Krisp vs Granola
Someone in back-to-back meetings wants AI help and is deciding between a tool that cleans up call audio in real time and one that finishes the notes you're already taking.
The difference that matters
Krisp's free trial (7 days, no card, unlimited transcription, noise cancellation, recording, AI notes, limited accent conversion) leads into an $8/user/month plan billed annually ($16/month billed monthly), built around clean call audio from a noisy room, though it only cleans a live stream, it can't repair a file you already recorded badly. Granola's Basic plan is free forever (AI meeting notes, AI chat, shared folders, templates, multi-language support, with meeting-history access described only as 'limited' with no published numeric cap), stepping up to Business at $14/user/month for unlimited meeting notes and history plus integrations (Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Zapier, Attio, Affinity), built for people who take their own notes and want them finished, not for teams that need a shared searchable archive of every call.
Side by side
| Krisp | Granola | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 7-day free trial, no credit card: unlimited transcription, noise cancellation, recording and AI notes, limited accent conversion | Basic, $0/user/month: AI meeting notes, AI chat, shared folders, templates, multi-language support; meeting-history access is described as 'limited' with no numeric cap published |
| Entry paid plan | $8/mo/user billed annually ($16/mo billed monthly) | Business, $14/user/month, billed monthly (no annual option shown): unlocks unlimited meeting notes and history, advanced AI models, integrations (Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Zapier, Attio, Affinity), MCP and API access |
| Bills in | per user per month | Flat per-seat monthly subscription; no usage-metered AI credits |
Choose Krisp if
Your main problem is noisy call audio and you want real-time cleanup plus transcription, with a paid plan from the start after the trial.
Choose Granola if
You already take your own meeting notes and want AI to finish them, and want to start on a genuinely free plan.
Our verdict
Krisp wins for cleaning up noisy live audio specifically. Granola wins for finishing your own notes with a real free tier, though its meeting-history limits on that free tier aren't precisely published.
What to watch out for
Krisp's $8/user/mo (annual) / $16/mo (monthly) paid tier and 7-day free trial are confirmed on its own pricing page. Granola's free Basic plan and $14/user/mo Business tier are confirmed on its own pricing page; the exact meeting-history cap on the free plan is not numerically published by Granola.
Compare against the rest
Both of these sit in the full Audio & Voice directory, which covers 5 tools.
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