Is Granola or Krisp cheaper?

Granola starts at $0 (Basic), then $14 per user per month (Business) (free plan available). Krisp starts at $8 per user per month billed annually (Core), $16 month to month (7 days trial).

Granola vs Krisp

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 assessment

Krisp compared with Granola

Both capture locally with no bot in the participant list. Granola costs $14 a seat, writes noticeably better notes by enhancing what you type, and stores no desktop recording at all. Krisp costs $8, keeps the audio and video so you can replay a call, and throws in noise cancellation and accent conversion. Choose Granola if the writing is the product; choose Krisp if you want the recording, the audio quality, and the lower price.

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 Krisp if

Distributed teams, support and services organisations, and anyone working from a noisy environment who wants noise cancellation and bot-free meeting notes from one $8 per seat subscription, especially teams whose accents are a friction point with customers.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Granola	Krisp
Category	Meeting Notes	Meeting Notes
Starting price	$0 (Basic), then $14 per user per month (Business) (free plan available)	$8 per user per month billed annually (Core), $16 month to month (7 days trial)
Pricing model	Freemium per-seat subscription across three tiers, quoted per user per month, with no minute or meeting-count meter on paid plans.	Per-user-per-month subscription with unlimited transcription and recording. The meter is cloud storage per tier rather than minutes or meetings. Accent conversion is separately rate-limited by hours per day.
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.	No
Free trial	Not published as a fixed-length trial; the free Basic tier serves as the evaluation path	7 days, all premium features, no credit card required
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.	Distributed teams, support and services organisations, and anyone working from a noisy environment who wants noise cancellation and bot-free meeting notes from one $8 per seat subscription, especially teams whose accents are a friction point with customers.
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.	Under ten minutes. Install the desktop app, select Krisp as your microphone and speaker in your conferencing tool, and every call from then on is covered. There is no calendar integration to authorise and no bot behaviour to configure.
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.	Very low for noise cancellation, which is a toggle. The notetaker and accent conversion settings take a session to work through, and teams need a policy on when accent conversion is appropriate to use at all.
Platforms	macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Apple Watch, Web access to notes, MCP connector	macOS desktop app, Windows desktop app, iOS, Android, Web workspace, Krisp SDK for embedding
Compliance	SOC 2 Type 2 (independently audited), GDPR with a DPA available on request	SOC 2 (report access on Enterprise), HIPAA with BAA signing on Enterprise for teams of 100 or more seats, GDPR
Founded	2023	2017
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom	Berkeley, California, United States, with a large research operation in Yerevan, Armenia
Ownership	Venture-backed	Venture-backed, and described by its co-founder as profitable

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.

Krisp

Strengths

Bot-free capture with the recording retained, which is a combination Granola deliberately does not offer and most bot-based tools cannot offer at all.
Best-in-class noise cancellation and echo removal that works with every meeting platform because it is an OS-level audio device, not an integration.
Real-time accent conversion is unique in this category and is a genuine business outcome for support, services, and outsourced teams.
No minute or meeting meter on any tier, so the bill is predictable regardless of how full your calendar gets.

Limitations

No free plan for Meeting AI; the evaluation window is seven days and then it is a paid product, which is stingy next to Fathom, Read AI, or MeetGeek.
Storage is the hidden meter and there is no published overage rate, so heavy video recorders on Core will hit a wall they did not plan for.
Note quality is good rather than exceptional; this is an audio company writing notes, and Granola, Circleback, and Bluedot all produce better prose.
No language count is published for transcription, so multilingual buyers cannot compare it against Notta's 58 or Fireflies' 100-plus without testing.

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.

Krisp

Per-user-per-month subscription with unlimited transcription and recording. The meter is cloud storage per tier rather than minutes or meetings. Accent conversion is separately rate-limited by hours per day.

Free Trial$0
Core$8
Advanced$15
EnterpriseCustom

Krisp is the cheapest way to get bot-free capture with a retained recording, and the value case is unusually easy to model because there is no minute meter. Someone in 20 meetings a week at 45 minutes generates about 65 hours a month of audio; on Core that is $8 a seat billed annually, $96 a year, and the transcription is unlimited, so the bill does not move. The thing to watch is storage, because 10 GB fills up fast if you record video rather than audio, and 65 hours a month will get you there inside a year. Against Granola at $14 a seat you get recordings and noise cancellation that Granola does not offer, and against Otter Business at $20 you get bot-free capture and an included MCP connector for less than half the price. What you do not get is Granola's writing quality, a free tier, or any coaching layer. If noise cancellation has any value to you at all, Krisp is the best price per unit of capability here.

Editorial verdict on each

Granola

Innovation

Granola 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 profile

Krisp

Krisp is the best-value bot-free notetaker in this category, and it gets there by selling you something else first. Because it already lives in your audio path as a noise cancellation engine, it can record and transcribe without a participant in the room, keep the media so you can replay a call, and charge $8 a seat annually with no minute meter and an MCP connector thrown in. For distributed teams, consultancies working from noisy places, and support or MSP organisations, that combination is very hard to beat, and the Enterprise on-device transcription option is the strongest privacy answer anyone in this category offers. The reasons not to buy it are equally clear: there is no free plan, storage rather than minutes is the meter and no overage rate is published, the integration list is two CRMs long, and the notes themselves are competent rather than beautiful. If you want prose, buy Granola. If you want the call to sound right and the notes to be free, buy Krisp.

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Granola profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Krisp last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.