Zoom AI Companion vs Granola
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Zoom AI Companion
Zoom's meeting AI — split 2026 into free Zoom AI + paid ZoomMate
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Granola
Meeting notes that you actually want to read
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.5 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Ease of use | — | |
| ASEAN readiness | — | |
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| Pricing | Subscription | Freemium |
| Free tier | Core Zoom AI (summaries, smart recording, chat drafting) included with paid Workplace plans | Basic plan (free) — capped at 25 lifetime meeting notes, 14 days of visible history, no integrations |
| Paid from | ZoomMate add-on from $20/user/mo; Workplace with AI from $14.16/user/mo | $14/user/month (Business plan); Enterprise at $35/user/month |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | 4M+ accounts enabled (57% of Fortune 500) | — |
| Founded | 2011 | 2023 |
| Maker | Eric Yuan | — |
| Verdict | Zoom spent 2026 renaming its AI, and the split is the thing to understand. The core features people actually use — meeting summaries, smart recording highlights, transcription in 30+ languages, chat drafting — are now ju... |
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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