Pick Fathom if…
you want unlimited recordings and shareable clips for free, or coaching scorecards and CRM field sync for a sales team.
Fathom records, transcribes and summarizes your calls automatically, and its free plan doesn't cap recordings. Granola is a notepad first: it combines what you type with the transcript, and its free plan keeps only 30 days of history.
Pick Fathom if you want the most you can get for free, or Business ($34/mo per user) for CRM field sync on sales calls. Pick Granola ($14/mo per user) if you want unlimited notes wired into Notion, Slack, HubSpot and MCP for less than Fathom Premium ($20/mo).
| App | Free tier | Paid from | Top plan | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fathom | Yes | $20/mo | $34/mo | Sales call review, CRM-synced recaps, hiring interview notes |
| Granola | Yes | $14/mo | $35/mo | Teams that want meeting notes wired into their existing tools (Slack, Notion, HubSpot) plus MCP access to Claude/ChatGPT |
Monthly prices in US dollars before tax, from each vendor's official pricing (US list price; weekly-billed plans converted to a monthly figure). Updated November 2, 2026
| Fathom | Granola | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Unlimited recordings, instant summaries, clips & playlists | AI notes, 30-day history, AI chat, templates |
| Entry paid plan | Premium: advanced summaries, AI action items, custom bot | Business: unlimited history, advanced models, MCP + API |
| CRM | Business: CRM field sync, deal-view summaries | Business: HubSpot, Attio, Affinity integrations |
| Catch | 5 advanced summary templates/mo after trial | Free plan keeps only 30 days of history |
you want unlimited recordings and shareable clips for free, or coaching scorecards and CRM field sync for a sales team.
you write your own notes in meetings and want them, plus the transcript, available to your team's tools and AI assistants.
On free plans, Fathom gives more: unlimited recordings versus Granola's 30-day history. Granola's paid plan is cheaper than Fathom Premium and includes unlimited history, advanced models, and MCP plus API access.
Granola Business is $14/mo per user. Fathom Team is $19/mo per user with a 2-user minimum.
Yes — unlimited recordings and transcriptions with instant AI summaries, clips and playlists. Advanced summary templates are capped at 5 a month after the trial.
How we choose: prices come from each vendor's official pricing page and are re-checked every week. We take no affiliate fees, so rankings aren't for sale.