Grain AI
Grain / grain.com
AI meeting recorder that captures, transcribes, and generates highlights from Zoom, Teams, and Meet calls, with one-click sharing of key moments.
Pricing
$19/mo
Free plan
Yes
Category
Productivity
Platforms
3
Free plan
Yes
API access
Yes
Open source
No
Platforms
3
What is Grain AI?
Grain is an AI meeting recorder focused on making the insights from customer conversations, sales calls, and team meetings easy to capture and share. Where tools like Otter.ai and Fathom focus on comprehensive transcription and meeting notes, Grain's distinctive approach is around capturing and sharing short highlight clips from meetings.
The highlight clip feature lets users mark specific moments during a recording for later extraction as shareable video clips. A sales manager reviewing a customer call can create a clip of the moment a customer described a key pain point and share that clip directly with the product team, providing a direct voice-of-customer artifact without requiring the recipient to watch the full recording.
AI automation in Grain can generate meeting notes, CRM updates, and coaching insights automatically after each call based on configurable templates. For sales teams using Salesforce or HubSpot, Grain can automatically populate call notes in the CRM based on what was discussed.
The coaching features, oriented toward sales and customer success teams, allow managers to review recordings, leave comments tied to specific moments, and build a library of example calls for training purposes. Sharing a 'great discovery call' recording or a 'handle this objection well' clip is easier in Grain than in a general meeting recorder.
At $19 per user per month for the Starter plan, Grain is competitively priced for sales teams who would benefit from systematic call recording and CRM automation. Individual users may find Fathom's more generous free plan sufficient.
How Grain AI works
Grain AI runs as speech-to-text software built around audio and video workflows. Users typically start with a prompt, upload, or connected data source, and the underlying model handles the heavy lifting before returning a result you can refine or export. It's available on web, ios, and android, with API access for teams that want to embed it into their own products.
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What makes it worth shortlisting
The capabilities that matter most for teams evaluating Grain AI.
Highlight clips
Extract and share specific moments from meeting recordings as short video clips without requiring recipients to watch the full recording.
CRM auto-population
Automatically generates and syncs call notes to Salesforce and HubSpot fields after each meeting.
Coaching library
Build a library of exemplary and training call recordings with timestamped comments for sales team coaching.
Best use cases
Who should use it
Pros
- Highlight clip creation enables efficient sharing of key meeting moments
- CRM auto-population saves significant manual note entry time
- Coaching library is valuable for sales team training and QA
- Strong for revenue teams who need structured call documentation
Cons
- Free plan limited compared to Fathom or Otter.ai
- Pricing is higher than simpler meeting note tools
- Consent and disclosure obligations apply in all jurisdictions
Is it worth the price?
Free plan with limited recordings and storage. Starter $19/user/month. Business $33/user/month. Enterprise custom pricing.
Model
Freemium
Starting price
$19/mo
Free trial
No
Tools like Grain AI
Fathom has a more generous free plan and strong individual user experience. Fireflies.ai is a direct competitor with similar CRM integration. Otter.ai is better for general meeting transcription. Chorus.ai (ZoomInfo) is a more comprehensive enterprise conversation intelligence platform.
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Technical & deployment info
Key facts about model providers, platforms, and team support.
Platforms
Web, iOS, Android
Deployment
SaaS
Integrations
Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Notion
Team Collaboration
Yes
Launch Year
2020
Security & privacy
Compliance signals and data-handling notes as reported by the vendor.
SOC 2 Type II certified. GDPR compliant. Enterprise includes data handling agreements and recording consent features.
Review Grain's data handling policy. Meeting recordings are stored on Grain's infrastructure. Inform meeting participants before recording. Enterprise includes data processing agreements.
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Editorial Verdict
Should you use Grain AI?
Grain is best for sales and customer success teams who need structured call documentation, CRM integration, and coaching capabilities. Individual users wanting free meeting notes should start with Fathom.
Last verified July 24, 2026.



