Grain vs tl;dv

Price, free plan and alternatives, side by side

The comparison in short

Cheapest per year

Grain

$180/yr

17% less than tl;dv

Who has a free plan
  • Grainhas a free plan
  • tl;dvhas a free plan
Easiest to rebuild

Grain, tl;dv

With trade-offs

On price, Grain wins.

Side-by-side comparison

APPLICATIONGrainMeeting notestl;dvMeeting notes
Monthly billing$19/moStarter$18/moPro
Per year$180/yrannual plan · −21%$216/yr
Billing modelPer personPer person
Free tier1 Notetaker seat per workspace; recordings are unlimited but capped at 45 minutes each; personal-email accounts can record 20 meetings before upgrade; unlimited viewers.Unlimited recordings, transcripts, and storage; numeric caps for advanced AI features were not exposed in the crawlable live pricing application.
Additional costsEvery recording user needs a paid seat and all paid seats in one workspace must be on the same tier. After downgrade, meetings owned by users beyond the single free Notetaker can be deleted after 30 days.The live pricing application is dynamic, and separate official 2026 tl;dv pages conflict on the Business annual figure; that field is intentionally null rather than choosing one.
Can you rebuild it?With trade-offsmulti-dayWith trade-offsmulti-day
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Checked on10/20/202610/20/2026
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