How much does Grain cost?
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free trial
- 14-day free trial
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
In your favor
- Free plan. Unlimited meetings up to 45 minutes each, 30-day history, unlimited AI notes, live transcripts, bot-free capture, Claude and ChatGPT connections. Pro adds longer meetings and full history.
- Refunds offered. 30-day money back guarantee; pro-rated credit on downgrade or cancel mid-cycle
Watch out for
- Their pages disagree: transcription languages. "Transcripts with participant and cross-meeting context. Available in 1" vs "Grain supports over 130 languages for meeting transcription and AI not"
How you buy and get started
- Sign up
- Self-serve signup, no credit card required "No credit card required"
- Setup
- Start recording in minutes "Start recording in minutes."
- When sales steps in
- Not stated
- Support
- Help Center and email "hello@grain.com"
What Grain does
Grain records meetings on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex and Slack huddles, then produces transcripts, AI summaries and action items. It exports to Claude, ChatGPT and CRMs, and offers an MCP server and API.
- Good for
- Individuals and small to mid-market and enterprise sales, customer success, and product teams that rely on meetings.
- Channels
- Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Slack huddles, Aircall, In-person meetings
- Main product
- Grain AI notetaker and conversation intelligence platform
- Also includes
- Bot-free desktop transcription, Optional meeting bot with video recording, AI notes, summaries and action items, Ask AI across recordings with citations, Enriched Markdown transcripts, Clips, sharing and Teams
- Connects to
- Claude, ChatGPT, Slack, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zapier, Aircall, Productboard, Webex, Zoom, Google Meet
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Yes
- AI summaries and action items
Action items and meeting summaries for every meeting shareable from Grain or sent straight to your inbox.
- Bot-free recording option
Grain transcribes your computer's audio without meeting bots joining your call.
- Multi-language transcription
Grain supports over 130 languages for meeting transcription and AI notes.
- CRM integration
Sync notes and properties to HubSpot or Salesforce contacts and deals so your reps can skip the data entry.
- Zoom, Meet, Teams support
Grain works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Slack huddles.
- Ask AI across meetings
Ask questions across your entire meeting library and get answers with precise citations in Grain.
- SOC 2 / GDPR / HIPAA
Grain holds SOC 2 Type II.
- Free plan available
Grain is free forever for individuals.
The same 8 checks appear on every tool in AI note takers. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.
Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | no | "Neither Grain nor its subprocessors use your data for model training."home |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type II | "Grain is SOC 2 Type II certified."security |
| GDPR | GDPR compliant | "GDPR compliant"home |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | Not stated | |
| Trust center | https://trust.grain.com/ | "you can see our security details on our [Trust Center](https://trust.grain.com/)."security |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | – | –Meetings up to 45 minutes each, 30-day history | – | "Grain is free forever for individuals." |
| Pro/month for one person | $15 | – | 1 users | – | "Pro is $15/month for one person." |
| Businessper seat/month, billed annually, 2-seat minimum | – | $29per month | – | – | "Business is $29 per seat/month, billed annually (2-seat minimum), and adds a shared worksp" |
| Enterprise | Quote | – | – | – | "Workspaces are on Business and Enterprise." |
Free plan: Unlimited meetings up to 45 minutes each, 30-day history, unlimited AI notes, live transcripts, bot-free capture, Claude and ChatGPT connections. Pro adds longer meetings and full history.
Grain price history
No price changes on Grain's pricing page since 2023Q1, across 16 archived reads.
From archived copies of the pricing page in the Internet Archive, one per quarter, in USD.
Fine print
- Billing increment
- per seat; paid seats only, unlimited free viewer seats "You only pay for users who need a Paid seat"
- Billed beyond usage
- Not stated
- Contract
- no required annual contracts; monthly or annual payment "Grain has everything you need and nothing you don't, without required annual contracts."
- Refunds
- 30-day money back guarantee; pro-rated credit on downgrade or cancel mid-cycle "We offer a 30-day money back guarantee."
- Auto renew
- renews for a term equal to the expiring term unless terminated 30 days before term end "Unless Your Account and subscription to the Service is so terminated, Your subscription to the Service will renew for a Subscription Term equivalent in length to the then expiring "
- Price change notice
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Grain Intelligence, Inc.
- Online since
- Oct 23, 1997 Domain registration date
- Ships updates
- 10 in the last 12 months Last on Oct 5, 2026, from their changelog
- Customers
- "Grain powers thousands of customer-centric teams" their claim
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Questions
Is Grain free?
Yes. Unlimited meetings up to 45 minutes each, 30-day history, unlimited AI notes, live transcripts, bot-free capture, Claude and ChatGPT connections. Pro adds longer meetings and full history. Paid plans start at $15/month.
How much does Grain cost?
Paid plans start at $29 per month billed yearly, or $15 billed monthly.
Does Grain train AI on your data?
No, according to Grain: "Neither Grain nor its subprocessors use your data for model training."
