Productivity · Head-to-head

Granola vs Krisp

Granola (freemium, AI Score 8.5/10) vs Krisp (freemium, AI Score 7.8/10). Side-by-side pricing, features, pros and cons, and which to pick.

The verdict

Pick Granola if…

→overall capability matters more than price (AI Score 8.5 vs 7.8)
→you want our editor's pick for this category
→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 →

Pick Krisp if…

→your primary use case is remote workers and contact-center teams who take calls from noisy shared spaces and want noise removal plus meeting notes in one app, without their audio being uploaded to a cloud notetaker.
→you need: support

Try Krisp →

Spec	Granola	Krisp
Category	Productivity	Productivity
Pricing model	freemium	freemium
Headline pricing	Freemium — Free 25 meetings, Pro $10/mo, Business $25/user/mo	Freemium — Free (60 min/day); Pro ~$8/mo billed annually; Business/Enterprise custom (check site)
Free tier	25 meetings total with AI note enhancement and basic templates — a lifetime allowance, not a monthly reset	Free tier with a daily noise-cancellation allowance (historically 60 minutes/day) and limited AI note usage — confirm current limits on krisp.ai/pricing
AI Score	8.5/10	7.8/10
Best for	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.	Remote workers and contact-center teams who take calls from noisy shared spaces and want noise removal plus meeting notes in one app, without their audio being uploaded to a cloud notetaker.
Editor's pick	✓ Yes	—
Use cases	productivity research	productivity support
Date added	2026-05-01	2026-04-30

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

Productivity · freemium

✓System-level virtual mic and speaker works in every calling app with no per-app plugin or bot joining the meeting
✓Noise cancellation runs on-device, so the audio layer does not ship your call to a third-party cloud
✓Background Voice Cancellation removes other people's speech, which app-native suppressors generally do not attempt
✓Bundles clean audio, recording, transcription and AI summaries into one subscription instead of two tools

×Basic noise suppression is now free in Zoom, Teams, Meet, macOS Voice Isolation and Windows Studio Effects, so the core pitch is much weaker than it was in 2024
×The meeting-notes half is thinner than dedicated notetakers like Fathom or Granola on CRM integrations, cross-meeting search and templated outputs
×Always-on audio processing costs CPU and battery on laptops, and the free tier's daily cap runs out on a heavy meeting day
×The most differentiated technology — accent conversion, the voice SDK — sits behind enterprise sales and is not what an individual subscriber gets

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