Granola pricing (2026): what the free plan limits are and what Business and Enterprise cost

Granola has three plans: Basic, Business, and Enterprise. Basic is free. Business and Enterprise are priced per user per month, and Granola bills per workspace, so every member of a workspace is on the same plan. Most people looking up Granola pricing want to know what the free plan leaves out, and the short answer is old notes. The app shows you the last 30 days.

Everything below comes from Granola's pricing page and Granola's help center, checked on 23 October 2026. Plans change, so check the page before you buy. For what Granola is like to use, read our Granola AI review.

Granola prices at a glance

Plan	Price	Billing	Meeting history in the app
Basic	$0	Free	Last 30 days
Business	$14 per user a month	Monthly only	Unlimited
Enterprise	$35 per user a month	Monthly, or annual by contract	Unlimited

The help center lists Enterprise as "from $35/user/month," so larger contracts may be priced differently. There is no annual discount on Business, which is unusual. Otter takes a third or more off its paid plans for annual billing, and Fathom takes 20 to 26 percent off. Granola charges the same $14 whether you stay a month or a year.

Over a year, Business costs $168 per user. Enterprise costs $420.

How much is Granola AI on the free plan?

Nothing. Granola's billing article lists "No daily limit" on transcriptions for every plan, Basic included, and neither it nor the pricing page gives a monthly minute cap or a per-meeting time limit. Compare Otter's free plan, which stops at 300 minutes a month and 30 minutes per conversation.

What Basic holds back:

Basic limit	What it means
Meeting history	Only notes from the last 30 days show in the app
Integrations	Slack only. Notion, Zapier, HubSpot, Attio and Affinity need Business
AI chat	Auto model only, no model choice
MCP (Claude, ChatGPT and similar)	Your own notes from the last 30 days
API access	Not included
Pre-meeting briefs and follow-up emails	Not included

The 30-day window is the one that decides it. Notes older than that are stored, and Granola's help center says they are "not deleted," but you cannot open them in the app until you upgrade. If you want them out without paying, Settings > Profile > Generate CSV emails you the titles and summaries of your whole history within a few hours. That is titles and summaries, so plan on losing easy access to old transcripts.

In a Reddit thread from February 2026, one user wrote that they liked Granola but that notes were now limited to 30 days of history unless you sign up for Business. If you often look things up in old meetings, expect to run into that limit within a month on Basic.

The core product is the same on Basic. You get AI meeting notes and bot-free capture from your computer's audio. The desktop app runs on macOS and Windows, and the help center gives macOS 14 as the minimum. The iPhone, Android and Apple Watch apps are free to use on any plan. Shared folders, templates, Recipes and multi-language support are also on Basic.

What Granola Business adds for $14 a month

Granola's pricing page calls Business "great for individuals or small teams." At $14 a month, it costs less than Otter Pro at $16.99 or Fathom Premium at $20, both billed monthly. On annual billing the order changes: Otter Pro drops to $8.33 a month, below Granola, while Fathom Premium at $16 stays above it.

The main change is history. Meeting notes and history are unlimited, and MCP tools can reach your personal notes and your workspace's public notes.

On top of that, Business adds:

• Integrations with Notion, Zapier, HubSpot, Attio and Affinity
• Model selection in AI chat, including what Granola calls advanced AI thinking models
• API access
• Pre-meeting briefs and follow-up emails
• A workspace-wide dictionary
• Centralized billing and user management

Salesforce is not on Business. The pricing table puts "Advanced integrations (e.g. Salesforce)" on Enterprise only. If your sales team works in Salesforce, Business will not sync to it.

What a team pays for Business

Billing is per active seat. Pending invitations do not count, and adding or removing someone mid-cycle is prorated on the next invoice.

Team size	Per month	Per year
1	$14	$168
5	$70	$840
10	$140	$1,680

One quirk: a workspace cannot mix plans. If only three people on a ten-person team need Business, Granola's suggestion is to keep a smaller Business workspace for those three, or split into a paid workspace and a free one. Notes and folders are not shared between workspaces. If you only want Business for yourself, the help center says to create a personal workspace and upgrade that one.

Granola Enterprise at $35 per user

Enterprise is listed at $35 per user a month. It is the only plan with annual billing, and the help center says you can upgrade to it yourself from Settings > Billing without talking to sales. You only need sales for an annual contract.

What Enterprise adds over Business:

• Single sign-on, which the help center says needs 50 or more seats, and SCIM provisioning
• Workspace-wide admin policies for transcript retention, sharing and model-training opt-out
• Admin controls for MCP, the API and integrations
• Advanced integrations such as Salesforce
• Workspace usage analytics and an audit API
• An admin-enforced notice to other participants that Granola is in use
• HIPAA-compliant workspaces
• MDM and Intune app wrapping on iOS
• Dedicated support

A 5-person team on Enterprise pays $175 a month, or $2,100 a year at the listed price. That is $1,260 a year more than Business for the same five people. At that size it makes sense if you need central policy, Salesforce, or a HIPAA workspace. SSO needs 50 seats, so a five-person team would have to pay for 50 to get it.

