# Granola vs Krisp: pricing, features, and which is better > Granola and Krisp compared across pricing, capture, speaker labels, recordings, notes, sharing, automations, integrations, AI-agent access, and administration. - Canonical HTML: https://circleback.ai/compare/granola-vs-krisp - Structured JSON: https://circleback.ai/compare/granola-vs-krisp.json - Comparison directory: https://circleback.ai/compare - Language: en-US - Editorial perspective: Neutral competitor comparison. Circleback appears only as a clearly labeled third option. ## Short answer Granola is a writing-first notepad with no retained recording. Krisp is an audio-first utility that cleans the call and keeps a more conventional recording and transcript library. The useful buying test is to run both products on the same external call, internal planning session, and noisy in-person meeting. Compare the result, the sharing defaults, and the work that still has to happen by hand. ## Granola at a glance Granola is intentionally calm: no meeting bot, no recording library, and a polished collaborative notepad. It now has Windows, iOS, Android, Apple Watch, integrations, an API, and MCP—so the old “Mac-only solo app” framing is wrong—but it remains a personal, document-first layer rather than an automatic company-wide meeting system. **Best for:** People and small teams who actively take lightweight notes during calls and want AI to expand them into polished documents without saving audio or video. **Less ideal for:** Companies that need recordings and clips, automatic capture, consistent named-speaker transcripts across every device, workspace-enforced sharing, bulk transcript export, service-account agent access, or operational automations across every function. **Price:** Free; Business $14/user/month; Enterprise from $35/user/month, billed monthly Granola currently bills monthly rather than offering an annual discount. Basic is free but only the last 30 days of history remain accessible. Business adds unlimited history, advanced AI, integrations, MCP, API, billing, and user management. Enterprise adds SSO, retention, organization sharing/API controls, training defaults, and participant notifications. A workspace uses one tier and every active member of a paid workspace is a paid seat, although someone who only opens a shared note link does not need a seat. **Free option:** Yes, with a rolling 30-day accessible history. ### Granola strengths - A calm bot-free experience that combines human notes with AI-generated structure. - No durable source recording: audio is processed for transcription and then deleted, which some privacy-sensitive teams prefer. - Windows, iOS, Android, Apple Watch, person/company pages, cross-meeting chat, integrations, API, and MCP make it much more capable than early reviews imply. - Granola can extract source-linked action-item text with owner and date labels, and paid users can route note output into task systems through Zapier. ### Granola tradeoffs - No replayable audio/video, timestamped moments, or clips after processing. - Android and Apple Watch now cover in-person capture, but their launch pages do not document the same multi-speaker labeling that Granola explicitly documents for iPhone. iPhone also cannot capture audio from another calling app; integrations and several settings remain desktop-oriented. - Automatic start for all meetings is still under consideration. Transcript segments can now be copied and redacted, which corrects an older product limitation. - Bulk CSV export omits transcripts, and admins cannot export the entire workspace; each person exports only their own notes. - MCP is OAuth-only, has no service-account/API-key path, and cannot directly access Team-space folders. Users must move a note to My Notes and share it explicitly, which changes its default visibility. - Free and Business accounts permit anonymized customer data to be used for Granola model improvements by default unless users opt out. An administrator-enforced organization-wide opt-out is an Enterprise feature. - Notes and transcripts are retained indefinitely by default. Configurable transcript retention is Enterprise-only; SSO is also Enterprise-only and documented for organizations with at least 50 seats. - Granola deliberately aims for a concise collaborative document. In our editorial judgment, the result is often too thin for a coworker who was not in the meeting and needs the notes to stand alone. - Granola can extract owner and date text into a note, but it does not automatically create and assign native action items to users. Actions remain note content unless a team builds a Zapier handoff; there is no workspace-wide task board with assignees, status, due dates, and completion tracking. ### Choose Granola when - You want a notepad first and do not want to retain source recordings. - Your users are on Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android, or Apple Watch and are happy to start notes themselves. - The quality and feel of the final note matters more than a large automation and media system. ## Krisp at a glance Krisp’s differentiator is not another summary format—it is the audio layer. Noise cancellation, voice isolation, and accent conversion sit beside a capable bot-free note taker, recordings, mobile capture, MCP, and webhooks. **Best for:** People who work in noisy environments, contact centers, or distributed teams where call clarity and bot-free