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Otter vs Granola
Otter and Granola compared on what their own pages say, row by row — nothing about either in our words except a plain reading at the end.
Otter and Granola, row by row
| Otter | Granola | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan: how much | “300 monthly transcription minutes” — Basic, the free plan source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Free plan: longest meeting | “Max transcription time per conversation 30 minutes” — Basic, the free plan source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Free plan: how much is kept | “Conversation history 25 most recent” — Basic, the free plan source | “Meeting history 30 days” — Basic, the free plan source |
| Cheapest paid plan | “$8.33 user/month” — Pro, billed yearly source | “$14 per user per month” — Business source |
| How it gets into a meeting | “Joins Zoom, MS Teams, and Google Meet to automatically write and share notes” source | “Bot-free, device-audio capture” source |
| Meeting apps | “Zoom, MS Teams, and Google Meet” source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Who said what | “Speaker identification (by name)” source | “Speaker tagging” source |
| Languages | “AI transcription in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Chinese” source | “Multi-language support” source |
| Video recording | “Video replay for Zoom and Google Meet” — Enterprise source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Downloads and export | “Exportable audio, text, and captions mp3, txt” — free plan; pdf, docx and srt are on paid plans source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Training on your meetings | Not stated on the pages we read | “Granola trains on your anonymized data so we can keep making Granola better.” — each user can opt out source |
| Single sign-on | “Single Sign-On (SSO) minimum 100-user license required” source | “Single sign-on (SSO)” — Enterprise only source |
| API | “Otter API & Webhooks” — Enterprise source | “API access” — Business and Enterprise source |
Every cell is the company's own words, linked. Prices change — this is what each page said on 10 November 2026. Something changed? Tell us.
What the two pages add up to
- Granola does not join the call: it records the meeting’s sound on the computer it runs on. Otter sends a notetaker into Zoom, Teams and Google Meet.
- Granola’s free plan keeps 30 days of meeting history; Otter’s keeps your 25 most recent conversations.
- Granola says on its pricing page that it trains on anonymised data and that each person can opt out.
Which matters for your meetings
The deciding question is usually whether a guest in the call is acceptable. Granola leaves nothing in the participant list, which some clients prefer; Otter's notetaker is visible to everyone and can be removed by anyone who types its command. Granola's free history lasts a month; Otter's free plan keeps a fixed number of conversations instead.
What that comes to, worked out
Someone with ten meetings a week will feel the two free plans' memory most. Otter's keeps the 25 most recent conversations, about two and a half weeks of that diary, and older ones drop out of reach. Granola's keeps 30 days of history whatever the count, so the whole past month stays. For somebody with three meetings a week the picture turns round: 25 conversations reach back about two months on Otter, while Granola still keeps one. Minutes are counted only on Otter's side; Granola's pricing page names a 30-day window rather than an allowance of minutes.
The sums use only the numbers quoted above. Yearly prices are the monthly figure times twelve.
Where Meetful is different from both
Meetful is a meeting app rather than a notetaker you add to someone else's call. It transcribes each person from their own microphone, so every line carries the name of whoever said it without guessing, and there is no bot in the participant list. The notes, the recording and the transcript are free, and anybody in the meeting can leave themselves out of the notes.
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Free video meetings in the browser: every line of the transcript under the name of who said it, and the summary and action items when you hang up. Nothing to install — guests just open the link.