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Fathom vs Granola

A side-by-side of Fathom and Granola on pricing and our methodology scores, drawn from each tool's category Listings. They compete in Best AI Meeting Notes.

Our pick
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Fathom

from $15/mo

Free AI notetaker that records, transcribes, and summarizes your calls.

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The verdict

Fathom is the stronger overall pick. In the Best AI Meeting Notes ranking it scores 3.85 to Granola's 3.83 out of 5. That said, Granola wins on individual criteria below, so read the breakdown against your own priorities.

At a glance

Fathom Granola
Starting price $15/mo $14/mo
Free tier Yes Yes
Best AI Meeting Notes score 3.85 (#1) 3.83 (#2)

Head to head: Best AI Meeting Notes

scored / 5
Transcription Accuracy 25% weight
Fathom 3.5

Hands-on testing puts clean-audio accuracy around 85-90% — solid and resistant to room noise, but in line with rather than ahead of category peers, and it slips with heavy accents, jargon, and crowded multi-speaker calls.

Granola 3.5

Strong on clean one-on-one audio at around 90–95%, but transcripts ship without speaker labels and accuracy drops on three-plus-person calls and long-form interviews.

AI Summary Quality 25% weight
Fathom 4.0

Summaries land in under 30 seconds and slash post-call note work, with strong sales-methodology templates, but they run concise and prioritize what the model picks over what you might want.

Granola 4.5

Enhance Notes is the most-praised feature in the category — it elaborates on your own bullets instead of producing transcript-shaped boilerplate, and the output holds up across languages.

Integrations 20% weight
Fathom 3.5

Native Zoom, Teams, HubSpot, and Salesforce syncs are clean and CRM field sync is a real differentiator, but the catalogue is shallow next to rivals and deeper coverage leans on Zapier and the top tier.

Granola 3.5

Native Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Attio, and Affinity plus Zapier and MCP cover founder and PM workflows well; sales-team CRM automation feels light compared to Fireflies or Fathom.

Privacy and Security 15% weight
Fathom 4.0

SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and HIPAA compliant, doesn't train on user data, and offers bot-free capture; recording stays visible rather than silent, and one reviewer reported losing data to slow account-transfer support.

Granola 4.0

Device-audio capture, discarded raw audio, and SOC 2 Type 2 are real structural wins, but the model-training opt-out is per-seat below Enterprise and participants are never auto-notified that transcription is on.

Value for Money 15% weight
Fathom 4.5

The unlimited-recording free tier is widely called the best value in the category; short of a perfect score only because CRM field sync and a few power features sit behind the Business tier and there's no mobile app.

Granola 3.5

The $14/seat Business plan is fairly priced for the feature set, but the 'free tier' is closer to a 25-meeting trial than an ongoing free plan, so practical value lives on the paid tier.

Fathom

Pros

  • Free plan records and transcribes unlimited calls with no per-month cap, which is rare in this category
  • Transcription holds up well, landing around 85-90% accuracy even with background noise
  • Summaries arrive in under 30 seconds and cut post-call note cleanup from ~15 minutes to ~3
  • Sales-methodology templates (BANT, Sandler, MEDDIC) make the summaries genuinely useful for revenue teams
  • Clean native syncs to Zoom, Teams, HubSpot, and Salesforce, with CRM field sync on the Business tier
  • Offers a bot-free capture mode and doesn't train AI models on your data

Cons

  • Summaries run concise and surface what the model thinks matters, which feels thin if you need detailed notes
  • Native integration catalogue is shallow (~30) next to rivals' 200+, so deeper plumbing leans on Zapier
  • Accuracy drops with heavy accents, technical jargon, and crowded multi-speaker calls
  • No mobile app, so in-person meetings are a gap
  • CRM field sync is locked behind the Business tier

Granola

Pros

  • Bot-free capture keeps recruiting, fundraising, and customer calls candid
  • Enhance Notes elaborates on what you actually typed instead of dumping a transcript
  • Transcription holds 90–95% on clean one-on-one audio in independent tests
  • Summary quality holds up in non-English meetings
  • Native Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Attio, and Affinity covers the standard founder stack

Cons

  • Transcripts have no speaker labels, so three-plus-person calls get muddled
  • Free tier is effectively a 25-meeting trial, not an ongoing free plan
  • Model-training opt-out is per-seat unless you pay for Enterprise
  • No Android app — phone-side workflows are iPhone only
  • Long-form interview accuracy is uneven on accents and proper names

FAQ

Is Fathom or Granola better?
Fathom edges ahead in our scoring. In the Best AI Meeting Notes ranking Fathom scores 3.85 and Granola scores 3.83 out of 5. Granola still wins on specific criteria, so the right pick depends on what you weight most.
Is Fathom cheaper than Granola?
Granola has the lower entry price: Fathom starts at $15/mo and Granola starts at $14/mo.
What is the difference between Fathom and Granola?
Fathom is positioned as Free AI notetaker that records, transcribes, and summarizes your calls. Granola is positioned as AI meeting notes that work without a bot, built for founders and PMs. They go head to head in Best AI Meeting Notes.
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