Granola Pricing Explained (2026): What Basic, Business and Enterprise Cost

Granola, the AI notepad for meetings, has three plans. As of 31 October 2026, Basic costs $0, Business costs $14 and Enterprise costs $35, each per user per month.

Each plan has one price. No toggle, no yearly discount. Granola's help center says Basic and Business are billed monthly, and that annual billing exists only on Enterprise contracts.

The free plan's real limit is history. Basic shows the last 30 days of notes in the app, and Granola says no plan has a daily transcription limit. So the first question is simple: will you ever need to find a call from last quarter?

That single monthly price also decides how Granola compares. Billed monthly, Business is the cheapest of the four note takers I priced. Billed yearly, two of the other three undercut it.

How I read Granola's prices

I read Granola's pricing page, its help center and its student, startup, nonprofit and Enterprise pages on 31 October 2026, and checked archived copies of the pricing page back to December 2024. The same day I read Granola's platform terms, last updated 19 December 2025, and the pricing pages of Otter, Fireflies and Fathom. All prices here are US dollars. I opened no account and started no trial, and Granola's checkout runs inside its app, so I never saw a checkout screen, a tax line or an invoice. The billing rules below are Granola's own words or close paraphrases of them.

Granola plans at a glance

All three plans as of 31 October 2026, per user per month. The billing column comes from Granola's help center, because the pricing page does not print one.

Granola's pricing page, compare grid and help article "Subscriptions and billing", read 31 October 2026. The last column quotes each pricing card's own tagline.

There is no monthly or yearly switch on the page, so $14 is the monthly price and the only one. Enterprise costs $21 a user a month more than Business (my arithmetic).

Is Granola free? Yes, with 30 days of notes

Yes. Basic costs $0 as of October 2026, asks for no card and has no end date. Here is what Granola's compare grid and help center put on it:

• AI meeting notes, plus AI chat within and across meetings on "Auto", which means Granola picks the model for each chat.
• No daily cap: Granola says "No plan has a daily transcription limit."
• 30 days of history in the app. Older notes stay stored and return when the workspace upgrades.
• Slack is included. Notion, HubSpot and Zapier need Business.
• No pre-meeting briefs, and no follow-up emails.
• MCP access to your own notes from the last 30 days, with some folder, search and transcript tools held back for paid plans.
• The mobile apps, free to use on every plan.

If you only ever need this week's calls, that is a complete product. The ceiling shows up the first time you go looking for a call from two months ago.

A CSV export gets your older notes back without paying.

Granola's help center offers a way around the 30-day window. Go to Settings, then Profile, then Generate CSV, and Granola emails you the file within a few hours. It holds each note's title, summary and transcript across your full history, notes older than 30 days included, but only for notes you own. The download link lasts 24 hours, and each account gets one export every 24 hours.

An export is an archive you search yourself. Hunting a spreadsheet for what an investor said in March is a special kind of afternoon, and that is where $14 a user a month (as of October 2026) starts to look cheap.

Business at $14: unlimited history, briefs and integrations

Business costs $14 per user per month as of October 2026, billed monthly. Its card opens with "Everything in Basic, plus", and the card, compare grid and help center add:

• Unlimited meeting history.
• Model choice in chat: a default model is preselected, and you can switch to any available one.
• Pre-meeting briefs, which need Google Calendar connected.
• Follow-up email drafts after external meetings, which need Google sign-in and a connected Gmail account.
• Notion, HubSpot, Attio, Affinity and Zapier integrations, on top of Slack.
• API access, with any member of a Business workspace able to create API keys.
• Centralized billing and user management.

Two of those rows are Google-only. Briefs need Google Calendar, and Granola says it is "exploring support" for Microsoft Calendar. Follow-up emails need Gmail, and Granola's help page says "Microsoft / Outlook isn't supported yet." If your calendar and mail live in Outlook, you would pay for two features you cannot switch on today. If prep before calls is the job you really want covered, here is what an AI chief of staff does with meeting prep.

Paying for just yourself means a personal workspace of one.

Granola bills per workspace, so a company workspace on Basic cannot hold a single Business seat for you. The help center's fix is to create a new workspace, move your notes into it and subscribe there. "You'll be the only member and only pay for one seat," which comes to $14 a month for that one user as of October 2026.

