Granola vs Fireflies

As of Nov 3, 2026 (CT), Granola has a free Basic plan with 30 days of meeting history. Business costs $14 per user a month, with unlimited notes, MCP and API access, and Enterprise costs $35 with SSO. Fireflies has a free plan with unlimited transcription and 400 minutes of storage. Pro is $10 a seat a month billed annually ($18 monthly), Business $19 ($29) and Enterprise $39, annual only.

Our pick: Pick Granola if you want notes without a bot joining the call and a simple per-user price; pick Fireflies if you want recordings, video, conversation analytics and a bot that can auto-join every calendar meeting. Updated Nov 3, 2026 (America/Chicago).

By Agentic Weekly, operated independently from Texas, US · Published Oct 25, 2026 · Last updated Nov 3, 2026 (America/Chicago) · How we work

Last verified Nov 3, 2026 (America/Chicago) on Granola pricing, granola.ai, Fireflies pricing and fireflies.ai. Evidence: Reported. We have not run either notetaker. Granola's page does not say whether its prices are billed monthly or annually, so that is marked Not verified.

Granola prices: granola.ai/pricing · Checked Nov 1, 2026
Fireflies.ai prices: fireflies.ai/pricing · Checked Nov 1, 2026

Granola

Reported

AI notepad for back-to-back meetings that captures device audio without a meeting bot.

Fireflies.ai

Fireflies

Reported

AI meeting assistant with a free plan; paid plans $10 to $39 per seat per month billed annually.

Side by side, from what we recorded

Each row compares one recorded fact for both tools. Rows are not weighted and nothing is added up into a score; the note under each row says what the marker means.

Evidence
Reported for Granola
Reported for Fireflies.ai
Tested = we ran it (smoke test); Reported = we read official sources
Pricing we could verify
Partly verified for Granola
Verified from official page (Fireflies.ai is ahead on this row) for Fireflies.ai
About our evidence only, not about the price
Steps in our setup guide
2 for Granola
2 for Fireflies.ai
Counts our guide's steps, not difficulty
Sources we cite
2 for Granola
2 for Fireflies.ai
How much we had to read; more is not better

Recorded differences, not a quality score; any head-to-head results we ran are in their own section below. How we label evidence.

Plans and prices side by side

Granola and Fireflies plans (vendor pages read Nov 3, 2026, CT)
Plan tier	Granola price (per user/month)	Granola includes	Fireflies price (annual / monthly, per seat)	Fireflies includes	SSO	API/MCP
Free	Basic $0	AI meeting notes, 30 days of meeting history, AI chat, shared folders, templates, voice typing	Free $0	Unlimited transcription*, limited AI summaries, 400 mins storage per team, 20 AI credits, 2-hour recording limit	Neither	Granola: MCP on personal notes from the last 30 days, no API; Fireflies: API at 30/min, 500/day
Mid	Business $14 (billing period Not verified)	Unlimited notes and history, advanced models, integrations (Attio, Notion, HubSpot, Affinity, Zapier), centralized billing, pre-meeting briefs, follow-up emails	Pro $10 / $18	Unlimited AI summaries, 8,000 mins storage per seat, 20 AI credits, video recording, downloads, unlimited integrations	Neither	Granola: MCP and API; Fireflies: API at 60/min, 5,000/day
Upper	Enterprise $35	SSO, SCIM, HIPAA-compliant workspaces, audit API, usage analytics, org-wide retention and admin controls, dedicated support	Business $19 / $29	Unlimited storage, 30 AI credits, conversation intelligence, team analytics, multi-language mode	Granola Enterprise (workspaces with 50+ users); Fireflies Enterprise	Granola: admin controls for MCP and API; Fireflies: API pooled per paid seat
Top	n/a	n/a	Enterprise $39, annual only	50 AI credits, SSO + SCIM, audit logs (API), HIPAA, private storage, custom retention, rules engine	Fireflies Enterprise	Fireflies: API pooled, up to 2,400/min

*Fireflies marks Free's unlimited transcription with an asterisk on its page. Fireflies says annual billing saves "up to 44%". Sources: Granola pricing, Fireflies pricing, read Nov 3, 2026.

Free plans: what each limits

Granola Basic: meeting history is 30 days, AI chat runs on Auto only, and integrations beyond Slack are not included.
Fireflies Free: AI summaries are limited, storage is 400 minutes for the whole team, AI credits are 20, and recordings stop at 2 hours.

Is Granola enterprise-grade for a startup?

Granola's Business plan gives centralized billing and user management; an admin can add and remove members and control who joins the workspace. SSO, SCIM, the audit API, HIPAA-compliant workspaces and workspace-wide policies are Enterprise-only, and Granola's FAQ says SSO is "available for enterprise workspaces with 50+ users". All plans list SOC 2 Type II certification and audio deleted after transcription. A small team that needs SSO before 50 users should ask Granola sales; Fireflies puts SSO + SCIM on Enterprise at $39 a seat, annual only.

How each captures meetings

Granola: "Uses your computer audio, so doesn't invite a bot"; its plan table lists "Bot-free, device-audio capture" on every plan. It works with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams "and every other meeting app", with desktop, iOS, Android and Apple Watch apps.
Fireflies: invite fred@fireflies.ai to a live meeting or have it auto-join your calendar meetings; its pricing table also lists recording through the Chrome extension "without Fireflies bot", and file uploads.

Integrations, API and MCP

Granola lists integrations with Zapier, Attio, Affinity, HubSpot, Slack and Notion, plus MCP (for Claude, ChatGPT and others) and API access; Salesforce-style advanced integrations are Enterprise-only. Fireflies includes all integrations on every plan and API access with published rate limits per plan. Fireflies' pricing page does not mention MCP, so we do not claim it.

Which to pick when

Pick Granola if you dislike bots joining calls and want notes plus MCP and API access at $14 a user.
Pick Fireflies if you want video recordings, analytics and a cheaper annual seat ($10 on Pro), and a bot is acceptable.
Need SSO on a small team? Fireflies Enterprise has it with no stated seat minimum; Granola states a 50-user minimum.
Other notetakers: Otter, Fathom and best meeting assistants.

FAQ

Does Granola join meetings as a bot?

No. Granola says it uses your computer audio, so it does not invite a bot, and lists bot-free device-audio capture on every plan (granola.ai, read Nov 3, 2026).

Is Fireflies cheaper than Granola?

Per seat, Fireflies Pro is $10 a month billed annually ($18 monthly); Granola Business is $14 per user a month. Granola's billing period is not stated on its pricing page.

Which has a better free plan?

They limit different things: Granola Basic keeps 30 days of history; Fireflies Free gives unlimited transcription but 400 minutes of storage per team and limited summaries.

Do Granola and Fireflies support SSO?

Granola: on Enterprise ($35), for workspaces with 50+ users. Fireflies: SSO + SCIM on Enterprise ($39, annual only).

Sources

Granola pricing (fetched 2026-11-03)
granola.ai (fetched 2026-11-03)
Fireflies pricing (fetched 2026-11-03)
fireflies.ai (fetched 2026-11-03)

Page history

Oct 25, 2026: First published. Facts read from vendor pages and the GitHub API on 2026-10-25.
Nov 3, 2026: Rewritten in place: answer first, a dated comparison table and sources, with every price re-read on the vendor pages on Nov 3, 2026 (America/Chicago). The page was noindexed before this rewrite.

Markdown version for agents: /compare/granola-vs-fireflies.md

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