2 categories · RankedGrain
Grain is an AI notetaker for meetings, built for growing teams · grain.com ↗
Why models recommend it
“Start with Fireflies.ai or Grain — both offer free tiers to test, then affordable paid plans”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Grain delivers lightweight conversation intelligence by capturing customer meetings, auto-summarizing transcripts”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Comparative question · alternative
“Tightest budget / conversation capture + basic intelligence: Grain $15/user/mo or Trumpet free → Pro £29/mo”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Choose Grain if you only need meeting notes and transcripts.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Grain, over the 42 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 19 | View → | |
| 30 | 4 | View → | |
| 25 | 3 | View → | |
| 22 | 2 | View → | |
| 21 | 1 | View → | |
| 18 | 8 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Grain's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- any team that relies on meetings, especially small to mid-market and enterprise sales, customer success, and product teams
- Price stated
- Grain offers a free plan with unlimited meetings for teams. Paid plans start at $15/month per user for unlimited meetings, advanced AI, conversational intelligence, and additional features.
- Starting price
- 15/month per user
- Free plan or trial
- free plan with unlimited meetings; free forever; 14-day free trial
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, GDPR
- Hosting
- USA
- Customers named
- User Interviews, neo.tax, Tango, Reforge, Arrows, Apply, Podium, Endgame
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 41 of the 42 answers that named Grain and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
137 of the 137 domain citations in answers naming Grain came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 139 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 5 | 0 | 2024-08-17 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 2 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | undated |
Most recent
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page grain.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.