capture matter as much as the notes. **Less ideal for:** Teams that need 100+ languages, a broad company knowledge graph, deep multi-system automations, or advanced governance without an enterprise contract. **Price:** Core from $8/user/month annually; Advanced from $15 annually Prices are per user/month. Core is $8 with annual billing or $16 month-to-month and includes unlimited bot-free notes, audio recording, screen/video recording, optional bot video, in-person capture, AI chat, MCP, webhooks, integrations, and 10 GB storage. Advanced is $15 or $30 and adds Salesforce, manager/deal views, policy enforcement, team webhooks, and 60 GB. Enterprise is custom. **Free option:** No permanent free plan is shown; a seven-day trial is available. ### Krisp strengths - Krisp’s clearest differentiator is real-time noise cancellation, voice isolation, and accent conversion across calling apps. - Bot-free audio and screen/video capture, optional bot-based video, iOS/Android in-person support, AI chat, MCP, and webhooks come at a relatively low entry price. - Action items are automatically generated and assigned, then managed workspace-wide with assignees, due dates, priority, and status. - On-device and private deployment options for enterprise customers with strict audio requirements. - Krisp says meeting data is not used to train its AI models; transcript-only audio can be processed on-device or deleted immediately after cloud transcription. ### Krisp tradeoffs - Mobile recording does not include Krisp’s signature noise cancellation. - Core includes only 10 GB of storage, while Salesforce, policy enforcement, manager views, and stronger team workflows require Advanced. - HIPAA/BAA is listed for enterprise deployments of 100+ seats. - Its 16-language count is materially narrower than products advertising 75–100+ languages. - Calendar-based speaker names are documented for one-on-one calls; group meetings still require a closer test of diarization and naming behavior. - Standard cloud meeting data is stored in the United States with no general regional-storage option. Enterprise pricing advertises a negotiable data-center choice and on-device private processing, so residency-sensitive buyers should verify the deployed architecture. ### Choose Krisp when - Call clarity and bot-free capture are the top requirements. - You want AV recording, MCP, webhooks, and mobile capture at a low per-recorder price. - Your enterprise may need private or on-device audio processing. ## Feature comparison | What matters | Granola | Krisp | | --- | --- | --- | | Capture options | Available with limits — Manual bot-free desktop, phone, and Apple Watch capture. Granola listens locally without a bot and combines typed notes with the transcript. It does not currently offer an “always automatically start every meeting” setting. | Broad support — Bot-free system-audio capture. Krisp records through the device rather than joining meetings as a participant. Its audio-processing layer works across calling apps on desktop. | | Desktop and mobile | Broad support — macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Apple Watch. Desktop is the full experience. iOS and Android cover in-person conversations, and Apple Watch can start an in-person note with one tap and sync it to the phone and desktop apps. iPhone also supports outbound speakerphone calls but cannot capture another app’s audio; integrations and several workspace settings remain desktop-oriented. | Broad support — macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android. Desktop combines recording with noise cancellation and voice features. Mobile supports in-person recording but not noise cancellation. | | In-person capture and speaker labels | Broad support — Phone, Apple Watch, and laptop room capture. The iPhone app handles in-person conversations, identifies up to ten speakers, and can place outbound speakerphone calls. Android and Apple Watch also capture in-person meetings, though their launch pages do not promise the same speaker-label behavior. Desktop does not diarize individual voices: its transcript uses Me and Them for microphone versus system audio. iPhone cannot transcribe another calling app running on the same phone. | Broad support — Native iOS and Android room capture. Mobile apps record and upload in-person conversations, but Krisp only documents automatic calendar-based speaker names for one-on-one meetings; ad-hoc meetings need manual assignment. The flagship noise-cancellation capability is also unavailable on mobile. | | Recordings, playback, and clips | Not documented — No retained audio or video. Granola deliberately deletes audio after transcription. That is a privacy benefit for some teams and a hard limitation for anyone who needs playback, evidence, clips, or coaching review. | Broad support — Bot-free audio and screen/video; optional bot video. Krisp now documents bot-free screen/video recording on supported macOS and Windows versions, correcting its older audio-only framing. An optional Krisp bot can also retain meeting video. Advanced adds richer collaboration such as trimming and comments plus more storage, and storage quotas matter for recording-heavy teams. | | Notes, action items, and search | Broad support — Concise attendee notes, extracted actions, and cross-meeting chat. Human notes influence the generated document, and paid plans support broad chat across meetings, folders, people, and companies. Our