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The Stack / Productivity
Granola
01 IntelligenceYes for people who hate meeting bots — Granola's trick is capturing system audio locally, so no 'Granola has joined' guest chills the room, and it polishes the half-notes you type into complete records. The free tier's history cap makes the $14 Business tier the real product for working use, and it now carries API and MCP access that used to sit behind Enterprise.
The job in the stack
The botless meeting-notes seat: on-device audio capture that enhances your own rough notes, with nothing joining the call.
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Basic (Free) | $0 | AI notes, AI chat across meetings (auto model selection), shared folders, templates, Slack integration, desktop/iOS/Android/Apple Watch apps, training opt-out. History is a rolling 30 days — older notes stay stored but locked until you upgrade |
| Business | $14/user/mo | Unlimited notes and history; advanced thinking models and model choice in chat; pre-meeting briefs and follow-up emails; Notion, Zapier, HubSpot, Attio, Affinity; MCP and API access; central billing |
| Enterprise | $35/user/mo | SSO and SCIM, workspace-wide retention/auto-deletion/sharing/API policies, usage analytics and Audit API, Salesforce integration, HIPAA-compliant workspaces |
Pricing verified 2026-10-11. Plans change — the source of truth is Granola's own pricing page.
Models & versions
- Granola desktop System-audio capture (no bot), note enhancement, template outputs
The honest read
What works
- + No bot in the meeting — clients never see a recording guest
- + Enhances your actual notes instead of replacing them with a transcript wall
- + Output templates (recap, action items, CRM update) fit real follow-up work
What breaks
- − Free tier's capped history is an evaluation window, not a plan
- − Disclosure ethics don't disappear because the bot did — you're still recording
- − Desktop-app capture means your machine must be in the meeting
Use it for
- →Client-facing calls where a bot guest reads wrong
- →Note-takers who want augmentation, not replacement
- →Consultants turning conversations into structured follow-ups
Skip it if
- ×You want a searchable team meeting archive — Fireflies/Otter own that
- ×You never take notes yourself — transcript-first tools fit better
Questions operators ask
?If there's no bot, do I still need to tell people I'm recording?
Yes. The capture is invisible, the ethics aren't — and in two-party-consent jurisdictions, the law isn't either. Granola removes the awkward guest, not the disclosure conversation.
What changed
- Re-verified on granola.ai/pricing: Basic free (30-day history) / Business $14 / Enterprise $35 per user unchanged. Refreshed feature notes from the page: pre-meeting briefs and follow-up emails on Business; HIPAA workspaces, Salesforce and an Audit API on Enterprise; Slack and Android/Apple Watch apps on Basic.
- Re-verified on granola.ai/pricing: Basic free / Business $14 / Enterprise $35 unchanged. The pricing page now publishes the free tier's history cap again: a 30-day rolling window (older notes locked, not deleted, until you upgrade). Replaced our 'number not published' note with it.
- Re-verified on granola.ai/pricing: Basic free / Business $14 / Enterprise $35 unchanged, feature lists match. No changes to make.
- Prices hold at Basic free / Business $14 / Enterprise $35. Two real changes on granola.ai/pricing: API access and MCP-across-apps now sit on Business (we had API listed as Enterprise-only), and Business also lists 'advanced AI thinking models' plus Attio and Affinity integrations. Granola has stopped publishing a number for the free tier's history cap — removed our '25-note' figure rather than carry an unverifiable one.
- Released from staging. Re-verified on granola.ai/pricing: three-tier structure confirmed unchanged — Basic free (25-note history), Business $14/user/mo, Enterprise $35/user/mo.
- Added to the stack (botless meeting-notes seat). Verified: Basic free (25-note history), Business $14/user, Enterprise $35/user.
Give Granola a job
The botless meeting-notes seat: on-device audio capture that enhances your own rough notes, with nothing joining the call.
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