Productivity · Head-to-head

Fathom vs Granola

Fathom (freemium, AI Score 8.5/10) vs Granola (freemium, AI Score 8.5/10). Side-by-side pricing, features, pros and cons, and which to pick.

The verdict

Pick Fathom if…

→your primary use case is founders, consultants and small sales teams living in zoom or google meet who want unlimited call recording and crm-synced summaries without a visible bot joining client calls.
→you need: agents

Try Fathom →

Pick Granola if…

→your primary use case is founders, product managers and investors running back-to-back external calls who want their own notes sharpened, without a recording bot appearing as a participant.
→you need: research

Try Granola →

Spec	Fathom	Granola
Category	Productivity	Productivity
Pricing model	freemium	freemium
Headline pricing	Freemium — generous free tier; paid Premium and Team plans priced per seat (check website for current rates)	Freemium — Free 25 meetings, Pro $10/mo, Business $25/user/mo
Free tier	Unlimited recording, transcription and AI summaries for individual users; advanced summary templates, CRM sync and team analytics require a paid plan	25 meetings total with AI note enhancement and basic templates — a lifetime allowance, not a monthly reset
AI Score	8.5/10	8.5/10
Best for	Founders, consultants and small sales teams living in Zoom or Google Meet who want unlimited call recording and CRM-synced summaries without a visible bot joining client calls.	Founders, product managers and investors running back-to-back external calls who want their own notes sharpened, without a recording bot appearing as a participant.
Editor's pick	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Use cases	productivity agents	productivity research
Date added	2026-04-30	2026-05-01

Productivity · freemium

✓Free tier still includes unlimited recording and transcription — Otter meters minutes and Fireflies meters credits
✓Records without a visible bot participant by default, with the bot available only when you need it
✓Ask Fathom searches the entire meeting archive rather than one transcript at a time
✓Auto-syncs summaries and action items into HubSpot and Salesforce, so reps never retype call notes
✓Multilingual transcription and summaries removed the old English-only ceiling

×Zoom AI Companion, Gemini in Google Meet and Teams Copilot recap now ship free inside platforms teams already pay for — Fathom has to beat 'good enough and already included'
×Priced per seat, so cost scales linearly with headcount while bundled platform notetakers do not
×Does not publish which foundation models generate its summaries, a gap enterprise procurement increasingly asks about
×The 'unlimited free' headline understates the gating — advanced summary templates, CRM sync and team analytics are all paid

Productivity · freemium

✓No bot in the participant list, which matters on external calls where recording changes how people talk
✓Summaries are built from your own notes, so they read like something you wrote rather than a generic recap
✓Cross-meeting chat retrieves what was said months ago without opening individual notes
✓Now covers macOS, Windows and iPhone, closing the in-person and PC gaps that limited it at launch
✓Fast native app that stays out of the way instead of a heavy Electron shell

×You have to type something during the call — with no input, the output is an ordinary transcript summary and the price premium disappears
×Free tier is 25 meetings for the lifetime of the account, so evaluation runs out fast and there is no ongoing free option
×Zoom, Google Meet and Teams now bundle free note-taking, which covers internal meetings well enough to make a second subscription hard to justify
×CRM and workflow integrations are thinner than Fireflies.ai or Fathom, which have deeper HubSpot and Salesforce plumbing

Updated 2026-08-10. Spec data sourced from official product pages and tracked in our public directory at /tools.