
Littlebird has seven plans. Basic is free with full context from day one. Plus is $17 per month billed annually ($204 per year up front) or $20 per month billed monthly, with a 14-day free trial. Power is $42.50 per month with an annual subscription ($510 up front) or $50 per month billed monthly. Pro starts from $100 per month. Team starts from $17 per month per seat, Enterprise is custom, and enrolled students get Plus for $15 per month with the first two months free. Against the meeting tools people compare it with, Plus costs a few dollars more a month than Granola Business and about double Otter Pro, and the comparison below shows what the difference buys.
Plans run from $0 to from $100 per month. Basic is free. Plus is $17 per month billed annually or $20 billed monthly. Power is $42.50 per month with an annual subscription or $50 billed monthly. Pro starts from $100 per month. Team starts from $17 per month per seat, and Enterprise is custom.
Yes. Littlebird Basic is a free plan, not a trial: it costs $0 for as long as you use it, and it includes full context from day one, so the app pays attention to your screen and meetings on the free plan exactly as it does on the paid ones. Basic includes limited daily chats, limited active routines, limited meeting notes, meeting notes in more than 30 languages, web search, mobile chat, connect calendar and email, cross-app search, and community support. The paid tiers raise the limits and add intelligence; they do not switch the memory on.
What "limited" means in practice: every plan comes with a usage pool, shown as a single usage bar in Settings > Usage with a reset date, and on Basic the limits you'll feel first are the daily chats and the capped meeting notes. That is the moment to look at Plus, which is the other free thing on the pricing page: a 14-day free trial of the paid tier. Free plan means Basic, with no end date. Free trial means Plus, for two weeks.
Yes. Actively enrolled students get Plus for $15 per month, with the first two months free. Plus normally costs $17 per month billed annually or $20 per month billed monthly, so the student rate is a discount on the monthly price with two free months on top, and it includes everything in Plus: advanced intelligence in chat, unlimited meeting notes, and more daily chats and routines. Apply with a .edu email at littlebird.ai/littlebird-for-students; the details are in our student plan guide.
Side by side, Littlebird Plus at $17 per month billed annually costs more than Granola Business at $14 per user per month and Otter Pro at $8.33 per user per month billed annually, and about the same as Fathom Premium at $16 per user per month billed annually, per their pricing pages read on October 6, 2026 (Fathom on September 23, 2026). If the question is what AI meeting note takers cost in general: the free plans are real on all four, and the paid plan for one person runs from $8.33 to $17 per month billed annually across these four, per the same pricing pages in October 2026. The difference is what the money buys. Granola, Otter, and Fathom are meeting tools, so the paid plan lifts limits on meeting notes. Littlebird is an assistant with a memory of your whole workday, and meeting notes are one of the things it does, so the paid plan lifts limits on chats, routines, and meeting notes together.
Pick the other tool when the meeting is the whole job. Granola, if you want a focused, bot-free meeting notetaker with customizable templates and notes shaped by what you jot. Otter, if you want a focused meeting and transcription tool with team and collaboration features, and you don't mind it joining the call as a visible participant. Fathom, if you want fast summaries with CRM sync for sales and a generous free plan. Pick Littlebird when the meeting is one part of a day you also want remembered: it's bot-free too, and it connects the call to the doc, the thread, and the ticket you were working in, then lets you ask about any of it later. Every one of the four has a free plan, so the comparison you can actually run is free against free, on your own week.
Start on Basic, seriously. It is free and includes the thing that makes Littlebird worth judging: full context from day one, because the ambient capture works on every plan. The limits you will feel first are the daily chats and the capped meeting notes. When you hit them in a normal week, that is your signal for Plus, and the two-week trial makes the upgrade reversible.
Pro starts from $100 per month and exists for people whose usage outgrows Power: you pick 5x or 12x the usage credits of Plus, and you get everything in Power plus early access to new features. Power sits between Plus and Pro at $42.50 per month with an annual subscription, so if you outgrow Plus the next step is Power, not Pro. The honest advice is to exhaust Plus first and let your actual limits, not ambition, justify each jump.
The one detail people miss: the $17 Plus rate is the annual price, which bills $204 up front for the year. Month-to-month is $20. Both are real prices; just know which one you are clicking. Prices here were verified against littlebird.ai/pricing on October 6, 2026, and the live pricing page is the final word if the two ever disagree.
Yes. Basic is free with full context from day one, limited daily chats, limited active routines, limited meeting notes, and meeting notes in more than 30 languages.
Yes, on Plus: 14 days. Basic is different: it is a free plan with no end date, with full context from day one and limited daily chats, routines, and meeting notes.
Yes. Plus is $15 per month for actively enrolled students, first two months free. Apply with a .edu email at littlebird.ai/littlebird-for-students.
Yes. Full context from day one is a Basic feature. The paid tiers raise limits and intelligence; they do not switch the memory on.
Per month, yes: Plus is $17 billed annually, against Granola Business at $14 per user per month and Otter Pro at $8.33 per user per month billed annually, per their pricing pages on October 6, 2026. The price buys a different thing. Those are meeting tools; Littlebird is an assistant with a memory of your whole workday, with meeting notes included. All three have free plans, so try free against free first.
Try the free plan and let your own limits make the case.
Basic costs nothing and keeps full context from day one, and Plus has a two-week trial. See current pricing.
All Littlebird prices from our maintained internal fact base, verified against littlebird.ai/pricing on October 6, 2026. Granola, Otter, and Fathom prices from their own pricing pages, read on the dates shown in the comparison table.