Granola Pricing (2026): Free, $14 or $35 a Seat, and the Privacy Settings Only One Plan Enforces

The short answer

Granola costs $0 per user per month on Basic, $14 on Business and $35 on Enterprise, as of September 2026. Basic is genuinely free and takes real AI meeting notes, but it only shows your last 30 days of meetings. For a business the number that matters is not the price. It is who controls the privacy settings: on Basic and Business, each person decides whether their notes can be used for model training and whether the other people on the call are told Granola is running. Only Enterprise lets an admin enforce those for everyone.

Everything below is from Granola's own pricing page and plan table, read September 24, 2026. Granola lists one price per plan and shows no annual discount.

Granola's plans, side by side

Every plan gets bot-free capture from your device's audio, desktop and mobile apps, speaker tagging, templates, SOC 2 Type II, a DPA, and deletion of the audio once it has been transcribed.

Is Granola free?

Yes, and not as a trial. Basic is $0 and takes AI notes on every meeting, with AI chat across them. The catch is the history window: Basic shows 30 days of meetings. That is fine if notes are disposable, and a problem if Granola quietly becomes where your client history lives, because month two starts hiding month one.

The same window applies to the MCP connection. On Basic, Claude or ChatGPT can only reach your personal notes from the last 30 days. If your plan is to paste call notes into an assistant for follow-ups (use case 8 in my Claude Cowork use cases), free works. Asking "what did this client say in March?" does not.

How Granola's privacy settings actually work: what the $14 plan does not include

This is the part the pricing cards skip. Two settings on Granola's own table change by plan, not just features:

• The model training opt-out. Per user on Basic and Business. Workspace-wide only on Enterprise.
• Letting people know you're using Granola. Per user on Basic and Business. Admin-enforceable only on Enterprise.

So a ten-person team on Business has ten separate privacy settings, one per person, and no admin switch. Making them enforceable costs $21 more per seat per month, which is $2,520 a year for ten people. Whether that is worth it depends on your clients. If your contracts promise confidentiality, or your team records calls with people outside the company, a per-user toggle is a policy you are trusting everyone to follow.

If you stay on Business, write the rule down. An AI acceptable use policy that says "turn on the training opt-out and the participant notice before your first call" costs nothing and turns a toggle into a requirement you can check.

Is Granola HIPAA compliant?

Only on Enterprise. HIPAA-compliant workspaces are listed on the $35 plan and nowhere else. SOC 2 and audio deletion on the cheaper plans are good hygiene, not a business associate arrangement. If you handle patient information, the same rule applies to every AI tool your staff touches, which I walk through in Is Claude HIPAA compliant?

Granola vs Fireflies on price

Fireflies publishes both monthly and annual prices, which makes it easy to overpay by skipping the annual toggle:

Fireflies' free plan caps storage at 400 minutes per team, so it runs out by volume. Granola's free plan runs out by time. Pick the limit your team will hit last.

The owner's version

For one person, Basic is enough to find out whether you actually read your meeting notes. For a team, Business at $14 is the real starting price, because 30 days of history is not a system. Go to Enterprise only if you need HIPAA, SSO, Salesforce, or you want the privacy settings enforced rather than requested.

The bigger win is what happens after the call. Notes that turn into a follow-up and a CRM update the same hour are worth far more than a better transcript, and it is the same logic behind building an AI executive assistant out of tools you already pay for. If you want it running for your team in a week, with the privacy rules written down, that is part of my Claude for Small Business install.