editorial judgment is that the output is polished but thin and assumes the reader attended, rather than documenting enough context to stand alone. Granola can extract owner- and deadline-aware action-item text with transcript citations, but it does not create and assign native tasks to users. Those actions remain note content rather than a workspace task system, and there is still no source recording for playback. | Broad support — AI notes plus a centralized, assigned action-item tracker. Krisp automatically generates and assigns action items when calendar identity or transcript speaker identity is available. The workspace action center supports all-team and assigned-to-me views, reassignment, due dates, priority, status, and completion. This is a real product strength, even though the broader relationship-memory layer remains thinner. | | People, companies, and context | Available with limits — People and company pages built from calendar contacts. Granola groups meetings around people and companies, with chat across those groups. Directory entries are inferred from calendar data and cannot be manually added, so imperfect associations can happen. | Narrow or indirect — Meeting library and AI chat. Meetings are searchable and available through AI chat, but the product does not emphasize combined email, calendar, person, and company relationship pages. | | Automatic sharing and workspace defaults | Narrow or indirect — Private by default; sharing starts with a note or folder. Notes are not auto-shared with attendees. A user shares a note or adds it to a team-space folder; recurring meetings can auto-add to a folder and new folder notes can auto-post to connected tools. Enterprise can enforce how links work across the workspace, but it still does not provide conditional rules that automatically distribute each matching meeting to the right internal people or teams. | Broad support — Calendar, manager, and recurring-channel auto-sharing. Krisp auto-shares transcripts, notes, and recordings to same-workspace calendar invitees when its calendar and join prerequisites are met; the setting defaults on during rollout. Advanced can also route selected users’ external meetings to managers, and recurring meetings can post to Teams channels. The audience logic is useful but narrower than a general title, participant, domain, tag, and destination rule builder. | | Automations | Narrow or indirect — Folder and manual Zapier triggers; less of a native workflow canvas. Paid users can trigger Zapier when a note is added to a chosen folder or manually shared, then create tasks in Linear, Asana, Trello, Monday, and thousands of other apps. This is useful, but there is no automatic every-meeting trigger in the documented integration and Granola does not center conditional custom extraction and multi-action workflows in the product itself. | Available with limits — Automatic action items, webhooks, and Zapier; fewer native rules. Core includes action-item, note, and transcript triggers through Zapier and webhooks; a generated action item can create a Jira task through Zapier. Advanced adds team webhooks. Krisp is still less centered on custom AI extraction and a native multi-step condition/action canvas. | | Integrations | Available with limits — Notion, Slack, Attio, HubSpot, Affinity, Zapier, API, and MCP. The catalog is now credible, particularly on Business. Zapier can turn folder notes into tasks across 8,000+ apps, while the native catalog remains smaller and more destination-oriented than systems with broad action libraries. | Available with limits — Common work tools; Salesforce on Advanced. Core covers general integrations and webhooks. Salesforce and more revenue-focused management features require Advanced. | | API, MCP, CLI, and data portability | Available with limits — MCP and API on Business+; material export and scope limits. Personal API keys are beta on Business/Enterprise and can return transcripts for notes the key owner may access; Enterprise organization keys can cover Team-space notes. MCP also has a transcript tool, but uses OAuth, has no service-account key, and cannot directly access Team-space folders. Bulk CSV export excludes transcripts and admins cannot export every member’s notes, so programmatic access exists but workspace portability is not complete. | Broad support — MCP with transcripts and tasks, plus webhooks on Core. The hosted OAuth MCP can search meetings, fetch full transcripts and summaries, list action items by assignee or completion state, inspect activity, and read upcoming meetings. Agent access is unusually accessible at the entry tier. Teams needing centralized webhook management move to Advanced, while private deployment is Enterprise. | | Security, privacy, and admin | Available with limits — User management on Business; retention and organization controls on Enterprise. SSO, retention, enforced sharing/API controls, participant notification, and organization training defaults require Enterprise; Granola documents SSO for organizations with at least 50 seats. There is no native password or MFA system—authentication delegates to Google, Microsoft, or Enterprise SSO. Notes and transcripts persist indefinitely unless deleted or covered by Enterprise retention, and admins do not get a one-click workspace export. | Available with limits — Policy tools on Advanced; private deployment and compliance on Enterprise. Enforced modes and