Granola AI Pricing (2026): Plans, Costs and Limits
Oct 20, 202613 min read
Granola is an AI meeting-notes app with a free tier, a paid plan for individuals and a per-person plan for teams, and its notes can be sent onward to other tools through automation platforms like Activepieces.
Granola AI pricing is the set of tiers, per-person fees, meeting limits and feature restrictions that together determine what an individual or team actually pays to use the Granola meeting-notes app, beyond any single listed monthly price.
Your real bill depends on how many meetings and people you cover. The figures below come from Granola's pricing page, read on 2026-10-20. This article explains what each plan costs, where the limits bite and which tier fits which kind of team.
Granola AI pricing today in one direct answer
What Granola is
Granola listens to your meetings from your own computer, so no bot joins the call and no one else on it has to do anything.
It combines the notes you type with the transcript and turns them into a cleaned-up summary you can search, share and reuse.
The more meetings you run through Granola, the more you lean on the plan's limits, and that is why meeting volume matters for the bill. Anyone who meets daily will outgrow the free tier, which exists for trying the product.
The short answer on price
There's a free tier for trying it out, a paid individual plan above it and a team plan that charges for every person you add.
The headline number on each is the cost for one person, so a team pays that number once per seat. Higher tiers also hold some features the lower ones lack.
If you remember one thing, make it this: the sticker price tells you what one person pays, and your team size tells you what you pay.
Most pricing pages are laid out the same way.
**If you remember one thing, make it this: the sticker price tells you what one person pays, and your team size tells you what you pay.
The ladder below, from Activepieces, a workflow automation tool, runs from a free entry point through paid steps to a custom-quote tier, and the lesson is to read the limits under each name before you read the price beside it.
Granola's tiers follow that same ladder, and the next section starts with the free one.
If you are running this arithmetic for your own team, see what the same workload costs on Activepieces.
Every Granola plan, price and usage limit compared
Granola sells three plans, and the price per user rises from $0 on Basic to $14 on Business to $35 on Enterprise, according to Granola's pricing page. Each step up changes the bill more than the headline suggests.
The plan table
Each row of the table gives a plan's monthly price per user and how Granola charges for it. Read the last column first: every paid price multiplies by the number of people you add.
| Plan | Monthly price | Charged |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | $0 | Per user |
| Business | $14 | Per user |
| Enterprise | $35 | Per user |
Prices and plan limits checked against granola.ai on October 20, 2026.
Granola describes Basic as a free taste of the product and Business as suited to individuals or small teams. Those descriptions are a fair guide to where each plan starts to strain.
The price row hides the part that decides most purchases, which is what each plan caps and what it adds. This table sets the three side by side.
| Basic | Business | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meetings | Not capped | Not capped | Not capped |
| Note history | Limited window | Full history | Full history |
| Team sharing and collaboration | Basic use | Included | Included |
| SSO and admin controls | No | No | Yes |
| Security and compliance extras | No | No | Yes |
What changes between tiers
On Basic, the only price you pay is what the plan won't let you do.
The free tier caps how many meetings you can run through it and how far back your notes reach, and that cost doesn't appear on the invoice, which makes it easy to miss.
Business at $14 per user per month is where money starts leaving, according to Granola. It lifts both Basic caps, so you get your whole meeting load and your whole history.
A team of 10 pays $140 a month, and a team of 25 pays $350. The price is small for one person and grows with every seat you add.
At $35 per user per month, Granola's Enterprise is two and a half times the Business price.
That is $21 more per seat, and it buys administration and security: single sign-on, central admin controls and the compliance features an IT or security team will ask for. Note-taking itself works the same as on Business.
According to Granola, ten people on Enterprise cost $350 a month, the same as 25 people on Business.
If only a few of those people need Enterprise-only features, you're paying that premium on every seat.
Next to a bill of that size, the sticker price is the smaller part of the decision. What matters is how many people you cover and how many meetings you need handled.
