Grain vs Leexi
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
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The short answer
Both sides assessedGrain compared with Leexi
Leexi costs nearly twice Grain's roughly $29 coaching tier for scorecards and CRM autofill, but stores data in Europe and records phone and in-person meetings; Grain stays the cheaper pick for video-call coaching without a residency requirement.
Leexi compared with Grain
Grain's coaching tier is about $29 per seat billed annually, with clips, playlists, free viewer seats, and a strong US integration surface, and it is US-hosted. Leexi costs nearly twice as much for scorecards and CRM autofill but stores data in Europe and records phone and in-person conversations Grain does not. If price and video-call coaching are the criteria, Grain wins; if European hosting and phone coverage are, Leexi does.
Choose Grain if
Small and mid-sized sales teams, from two reps to about fifty, who want recorded calls, coaching clips, talk-time insight, and CRM sync without an annual contract or a procurement cycle, plus customer success and product teams who need to share evidence from customer conversations across the company.
Choose Leexi if
European small and mid-sized sales and customer success teams, especially French, Belgian, Dutch, Spanish, and German-speaking ones, that want call recording across video, phone, and in-person meetings, CRM autofill, and scorecard coaching from a vendor that keeps data in Europe.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Grain | Leexi |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Call Coaching | Call Coaching |
| Starting price | $0 (Free, capped at 20 meetings), then about $15 per seat per month on Starter billed annually | $12 per license per month billed annually, or $15 monthly (Starter) (7 days trial) |
| Pricing model | Per-recorded-seat subscription across four tiers with free unlimited viewer seats, billed monthly or annually, plus a meeting-count cap on the free plan only. | Per-license subscription across three self-serve plans and a quoted Enterprise plan, with paid add-on modules for coaching, governance, and cloud hosting choice. Prices are shown excluding VAT, and annual billing saves up to 20 percent on plans and up to 30 percent on some modules. |
| Free plan | Free covers 20 meetings with AI notes and viewing of the team's meetings; free viewer seats cannot record, upload, or import. | No |
| Free trial | 14 days, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee on paid plans | 7 days, account created on the website with no credit card required |
| Best for | Small and mid-sized sales teams, from two reps to about fifty, who want recorded calls, coaching clips, talk-time insight, and CRM sync without an annual contract or a procurement cycle, plus customer success and product teams who need to share evidence from customer conversations across the company. | European small and mid-sized sales and customer success teams, especially French, Belgian, Dutch, Spanish, and German-speaking ones, that want call recording across video, phone, and in-person meetings, CRM autofill, and scorecard coaching from a vendor that keeps data in Europe. |
| Setup time | Under an hour. Connect the calendar, set a capture rule, invite the reps, and the next external meeting is recorded. CRM connection on Business adds maybe thirty minutes of field mapping. | Minutes to a first recorded meeting: sign up, connect a calendar, and Leexi joins the next call. The vendor says full setup takes under an hour. CRM and VoIP connection on Business adds an hour or two, and building good scorecards for Coach is a few days of a manager's time. |
| Learning curve | Low for reps, who mostly do nothing. Moderate for managers, because the value comes from building coaching playlists and reading interaction insights weekly, which is a habit rather than a feature. | Low for reps, who mostly read summaries and approve tasks. Moderate for managers, since scorecard design and custom prompts per meeting type are where the value comes from and they need tuning against real calls. |
| Platforms | Web app, macOS and Windows desktop apps for bot-less capture, Chrome extension, Mobile access, MCP server | Web app, iOS app, Android app, Web extension, Bot for Meet, Teams, Zoom, Webex, Apizee, and Jitsi, VoIP connectors, MCP server |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type II, GDPR | ISO 27001, GDPR, EU AI Act (stated compliance) |
| Founded | 2018 | 2021 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | Brussels, Belgium |
| Ownership | Venture-backed | Privately held, family-owned and self-financed |
Strengths and limitations
Grain
Strengths
- Genuinely self-serve: published prices, a free tier, a 14-day trial, a money-back guarantee, and no mandatory annual contract, in a category where almost every competitor gates the number behind a demo.
