Grain review 83/100 on verified data

Grain is a short-form video clipper: AI meeting notetaker that records and transcribes calls, produces summaries and action items, and shares them with teammates and AI tools.

Data checked Oct 14, 2026 against the vendors' own pages. How we verify

Grain homepage (screenshot)
Homepage captured Oct 14, 2026
Score (rank 8 of 37)
83/100
Coverage (5 of 8 criteria)
75%
Free plan
Yes

There is a free plan.

Grain has a public API.

In our short-form video clippers ranking Grain scores 83/100, rank 8 of 37, based on 5 of 8 criteria (75% of the scorecard weight backed by verified data).

Grain at a glance

Each value links the vendor page it was read from and the date we checked it.
Pricing model
Free source, Oct 14, 2026
Public API
Yes source, Oct 14, 2026
Data export
Enriched transcripts as Markdown, bulk download source, Oct 14, 2026

Grain plans

1 published plan, per month, billed monthly and yearly.
  • Free

    Free

    Billed monthly
    Free
    Billed yearly
    Free
    Charged per
    per user

    Published limits

    None stated

Prices in USD per month, before tax. Read from the vendor's pricing page on Oct 14, 2026. "Not stated" means the page does not publish it.

Full Grain pricing and plan limits

How Grain scores

The short-form video clippers scorecard applied to Grain's verified data: 83/100, rank 8 of 37, based on 5 of 8 criteria.

Score

83/100

Rank #8 of 37

Coverage 75%

5 of 8 criteria. Ranked at 60% or more.

  1. Entry price

    100/100

    Weight 33%Free: the pricing page lists no paid plan source

  2. Free plan or trial

    100/100

    Weight 20%Free plan (Free) source

  3. Pricing transparency

    87/100

    Weight 13%1 of 1 plans have a public price source

  4. Verified features

    25/100

    Weight 20%1 of 8 tracked features verified: team access source

  5. API, integrations and export

    100/100

    Weight 13%public API, documented data export source

  6. Platform coveragecategory criterion

    Excluded

    Weight –No published data: left out, the other criteria are re-weighted.

  7. Storagecategory criterion

    Excluded

    Weight –No published data: left out, the other criteria are re-weighted.

  8. Cost per user (team of 3)category criterion

    Excluded

    Weight –No published data: left out, the other criteria are re-weighted.

Grain features

1 of the 9 features we compare short-form video clippers on, as Grain publishes them.
Team access
Yes source, Oct 14, 2026

9 more details we track are not published by the vendor or not verified yet (shown as – in tables). How we verify

Grain alternatives

The highest-scoring of 39 comparable tools.
Top Grain alternatives
#ToolScoreCoverageFrom, billed monthlyFrom, billed yearlyFree planPlatformsChecked
1Vizard98/10075%5 of 8 criteriaFreeFreeYes, 60 credits per month–Oct 14, 2026
2AutoVOD97/10065%4 of 8 criteria$7.99/moNot offeredYes, 20 credits per month2Oct 14, 2026
3Subscut96/10075%5 of 8 criteria$9/mo$7.50/moYes–Oct 14, 2026
42short.ai95/10075%5 of 8 criteria$9.90/moNot offeredYes1Oct 14, 2026
5captionrich94/10065%4 of 8 criteriaNot offered$6/moYes–Oct 14, 2026

Each value links the vendor page it was read from (hover for the check date). Coverage is the share of the scorecard's weight with verified data, and "N of M criteria" how many criteria the score is based on; a tool is ranked at 60% or more.

All 39 Grain alternatives, ranked

More ways to weigh up Grain

Competitors, cheaper and open-source options, computed from the same verified data as this page.

Questions, answered from the data

Does Grain have a free plan?

Yes: Grain has a free plan (checked Oct 14, 2026).

Does Grain have an API?

Yes, a public API is documented (checked Oct 14, 2026).

How does Grain score?

In our short-form video clippers ranking Grain scores 83/100, rank 8 of 37, based on 5 of 8 criteria (75% of the scorecard weight backed by verified data).

What are the best Grain alternatives?

By our scorecard the top-ranked alternatives are Vizard (98/100), AutoVOD (97/100) and Subscut (96/100).

Pricing last read Oct 14, 2026. Vendors change prices; the linked page is the final word.