What Granola costs at realistic usage levels
Your bill is the tier that covers your meetings multiplied by every person who needs it, and the billing period is the last lever to check.
Granola pricing for solo professionals
With one seat, a solo consultant's bill depends on the tier alone. If your meeting load fits the free allowance, you pay nothing, and moving up early is the mistake that costs you.
If you hit the limit mid-month, you pay for a paid tier or lose notes on the calls that matter most.
A missing record of a client call is the costlier outcome.
Once you're on a paid tier, compare the monthly price against the annual one, then multiply by your months of real use. If your client work is seasonal, the monthly option may be the cheaper one.
Granola plan limits for heavy meeting loads
If your calendar is packed, you are the person most likely to outgrow a limit. Count your recorded meetings in a typical week, then check whether the plan's cap covers them.
Higher tiers hold some features the lower ones lack, and if you need one of them, the tier above is the real price, so don't plan around the headline number.
A heavy user is also the best candidate for annual billing, because you'll use the plan every month of the year.
Ten-person team
Every extra person repeats the whole cost under per-seat pricing, so a small difference per head becomes a large one across the team.
Before you buy, check who actually runs meetings. If only some of the team need a paid seat, covering those people costs less than covering everyone.
Next, see whether team-level features sit on a tier above the individual one. Annual billing saves the most here, since the saving repeats across every seat too.
Worth checking against a plan that does not meter every step: one credit covers a whole run on Activepieces.
Hidden costs and limits Granola users hit
The bill grows past the headline price in four places: caps on history, features that only higher plans have, seat counts and the manual work after a meeting. The cheap plan is only cheap if none of them bites.
Granola note history caps on Basic
Basic limits how far back your notes go and how many meetings it will hold. You pay for that cap later, when you search for a decision from months ago and it's gone.
Business removes the cap, which is often the real reason to pay the $14.
Features reserved for higher plans
The useful extras for larger organisations, such as single sign-on, admin controls and security features, sit on Enterprise. List the ones you need first, then find the cheapest plan that includes all of them.
Granola per-seat pricing for teams
A team of ten pays ten times the sticker, because the price is per person. If only some people need every feature, a mixed setup costs less than putting everyone on the top tier.
Manual work after meetings Granola leaves
You may end up copying notes by hand when you get them into a CRM, a task tracker or a shared document, and that time never shows up on an invoice.
Activepieces can take notes you export or forward from Granola, through a webhook or HTTP request step rather than a Granola integration, and push them to a CRM or Slack.
Its free plan is $0 with unlimited flows, 1,000 credits a month and up to 5 users, and the same unlimited-flow structure applies on every paid plan, so follow-up automation adds no seat cost the way a second Granola tier would.
Alan and FundingSocieties run production automation on Activepieces, and the Activepieces pricing page lists the credit-based, unlimited-flow structure: Plus at $20 a month, Team at $200 a month, Ultimate through sales.
I haven't confirmed whether your plan includes automatic sharing, so test one real meeting end to end before you commit.
Granola against its closest alternatives on price
At $14 per user per month billed monthly, Granola is the cheapest of the five paid note-takers here, and every rival costs more for the same seat.
The table below shows the gap, so you can see how much each alternative adds per person, per month.
Prices come from Transcribex and were checked in October 2026.
| Tool | Paid price per user per month, billed monthly | Extra over Granola |
|---|---|---|
| Granola | $14 | none |
| Otter | $16.99 | $2.99 |
| Fireflies | $18 | $4 |
| Read AI | $19.75 | $5.75 |
| Fathom | $20 | $6 |
viz type=stackrank title="Cheapest paid plan across AI note-taker tools, billed monthly" unit="$ per user per month" source="Transcribex - https://www.transcribex.io/blog/ai-note-taker-pricing/" target="14" benchmark="Granola Business"4 is under Otter's viz type=stackrank title="Cheapest paid plan across AI note-taker tools, billed monthly" unit="$ per user per month" source="Transcribex - https://www.transcribex.io/blog/ai-note-taker-pricing/" target="14" benchmark="Granola Business"8, Read AI's Those gaps compound. Ten people on Fathom instead of Granola costs $60 more a month, or $720 a year.
