Granola Pricing In 2026. Where Free Runs Out.
I've paid for Granola since late 2025, first at $18, now at $14. Here's every plan, what each one actually gets you, and the exact spot where the free plan stops being enough.
Granola has three plans in 2026. Basic is free with limited meeting history, Business is $14 a user a month, Enterprise is $35. There's no individual paid tier and no annual discount. The free plan is a real trial that light users can ride forever. Daily users hit the history wall inside a few weeks, and that wall is the entire pricing strategy.
The Three Plans
Basic is free with limited meeting history. Business is $14 per user per month, billed monthly, no annual option. Enterprise is $35 per user per month. Verified against granola.ai/pricing on July 29, 2026, and this category reprices often, so check the source before you quote me.
| Plan | Price | What you get | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | Free | AI notes, AI chat across meetings, shared folders, custom templates, multi-language support, model training opt-out | Limited meeting history |
| Business | $14/user/mo | Everything in Basic, plus unlimited history, advanced AI models, Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Attio, Affinity and Zapier integrations, MCP, API access | Monthly only, no annual discount |
| Enterprise | $35/user/mo | Everything in Business, plus SSO, admin controls, priority support, usage analytics, org-wide retention policies | 2.5x the price for controls most small teams never touch |
Notice what's missing. There's no individual paid tier, so a solo user who outgrows free pays the same $14 seat a fifty-person team pays. And there's no annual discount anywhere on the page. You pay monthly, per user, and that's the whole story. It stings a little next to competitors that knock 20 percent off for annual, but it also means zero lock-in beyond the current month.
What Free Actually Includes
Almost everything. The free Basic plan carries the AI notes, AI chat across meetings, shared folders, custom templates, and multi-language support. Granola doesn't cripple the product to force the upgrade. It limits how far back your meeting history reaches, and that's the only lever.
That design is smarter than it looks, and I say that as the person it worked on. A feature-gated free plan tells you what the product might be like. Granola's free plan is the full product, so by the time the history limit bites, you're not evaluating anymore. You're just deciding whether your own archive is worth $14.
The wall moves with your calendar. A couple of calls a day and you may never hit it. Three or more meetings a day and it arrives inside a few weeks, right about when the tool has become a habit. That's not an accident. That's the pricing page doing its job.
What $14 Actually Buys
Memory and plumbing. Business adds unlimited meeting history, advanced AI models, and the integration layer, meaning Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Attio, Affinity, Zapier, MCP and API access. The core note-taking experience is identical to free.
Unlimited history is the headline item and the one that pushed me over. Losing access to what a client said three months ago is a real cost in my week, not a hypothetical one. The integrations matter if your notes need to land somewhere else automatically, and the advanced models show up in summary quality on messier calls.
Whether that's worth $168 a year depends on your calendar, and that's a different question than what it costs. I wrote the worth-it math up separately in Is Granola Worth It, with the short version being yes at three or more Zoom or Google Meet calls a day. This page is just the price sheet, kept honest.
The $18 Ghost In Old Reviews
If a pricing article quotes an $18 Pro plan or a $10 Individual plan, it's stale. Granola retired Pro when it repriced, and Business at $14 is now the plan most individuals and small teams actually want.
I was on the $18 plan through my whole test window, so I'm not sneering at anyone who quotes it. But the repricing changed the buying math and most of the pages ranking for this query haven't caught up. The product got cheaper after I was already sold on it, which almost never happens in software, and it's the detail I'd want to know if I were price-shopping this today.
How The Price Has Moved
Since I started in November 2025, Granola has changed both the price and the shape of the free limit. Here's the version history I've personally paid through.
| When | Paid plan | Free plan limit |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 2025 | Pro, $18/mo | Capped meeting count, I hit it at twenty calls mid-month |
| Jul 2026 | Business, $14/user/mo | Limited meeting history, count is uncapped |
The shift from a count cap to a history cap is friendlier than it sounds. Under the old cap I ran out of recordings with a full calendar still ahead of me, which forced the upgrade mid-month. Under the current model you never lose the ability to record. You lose the past instead of the present, and you get to decide how much the past is worth.
If you're starting from zero, the path is simple. Download Granola, stay on free, and don't touch your card until the history limit costs you something real. My full experience with the product, eight months of it, lives in the Granola review, and the head-to-head against its closest rival is in Granola vs Fathom.
Fair about the price
- Free plan is the full product, not a demo
- $14 undercuts the old $18 Pro it replaced
- Monthly billing means no lock-in
- Free plan no longer caps meeting count
Annoying about the price
- No annual discount anywhere on the page
- No individual tier, solo users pay the team seat
- The history wall lands right as the habit forms
- Enterprise is 2.5x for features small teams skip
Granola's pricing is unusually honest for this category. The free plan is real, the paid plan got cheaper while I was using it, and the only trick in the whole scheme is that your own meeting archive becomes the sales pitch. Start free, pay the day the history limit takes something you need, and skip Enterprise unless someone in a security review tells you otherwise.
Frequently Asked Questions
Granola has three plans. Basic is free with limited meeting history. Business is $14 per user per month. Enterprise is $35 per user per month. There is no individual paid tier and no annual discount listed. Verified against granola.ai/pricing on July 29, 2026.
No. The pricing page lists monthly per-user billing only. That stings next to competitors that knock 20 percent off for annual, but it also means no lock-in beyond the current month. You can cancel any month you stop getting value.
Granola retired Pro when it repriced. I was on the $18 a month Pro plan through my whole test window, and the equivalent plan today is Business at $14. Any pricing article still quoting $18 Pro or a $10 Individual plan is out of date.
For a couple of calls a day, yes, possibly forever. The free Basic plan includes the AI notes, AI chat, shared folders, custom templates and multi-language support, and limits meeting history instead of stripping features. Run three or more meetings a day and the history wall arrives within a few weeks.
Unlimited meeting history, advanced AI models, and the integration layer. That means Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Attio, Affinity and Zapier, plus MCP and API access. The notes themselves work on free. Business buys the memory and the plumbing.
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