- Supports both bot-based and bot-less capture, so the same account can record demos on video and capture sensitive calls without a visible notetaker.
- Free unlimited viewer seats make company-wide access to the call archive affordable, which is how conversation intelligence actually changes behavior outside the sales team.
- The clip and playlist model is the best-executed part of the product and remains the fastest way to turn a call into a coaching asset or a piece of internal evidence.
Limitations
- The free plan's 20-meeting cap makes it an extended demo, not a usable free tier, unlike Sybill's free plan or Fathom's unlimited recording.
- AI coaching and interaction insights sit on Business, so the coaching layer that justifies the category costs about double the entry price.
- No published weighted scorecard engine with custom rubric criteria; coaching is AI-generated commentary and aggregate insight rather than the structured scoring Avoma and Demodesk offer.
- No forecasting or deal board with pipeline risk scoring, so revenue leaders looking for the Gong or Clari feature set will find Grain incomplete.
Leexi
Strengths
- Captures video meetings, phone calls from more than ten VoIP systems, and in-person meetings through a mobile app, which covers how most small European sales teams actually sell.
- Leexi Coach scores every call against custom scorecards per role and meeting type, with manual override and team dashboards.
- Data stored in Europe (France by default), ISO 27001 certified, GDPR compliant, with an annual pentest and a paid option for a French-owned cloud.
- Broad European CRM coverage, including Odoo, Sellsy, Zoho, Tribe, Koban, AdminPulse, and Attio alongside Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, and Dynamics 365.
Limitations
- Coaching is an add-on, not part of any plan, so the real conversation intelligence price is $55 per seat annually rather than the $12 headline.
- The pricing page is inconsistent: the FAQ describes older plan names and minimum seat counts that do not match the plan table, and language counts differ between pages (100-plus and 120-plus).
- Starter is capped at five licenses, 20 recorded hours a month, and six months of storage, and excludes CRM, VoIP, API, and Ask Leexi.
- No free plan, only a 7-day trial, which is short for judging scorecard quality on a real pipeline.
Pricing compared
Grain
Per-recorded-seat subscription across four tiers with free unlimited viewer seats, billed monthly or annually, plus a meeting-count cap on the free plan only.
- Free$0
- Starterabout $15
- Businessabout $29
- EnterpriseCustom
Grain is one of the two or three genuinely self-serve entry points into this category, and at roughly $15 to $29 per recording seat it undercuts Jiminny by a factor of three and Gong by considerably more. The free viewer seats matter more than most buyers realize: the practical cost of giving a whole company access to customer calls is the number of people who record, not the number who watch. What you give up is depth. There is no forecasting engine, no weighted scorecard rubric, and no deal board of the kind Sybill or Avoma's revenue intelligence add-on provide. For a team under about fifty reps that wants recording, coaching clips, talk-ratio visibility, and CRM sync, the capability per dollar is excellent. For a team that wants the pipeline inspected, it is the wrong purchase at any price.
Leexi
Per-license subscription across three self-serve plans and a quoted Enterprise plan, with paid add-on modules for coaching, governance, and cloud hosting choice. Prices are shown excluding VAT, and annual billing saves up to 20 percent on plans and up to 30 percent on some modules.
- Starter$12
- AI-Meeting$23
- Business$39
- EnterpriseCustom
Leexi's base plans are fair notetaker pricing, and its coaching stack is mid-market for this category. At $55 per seat annually for Business plus Coach, it costs about what Demodesk charges for its EUR 49 coaching plan and a little more than Avoma's roughly $53 module stack, and well above Grain's roughly $29 coaching tier. What the money buys that others do not is the combination of VoIP call import from more than ten phone systems, a mobile app for in-person meetings, scorecards on every call, and data stored in France under ISO 27001, all from a vendor that has not taken outside funding. For a European team that sells on the phone and in person as much as on video, that combination is good value. For a US team selling only over Zoom, it is paying for a data-residency answer it does not need.
