Granola vs jamie
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Editorial assessmentjamie compared with Granola
Granola is the better-designed product and less than half the price at $14, merging your own typed fragments with the transcript and shipping API and MCP access on the same tier. But it hosts notes in a US AWS VPC with no regional option, which is the single question that disqualifies it for many European buyers. That is the whole comparison: Granola wins on product and price, jamie wins on where the data lives.
Choose Granola if
Founders, product managers, investors, and anyone whose meetings are conversations rather than sales calls, especially people who already take notes by hand and want them completed rather than replaced, and small teams who want a shared meeting memory for $14 a seat.
Choose jamie if
European companies with real GDPR obligations and a requirement for EU data residency, multilingual teams working across many languages, and anyone who needs bot-free capture for both online and in-person meetings.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Granola | jamie |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Meeting Notes | Meeting Notes |
| Starting price | $0 (Basic), then $14 per user per month (Business) (free plan available) | €0 (Free), then €21 per month billed annually (Plus) (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Freemium per-seat subscription across three tiers, quoted per user per month, with no minute or meeting-count meter on paid plans. | Freemium subscription in euros, metered by meetings per month and by maximum meeting duration on individual tiers, with per-seat pricing on team plans. |
| Free plan | Basic includes AI meeting notes, chat within and across meetings, shared folders, custom templates, multi-language support, and model-training opt-out, with limited access to older meeting history. | 10 meetings per month with a 30-minute cap per meeting, notes and transcripts in 99-plus languages, unlimited storage, Ask jamie, and Notion, Google Docs, and OneNote integrations. |
| Free trial | Not published as a fixed-length trial; the free Basic tier serves as the evaluation path | No fixed-length trial is published; the free tier is the evaluation path |
| Best for | Founders, product managers, investors, and anyone whose meetings are conversations rather than sales calls, especially people who already take notes by hand and want them completed rather than replaced, and small teams who want a shared meeting memory for $14 a seat. | European companies with real GDPR obligations and a requirement for EU data residency, multilingual teams working across many languages, and anyone who needs bot-free capture for both online and in-person meetings. |
| Setup time | Ten minutes. Install the desktop app, grant audio permission, connect your calendar, and the next meeting is covered. There is no bot to configure and no per-platform integration to authorize. | Around ten minutes. Install jamie, connect a calendar, grant microphone and system audio permission, and the next meeting is captured. There is no bot to whitelist and no meeting-platform admin approval to obtain. |
| Learning curve | Low but not zero, because the workflow asks something of you: Granola is at its best when you actually type fragments during the call. Users who treat it as a passive recorder get generic summaries and conclude it is ordinary. | Low. The two things worth configuring early are speaker identities, so speaker memory starts building correctly, and the note language, since jamie will happily produce notes in a different language from the one the meeting was held in. |
| Platforms | macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Apple Watch, Web access to notes, MCP connector | Desktop application, Any online meeting platform via device audio, In-person and hybrid meetings, MCP endpoint on Pro and above |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type 2 (independently audited), GDPR with a DPA available on request | ISO 27001 certified, GDPR compliant with EU processing, Data processing agreements available on Enterprise |
| Founded | 2023 | 2022 |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom | Berlin, Germany |
| Ownership | Venture-backed | Privately held, venture and angel backed |
Strengths and limitations
Granola
Strengths
- The bot-free local-capture architecture is the right design for client-facing and confidential conversations, and it works across every meeting platform because it captures audio rather than integrating per-app.
- Note enhancement produces output that reflects your judgement about what mattered, which reads better and gets reused more than generic machine summaries.
- Business at $14 per seat with unlimited history, API, and MCP access is the cheapest capable team tier in the category by a wide margin.
- Native apps on macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Apple Watch, with genuine attention to interface quality, which is why the product spreads by word of mouth among founders.
Limitations
- No sales coaching layer at all: no scorecards, no playbook adherence, no talk-time analytics, so revenue teams need a second tool or a different vendor.
- No stored video or audio on the desktop path, which means no demo playback for onboarding new reps and no way to re-listen to how something was said.
- You have to be in the meeting on a device running the app; without a bot there is no proxy attendance, which rules out capturing calls you skip.