No yearly price: Business is billed monthly only

The pricing page prints $14 per user per month and no billing period. Granola's help article "Subscriptions and billing" fills the gap: "Annual billing is available on Enterprise contracts only; Basic and Business are billed monthly." Its plan table lists the billing options as "Free", "Monthly" and "Monthly or annual".

So a year of Business is twelve charges of $14, or $168 a user at October 2026 prices (my arithmetic). There is no prepay discount and no badge promising one.

That cuts both ways. You can stop in any month without sitting on prepaid months you will never use. Granola's only price also has to stand against rivals' yearly prices, which run below their monthly ones.

Enterprise is the only plan with an annual option, by contract, and Granola publishes no contract price. If you sign one, read its renewal terms: Granola's default platform terms renew yearly with 30 days' notice.

Enterprise at $35: SSO from 50 users, HIPAA and admin controls

Enterprise costs $35 per user per month as of October 2026. Granola's Enterprise page says you can buy it in the app with "no minimum number of seats", change the seat count any time in Settings, and contact the team for 50 or more seats. On top of Business, the compare grid and card list:

• SSO, "Available for enterprise workspaces with 50+ users".
• HIPAA-compliant workspaces, with a BAA through sales. Granola's help center says HIPAA support and BAAs are not available on its free or Business plans.
• SCIM group provisioning and an Audit API.
• Advanced integrations such as Salesforce.
• Admin controls for sharing and API access, plus workspace usage analytics and dedicated support.
• Workspace-wide transcript retention and org-wide auto-deletion periods.
• Model training turned off by default for everyone in the workspace.
• An admin-enforceable notice that Granola is in use, marked PILOT on the card.

Here is the trap. Enterprise has no seat minimum, but SSO has one. A ten-person team can buy Enterprise for $350 a month at list (my arithmetic, October 2026 prices) and still get no SSO. The smallest workspace with SSO is 50 seats, which the same sum puts at $1,750 a month.

How team billing works

Granola's billing unit is the workspace. Its help center puts it in one line: "Billing is per workspace: every member shares the same plan, and you pay one seat per active member."

• One plan per workspace. "Mixed plan tiers within a single workspace are not supported."
• Every active member is a paid seat, admins included. There is no seat-free admin role.
• Pending invitations cost nothing until the person joins.
• Domain auto-join members are billed the same way as invited ones, so think before you switch auto-join on.
• Mid-cycle seat changes are prorated. The next invoice shows an "Unused time" line for the old seat count and a "Remaining time" charge for the new one, so you pay for each seat only on the days it was active.
• Removing a member leaves their card on the subscription. If it is on file, it keeps getting charged.

Three people on Business and seven on Basic takes two workspaces.

Granola's own advice for a split team is a smaller Business workspace for the people who need it and a free workspace for everyone else. Notes and folders are not shared across workspaces, so decide which meetings belong where before you split.

Five Granola bills, worked out

Five buyers, priced on Granola's list as of 31 October 2026, before any tax. Every total is my arithmetic.

1. A founder alone, on Business: $14 a user a month, $168 over a year. If 30 days of history covers you, Basic plus a CSV export now and then costs $0.
2. The mixed team above: $42 a month for three Business seats in their own workspace.
3. Ten people on Business: $140 a month, $1,680 a year, with admins counted in the ten.
4. A company that needs SSO: 50 Enterprise seats at $35 a user a month come to $1,750 a month at list, or $21,000 a year.
5. A registered nonprofit with ten people: half of $14 is $7 a user a month, so $70 a month for the team once Goodstack approves it.

Startups that qualify for Granola's program pay $0 for the first year, then move to the standard $14 a user a month.

Discounts: students, startups, nonprofits and referrals

Granola's student, startup, nonprofit and referral programs all discount Business as of October 2026:

• Students: 12 months of Business free for students currently enrolled at accredited universities in the US, UK and Canada. You upload a student ID, apply with your academic email and can refer up to 5 friends at your university, who each get the same 12 months. Granola calls it "a limited edition offer" and prints no end date.
• Startups: one year of Business free for startups with fewer than 30 employees that raised a pre-seed or seed round from Granola's list of 500+ approved investors. You must never have paid for Granola or used a promo code, and bootstrapped or self-funded startups are not eligible "at the moment". Apply before you buy a single seat.
• Nonprofits: 50% off Business, verified through Goodstack. Approval is not guaranteed, and the discount lasts while the organization stays eligible.
• Referrals: 2 months of Business for a newcomer who signs up through a referral link with a company email, at a company with no Granola workspace yet.

