tl;dv vs Granola (2026)

tl;dv

by tl;dv

Granola

by Granola, Inc.

Pros

• ✓EU-based with all data centers in Europe (Google Cloud, AWS, Hetzner), EU AI Act compliance, GDPR compliance, and optional privately hosted AI on Enterprise: the strongest European data-residency story in the meeting intelligence category.
• ✓Business tier at $26 per seat per month billed annually includes AI sales-coaching playbooks, MEDDIC and BANT scoring, AI objection handling, and multi-meeting insights, competing directly with Gong at a fraction of the cost.
• ✓Free tier includes unlimited video recordings, iOS and Android mobile apps, Slack and calendar integrations, and 5,000-plus tool integrations on Pro: generous feature access at entry pricing.

Limitations

• ⚠No HIPAA compliance or BAA at any tier, so healthcare teams with strict compliance requirements must look elsewhere, for example Fireflies Enterprise.
• ⚠Free tier recordings are automatically deleted after three months with no grandfathering, so teams that discover a recording's value after the 90-day window have no recovery path without upgrading.
• ⚠Bot-free recording has no native seamless option, and achieving it requires configuring Zapier workflows to pull recordings from the conferencing platform, adding setup complexity versus bot-free-native competitors like Granola.

Pros

• ✓Bot-free architecture across any meeting platform (Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, Slack) from Mac, Windows, and iPhone without appearing as a participant, eliminating bot friction in client-facing calls and regulated meeting environments
• ✓$1.5B valuation from $125M Series C (March 2026) with enterprise customers including Vanta, Vercel, Gusto, Asana, Cursor, Lovable, Decagon, and Mistral AI, plus SOC 2 Type 2 certification completed July 2025 validating security posture for enterprise procurement
• ✓Business plan at $14 per user per month includes Attio, Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Affinity, Asana, Zapier, MCP integration, and personal API: competitive integration breadth at a price meaningfully below Otter.ai Business and Fathom Business tiers

Limitations

• ⚠Manual start required before each meeting: Granola does not auto-join or auto-record, so notes are missed if the user forgets to start the recording before a call begins
• ⚠Free tier notes older than 30 days require a paid upgrade to access: teams that discover the value of a specific meeting note after the 30-day window must upgrade to Business or Enterprise to retrieve it
• ⚠Org-wide model training opt-out and SSO require Enterprise at $35 per user per month; Business at $14 allows individual opt-out but not team-wide policy, which creates a compliance gap for teams in regulated industries below Enterprise budget