Granola Pricing 2026: Free Basic, Business at $14 per User a Month

Granola's price question has a short answer. Basic is free ($0 per user per month), with no card and no time limit. Business costs $14 per user per month, billed monthly, and Granola sells no annual Business plan. Enterprise starts from $35 per user per month, and annual billing exists only on Enterprise contracts.^[1] No plan caps meetings or minutes, and there are no AI credits to buy. What the money buys is history, integrations and control, because Basic hides notes older than 30 days. For most small teams that look back at past calls, Business is the plan. Enterprise is for compliance.

Three plans, and the line between them

Basic is more generous than most free tiers. It captures unlimited meetings on the Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android and Apple Watch apps, with templates, Recipes, shared folders and a chat integration. The limit is time, not volume. Notes older than 30 days are hidden in the app, and also from Chat, MCP and the People and Companies views. They are kept, not deleted, and they come back when the workspace upgrades. A CSV export still covers titles and summaries for your full note history, even on Basic, so nothing is trapped behind the paywall.

Business is where the work tools live. It removes the 30-day window, lets you pick the model in Chat, and adds the CRM, docs and automation integrations, the public API with webhooks, and MCP access to transcripts and public workspace notes. Pre-meeting briefs work with Google Calendar only, and follow-up email drafts need Gmail. Enterprise adds SSO and SCIM for workspaces with 50 or more active members (or a 50-seat commitment), HIPAA workspaces with a BAA that covers the desktop apps only, the Audit and Legal Holds APIs, org-wide retention, sharing and training policies, and Dedicated support.

Every member is a seat: how the bill is built

Granola prices per user but bills per workspace.^[2] Every active member shares the same plan, and each one is a paid seat, admins included. There is no seat-free admin role and no seat minimum. Pending invitations are not billed. Anyone who joins a paid workspace by invite, invite link or domain auto-join becomes a paid seat from the day they join, charged pro rata on the next invoice. Mid-cycle changes appear as paired credits for unused time and charges for remaining time.

Mixed tiers are not possible. You cannot put three people on Business and the rest on Basic inside one workspace. The workaround is two workspaces, one paid and one free, but notes and folders are not shared across them, and each workspace a person belongs to is billed separately. Sharing a single note with someone outside the workspace, on the other hand, adds no seat. To pay only for yourself inside a company that has not upgraded, create a new workspace, move your notes there and subscribe as its only member.

What a team really pays, by our arithmetic

Because the price is flat per user, the math is plain multiplication. One Business user comes to $168 a year by our arithmetic, billed monthly. Five users cost $70 a month ($840 a year); ten cost $140 a month ($1,680 a year); fifty cost $700 a month ($8,400 a year). The same fifty people on Enterprise start from $1,750 a month, or from $21,000 a year. These totals are by our arithmetic, not Granola's figures. With no minute caps, heavy users pay the same as light ones: at 40 meetings a month, $14 works out to $0.35 a meeting, and at 10 meetings to $1.40.

Moving up to Enterprise adds at least $21 per user a month, which is $252 a year per user. Below 50 users, SSO is not part of what you buy, because SSO and SCIM need 50 active members or a 50-seat Enterprise commitment. A 10-person team that upgrades is paying for HIPAA workspaces, the Audit API, org-wide policies and Dedicated support. If none of those is a requirement, Business covers the job at every team size we checked, from one user to fifty. At 50 users or more, SSO usually decides it, and teams that size are pointed to the sales team.

The choice between free and paid follows the same logic. Basic never limits how much you capture, so the only reasons to pay are the ones in the table: notes older than a month in the app and in Chat, model choice, integrations and the API. A person who reviews a meeting within a few weeks and then moves on can stay on Basic indefinitely. A team that searches past calls, pushes notes into a CRM or wires them into other AI tools will hit the 30-day window fast. That team pays.

Free months and discounts: students, startups, nonprofits, referrals

Several programs lower the bill, and all of them are tied to Business. Students at accredited universities in the US, UK and Canada can get 12 months of Business free if accepted. They verify with a student ID and apply with an academic email, and the Pack cannot move to a personal email later. Each accepted student can refer up to five friends at the same university. Startups that raised a pre-seed or seed round from Granola's list of more than 500 approved investors, and never paid for Granola, can also get 12 months free. Bootstrapped teams are excluded. The free year is worth $168 per user by our arithmetic.

Nonprofits verified through Goodstack get 50% off Business, which is $7 per user per month, billed monthly. The discount applies automatically at checkout, with no code, but only if the workspace has no paid subscription yet and the same email is used.^[3] It lasts while the organization stays eligible. It does not remove tax, since a tax-exemption certificate applies to future invoices only. A new user who signs up through a referral link gets two months of Business, provided they use a company email and their company has no workspace yet.

Trials sit alongside these programs. Granola offers time-limited trials of Business and Enterprise and emails you before the trial ends. Then you either subscribe or the workspace moves to Basic. An expired trial is not charged. A coupon does not shorten a trial; its discount applies to the first payment after it. Students should note one trap: after acceptance, the upgrade checkout in Settings > Billing must be completed, or the account stays on the standard trial instead of the free year.

Cancelling, refunds and the end of a paid plan

Cancelling takes a few clicks. Admins cancel in Settings > Billing through the Stripe billing portal, or through the web app if the desktop app is unavailable.^[4] Members can view billing and upgrade, but only admins can cancel, change plans or update payment methods. The paid plan runs to the end of the billing period, then the workspace moves to Basic with no further charge. Anything outside the Basic column stops working, and notes older than 30 days are hidden until the workspace upgrades again.

Granola does not publish a refund policy for subscription fees. VAT already charged is not refunded either, although a valid VAT registration removes it from future invoices. Deleting the account is not the same as cancelling. Deletion in Settings > Profile permanently erases every note you own, including notes in shared folders, and cannot be undone. The safe order is to cancel in Billing, export the CSV, and only then delete. Uninstalling the app deletes nothing, since notes live in the account rather than on the device.

How the price compares with other note takers

Compare like with like: monthly billing against monthly billing. Granola Business is $14 per user per month, billed monthly. Otter Pro is $16.99 per user a month billed monthly, for at most five billed users and 1,200 minutes a month. Fireflies Pro is $18 per seat a month billed monthly, with 8,000 minutes of storage per seat. On that same term, those two rival plans cost $2.99 and $4 more per user a month, or $203.88 and $216 a year against $168, by our arithmetic. Our Otter pricing breakdown covers its tiers in detail.

Annual billing changes the picture. Otter Pro drops to $8.33 per user a month billed annually. Fireflies Pro drops to $10 per seat a month billed annually. Granola has no annual Business price, so a buyer willing to prepay a year finds lower per-month rates elsewhere. Trial terms differ too. Otter's Business trial lasts 7 days and needs a card. Fireflies' 7-day Business trial also needs a card and charges automatically unless cancelled. Under Otter's Terms, its fees are non-refundable. Capture differs most: Otter and Fireflies both run meeting bots that join calls, and Fireflies stores recordings, while Granola joins no call and deletes audio after transcription.

The bottom line

Granola's pricing is easy to read: Basic is free with a 30-day window, Business is $14 per user per month billed monthly, and Enterprise starts from $35 per user per month. The real decisions sit elsewhere. Who is in the workspace matters, since every member is a seat, and so does whether you need notes older than a month. Teams that rely on past calls belong on Business. Below 50 users, move to Enterprise only for HIPAA, audit or policy needs. For the features behind each plan, read our Granola review.