No Black Friday or seasonal Granola deal appeared on any page I read. Students pricing other tools can start with the best AI agents for students, free tiers first, and nonprofits with my guide to AI for nonprofits, discounts included.

Is there a Granola free trial?

Sort of. Granola's help center describes "a time-limited trial of Business or Enterprise": full access until the end date, an email before it ends, and then either you subscribe or the workspace moves to Basic. "You will not be charged." No Granola page I read says how many days that trial lasts.

Basic is the trial that never runs out. Granola's own trial post says the company doesn't "gate features behind a ticking trial clock", and Basic has "no time limit". Follow-up emails work during an active trial if you sign in with Google and connect Gmail, so try them before it lapses.

What changed: Granola's prices since December 2024

I checked archived copies of the pricing page from 21 December 2024 to 5 October 2026. The dates below are the Wayback Machine's snapshot dates, so each change can only be dated to the gap between two copies.

Wayback Machine copies of granola.ai/pricing fetched 31 October 2026, plus the live page read the same day. The archived "25 free meetings" card does not say whether that was per month or in total.

Two changes matter today. Individual and "25 free meetings" disappeared between 3 September and 8 October 2025, so anything quoting a 25-meeting or 25-note free limit is reading an old page. A solo user who paid $18 on Individual now pays $14 a user a month on Business, $4 less (my arithmetic). And free history grew from 14 days on the October 2025 card to 30 days in today's grid and help center; the cards in between say only "limited", so I can't date that change more closely.

Where Granola's own pages disagree

On five points Granola's own pages contradict each other. The last column shows the side I would trust in each case:

All pages read 31 October 2026. The glossary line sits in Granola's free-trial blog post, last modified 8 October 2026.

In the first two rows the stale side is a Granola blog post; trust the pricing grid and the help center.

Cancelling, refunds and tax

• Cancel in Settings, then Billing, then Manage subscription, then Cancel subscription. The web app at notes.granola.ai works too.
• Access lasts "until the end of the current billing cycle, which is the end of the month from your last payment date", in the help center's words. Then the workspace moves to Basic.
• No help page I read offers a refund for the rest of the month. The platform terms call payments "non-refundable" and count each partial month as a whole one.
• Paid features stop working, and older notes are hidden until you upgrade again.
• Tax is calculated from your billing address. A valid VAT registration removes VAT from future invoices, and tax already charged is not refunded.
• Currency is set at your first checkout and can't be changed afterwards.

For the seat model in context, see how per-seat pricing compares with other models.

What the same money buys at Otter, Fireflies and Fathom

I read each rival's own pricing page on 31 October 2026 and priced one seat in both billing states. All three pages open on their yearly prices.

Each vendor's own pricing page, US dollars, one seat, read 31 October 2026. The yearly column is the monthly figure each vendor shows on yearly billing.

Billed monthly, Granola Business is the cheapest of the four for one seat: $14 against $16.99, $18 and $20 (my arithmetic, October 2026 prices). Billed yearly, Otter Pro at $8.33 a month and Fireflies Pro at $10 cost less than Granola's only price, and Fathom Premium at $16 still costs more.

Price is the easy column. Each tool meters something different: Otter counts transcription minutes, Fireflies counts storage, Fathom's free plan states no cap, and Granola limits how far back you can see. I am not ranking them.

Fathom has been owned by Superhuman since a deal announced on 14 September 2026, and I priced Superhuman's own plans separately. Every Otter plan and its minute limits are in my Otter pricing breakdown. For a team view, see seven AI note takers priced for a five-person team.

Which Granola plan should you pick?

Start with how far back you need to search, then count who needs it. Prices as of October 2026:

• You only need this month's calls: Basic, plus a CSV export now and then.
• You search old calls, want briefs or follow-up drafts, or send notes to Notion or a CRM: Business, at $14 a user a month, billed monthly.
• Only part of the team needs that: a separate Business workspace for those people.
• IT needs SSO or HIPAA, or you have 50 people or more: Enterprise. Ask sales about an annual contract.
• Student, early-stage startup or nonprofit: apply to Granola's program first, then decide whether you ever pay list price.

If customer research is a bigger gap than note-taking, I compared AI market research tools, priced by the job.

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