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Three tiers: $0, $14, and $35 a month, per person.

Granola has three tiers: Basic free, Business $14 per user per month, Enterprise $35. Checked against Granola's pricing page today — no one-time option.

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On this page (5)
  1. What separates the tiers
  2. What it actually costs over a year
  3. Where the free tier stops being enough
  4. Against a $19 one-time price
  5. If the number is the whole objection

Checked against Granola's own pricing page today: Basic is free, Business is $14 per user per month, and Enterprise is $35 per user per month. All three are recurring charges billed per person — there's no tier that stops billing once you've paid a fixed amount, and no option to buy the software outright.

What separates the tiers

Basic gets a real product, not a crippled trial: AI meeting notes, AI chat within and across meetings, shared folders, note templates and multi-language support are all there, with the meeting history kept limited. Business adds what makes it a tool for a team rather than an individual — advanced integrations with Attio, Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Affinity and Zapier, centralized billing, MCP integration and API access, plus unlimited history. Enterprise adds SSO, admin controls over sharing and API access, organization- wide auto-deletion periods and priority support on top of Business.

What it actually costs over a year

Business at $14 a month is $168 a year, per person. A five-person team pays $840 a year on that tier alone, and the number doesn't shrink after the first year — it resets every twelve months for as long as the team keeps paying. Enterprise at $35 a month runs $420 a year per person. Neither figure includes seats added mid-year, which bill at the same per-person rate from the day they're added.

Where the free tier stops being enough

The gap between Basic and Business is the integrations and the API more than the notes themselves — a single person taking their own meeting notes may never need Attio or Zapier wired in. The limited meeting history is the more common reason people upgrade: once a team wants to search back further than Basic keeps, Business is the only tier that removes the ceiling. That's a real capability Coii AudioNotes doesn't have an equivalent for either, since we have no cloud archive at all — everything is a file on your own Mac, kept for as long as you keep it.

Against a $19 one-time price

Coii AudioNotes costs $19 once, with every feature unlocked from the first day and no tier to grow into. Set against Granola Business, $19 is roughly six weeks of one person's subscription; set against a year of it, $19 is what Granola charges in the first ten days. Coii AudioNotes against Granola covers the rest of the comparison — integrations, mobile apps and where the audio goes — since price is only one part of the decision. Whether Granola counts as a subscription at all, and what that means for cancelling, is covered separately in is Granola a subscription.

If the number is the whole objection

One-time purchase meeting notes apps rounds up tools priced the way Coii AudioNotes is, for anyone who has decided against a monthly charge before comparing features at all. Granola against Otter is the page for a reader still weighing which subscription, not whether to have one. Granola alternatives covers the field more broadly, price included.

Questions

Does Granola have an annual discount?
Its pricing page lists monthly per-user rates for each tier and doesn't advertise a separate annual price — checked today. Confirm directly with Granola if billing frequency changes the number for your team.
What do you get for $0 on Granola's free tier?
AI meeting notes, limited meeting history, AI chat within and across meetings, shared folders, note templates and multi-language support — everything except the advanced integrations, MCP and API that Business adds.