manager views require Advanced. SSO/SCIM, a negotiable data-center choice, unlimited storage, private/on-device options, and the documented 100+ seat HIPAA path are Enterprise. Krisp’s security page says standard cloud data is US-hosted with no regional option. | | Languages | Available with limits — Multilingual transcription. Granola supports multiple languages, but it does not publish the same 100+ headline count as several rivals. Test switching, accents, and domain vocabulary on real calls. | Narrow or indirect — 16 transcription languages. Adequate for many English-centered teams, but much narrower on paper than competitors advertising 75 or 100+ languages. | Ratings describe documented breadth rather than overall product quality: - **Broad support:** Broad native support across the product or relevant paid plans. - **Available with limits:** Documented support with meaningful scope, mode, or plan limits. - **Narrow or indirect:** Narrow, indirect, beta, or substantially plan-gated support. - **Not documented:** No current first-party documentation for a native option. ## Detailed analysis ### Capture options **Krisp has broader documented support for capture options.** **Granola:** Manual bot-free desktop, phone, and Apple Watch capture. Granola listens locally without a bot and combines typed notes with the transcript. It does not currently offer an “always automatically start every meeting” setting. Evidence: [Granola transcription](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/taking-notes/transcription), [Granola feature requests](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/feature-requests). **Krisp:** Bot-free system-audio capture. Krisp records through the device rather than joining meetings as a participant. Its audio-processing layer works across calling apps on desktop. Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp bot-free screen recording](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/16168004763420-Screen-record-your-meetings-with-Krisp). ### Desktop and mobile **Both products document broad support for desktop and mobile, with different scope and plan limits.** **Granola:** macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Apple Watch. Desktop is the full experience. iOS and Android cover in-person conversations, and Apple Watch can start an in-person note with one tap and sync it to the phone and desktop apps. iPhone also supports outbound speakerphone calls but cannot capture another app’s audio; integrations and several workspace settings remain desktop-oriented. Evidence: [Granola iOS](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/ios/getting-started), [Granola Android launch](https://www.granola.ai/blog/introducing-granola-for-android), [Granola Apple Watch launch](https://www.granola.ai/blog/granola-for-apple-watch), [Granola transcription](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/taking-notes/transcription). **Krisp:** macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android. Desktop combines recording with noise cancellation and voice features. Mobile supports in-person recording but not noise cancellation. Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp mobile recording](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20282426717596-How-to-record-in-person-meetings-with-Krisp-Mobile-App). ### In-person capture and speaker labels **Both products document broad support for in-person capture and speaker labels, with different scope and plan limits.** **Granola:** Phone, Apple Watch, and laptop room capture. The iPhone app handles in-person conversations, identifies up to ten speakers, and can place outbound speakerphone calls. Android and Apple Watch also capture in-person meetings, though their launch pages do not promise the same speaker-label behavior. Desktop does not diarize individual voices: its transcript uses Me and Them for microphone versus system audio. iPhone cannot transcribe another calling app running on the same phone. Evidence: [Granola iOS](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/ios/getting-started), [Granola Android launch](https://www.granola.ai/blog/introducing-granola-for-android), [Granola Apple Watch launch](https://www.granola.ai/blog/granola-for-apple-watch), [Granola transcription](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/taking-notes/transcription). **Krisp:** Native iOS and Android room capture. Mobile apps record and upload in-person conversations, but Krisp only documents automatic calendar-based speaker names for one-on-one meetings; ad-hoc meetings need manual assignment. The flagship noise-cancellation capability is also unavailable on mobile. Evidence: [Krisp mobile recording](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20282426717596-How-to-record-in-person-meetings-with-Krisp-Mobile-App), [Krisp calendar and speaker naming](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/10277892556828-Connecting-your-Calendar-to-Krisp). ### Recordings, playback, and clips **Krisp has broader documented support for recordings, playback, and clips.