Granola is an AI meeting-notes app. It listens through your computer’s audio (no bot joins the call) and turns your rough notes into clean ones. The pricing looks simple. The confusing part is what happens to your notes after a month on the free plan.
Everything below is accurate as of this morning, and AI pricing changes constantly. The specific numbers will drift. The way to think about the decision holds up longer.
What the money buys
There are three plans. Basic is free. Business is $14 per person per month. Enterprise starts at $35 per person per month. Only Enterprise contracts get annual billing, so the other two are month to month.
Basic gets unlimited meetings, AI notes, and AI chat, with Granola picking the AI model for you and Slack as the only integration. Business adds unlimited history, better AI models, pre-meeting briefs, follow-up emails, and connections to Notion, HubSpot, Attio, and Zapier. Enterprise adds the IT-department stuff, like single sign-on, admin controls, and a team-wide opt-out from model training.
What it doesn’t buy
On the free plan, you only see the last 30 days. Older notes aren’t deleted, Granola says, but you can’t open them in the app until you upgrade. You can email yourself a spreadsheet of titles and summaries from Settings, which is something. (Not much. Something.)
It also doesn’t keep the recording. On every plan, Granola deletes the audio after transcribing it, so what you have later is the transcript and the notes, not a file you can replay.
And it doesn’t buy you permission. Since there’s no bot in the attendee list, other people on the call can’t see Granola running. Granola says you may need consent depending on where you live, and puts that job on you.
The math
For one person, Business is $14 a month, or $168 a year. Granola used to sell a solo plan for around $18 a month. That plan’s gone, so Business is now the way a single user keeps their history.
If you mostly use notes for this week’s follow-ups, free probably covers you. If you ever dig back three months for what a client actually agreed to, that 30-day window is the whole decision.
Free options keep showing up, too. Google just released AI Edge Foresight, an experimental Mac app that takes meeting notes entirely on your computer, with no cloud subscription.
The test that outlasts this month’s prices is how often you go back to a meeting from last quarter. If the answer is “never,” stay free. If it’s “every Monday,” that’s $14.