Claap vs Grain
We give Claap a 2.4 GPA and Grain a 2.6, out of 4.0. Claap grades higher on platforms. Grain grades higher on value for money and ease of use. They get the same grade on the free plan and features.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Claap
Records sales calls and turns them into notes, CRM fields and scores
Grain
AI notetaker with free viewer seats and shareable call clips
How we grade them
| 2.4GPAClaapFair | 2.6GPAGrainGood | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | DPro is $32 a licence a month billed yearly, $40 monthly, well past where this category's dearest tenth starts. And the bits in its own tagline, CRM auto-complete and coaching, need Business at $60, booked through a sales demo. People who only watch get free Basic seats, which helps a bit. | CStarter is $15 a seat a month on the yearly plan, $19 monthly, the dear end of a category starting near $10, and HubSpot, Salesforce and coaching need Business at $29. In its favour, only the people who record pay and viewers are free. |
| Free plan and trial | CBasic is free, but it's a taster: 10 recordings per user and 300 minutes in total, not per month, kept for 3 months. That's five hour-long calls and you're through it. | CUnlimited meetings with AI notes, action items and bot-free desktop capture, but every meeting is cut off at 45 minutes and only 30 days of history is kept. One ordinary hour-long call and you've met the ceiling. |
| Features | BIt covers the job: Zoom, Meet and Teams recorded with or without a bot, meetings in the room on your phone even when it's locked or offline, summaries, transcripts in 99+ languages, and on Business CRM fields filled in and reps scored. There's an MCP server for Claude too. | BIt covers the job: Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex and Slack huddles with a bot or without one, notes and next steps, answers across your whole library with citations back to the recording, clips and highlight reels, and an MCP server and API. Fathom does clips and playlists too. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record, and there's setting up to do: sync a calendar so recording starts by itself, pick bot or no bot, and on Business map your CRM fields and write the coaching framework. Business itself starts with a sales demo. | BNo rating on record, but nothing to set up: each meeting gets its summary, next steps and recap without you asking for them. |
| Platforms and integrations | AWeb, a Mac recorder, iPhone, Android and a Chrome extension, hooked into Zoom, Meet, Teams, Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Notion and Claude. Windows people get the extension or the bot rather than a desktop app, and the API is Enterprise only. | BWeb, Mac and Windows, with Slack, Zapier, Aircall, an API and an MCP server, and HubSpot and Salesforce on Business. No iPhone or Android app: the download page offers Mac and Windows only. |
| Best for | sales teams that want call notes in the CRM | sharing clips of calls across a team |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Claap and Grain. How we grade
Price against what you get
Claap starts at $32 a month for each person and scores 3.0 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Grain starts at $15 a month for each person and scores 3.0.
They score the same, and Grain starts $17 a month lower. Of the other AI meeting note takers on the chart, 18 score higher than Claap for less, and 15 score higher than Grain for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Claap starts at $32 per license / month, billed yearly ($40 billed monthly). Grain starts at $15 per seat / month, billed annually.
- Only Claap lists iOS and Android apps.
- Only Claap lists a browser extension.
- Only Grain lists a Windows app.
- Claap also covers screen recording and video editing.
- Grain also covers chat assistant and templates.
At a glance
| Claap | Grain | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $32 per license / month, billed yearly ($40 billed monthly) | $15 per seat / month, billed annually |
| Free plan | Basic license: 10 recordings per user, 300 minutes of recording and transcription in total, 3 uploads, basic AI summaries and 3 months of storage. | Unlimited meetings capped at 45 minutes each, AI notes and action items, 30-day meeting history, desktop capture and basic MCP access. |
| Free trial | Trial of Pro or Business opened by the sales team on request | 14-day free trial; paid plans also carry a 30-day money-back guarantee |
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| Made by | Claap | Grain Intelligence Inc. |
| Price read from | claap.io | grain.com |
| Checked | Oct 18, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 |
Who each one suits
Claap
- Sales teams that want call notes written into Salesforce or HubSpot
- Sales leaders scoring and coaching reps from recorded calls
- Teams recording field visits and in-person meetings on a phone
Grain
- Teams where a few people record and everyone else only views
- Sales and customer success teams syncing calls to HubSpot or Salesforce
- Sharing clips of customer calls with people who were not there
- Feeding meeting transcripts to Claude, ChatGPT or other AI agents
Worth knowing
Claap
- Basic is capped at 10 recordings per user and 300 minutes in total, with recordings kept for 3 months.
