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Three plans, a 30-day window and 22 months of archived prices

The quick answer: Granola has three plans. Basic is $0, Business is $14 per user per month and Enterprise is $35. The free Basic plan records unlimited meetings, but the app only shows notes from the last 30 days. Older ones stay on Granola's servers, hidden until you upgrade, and a free CSV export gets a copy out. If you only need this month's notes, the free plan is enough.

Key takeaways

  • Basic has no meeting cap and no daily transcription limit, but you can only open the last 30 days of notes.
  • Business is $14 per user per month, billed monthly per workspace. Everyone in the workspace is a paid seat.
  • On Basic, older notes are hidden, not deleted. A free CSV export gets your full history out.
  • Business has cost $14 since at least December 2024. The free tier is what keeps changing.

How Much Does Granola Cost?

As of October 15, 2026, Granola's pricing page lists three plans: Basic at $0, Business at $14 per user per month and Enterprise at $35 per user per month. Its billing docs add that Basic and Business are billed monthly, and annual billing exists only on Enterprise contracts. A year of Business costs $168 per person.

Granola's plans, from its pricing page and billing docs (October 15, 2026)
PlanPriceBillingWhat it adds
Basic$0FreeAI notes for every meeting, chat across meetings, templates, shared folders, Slack, 30 days of visible history
Business$14 per user per monthMonthly onlyUnlimited history, model choice in chat, pre-meeting briefs, follow-up emails, Notion, HubSpot, Attio, Affinity and Zapier, the API
Enterprise$35 per user per monthMonthly, or annual on a contractSSO for 50+ users, admin controls, org-wide deletion and training policies, HIPAA with a BAA, advanced integrations such as Salesforce

The pricing page shows Enterprise at $35, while the billing docs say "from $35" and don't say what would make it cost more. Every plan includes the Mac app (macOS 14 or later), the Windows app, and the iPhone, Android and Apple Watch apps. Granola's billing docs say the mobile apps are free to use.

What Does Granola's Free Plan Include?

Granola's homepage offers unlimited meeting notes for free, and its billing docs say no plan has a daily transcription limit. Basic includes AI notes from every meeting, custom templates, chat with the Auto model, shared folders, the Slack integration and every app. What it limits is the past: the app only shows the last 30 days of notes.

Basic vs Business, from Granola's Compare plans table, homepage and billing docs (October 15, 2026)
FeatureBasic ($0)Business ($14)
Meetings and transcriptionUnlimitedUnlimited
Meeting history you can openLast 30 daysUnlimited
AI chat across meetingsAuto model onlyAuto, or pick a model
Pre-meeting briefs and follow-up emailsNoYes
Workspace-wide dictionaryNoYes
IntegrationsSlack onlySlack, Notion, HubSpot, Attio, Affinity, Zapier
MCP (for Claude, ChatGPT and other AI apps)Personal notes from the last 30 daysPersonal and public workspace notes
APINoYes

Two smaller gaps matter if you use AI tools a lot. On Basic, MCP can't hand raw transcripts to another AI app; that tool is paid-only, according to Granola's MCP doc. And follow-up emails also need Google sign-in with a connected Gmail, at least one external guest, and a meeting of 10 people or fewer.

What Happens to Your Notes After 30 Days?

They're hidden, not deleted. Granola's billing docs say notes older than 30 days stay stored on Basic and come back when you upgrade. To keep them without paying, export a CSV of your whole history from Settings → Profile → Generate CSV. Granola emails the file within a few hours.

Timeline of Granola meetings: on the free Basic plan the last 30 days are visible, older meetings are hidden but still stored, and an upgrade to Business or a free CSV export gets them back

The export has limits:

"Stored" is a policy, not a promise. Granola's Platform Terms let it end free access at any time without notice (§4.1). They also allow deleting accounts inactive for more than 30 days, including ones no longer paying, after reasonable efforts to notify you (§3.6). If an old meeting matters, export it.

How Has Granola's Pricing Changed Since 2024?

Business cost $14 per user per month in every archived copy of Granola's pricing page we read, from December 2024 to October 2026. The free tier changed instead. It was a 25-meeting trial until September 2025, then a free Basic plan showing 14 days of history, and it shows 30 days today.