** **Granola:** No retained audio or video. Granola deliberately deletes audio after transcription. That is a privacy benefit for some teams and a hard limitation for anyone who needs playback, evidence, clips, or coaching review. Evidence: [Granola transcription](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/taking-notes/transcription). **Krisp:** Bot-free audio and screen/video; optional bot video. Krisp now documents bot-free screen/video recording on supported macOS and Windows versions, correcting its older audio-only framing. An optional Krisp bot can also retain meeting video. Advanced adds richer collaboration such as trimming and comments plus more storage, and storage quotas matter for recording-heavy teams. Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp recording FAQ](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/12216182124956-FAQ-about-Krisp-Recording-feature), [Krisp bot-free screen recording](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/16168004763420-Screen-record-your-meetings-with-Krisp). ### Notes, action items, and search **Both products document broad support for notes, action items, and search, with different scope and plan limits.** **Granola:** Concise attendee notes, extracted actions, and cross-meeting chat. Human notes influence the generated document, and paid plans support broad chat across meetings, folders, people, and companies. Our editorial judgment is that the output is polished but thin and assumes the reader attended, rather than documenting enough context to stand alone. Granola can extract owner- and deadline-aware action-item text with transcript citations, but it does not create and assign native tasks to users. Those actions remain note content rather than a workspace task system, and there is still no source recording for playback. Evidence: [Granola transcription](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/taking-notes/transcription), [Granola spaces and folders](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/sharing/folders/spaces-and-folders), [Granola action-item extraction](https://www.granola.ai/blog/meeting-action-items-ai-extraction). **Krisp:** AI notes plus a centralized, assigned action-item tracker. Krisp automatically generates and assigns action items when calendar identity or transcript speaker identity is available. The workspace action center supports all-team and assigned-to-me views, reassignment, due dates, priority, status, and completion. This is a real product strength, even though the broader relationship-memory layer remains thinner. Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp centralized action items](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/18809437531420-Centralized-Action-Items-in-account-dashboard). ### People, companies, and context **Granola has broader documented support for people, companies, and context.** **Granola:** People and company pages built from calendar contacts. Granola groups meetings around people and companies, with chat across those groups. Directory entries are inferred from calendar data and cannot be manually added, so imperfect associations can happen. Evidence: [Granola workspaces](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/workspaces), [Granola spaces and folders](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/sharing/folders/spaces-and-folders). **Krisp:** Meeting library and AI chat. Meetings are searchable and available through AI chat, but the product does not emphasize combined email, calendar, person, and company relationship pages. Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp MCP](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/25396920405148-Krisp-MCP). ### Automatic sharing and workspace defaults **Krisp has broader documented support for automatic sharing and workspace defaults.** **Granola:** Private by default; sharing starts with a note or folder. Notes are not auto-shared with attendees. A user shares a note or adds it to a team-space folder; recurring meetings can auto-add to a folder and new folder notes can auto-post to connected tools. Enterprise can enforce how links work across the workspace, but it still does not provide conditional rules that automatically distribute each matching meeting to the right internal people or teams. Evidence: [Granola workspaces](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/workspaces), [Granola spaces and folders](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/sharing/folders/spaces-and-folders), [Granola sharing controls](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/consent-security-privacy/sharing-controls), [Granola note sharing](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/sharing/sharing-notes). **Krisp:** Calendar, manager, and recurring-channel auto-sharing. Krisp auto-shares transcripts, notes, and recordings to same-workspace calendar invitees when its calendar and join prerequisites are met; the setting defaults on during rollout. Advanced can also route selected users’ external meetings to managers, and recurring meetings can post to Teams channels. The audience logic is useful but narrower than a general title, participant, domain, tag, and destination rule builder. Evidence: [Krisp meeting sharing](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/10386573495196-Sharing-your-meetings-with-Krisp), [Krisp Manager View](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/21142526003356-Manager-View), [Krisp Microsoft Teams integration](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/26704048673436-Integrate-Krisp-with-Microsoft-Teams). ### Automations **Krisp has broader documented support for automations.