Grain vs Notta Comparison 2026
Grain's free plan gives a whole team unlimited meetings and unlimited notetaker seats, capped at 45 minutes per call and 30 days of history, then Starter is $15 a seat a month billed annually. Notta meters everything against a shared monthly minute pool instead, 120 minutes free, then Pro at $8.17 a month billed annually raises that to 1,800 minutes with bilingual transcription and translation Grain does not emphasise. Grain's limit is call length; Notta's limit is total minutes across everything you record that month.
Notes and clips from calls, free tier included
Transcription and AI summaries by the minute
At a glance
- Notta starts cheaper, at $8.17.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Grain | Notta | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $15 | From $8.17 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Not stated |
Grain
Notes and clips from calls, free tier included
Grain records and transcribes meetings, writes notes and lets a moment be clipped out and shared without anybody rewatching the recording. Its free plan carries unlimited meetings and unlimited notetaker seats, capped at forty-five minutes each and thirty days of history, which is a real working tier rather than a demo. Paying removes both limits and adds custom prompts. The conversational intelligence in the higher tiers is aimed at sales teams and does nothing for a solo creator.
Our note
The 45-minute limit rather than the seat count is what decides whether the free plan works, so check your typical call length before anything else. Against tl;dv, Grain gives away seats and caps duration while tl;dv gives away duration and caps the AI, which makes the choice a question about your calls rather than about the products.
Notta
Transcription and AI summaries by the minute
Notta records or ingests audio, transcribes it in over a hundred languages, and produces a summary with action items attached. Bilingual transcription and translation are what it is picked for over the English-first tools. The free tier's 120 minutes a month is one long interview, and everything above that is measured in minutes rather than in files.
Why people weigh these two
- Notta instead of Grain
- Notta charges for transcription and summaries by the minute from $8 with a free tier, cheaper when calls are occasional.
- Grain instead of Notta
- Grain turns a call straight into notes and shareable clips, aimed at meeting recordings rather than the bilingual interview transcripts Notta specializes in.
Which one should you pick
Pick Grain if your team wants everybody recording without a per-seat bill, and your calls mostly run under forty-five minutes. The free plan is unlimited on meetings and seats, so the only number to check is call length, and clipping a moment out to share is what the listing calls the actual point of the product.
Pick Notta if you work across two languages or need a handful of long recordings transcribed each month rather than a team recording constantly. Free covers 120 minutes, one long interview, and Pro at $8.17 a month billed annually is cheaper than Grain's Starter seat price, but everything counts against the same minute pool, so a busy month of interviews can use it up fast.
Common questions
- What is the real difference in how these two free plans are limited?
- Grain caps each individual call at 45 minutes but allows unlimited meetings and unlimited seats. Notta caps total minutes across everything in a month, 120 minutes free, regardless of how many recordings that covers or how many people use the account.
- Which is cheaper once you are paying?
- Notta's Pro plan is $8.17 a month billed annually, against Grain's Starter at $15 a seat a month billed annually. Grain's price is per seat, so a team of several people multiplies that gap quickly in Notta's favour on price alone.
- Does Grain handle more than one language the way Notta does?
- Notta's listing highlights bilingual transcription and translation from one recording as a specific reason to pick it over English-first tools. Grain's listing does not describe a comparable bilingual feature.
- Which is better for a team where everybody joins calls?
- Grain: unlimited notetaker seats are free, so the whole team can record without a per-seat bill until duration or history becomes the limit. Notta's minutes are shared across the whole account, so more people using it draws down the same monthly pool faster.
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