Timeline of Granola pricing from December 2024 to October 2026: Business stayed at $14 per user per month while the free tier changed from a 25-meeting trial to a free plan with 14, then 30 days of history
Granola's pricing, from Wayback Machine captures of its pricing page and help docs (read October 15, 2026)
WhenFree tierPaid plansWhat changed
Dec 2024Free trial: your first 25 meetingsIndividual $18/month; Business $14/user, 3-seat minimum; Enterprise unpricedEarliest capture
Feb 202525 meetingsBusiness minimum dropped; Enterprise "starts at $35"Enterprise gets a price
Mar–Jun 202525 meetingsPlans FAQ lists an annual-commitment price of $12/user/month and Enterprise at $40The pricing page still says Enterprise "from $35"
Oct 2025Basic, $0, with 14 days of historyIndividual removed; its users moved to one-seat Business at $14The free trial becomes a free plan
Jan 202630 days of historyBusiness $14, Enterprise $35Earliest "30 days" we found, in the help center (January 31, 2026 capture)
Apr–Jun 202630 daysAPI reaches Business (Enterprise keeps it)Features move down the ladder
Jul–Sep 202630 days, now with SlackBusiness $14, Enterprise $35Slack becomes free (docs, July 2026)
Oct 202630 days, with SlackBusiness $14, Enterprise $35, HIPAA on EnterpriseHIPAA arrives (docs by September 27, pricing page by October 5)

The annual price is the odd one out. Granola's plans FAQ listed "Annual commitment: $12/user/month" in captures from March to June 2025, right after Business at $14, and the line was gone by August 2025. In November 2025, an archived help article told long-time users they had been on an "extended free trial" of Business and could pay $14 per user per month or move to Basic.

How Does Granola Bill a Team?

Per workspace. Granola's billing docs say everyone in a workspace shares one plan, and each active member is a paid seat, so you can't put some colleagues on Business and leave others on Basic. Pending invites aren't billed, and seat changes are prorated. A team of five on Business pays $70 a month, or $840 a year.

Can You Get Granola for Less?

Yes, if you qualify. Granola gives 12 months of Business free to some students and to some startups, 50% off Business to nonprofits, and two months of Business to new users who join through a referral. Each program has a rule that's easy to miss.

Granola's discount programs, from its program pages and help docs (October 15, 2026)
ProgramWhat you getWho qualifiesThe catch
Students12 months of BusinessStudents at accredited universities in the US, UK and Canada, with an academic emailMarked "limited edition"
Startups12 months of BusinessFewer than 30 employees, pre-seed or seed funding from Granola's list of approved investorsBootstrapped startups don't qualify, and neither does anyone who has paid for Granola or used a promo code
Nonprofits50% off BusinessOrganizations verified through GoodstackLasts only while the organization stays eligible
Referrals2 months of Business for the new userA company email at a company with no Granola workspace yetGmail and Outlook.com addresses don't count

Granola's own startup guide adds a trap: buy Business seats first and you can't join the startup program later. Many YouTube reviewers also share affiliate links promising one to three free months. We couldn't verify those offers.

How Do You Cancel Granola, and Can You Get a Refund?

A workspace admin opens Settings → Billing → Manage subscription, which leads to Stripe, and clicks Cancel subscription. Granola's cancellation doc says the plan runs to the end of the billing cycle, then the workspace drops to Basic. If you can't open the app, the same billing page works on the web. If you can't get into your account at all, Granola says to email hey@granola.so.

Refunds are murkier. The help docs have no refund policy for cancelling; they mention only prorated seat credits, and that tax already charged isn't refunded. Granola's Platform Terms, last updated December 19, 2025, say fees are paid upfront and are non-cancelable and non-refundable (§7.1). Unless an order form says otherwise, they also say plans renew for one-year terms (§10.2). The help docs describe monthly billing you can cancel anytime. We couldn't find which one governs a self-serve Business plan, so don't count on a refund. Our guide to cancelling AI note takers before they charge you covers the same traps for Otter, Fireflies and Fathom.

What Do Reviewers Say About Granola's Price?

Two of the four reviewers call the free plan generous, and three say the 30-day window is what makes them pay. We read the full transcripts of four YouTube reviews published from June to October 2026. The fourth reviewer doesn't discuss price.

Two caveats come up again and again. There's no audio to play back, because Granola doesn't keep it, so a misheard name or number can't be checked. And in group calls, speakers often come out only as "Me" and "Them" unless you set up Granola's speaker tags, which name participants on Zoom, Meet and Teams in the desktop apps. On G2, Granola rated 4.6 out of 5 from 173 reviews on October 15, 2026, and the newest reviews on its first page carry G2's "Incentivized" label. One recent reviewer called the price steep for people who only occasionally need paid features.

Watch out for stale claims. Several videos, and some of Granola's own blog posts updated as recently as October 8, 2026, still say Slack is paid-only, the API is Enterprise-only, or MCP isn't on the free plan. Granola's pricing page and help docs say otherwise. Most of these reviewers earn affiliate commission from Granola.

