Granola vs Microsoft Teams Copilot
Both scored against the same 13 criteria, from the same hands-on testing. Here is where each one actually wins.
Last updated September 2026 · 28 tools ranked
Microsoft Teams Copilot rates higher overall, 3.9 out of 5 against Granola's 3.4, across our 13 weighted criteria. Microsoft Teams Copilot leads on data retention & training transparency, real-time / live capability, recording consent & compliance. Granola still wins on price alone.
Granola
#18 of 28The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings
- Pricing
- Free tier available; paid from $14/mo
- Platforms
- macOS, Windows, iOS, Android
Microsoft Teams Copilot
#3 of 28Microsoft's native, agentic meeting AI built into Teams for the Microsoft 365 stack
- Pricing
- No free tier; from $30/user/mo
- Platforms
- Web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android
All 13 Criteria, Side by Side
| Criterion | Weight | Granola | Microsoft Teams Copilot | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privacy & Data Security | High | 3 | 3 | Tie |
| Transcription Accuracy | High | 4 | 4 | Tie |
| AI Analysis Quality | High | 4 | 4 | Tie |
| Recording Consent & Compliance | Med | 3 | 4 | Microsoft Teams Copilot |
| Data Retention & Training Transparency | Med | 2 | 4 | Microsoft Teams Copilot |
| Real-Time / Live Capability | Med | 3 | 5 | Microsoft Teams Copilot |
| Recording Method | Med | 4 | 4 | Tie |
| Ease of Use | Med | 5 | 5 | Tie |
| Platform Support | Med | 4 | 5 | Microsoft Teams Copilot |
| Offline Capability | Med | 1 | 1 | Tie |
| Integration Ecosystem | Med | 4 | 4 | Tie |
| Knowledge Connection | Low | 5 | 5 | Tie |
| Pricing & Value | Low | 3 | 3 | Tie |
| Overall (weighted) | 3.4 | 3.9 | Microsoft Teams Copilot |
Overall is a weighted average, not a mean: high-weight criteria count triple and low-weight criteria count once. See the formula.
Choose Granola if…
Granola does not lead on any individual criterion in this pairing. It can still be the right call if you are already committed to its ecosystem, but on the merits the other tool is ahead across the board.
A beautifully built, bot-free notepad that has grown into an enterprise AI context platform. Capture is silent, training is on by default, and a July 2026 class action now tests whether that combination is a wiretap.
Choose Microsoft Teams Copilot if…
- → Data Retention & Training Transparency matters to you. Microsoft Teams Copilot scores 4/5 here against 2/5.
- → Real-Time / Live Capability matters to you. Microsoft Teams Copilot scores 5/5 here against 3/5.
A genuinely strong, agentic meeting assistant for Microsoft 365 shops, but it is cloud-only, locked to Teams meetings, and the real meeting AI sits behind a $30/user add-on.
Granola at a glance
Strengths
- +Beautiful native design
- +No bot required
- +Blends your notes with AI
- +AI chat across past meetings, even on free
Limitations
- −No browser-based web app
- −No true offline mode
- −Free tier capped at 25 lifetime notes
- −Trains on de-identified meeting data by default unless you opt out
Microsoft Teams Copilot at a glance
Strengths
- +Native to Teams, no external bot joins the meeting
- +Strong agentic features via the Facilitator agent: live AI notes, agenda tracking, and auto task sync to Planner
- +Deepest integration with Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Word, Planner, SharePoint, grounded in Microsoft Graph)
- +Enterprise-grade compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA with BAA, and no foundation-model training on your data
Limitations
- −Cloud-only with no offline mode
- −Works only inside Microsoft Teams meetings, not a cross-platform or in-person recorder
- −The full meeting Copilot requires the $30/user/month M365 Copilot add-on; real meeting AI is effectively not free
- −Limited native reach into non-Microsoft CRMs and task tools