Granola vs Agnes AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Granola
Meeting notes that you actually want to read
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Agnes AI
SEA-built AI workspace with its own 8B open-source SeaLLM model
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 7.1 / 10 |
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| 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 | 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... |
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... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.