What Does Granola Do With Your Notes?

Granola records your device's audio without a bot and doesn't keep the audio, according to its security page. Your notes and transcripts are stored on AWS in the US and kept until you delete them. On Basic and Business, Granola may use de-identified data to train its own models unless each user opts out in Settings.

Is Granola Worth Paying For?

It depends on how far back you look. If you only need notes from the past month, Basic covers it for $0. Business at $14 per user per month makes sense if you search older meetings, push notes into Notion or a CRM, or want follow-up emails drafted. Enterprise is for companies that need SSO, HIPAA or admin control.

Bar chart of a year's cost: Granola Basic $0, Granola Business $168 for one seat and $840 for a team of five, MetaWhisp Pro $30
  1. Stay on Basic if you take notes for this week's follow-ups, and you're happy to export a CSV now and then.
  2. Pay for Business if you regularly ask "what did we decide in March?", or your notes have to land in a CRM, Notion or Zapier.
  3. Talk to Enterprise if you need SSO, HIPAA, workspace-wide deletion rules or an annual contract.
  4. Look elsewhere if you want your notes on your own computer rather than a US cloud, or you don't want a per-seat bill.

Is There a Free Alternative Without the 30-Day Window?

Yes. MetaWhisp is a free Mac app that records meetings without a bot, from your microphone and your Mac's own audio. By default it transcribes on your Mac with Whisper large-v3, and it keeps every transcript there. The free version needs no account and has no trial, no meeting cap and no history window.

It works differently from Granola. Turn on Meeting Recording in Settings, and you start each recording from the menu bar. Switch on call detection too, and MetaWhisp shows a notice when a Zoom, Meet or Teams call starts; it can also start recording by itself after 5 seconds if you allow that. By default, the free version transcribes on your Mac and no audio leaves it. Audio goes out only if you add your own Groq, OpenAI, Deepgram or Gemini key. Pro, at $7.77 a month or $30 a year, moves transcription to Groq through MetaWhisp's server, with 5,400 minutes a month; MetaWhisp's privacy page says its servers don't store your audio or transcripts. AI recaps run on a local model or your own API key for free, or with Pro's built-in AI. That's $30 a year against $168 for one Granola Business seat.

Its limits, plainly: it's a Mac app for macOS 14 or later on Apple Silicon, with no Windows, iPhone or Android version. On calls, the transcript is split into "Me" and "Them", not into named speakers. If that fits how you work, see how meeting notes work without a bot or download MetaWhisp free.

FAQ

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Is Granola free?

Yes. Granola's Basic plan costs $0, records unlimited meetings and has no daily transcription limit. The catch is history: the app only shows notes from the last 30 days. Older notes stay stored and come back if you upgrade to Business at $14 per user per month.

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Does Granola have a free trial?

Granola's billing docs mention time-limited trials of Business and Enterprise but don't say how long they last. One of Granola's own blog posts says there's no trial at all. Either way, the free Basic plan doesn't expire.

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How much is Granola per month?

Business is $14 per user per month and Enterprise is $35 per user per month, as of October 15, 2026. Billing is per workspace, so every active member of the workspace is a paid seat. Business is billed monthly.

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Does Granola offer annual billing?

Only on Enterprise contracts, according to Granola's billing docs on October 15, 2026. Business is billed monthly, so there's no annual Business discount today. An earlier plans FAQ listed $12 per user per month for an annual commitment, but it was gone by August 2025.

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What happens to my Granola notes if I stop paying?

Your workspace drops to Basic at the end of the billing cycle. Notes older than 30 days are hidden, not deleted, and come back if you upgrade again. To keep them without paying, export a CSV of your history from Settings → Profile. Granola's terms also let it delete accounts inactive for more than 30 days, so export what matters.

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Does Granola have a student discount?

Yes. Students at accredited universities in the US, UK and Canada can get 12 months of Business free with an academic email. Granola marks the offer "limited edition". Nonprofits get 50% off Business instead.

About the author. Andrew Dyuzhov is the solo founder of MetaWhisp, a free on-device voice-to-text app for macOS that also takes meeting notes without a bot. He's a marketer and builder with ADHD, not an ML researcher, and he built MetaWhisp with AI coding tools on top of open-source Whisper. Follow on X.

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Sources

Checked on October 15, 2026. Prices and plans change, so check Granola's pricing page before you rely on a number. The price history comes from Wayback Machine captures of Granola's pages; the review ratings are from G2 on the same day.