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Granola costs Free to $35 per user/month as of June 2026, with 4 plans available including a free tier. Plans: Free (Basic) (free), Individual at $18/user/month, Business at $14/user/month, and Enterprise at $35/user/month. Pricing depends on your chosen tier, contract length, and negotiated discounts.

Use the interactive pricing calculator to estimate your exact cost based on team size and requirements.

  • Free tier: Yes

Granola offers 4 pricing tiers: Free (Basic), Individual, Business, Enterprise. A free plan is available. Paid plans include Individual at $18/user/month, Business at $14/user/month, Enterprise at $35/user/month. The Individual plan is solo professionals who want reliable ai-enhanced meeting notes without team features.

Granola true cost runs -99% above the listed $0-$35/user/month price as of June 2026. For a 25-person team, expect ~$70 in year-one costs vs the $5,400 base license. Key hidden costs: 25-meeting lifetime cap on free plan - granola's free tier is effectively a trial, not a permanent free plan. once you hit 25 meetings total (ever, not per month), you must upgrade or lose access to new meeting notes, no annual billing discount - unlike competitors such as otter.ai and fireflies.ai that offer 40-50% annual savings, granola charges the same rate monthly with no published annual discount, making it more expensive over time for committed users, sso requires 100+ users on enterprise - single sign-on is only available on the enterprise plan and requires a minimum of 100 users, forcing smaller security-conscious teams to manage accounts manually or pay enterprise pricing for their entire org. Verified from 2 sources by CostBench.

Hidden Costs Breakdown

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25-meeting lifetime cap on free plan - Granola's free tier is effectively a trial, not a permanent free plan. Once you hit 25 meetings total (ever, not per month), you must upgrade or lose access to new meeting notes

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No annual billing discount - Unlike competitors such as Otter.ai and Fireflies.ai that offer 40-50% annual savings, Granola charges the same rate monthly with no published annual discount, making it more expensive over time for committed users

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SSO requires 100+ users on Enterprise - Single Sign-On is only available on the Enterprise plan and requires a minimum of 100 users, forcing smaller security-conscious teams to manage accounts manually or pay Enterprise pricing for their entire org

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Model training opt-out paywalled - Organization-wide opt-out of AI model training is only default on Enterprise ($35/user/month). Lower-tier users must manually opt out per account, and there's no guarantee the setting persists across updates

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No audio or video playback - Granola only provides text transcripts and enhanced notes. Unlike Otter.ai, Fireflies, and tl;dv, you cannot re-listen to or re-watch meetings, making it impossible to verify transcript accuracy or catch nuances

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Platform limitations - Windows support remains in beta with incomplete feature parity compared to macOS. There is no Android app. Google Workspace account is required, excluding personal Gmail and other email domains

Example: True Cost for 25 Users

License (25 × $18 × 12) $5,400/yr
Implementation (one-time) +$15,000–$50,000
Premium Support (20%) +$1,080/yr
Training (25 × $500) +$12,500
Admin (part-time) +$15,000–$25,000/yr
Estimated Year 1 Total ~$70
That's roughly 0.0× the advertised license price. The median Granola contract is $492/yr across 93 Vendr purchases.