** **Granola:** Folder and manual Zapier triggers; less of a native workflow canvas. Paid users can trigger Zapier when a note is added to a chosen folder or manually shared, then create tasks in Linear, Asana, Trello, Monday, and thousands of other apps. This is useful, but there is no automatic every-meeting trigger in the documented integration and Granola does not center conditional custom extraction and multi-action workflows in the product itself. Evidence: [Granola integrations](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/sharing/integrations/integrations-with-granola), [Granola spaces and folders](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/sharing/folders/spaces-and-folders), [Granola Zapier](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/sharing/integrations/zapier). **Krisp:** Automatic action items, webhooks, and Zapier; fewer native rules. Core includes action-item, note, and transcript triggers through Zapier and webhooks; a generated action item can create a Jira task through Zapier. Advanced adds team webhooks. Krisp is still less centered on custom AI extraction and a native multi-step condition/action canvas. Evidence: [Krisp centralized action items](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/18809437531420-Centralized-Action-Items-in-account-dashboard), [Krisp webhook API](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/24514911804316-Webhook-API), [Krisp Zapier integration](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/14772270941852-Integrate-Krisp-with-Zapier), [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/). ### Integrations **Both products support integrations, with different scope and plan limits.** **Granola:** Notion, Slack, Attio, HubSpot, Affinity, Zapier, API, and MCP. The catalog is now credible, particularly on Business. Zapier can turn folder notes into tasks across 8,000+ apps, while the native catalog remains smaller and more destination-oriented than systems with broad action libraries. Evidence: [Granola integrations](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/sharing/integrations/integrations-with-granola), [Granola Zapier](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/sharing/integrations/zapier). **Krisp:** Common work tools; Salesforce on Advanced. Core covers general integrations and webhooks. Salesforce and more revenue-focused management features require Advanced. Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp webhook API](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/24514911804316-Webhook-API), [Krisp Zapier integration](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/14772270941852-Integrate-Krisp-with-Zapier). ### API, MCP, CLI, and data portability **Krisp has broader documented support for API, MCP, CLI, and data portability.** **Granola:** MCP and API on Business+; material export and scope limits. Personal API keys are beta on Business/Enterprise and can return transcripts for notes the key owner may access; Enterprise organization keys can cover Team-space notes. MCP also has a transcript tool, but uses OAuth, has no service-account key, and cannot directly access Team-space folders. Bulk CSV export excludes transcripts and admins cannot export every member’s notes, so programmatic access exists but workspace portability is not complete. Evidence: [Granola MCP](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/sharing/integrations/mcp), [Granola API](https://docs.granola.ai/introduction), [Granola data export](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/sharing/exporting-notes). **Krisp:** MCP with transcripts and tasks, plus webhooks on Core. The hosted OAuth MCP can search meetings, fetch full transcripts and summaries, list action items by assignee or completion state, inspect activity, and read upcoming meetings. Agent access is unusually accessible at the entry tier. Teams needing centralized webhook management move to Advanced, while private deployment is Enterprise. Evidence: [Krisp MCP](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/25396920405148-Krisp-MCP), [Krisp centralized action items](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/18809437531420-Centralized-Action-Items-in-account-dashboard), [Krisp webhook API](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/24514911804316-Webhook-API). ### Security, privacy, and admin **Both products support security, privacy, and admin, with different scope and plan limits.** **Granola:** User management on Business; retention and organization controls on Enterprise. SSO, retention, enforced sharing/API controls, participant notification, and organization training defaults require Enterprise; Granola documents SSO for organizations with at least 50 seats. There is no native password or MFA system—authentication delegates to Google, Microsoft, or Enterprise SSO. Notes and transcripts persist indefinitely unless deleted or covered by Enterprise retention, and admins do not get a one-click workspace export. Evidence: [Granola pricing](https://www.granola.ai/pricing), [Granola subscriptions and billing](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/managing-your-account/subscriptions-and-billing), [Granola security and data FAQ](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/consent-security-privacy/security-privacy-data-faqs). **Krisp:** Policy tools on Advanced; private deployment and compliance on Enterprise. Enforced modes and manager views require Advanced. SSO/SCIM, a negotiable data-center choice, unlimited storage, private/on-device options, and the documented 100+ seat HIPAA path are Enterprise. Krisp’s security page says standard cloud data is US-hosted with no regional option. Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp security and data handling](https://krisp.ai/security-for-ai-meeting-assistant/), [Krisp cloud processing](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/360012035500-What-data-Krisp-sends-to-the-cloud). ### Languages **Granola has broader documented support for languages.** **Granola:** Multilingual transcription. Granola supports multiple languages, but it does not publish the same 100+ headline count as several rivals. Test switching, accents, and domain vocabulary on real calls. Evidence: [Granola transcription](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/taking-notes/transcription). **Krisp:** 16 transcription languages. Adequate for many English-centered teams, but much narrower on paper than competitors advertising 75 or 100+ languages. Evidence: [Krisp multilingual transcription](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/13803811067292-Record-and-transcribe-multilingual-meetings). ## A third option to consider: Circleback Circleback turns online meetings, in-person conversations, and imported calls into one shared company memory. Record with a bot, with the botless desktop app, from an iPhone or Android phone, or on Apple Watch. Every route produces the same speaker-labeled record, detailed notes designed to stand alone, and automatically assigned action items. Sharing rules and automations carry the useful parts into the teams and tools that need them. Circleback is built for people and AI agents: the complete meeting record available to a person is also available programmatically through its API, MCP, and CLI. Circleback can also search connected apps and take action in them. It is built for people and AI agents: the same complete meeting data available to a person is available programmatically to ChatGPT, Claude, other agents, and internal tools through the API, MCP, and CLI. Free; Pro from $15/user/month annually; Business from $25/user/month annually; Enterprise $35/user/month, billed annually. ## Frequently asked questions ### Which is better: Granola or Krisp? Granola is a writing-first notepad with no retained recording. Krisp is an audio-first utility that cleans the call and keeps a more conventional recording and transcript library. ### Which is less expensive, Granola or Krisp? Granola: Free; Business $14/user/month; Enterprise from $35/user/month, billed monthly. Krisp: Core from $8/user/month annually; Advanced from $15 annually. Compare the paid seats, included usage, recording access, and admin features you actually need. ### Can Granola and Krisp record without a bot? Granola: Manual bot-free desktop, phone, and Apple Watch capture. Krisp: Bot-free system-audio capture. The useful check is whether your required capture mode keeps video, a recording, and speaker names. ### Which is better for a whole company? First ask who gets each note automatically; otherwise useful context stays with the recorder. Then compare permissions, retention, and enforced defaults. Granola: Private by default; sharing starts with a note or folder. Krisp: Calendar, manager, and recurring-channel auto-sharing. ### Can I access and move the full meeting data? Granola: MCP and API on Business+; material export and scope limits. Krisp: MCP with transcripts and tasks, plus webhooks on Core. Check the selected plan, authentication model, transcript scope, export format, and retention window for the workflow you need. ### How was this comparison researched? We use first-party pricing pages, product pages, help docs, and release notes for both products. The sources are linked below. ## Methodology Circleback reviews first-party pricing pages, product pages, help docs, and release notes. Prices and capabilities move, so check the linked sources when a detail is important to your decision. Every feature dimension links to the exact first-party documents used for that claim. Ratings describe documented breadth, not an overall score or winner. This page is a neutral competitor-to-competitor comparison. There are no paid placements or affiliate rankings. ## First-party sources ### Granola sources - [Granola pricing](https://www.granola.ai/pricing): Basic, Business, and Enterprise prices and feature gates. - [Granola subscriptions and billing](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/managing-your-account/subscriptions-and-billing): 30-day free history, workspace privacy, plan uniformity, and removal behavior. - [Granola integrations](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/sharing/integrations/integrations-with-granola): Notion, Slack, CRM, Zapier, MCP, and API integrations. - [Granola Zapier](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/sharing/integrations/zapier): Paid-plan manual and folder triggers, note payload, workspace sharing, and task handoff across Zapier destinations. - [Granola action-item extraction](https://www.granola.ai/blog/meeting-action-items-ai-extraction): Automatic extraction of source-linked commitments, owners, and due dates from the transcript and human notes. - [Granola workspaces](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/workspaces): Private-by-default notes and team-space collaboration behavior. - [Granola sharing