Editorial verdict on each
Grain
Ease of UseGrain is the easiest way for a small sales team to start doing conversation intelligence at all. You can sign up with a card, record every external call within an hour, and be running coaching sessions off real clips by the end of the week, for roughly what one rep's lunch budget costs. The free viewer seats are the underrated part: they make the call archive a company asset rather than a sales tool. Be clear about what you are not getting. There is no forecasting, no deal board, and no weighted scorecard rubric, so if the problem you are solving is pipeline inspection rather than rep development, Avoma with the revenue intelligence module or a genuine enterprise platform is the correct answer. But for the two-to-fifty-rep team that has never listened back to a single call, Grain is the right first purchase, and the coaching tier at about $29 a seat is one of the better deals in this category.
Read the full Grain profileLeexi
Leexi is the conversation intelligence tool to shortlist if you sell in Europe and your customers ask where recordings live. It records video calls, phone calls from more than ten VoIP systems, and in-person meetings through a mobile app. It stores everything in France under ISO 27001, and with the Coach add-on it scores every call against scorecards a manager designs. The honest price for that is $55 per seat per month on annual billing (Business plus Coach), not the $12 on the banner. That is in line with Demodesk and Avoma and nearly double Grain. The pricing page needs a careful read because its FAQ has not kept up with the plan table. Behind the product is an unusual company: a family-run Brussels business that has grown without outside money and says it turned down investors. US teams selling only on Zoom have cheaper and deeper options. European teams that sell on the phone and in person should start the 7-day trial with Coach switched on.
Read the full Leexi profileGrain profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Leexi last reviewed 2026-09-26. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.
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Frequently asked questions
6 questionsWhat is the difference between Grain and Leexi?
Leexi costs nearly twice Grain's roughly $29 coaching tier for scorecards and CRM autofill, but stores data in Europe and records phone and in-person meetings; Grain stays the cheaper pick for video-call coaching without a residency requirement.
Is Grain or Leexi cheaper?
Grain starts at $0 (Free, capped at 20 meetings), then about $15 per seat per month on Starter billed annually. Leexi starts at $12 per license per month billed annually, or $15 monthly (Starter) (7 days trial). The billing models differ, so the entry price is rarely the whole cost. Grain pricing model: Per-recorded-seat subscription across four tiers with free unlimited viewer seats, billed monthly or annually, plus a meeting-count cap on the free plan only. Leexi pricing model: Per-license subscription across three self-serve plans and a quoted Enterprise plan, with paid add-on modules for coaching, governance, and cloud hosting choice.
Does Grain or Leexi have a free plan?
Grain has a free plan. Free covers 20 meetings with AI notes and viewing of the team's meetings; free viewer seats cannot record, upload, or import. Trial terms: 14 days, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee on paid plans. Leexi has no free plan. Trial terms: 7 days, account created on the website with no credit card required.
Who should choose Grain?
Small and mid-sized sales teams, from two reps to about fifty, who want recorded calls, coaching clips, talk-time insight, and CRM sync without an annual contract or a procurement cycle, plus customer success and product teams who need to share evidence from customer conversations across the company.
Who should choose Leexi?
European small and mid-sized sales and customer success teams, especially French, Belgian, Dutch, Spanish, and German-speaking ones, that want call recording across video, phone, and in-person meetings, CRM autofill, and scorecard coaching from a vendor that keeps data in Europe.
What are the best alternatives to Grain and Leexi?
SaaSTracker profiles 16 products in Conversation Intelligence. The Summer 2026 awards in the category went to Avoma (Category Leader), Rafiki (Best Value), Sybill (Momentum). Every profile is compiled from primary sources, so a shortlist can be built from pricing, limitations, and fit rather than from star ratings.
