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AI Voice & Speech Comparison

Granola vs. Rev

At a glance

At a glance

Granola

Best for

Best for laptop-first teams in back-to-back external calls who want structured notes without a recording bot in the room.

  • Freelancers
  • Small and mid-sized
  • Enterprise

Rev

Best for

Best for teams who need a transcript accurate enough to be relied on in court or in the record, with a human pass available on top of the machine one.

  • Freelancers
  • Small and mid-sized
  • Enterprise

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Full Comparison

Criterion Granola Rev
Starting price lower value Free tier, then $14 / user / month Business is $14 per user per month and Enterprise $35. The free Basic plan takes unlimited notes but limits how far back the history reaches. Free tier, then from $25.49 / seat / month The $25.49 Essentials rate is billed annually at $305.90 a year; paid monthly it is $29.99. Pro is $47.99 billed annually or $59.99 monthly. Human services are bought separately by the minute or page and are pooled across seats at account level. The Rev AI developer platform is billed per hour of audio instead, from $0.10 an hour on Reverb Turbo.
Free trial Free Basic plan with AI meeting notes, AI chat, shared folders and custom templates Free plan with 45 AI transcription and caption minutes a month, plus free Rev AI credits worth 5 hours of Reverb transcription
Output Transcripts and structured meeting notes with summaries and action items Transcripts, captions, subtitles and case documents
API Yes, on Business and Enterprise, alongside an MCP server Yes, Rev AI for asynchronous and streaming speech-to-text, plus a human transcription API
Hosting Cloud, with desktop apps for macOS and Windows, iOS and Android apps and Apple Watch support Cloud or on-premises for the Rev AI platform
Voice cloning No, Granola transcribes and summarises speech and does not synthesise or clone voices No, Rev works only on incoming speech and does not synthesise or clone voices
Real-time use Yes, it transcribes the computer's own audio live during a call without joining as a bot, and on mobile it captures in-person meetings and phone calls Yes, a streaming speech-to-text API for live audio alongside asynchronous transcription of recorded files; human services are turnaround-based rather than real-time
Languages Multi-language support, included from the free Basic plan upwards 57+ languages for speech-to-text through Rev AI, 37+ on the Pro subscription and English only on the free plan; human captions cover English and Spanish, and human subtitles 17 languages
Speech-to-speech and dubbing No dubbing or speech-to-speech translation No dubbing or synthesised speech. Translation is text-only, at $0.002 to $0.025 per minute through the API depending on standard or premium, plus human subtitles at $6.49 to $15.99 a minute
Editing and controls Customisable note templates, shorthand typed during the call expanded against the transcript, AI chat across the whole meeting history, shared folders and search Transcript editor with clipping, multi-file evidence analysis with citations, image analysis, a document editor exporting to Word and PDF, AI templates for chronologies and affidavits, and API-side custom vocabulary, forced alignment with word-level timestamps, topic extraction and sentiment analysis
Consent and trust Opt-out of model training on every plan, with an org-wide opt-out, SSO, admin controls over sharing and API use, usage analytics, org-wide auto-deletion and an org-wide usage notification on Enterprise SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR and PCI compliant with data encrypted at rest and in transit, a stated 99.99% uptime, and on-premises deployment for the API; the Unlimited subscription adds HIPAA and CJIS compliance, SSO and a dedicated specialist
MCP-ready stated Yes No
Deployment Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based more entries Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise
Onboarding Not stated Documentation and knowledge base
Company size Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
Integrations more entries Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Attio, Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Affinity, Zapier Clio

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The short version

Key Differences

  • Starting price Granola Free tier, then $14 / user / month Rev Free tier, then from $25.49 / seat / month
  • Free trial Granola Free Basic plan with AI meeting notes, AI chat, shared folders and custom templates Rev Free plan with 45 AI transcription and caption minutes a month, plus free Rev AI credits worth 5 hours of Reverb transcription
  • Deployment Granola Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based Rev Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise
  • Hosting Granola Cloud, with desktop apps for macOS and Windows, iOS and Android apps and Apple Watch support Rev Cloud or on-premises for the Rev AI platform
  • MCP-ready Granola Yes Rev No

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

Granola

Strengths

  • No bot joins the call, so nothing appears in the attendee list
  • Expands shorthand typed during the meeting instead of replacing note-taking
  • AI chat runs across the whole meeting history, not a single transcript
  • Opt-out of model training on every plan, including the free one
  • MCP server and API on Business, so meeting context reaches other AI tools

Limitations

  • Capture depends on a machine being in the meeting, since it records local computer audio
  • The free plan limits how far meeting history reaches back
  • Integrations, API and MCP start on the Business plan

Rev

Strengths

  • Human transcription at a stated 99%+ accuracy alongside the machine tier
  • Developer API priced per hour of audio, from $0.10 on Reverb Turbo
  • Runs on-premises as well as in the cloud on the API side
  • Free credits worth 5 hours of transcription, with no card required

Limitations

  • Speech-to-text only, no text-to-speech, dubbing or voice cloning
  • The subscription is built around legal and investigative work, which is dead weight for other uses
  • The free plan covers 45 minutes a month and English only
  • Human services are charged on top of the subscription rather than included

Plans

Pricing

Granola

  • Basic $0 Per user per month. AI meeting notes, limited meeting history, AI chat, shared folders, customised templates, multi-language support and opt-out of model training.
  • Business $14 Per user per month. Adds unlimited meeting notes and history, advanced AI thinking models, integrations with Attio, Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Affinity and Zapier, centralised billing, MCP integration and API access.
  • Enterprise $35 Per user per month. Adds enterprise security and admin controls, SSO, priority support, usage analytics, org-wide auto-deletion, admin control over sharing and API, a team-wide model training opt-out and an org-wide usage notification.
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Rev

  • Free $0 45 AI transcription and caption minutes a month, English only, up to 5 files analysed at once, document editor and mobile app.
  • Essentials $25.49 Per seat per month billed annually at $305.90, or $29.99 billed monthly. Up to 3 seats, 5,000 AI minutes per seat per month in English and Spanish, up to 10 files analysed and 10% off human services.
  • Pro $47.99 Per seat per month billed annually at $575.88, or $59.99 billed monthly. Up to 5 seats, 10,000 AI minutes per seat per month across 37+ languages, up to 50 files analysed, image analysis, Clio integration and 15% off human services.
  • Unlimited Not stated Custom pricing. Unlimited seats and AI minutes, up to 500 files analysed, HIPAA and CJIS compliance, SSO and a dedicated specialist.
  • Rev AI pay-as-you-go $0.10 Per hour of audio on Reverb Turbo; Reverb is $0.20 an hour and foreign-language transcription $0.30 an hour across 56+ languages. Whisper Fusion and Large are $0.005 a minute. Human transcription through the API is $1.99 a minute. Insights are priced separately: language identification and forced alignment $0.003 a minute, topic extraction and sentiment analysis $0.0008 per 10 words, translation $0.002 to $0.025 a minute. Free credits equivalent to 5 hours of Reverb transcription to start.
  • Human services From $1.99 Per minute for human transcription and for human captions, with up to 15% off on a subscription. Legal rough drafts are $2.25 a page and legal premium transcripts $2.50 a page. Global subtitles run $6.49 to $15.99 a minute depending on the language, across 17 languages.
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What users say

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Granola

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Rev

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Where this comes from

Where this comes from

Granola https://www.granola.ai · checked against the official source on 2026-09-15

Rev https://www.rev.com · checked against the official source on 2026-09-04

This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.