Agnes AI vs Granola

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

Agnes AI SEA-built AI workspace with its own 8B open-source SeaLLM model Visit Granola Meeting notes that you actually want to read Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7.1 / 10 7.8 / 10
Capability 6.5 8
Value for money 7.5 7
Ease of use 7.5 9
ASEAN readiness 9 6
API quality 6 6
Pricing Freemium Freemium
Free tier Basic plan (free) — capped at 25 lifetime meeting notes, 14 days of visible history, no integrations
Paid from $14/user/month (Business plan); Enterprise at $35/user/month
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users
Founded 2023
Maker
Verdict

Agnes AI is the most credible homegrown case for a Southeast Asian model company right now: instead of just reselling access to OpenAI or Anthropic, Sapiens AI shipped Agnes-SeaLLM-8B, an open-weights 8B model on Hugging...

Granola stays the most polished of the bot-free notetakers: it captures system audio on your machine — nothing joins the call — and merges your typed shorthand with the transcript into notes that read like a human wrote...

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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.