controls](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/consent-security-privacy/sharing-controls): Personal link defaults and Enterprise-enforced workspace link restrictions. - [Granola note sharing](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/sharing/sharing-notes): No attendee auto-sharing, note and integration sharing, and limited transcript visibility on public note links. - [Granola spaces and folders](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/sharing/folders/spaces-and-folders): Shared folders, recurring-meeting auto-add, and automatic posting to connected tools. - [Granola feature requests](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/feature-requests): Current product-request status, including automatic meeting start. - [Granola iOS](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/ios/getting-started): In-person/outbound calls and mobile limitations. - [Granola Android launch](https://www.granola.ai/blog/introducing-granola-for-android): Android in-person capture and cross-device note access. - [Granola Apple Watch launch](https://www.granola.ai/blog/granola-for-apple-watch): One-tap in-person capture, reminders, syncing, availability, and watchOS requirement. - [Granola transcription](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/taking-notes/transcription): Desktop “Me/Them” behavior, iPhone diarization, transcript copying, segment deletion, and lack of prerecorded-file support. - [Granola data export](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/sharing/exporting-notes): Individual and bulk exports, CSV transcript omission, and the absence of workspace-wide admin export. - [Granola MCP](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/sharing/integrations/mcp): OAuth access, plan gates, transcript tool, 30-day Basic history, and Team-space folder limitation. - [Granola API](https://docs.granola.ai/introduction): Personal beta keys, Enterprise keys, permitted-note scope, transcripts, and meeting data. - [Granola security and data FAQ](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/consent-security-privacy/security-privacy-data-faqs): Model-improvement defaults, individual opt-out, and Enterprise organization-wide enforcement. ### Krisp sources - [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/): Core, Advanced, and Enterprise pricing, storage, capture, language, integration, and governance gates. - [Krisp mobile recording](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20282426717596-How-to-record-in-person-meetings-with-Krisp-Mobile-App): iOS/Android in-person capture and mobile noise-cancellation limitation. - [Krisp calendar and speaker naming](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/10277892556828-Connecting-your-Calendar-to-Krisp): Calendar-based replacement of generic speaker labels with names is currently limited to one-on-one meetings. - [Krisp meeting sharing](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/10386573495196-Sharing-your-meetings-with-Krisp): Automatic sharing to same-workspace calendar invitees, prerequisites, and rollout behavior. - [Krisp Manager View](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/21142526003356-Manager-View): Advanced-plan automatic sharing of selected team members' external meetings to chosen managers. - [Krisp Microsoft Teams integration](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/26704048673436-Integrate-Krisp-with-Microsoft-Teams): Automatic notes delivery for recurring meetings and manual channel sharing. - [Krisp recording FAQ](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/12216182124956-FAQ-about-Krisp-Recording-feature): Audio recording and optional Krisp-bot video path; supplemented by the newer bot-free screen-recording guide. - [Krisp bot-free screen recording](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/16168004763420-Screen-record-your-meetings-with-Krisp): Bot-free screen/video capture and supported macOS/Windows versions. - [Krisp multilingual transcription](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/13803811067292-Record-and-transcribe-multilingual-meetings): Current 16-language transcription list. - [Krisp MCP](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/25396920405148-Krisp-MCP): OAuth MCP access to transcripts, summaries, key points, action items, and calendar context. - [Krisp centralized action items](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/18809437531420-Centralized-Action-Items-in-account-dashboard): Automatic task creation and assignment plus team-wide views, due dates, priorities, assignees, status, and completion. - [Krisp Zapier integration](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/14772270941852-Integrate-Krisp-with-Zapier): Action-item, key-point, outline, and transcript triggers, including Jira task creation through Zapier. - [Krisp webhook API](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/24514911804316-Webhook-API): Core user webhooks and Advanced team webhook scope. - [Krisp security and data handling](https://krisp.ai/security-for-ai-meeting-assistant/): No-training posture, US cloud storage, lack of standard regional residency, on-device transcription, encryption, and Enterprise controls. - [Krisp cloud processing](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/360012035500-What-data-Krisp-sends-to-the-cloud): Local noise cancellation plus on-device or transient cloud processing in transcript-only mode.