On these monthly figures, no alternative is cheaper.
I haven't confirmed free-tier limits, annual discounts or team-plan rates, so I won't claim one wins there. If a free tier covers your meeting volume, it beats $14 by definition. Check each vendor's pricing page before you rule one out.
viz type=step title="Granola's company valuation at each funding round" unit="$m valuation" source="Tech.eu - https://tech.eu/2026/03/25/granola-raises-125m-at-1-5bn-valuation/"02.78m at Series A and $250m at Series B." Seed 2023: 21.25 Series A 2024: 102.78 Series B 2025: 250
Granola's Business plan carries no price premium. What matters is whether its features fit how your team works. If they do, the lowest sticker price makes it the default for larger teams, where the per-seat gap grows fastest.
Funding backdrop and price changes
According to Tech.eu, Granola's valuation went from $21.25 million at seed in 2023 to $102.78 million at Series A in 2024. It reached $250 million at Series B in 2025 and $1,500 million at Series C in 2026.
That's roughly a 70-fold rise in three years. A company valued that way is under pressure to grow revenue, so treat $14 as today's price, not a promise.
The Monday checklist for choosing a Granola plan
Because the price can move, buy only after you've measured your own use and tried the product, and work through these five steps in order:
- Count your meetings in a typical week and the people who will use Granola. Those two numbers set the bill more than the headline price does.
- Use the free or trial tier for one full week of real meetings, not a demo. If it hits a limit, you've found out what that limit costs before paying.
- Choose monthly or annual billing. Monthly lets you leave if the price rises; annual usually costs less per month but locks you in.
- Ask Granola in writing to confirm that any feature you depend on is in the tier you're buying.
- Set a calendar reminder to re-check pricing and plan limits a few months out.
Open the pricing page and read it as a grid: tiers across the top, limits and features down the side. Ignore the price row at first and read the limit rows.
Your week of testing tells you which limit you'd hit first. Then multiply the per-person price by the number of people from step one, because that total is the real bill, not the figure printed in large type.
Higher tiers tend to unlock features, not just capacity. If a feature your team relies on sits one tier up, the cheaper plan was never an option for you.
Write down which features your test week actually used, and check each one against the tier you're considering.
What follows is the part many people skip: asking Granola directly, so the answer is on record before you pay.
Frequently asked questions
These are the five questions worth putting to Granola in writing. Each answer says what its pricing and billing pages show, and what to do where they leave room for doubt.
Free use and annual billing
Is Granola free to use? Yes, there's a free plan, but it caps how much you can use it.
That cap decides whether free is a real option or a trial in disguise. If you sit in meetings most days, expect to hit it quickly and pay for the next tier.
Does Granola offer a discount for annual billing? Check the billing toggle on the pricing page before you assume either way. If an annual rate is shown, compare it with twelve months at the monthly rate.
If you're unsure you'll still use the tool in a year, the saving may not be worth locking in.
Cancelling and changing plans
Can you cancel Granola or change plans at any time? You change plans and cancel from your account settings, so you don't need a sales call to leave.
What the pages leave less clear is refunds on a plan you've already paid for. Ask support before you buy, especially on annual billing, and keep the reply.
Team pricing and price changes
Does Granola charge per user for teams? Yes, team plans are priced per person. Every added seat repeats the full price, so a rollout to a whole department costs far more than the headline number suggests.
Count only the people who sit in enough meetings to use it.
Does Granola's price change often? Plans and limits have shifted as the product has grown, so treat any price you read, including in this article, as a snapshot.
Before you commit a team budget, reread the pricing page on the day you buy. If you're signing for many seats, get the price confirmed in writing.
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