterprise")
- docs.cluely.com/enterprise/integrations.md (vendor docs)
- docs.cluely.com/feature/limitations (vendor docs)
- docs.cluely.com/debugging/mdmpermissions.md (vendor docs)
- support.outreach.io/support/solutions/articles/159000425537-outreach-kaia-overview-for-outreach-end-users (vendor help)
- support.outreach.io/support/solutions/articles/159000425929-kaia-live-meeting-assistant-in-outreach-voice-faq (vendor help)
- www.outreach.ai/pricing (vendor; outreach.io/pricing redirects here)
- www.avoma.com/pricing (vendor)
- www.avoma.com/conversation-intelligence/real-time-sales-guidance-software (vendor)
- www.avoma.com/ (vendor)
- guide.fireflies.ai/articles/2679406774-live-assist-sales-assist-fireflies-desktop-app-real-time-notes-answers-suggestions (vendor help)
- guide.fireflies.ai/articles/6666374717-how-to-record-meetings-without-a-bot-on-the-fireflies-desktop-app (vendor help)
- fireflies.ai/pricing (vendor)
- www.trellus.ai/ (vendor)
- www.trellus.ai/pricing (vendor)