- The free tier's meeting history limit means your archive erodes unless you upgrade, and the exact retention window is described loosely rather than as a hard published number.
jamie
Strengths
- Complete EU hosting for both storage and processing, which resolves the data transfer question that blocks most American tools in European procurement.
- ISO 27001 certification plus a clear, unambiguous statement that customer data is never used to train models.
- More than 99 languages for both transcripts and notes, the broadest coverage among the bot-free tools in this category.
- Device-level capture handles in-person and hybrid meetings as well as online calls, which browser-extension rivals cannot do at all.
Limitations
- Expensive: Pro at €39 a month is roughly triple Granola Business for a comparable individual, and the euro pricing adds currency risk for non-eurozone buyers.
- Hard meeting-duration caps at 30 minutes, 2 hours, and 5 hours by tier, which is an unusual constraint and a genuine problem for workshops and all-day sessions.
- The cheap tiers are not viable plans: 10 meetings at 30 minutes on Free and 20 meetings on Plus rule out anyone with a normal calendar.
- No audio or video retention means no playback for coaching, demo review, or checking how something was said.
Pricing compared
Granola
Freemium per-seat subscription across three tiers, quoted per user per month, with no minute or meeting-count meter on paid plans.
- Basic$0
- Business$14
- Enterprise$35
Business at $14 per seat is the best value in this category for teams that do not need sales coaching. You get unlimited history, the CRM connectors, API access, and the MCP endpoint for less than half what Fireflies Business or Fathom Business costs, and there is no minute meter to model. The catch is scope: you are paying for excellent notes and shared context, not for revenue intelligence, and if your reason for buying a notetaker is call scoring or forecast hygiene then Granola is cheap because it does not do the thing you want. Judged as a meeting memory layer, it is underpriced.
jamie
Freemium subscription in euros, metered by meetings per month and by maximum meeting duration on individual tiers, with per-seat pricing on team plans.
- Free€0
- Plus€21
- Pro€39
- Team€33
- EnterpriseCustom
jamie is priced as a compliance product, and if you have the compliance requirement it is worth it. If you do not, it is hard to defend. Model 20 meetings a week: roughly 80 a month, which immediately eliminates Free and Plus and puts you on Pro at €39 a month, about €468 a year, or Team at €33 a seat. Granola Business gives an equivalent user unlimited notes, unlimited history, CRM connectors, API, and MCP for $14. Tactiq Team gives unlimited AI generation for $16.67. On raw capability per euro jamie is roughly two to three times the market. What the premium buys is complete EU hosting, ISO 27001, 99-plus languages, in-person capture, and a vendor that answers to European regulators. For a Berlin or Munich buyer with a data protection officer to satisfy, that is a rational purchase. For a US startup that has never been asked where its data lives, it is an expensive way to get notes.
Editorial verdict on each
Granola
InnovationGranola is the best-designed product in this category and, at $14 a seat for unlimited history plus API and MCP access, one of the cheapest. The bot-free capture and the note-enhancement model are not marketing distinctions; they change what the output feels like and who is willing to use it in a client call. Buy it if your meetings are conversations you take part in and you want a shared memory layer that reads like human writing. Do not buy it as a sales tool: there is no coaching, no call scoring, and no recorded video to review, and the $1.5B valuation is riding on an enterprise context story that is still very new. For founders, product teams, and investors, it is the first thing to try; for a sales floor, it is the wrong shape.
Read the full Granola profilejamie
jamie is what you buy when the answer to where does the data live has to be Europe. Complete EU hosting, ISO 27001, no model training on your conversations, audio deleted after transcription, and 99-plus languages add up to a product that clears European procurement in a way that most of this category cannot, and the bot-free local capture means it clears the client-relationship test too. The cost of that position is real: Pro at €39 a month is around triple Granola Business for a comparable individual, the meeting-duration caps are an odd and genuinely limiting constraint, and the cheap tiers are demonstrations rather than plans. If you have a data protection officer to satisfy or a genuinely multilingual European operation, jamie is the right choice and the premium is defensible. If you do not, you are paying two to three times the market rate for a compliance property nobody will ever ask you about.
Read the full jamie profileGranola profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; jamie last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.