Is Granola or Scribbl cheaper?

Granola starts at $0 (Basic), then $14 per user per month (Business) (free plan available). Scribbl starts at $0 (Lite), then $13 per user per month billed annually (Pro) (free plan available).

Granola vs Scribbl

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

Scribbl compared with Granola

Granola is the better-written product: it merges your own typed notes with the transcript, runs natively on five platforms including mobile for in-person meetings, and carries SOC 2 Type II with API and MCP access at $14. It stores no media at all on desktop. Scribbl is a dollar cheaper and keeps the video. If you write notes yourself and want them finished, Granola wins comfortably; if playback is the point, Granola cannot compete.

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 Scribbl if

Small agencies, sales teams, and consultants who want a recording they can rewatch and clip without a bot embarrassing them in front of a client, and individuals who need unlimited meetings with video for thirteen dollars a seat.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Granola	Scribbl
Category	Meeting Notes	Meeting Notes
Starting price	$0 (Basic), then $14 per user per month (Business) (free plan available)	$0 (Lite), then $13 per user per month billed annually (Pro) (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 credit-based subscription where one credit equals one meeting, with per-seat pricing on paid tiers and a steep annual discount.
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.	Lite covers 10 meetings a month with unlimited meeting length, AI notes and action items, and video recordings that expire after two months. Scribbl's own FAQ describes the free allowance as 15 credits a month, so the exact number is worth confirming at signup.
Free trial	Not published as a fixed-length trial; the free Basic tier serves as the evaluation path	No separate trial; the free Lite plan runs indefinitely and needs no credit card
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.	Small agencies, sales teams, and consultants who want a recording they can rewatch and clip without a bot embarrassing them in front of a client, and individuals who need unlimited meetings with video for thirteen dollars a seat.
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.	Five minutes. Install the Chrome extension, sign in, and the next browser meeting is captured. There is nothing for IT to package and no bot to whitelist in your meeting platform's admin console.
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.	Minimal. The post-call tab opens automatically with notes already generated, and the only habit worth building is marking moments during the call so the key exchanges are pre-flagged.
Platforms	macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Apple Watch, Web access to notes, MCP connector	Chrome extension, Web app, Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams
Compliance	SOC 2 Type 2 (independently audited), GDPR with a DPA available on request	No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification published, No published GDPR data processing agreement, Stated policy of not training models on customer conversations
Founded	2023	2022
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom	United States
Ownership	Venture-backed	Privately held, independent

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.

Scribbl

Strengths

The only genuinely cheap way to get bot-free capture and retained video in the same product, which is a combination almost nobody else offers.
Transcript-to-video seeking makes finding the exact moment in a call trivial, and it is the feature users cite most in reviews.
One credit equals one meeting regardless of length, so a three-hour workshop costs the same as a fifteen-minute stand-up.
Chrome extension install means no desktop agent, no admin package, and no meeting-platform approval, which routes around IT friction entirely.

Limitations

No SOC 2, no ISO 27001, no published data residency, and no SSO, which disqualifies Scribbl from most formal procurement processes.
Language support is explicitly inherited from Google Meet's caption list rather than owned, so non-English quality is not something Scribbl controls or publishes figures on.
Browser-only: no desktop client capture, no mobile app, and no in-person meeting recording.
Several Team-tier capabilities are still labelled coming soon, and Team requires a sales conversation despite having a published price.

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.

Scribbl

Freemium credit-based subscription where one credit equals one meeting, with per-seat pricing on paid tiers and a steep annual discount.

Lite$0
Pro$13
Team$20

For the specific person who wants bot-free capture and video playback, Scribbl is the cheapest route by a wide margin and there is barely any competition. Model 20 meetings a week: that is roughly 80 calls a month, all covered by Pro's unlimited allowance at $13 per user per month, or $156 a year per seat, with a year of video retention included. Fathom's paid tiers or tl;dv give you more platform, but both put a bot in the room. Granola at $14 is the closer comparison on price and loses on media entirely. What you are trading away is certification and scale: no SOC 2, no SSO, no residency, no mobile, and language coverage borrowed from Google. If none of those appear on your requirements list, the price is excellent. If any of them do, no discount makes it work.

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

Scribbl

Scribbl is a narrow product that is very good at the one thing it chose. If you want a recording you can rewatch and clip, but you refuse to put a bot in front of a client, there is almost nothing else at this price that does both, and transcript-to-video seeking makes the archive genuinely usable rather than nominally searchable. At $13 a seat with unlimited meetings and unlimited length, the arithmetic works for anyone in constant calls. The problem is everything around the product: no SOC 2, no SSO, no residency, no mobile, borrowed language support, a Team tier that is half built, and a company small enough that its own site disagrees about the size of the free plan. Buy it as an individual or a small unregulated team where the buyer is the user. Do not put it in front of a procurement department, because it will not survive the first page of the questionnaire.

Read the full Scribbl profile

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