Granola
The best-known post-meeting notetaker: bare notes during the call, AI-enhanced summaries the moment it ends — not live in-call help.
Granola sits in your meetings (via your own mic, no bot joins) and lets you type rough, bare notes while you talk. The moment the meeting ends, its AI enhances those notes into a structured summary — a workflow it calls writing notes that get "enhanced seconds after we adjourn." That after-the-fact enhancement is the core of the product: help arrives once the call is over, not while it's happening.
It's free to start (Basic, with note history limited to 30 days and Slack as its only integration), with Business ($14/user/mo) adding unlimited history, advanced AI models, and integrations into Attio, Notion, HubSpot, Affinity, and Zapier, and Enterprise ($35/user/mo) adding SSO, SCIM, usage analytics, and HIPAA-compliant workspaces.
Local-first is part of Granola's own story too — notes are captured on-device — but the AI enhancement step is a cloud call, and there's no live in-call suggestion feature or bring-your-own API key option published anywhere on its site.
Pricing
Free ($14/user/mo Business) — Basic is free (AI meeting notes with no stated cap, history limited to 30 days, AI chat on auto-selected models, Slack only). Business is $14/user/mo (unlimited history, advanced AI models, Attio/Notion/HubSpot/Affinity/Zapier, API and MCP access, pre-meeting briefs, follow-up emails). Enterprise is $35/user/mo (SSO, SCIM, usage analytics, HIPAA-compliant workspaces, audit API, Salesforce). The pricing page lists one price per plan and no separate annual figures; no trial length is stated.
Verified 2026-10-27 against the vendor's pricing page. Pricing changes — always confirm with the vendor before buying.
Pros & cons
Pros
- Free tier is genuinely usable, not a crippled trial — AI meeting notes with no stated cap (history is limited to 30 days)
- Fast, well-regarded post-meeting summaries; strong brand recognition in this category
- Deep integrations at the Business tier (Attio, Notion, HubSpot, Affinity, Zapier), plus API and MCP access
- No meeting bot joins the call — captures via your own device
Cons
- No live in-call AI help — everything happens after the meeting ends, by design
- No bring-your-own API key option published
- AI enhancement step is a cloud call even though note capture itself is local
- No cited-source answers — it's a notes product, not a grounded-answer product
Feature checklist
| Feature | Granola |
|---|---|
| Price (month-to-month) | Free ($14/user/mo Business) |
| CRM / back-office integrations | ✓Business tier and up: Attio, Notion, HubSpot, Affinity, Zapier, API and MCP access (Basic includes Slack only; Salesforce is Enterprise) |
| Self-serve signup | ✓Free tier, no card required to start |
| Live AI assistance while the call is happening | ✕Notes are enhanced after the meeting ends, not suggested live |
| On-device / local audio processing | PartialNote capture is local; AI enhancement is a cloud step |
| Bring-your-own API key | Not publishedNo bring-your-own API key option published |
| Unlimited call length | Not publishedMeeting-length limits aren't published |
| AI answers cite their source | ✕Summaries aren't published as citing specific source passages |
| Dual-channel speaker separation | Not publishedNot published |