Grain pricing starts at $19 per seat per month for the Starter plan, which includes a 14-day free trial. Business and Enterprise tiers require contacting sales for custom per-seat quotes.
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Grain uses a seat-based pricing model that begins at $19 per user, per month for the Starter tier. This entry-level plan is designed for individual users or small teams and offers a 14-day free trial to validate the tool's utility before a full commitment.
For larger organizations, Grain offers Business and Enterprise tiers. These plans move to a custom pricing model based on team size and specific requirements, such as advanced security and SAML authentication for Enterprise users.
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grain — Starter | $19 | per seat / month | Billed annually; includes unlimited meetings and recordings; 30-day money back guarantee. |
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| Plan | 10 users / mo | 25 users / mo | 50 users / mo | 100 users / mo | 250 users / mo | 100 users / year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grain — Starter | $190 | $475 | $950 | $1,900 | $4,750 | $22,800 |
| Plan | Price / seat / month | Hours to break even at $50/h | Hours to break even at $75/h | Hours to break even at $100/h |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grain — Starter | $19 | 0.4 h | 0.3 h | 0.2 h |
Break-even hours = seat price ÷ loaded hourly cost. Each seat pays for itself once it saves that much verified time per month.
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Operating costs for Grain scale linearly on the Starter plan, reaching $1,900 per month for a 100-user deployment. IT and Operations leaders managing larger groups generally move to the Business or Enterprise tiers to access centralized billing and security features. These higher tiers require a demo and a custom quote from their sales team.
The financial barrier to entry for Grain is low compared to typical professional labor costs. On the Starter plan, a seat pays for itself if it saves a user just 12 to 24 minutes of work per month, depending on their hourly rate. This low threshold makes it easier to justify the spend if the tool eliminates even a fraction of manual meeting documentation tasks.
Measuring the return on Grain requires moving past anecdotal feedback to hard time-saved data. By comparing the time spent on manual meeting follow-ups against Grain's automated output, you can calculate the net return on each $19 seat. NetLift integrates these time-savings metrics with your actual loaded labor costs to verify if your team is exceeding the 0.2 to 0.4-hour monthly break-even threshold.
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Paige Gilmore is the founder of NetLift, the AI Value Management platform that helps organisations measure the cost, savings and return of AI adoption.
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