Granola HIPAA and the Enterprise plan

Granola's help center says Granola "is HIPAA compliant for Enterprise customers" and that "HIPAA support and BAAs are not available on Free or Business plans." You contact sales to enable it and sign a Business Associate Agreement. If your meetings include protected health information, Basic and Business are off the table, and the cheapest Granola plan with a BAA is Enterprise, listed from $35 a seat.

Our post on which AI notetakers are HIPAA compliant covers how other vendors handle this. Private Notetaker does not claim HIPAA certification.

Student, startup and nonprofit pricing

Granola runs three programs that cut the price of Business:

Program	Offer	Who qualifies
Students	12 months of Business free	Currently enrolled at an accredited university in the US, UK or Canada, applying with an academic email
Startups	1 year of Business free	Fewer than 30 employees and a pre-seed or seed round
Nonprofits	50% off Business, so $7 per user a month	Organizations verified as eligible by Goodstack

The student page calls the offer "limited edition," so it may not last. The nonprofit discount stays active while the organization remains eligible. In each case you finish the upgrade in Settings > Billing after you are accepted, and the coupon applies there.

Separately, Granola's referral program gives 2 months of Business to a new user who signs up through a referral link with a company email address, as long as their company has no Granola workspace yet.

Free trials, cancelling and what happens after

The help center mentions time-limited trials of Business and Enterprise and says you get an email before one ends. It does not say how long they last. When a trial ends you either subscribe or drop to Basic.

You can cancel at any time from Settings > Billing, which opens Stripe's billing portal. The subscription runs to the end of the current billing period, then the workspace moves to Basic and you are not charged again. Your notes stay, but anything older than 30 days is hidden again until you pay.

Does any Granola plan record your meetings?

No plan sends a bot. Bot-free capture from your device's audio is marked "Included" on all three plans, and Granola's help center says there is no meeting bot.

What happens to the audio is the same on every plan too. The help center says Granola passes audio from your microphone and system audio "directly" to its transcription provider and does not record or save it. The pricing table marks "Audio deleted after transcription" on all three plans. Transcripts and notes are kept in Granola's cloud, on AWS in the US region according to the billing article. On Basic and Business each user sets their own transcript retention. Enterprise lets an admin set it for the whole workspace. No plan changes where the audio is processed.

Our post Is Granola AI safe? goes through the providers and the storage in more detail.

Which Granola plan to pick

If you only need notes from this month's meetings, Basic is enough, and it has no transcription cap.

If you look back at meetings older than 30 days, or you want notes in Notion or HubSpot, Business at $14 a month is the plan.

If you need SSO, Salesforce, a HIPAA BAA, or workspace-wide retention rules, only Enterprise has them. SSO also needs 50 seats.

If you are a student, a seed-stage startup or a nonprofit, apply for the program before paying full price.

Granola pricing compared with a local app

Granola Business is $14 a month and Private Notetaker is $15 a month, so on a monthly plan Granola is a dollar cheaper. The difference is the one-time option. Private Notetaker also sells a lifetime license for $149, which is less than eleven months of Granola Business. Both Private Notetaker plans include unlimited meetings and recording time. The 7-day free trial needs no card, just your email, and purchases have a 30-day money-back guarantee.

The bigger difference is where the work happens. Private Notetaker runs on a Mac with Apple Silicon or a 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 PC, and the transcript, summary and action items are written on that computer. The audio stays on the device. It works with Wi-Fi off, and nothing joins the call. Granola sends the audio to a cloud transcription provider and keeps your notes in its cloud.

Private Notetaker does less in other ways. It transcribes English only, has no team workspace, and has no Notion or CRM integrations. If a team wants shared folders and notes pushed into HubSpot, Granola Business does that and Private Notetaker does not.

If you want notes for your own meetings, kept on your own computer, you can try Private Notetaker for 7 days.

For a side-by-side, see Private Notetaker vs Granola and Granola alternatives. We also compared Granola with Otter, Fireflies and Fathom. If you are comparing prices across tools, see our breakdowns of Otter.ai pricing and Fathom pricing, our list of AI note takers without a subscription, and the best AI meeting notetakers.

Granola plan prices, plan features, meeting history, integrations, MCP and API access, the audio-deleted, bot-free and HIPAA rows, and Enterprise features from granola.ai/pricing. Billing per workspace, monthly-only Business billing, Enterprise annual billing, the no-daily-limit transcription row, the 30-day history rule, CSV export, free mobile apps, trials, seat proration, mixed-plan rules, US AWS hosting and the program terms from Granola's help center articles "Subscriptions and billing," "Understanding your invoice," "Cancelling your subscription," "Nonprofit program," "Referral program," "Is Granola HIPAA compliant?" and "How transcription works," plus granola.ai/students and granola.ai/startups. SSO seat minimum and the macOS 14 requirement from Granola's help center. Otter and Fathom prices from our pricing posts, checked 22 and 21 October 2026. Granola pages checked 23 October 2026. Plans change.