- Pro allows 1,000 minutes a month per license; CRM sync, AI coaching and AI across all meetings need Business, which is booked through sales.
- The desktop recorder is listed for macOS only; on Windows, recording goes through the Chrome extension or the bot.
- SSO, SCIM provisioning and the Claap API are only on the custom-priced Enterprise plan.
Grain
- The Free plan cuts each meeting off at 45 minutes, keeps 30 days of history and has no file uploads.
- HubSpot and Salesforce integrations, AI coaching and trackers need Business at $29 per seat a month on annual billing.
- Starter allows 10 file uploads a month, and SAML single sign-on is limited to Enterprise.
- Grain's download page offers desktop apps for Mac and Windows only.
Key features
Claap
- Recording with or without a bot
- The Mac app and Chrome extension record Zoom, Meet and Teams calls in the background, or a visible bot can join; calendar sync starts recording on its own.
- In-person meetings on mobile
- The iOS and Android app records meetings in the room, keeps going with the phone locked or offline, and shares the recap from the phone.
- AI summaries and transcripts
- Basic AI summaries on every plan; Pro adds summary templates, custom prompts, chapters, subtitles and transcript search and editing, and Business adds translation.
- CRM auto-complete
- On Business, fields such as next steps and blockers are written back to Salesforce or HubSpot from what was said on calls and in emails.
- Coaching and scoring
- Business scores every rep on every call against your own framework, with deal insights and Smart Tables for reporting.
- ClaapAgent and MCP
- Ask questions about one meeting on Pro or all meetings on Business, and connect Claude or your own agents to the conversations through Claap's MCP server.
Grain
- Bot or bot-free capture
- The desktop app for Mac and Windows transcribes the computer's audio with no bot in the call. A bot can join instead to record video, including meetings you cannot attend.
- AI notes and action items
- Each meeting gets a summary, next steps and an automatic recap. Custom AI prompts and custom note templates are available from the Starter plan.
- Ask across meetings
- Ask questions over the whole meeting library and get answers with citations that point back to the source recordings.
- Clips and highlight reels
- Cut shareable video clips from a recording, group them into playlists or highlight reels, and share them with teammates or clients.
- MCP server and API
- AI agents can query transcripts and search across meetings. Transcripts export as Markdown or open in Claude or ChatGPT. Workspace API and advanced MCP access need Business.
- Coaching and CRM sync
- The Business plan adds HubSpot and Salesforce integrations, AI coaching, trackers and team interaction metrics for sales and customer success teams.
Plans
Claap
Basic$0
For contributors: 10 recordings per user and 300 minutes in total, basic AI summaries, the Chrome recorder and Claap MCP. Up to 5 Basic licenses.
Pro$32
per license / month, billed yearly ($40 billed monthly)
Unlimited recordings, 1,000 minutes and 500 AI credits a month, transcripts in 99+ languages, the Mac recorder, AI video editing and 2-year storage.
Business$60
per license / month, billed yearly ($75 billed monthly)
Booked through a sales demo. Unlimited recording time, 1,000 AI credits, CRM auto-complete, AI coaching, deal insights and AI across all meetings.
EnterpriseCustom
Everything in Business, plus SSO, SCIM provisioning, the Claap API, unlimited Basic licenses, unlimited storage and migration support.
Grain
Free$0
Unlimited meetings with a 45-minute limit, AI notes and action items, 30-day meeting history, desktop capture and unlimited notetaker seats.
Starter$15
per seat / month, billed annually ($19 billed monthly)
Unlimited meeting duration and history, custom AI prompts, admin controls, teams, Slack, personal Zapier and API access, and 10 file uploads a month.
Business$29
per seat / month, billed annually ($39 billed monthly)
Adds HubSpot and Salesforce integrations, AI coaching, trackers, team interaction metrics, custom AI follow-up emails, unlimited uploads and a workspace API.
EnterpriseCustom
Everything in Business, plus SAML-based single sign-on, priority API support, custom invoices and a dedicated customer success manager.
Ways to pay less
Claap
- Annual discount
Save 20% with yearly billing
Yearly billing lowers Pro from $40 to $32 per license a month and Business from $75 to $60.
Grain
- Annual discount
Lower per-seat price on annual billing
At listed prices Starter costs $180 a year ($15 a month) instead of $19 a month, and Business $348 a year ($29 a month) instead of $39 a month, per seat.
