Loom vs Notion
No clear leader: Loom (79.4) and Notion (78.2) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Features
The capabilities each product documents. These tools do not share a category taxonomy, so this aligns what each vendor states rather than a normalised feature set.
| Feature | Loom | Notion |
|---|---|---|
| Ai assistant | - | ✓ |
| Ai global search and synthesis | - | ✓ |
| Api access | ✓ | ✓ |
| Block based rich text editor | - | ✓ |
| Compliance controls | ✓ | - |
| Databases tables | - | ✓ |
| Deployment model | - | cloud_managed_saas |
| Free tier | ✓ | ✓ |
| Guest external access | ✓ | - |
| Hierarchical nested page trees | - | ✓ |
| Hosting | cloud | cloud |
| Iso 27001 | - | ✓ |
| Jira github engineering embeds | - | ✓ |
| Local first | - | ✗ |
| Markdown native | - | ✓ |
| Messaging | ✓ | - |
| Page version history and diffing | - | ✓ |
| Permissions granularity | - | page |
| Pricing model | - | freemium |
| Public publishing | - | ✓ |
| Real time coediting | - | ✓ |
| Real time multiplayer collaboration | - | ✓ |
| Real time multiplayer editing | - | ✓ |
| Recording transcription | recording_ai_notes | - |
| Rich markdown slash commands | - | ✓ |
| Screen sharing | ✓ | - |
| Soc2 type ii | - | ✓ |
| Sso scim | ✓ | ✓ |
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Loom
A desktop application for recording screen videos with speaker notes and mouse click highlighting.
Notion
Cloud workspace that combines documents, databases, and tasks with AI-powered features and background automation through Workers and Custom Agents.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Loom
From $18/user/month. Free tier available. 14-day free trial for Business plan.
- FreeFree
- 25 videos per person
- 5 minute screen recordings
- Unlimited screenshots
- Video quality up to 720p
- Screen and camera recording
- +5 more
- Starter$18/user/month
- Unlimited videos
- Unlimited recording time
- Upload and download videos
- Transcriptions and closed captions
- Custom recording dimensions
- +8 more
- Business$24/user/month with AI features
- Unlimited videos
- Unlimited recording time
- Auto-video enhancement
- Video-to-text automation
- AI Workflows
- +5 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Advanced security with SSO and SCIM
- Salesforce integration (Beta)
- 99.95% uptime SLA
- EBA Compliance
- Unlimited spaces with advanced admin controls
- +6 more
Notion
Free trial available. Business and Enterprise base plans + Notion Credits for automation ($0.0023 per execution)
- Business$0.0023 per Worker execution
- Notion AI (basic features)
- Custom agents
- Workers automation
- Notion Credits add-on
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Notion AI (full features)
- Custom agents
- Workers automation
- HIPAA compliance
- Zero data retention
- +1 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Slack
- Jira
- GitHub
- Gmail
- Zendesk
- Dropbox
- GitLab
- Salesforce
Loom
- Jira Service Desk
- Confluence
- Upwork
- FigJam
- Notion
- Intercom
- WordPress
- Google Workspace
Notion
- Figma
- Amplitude
- Google Analytics
- Google Calendar
- Google Drive
- Cursor
- Claude Agents
- Loom
- YouTube
- Linear
- Microsoft Teams
- Stripe
- Microsoft Entra ID
- OneLogin
- Rippling
- Outlook
- Notion Calendar
- Asana
- Trello
- Datadog
- Splunk
- Sumo Logic
- Tableau
- Mixpanel
- +19 more
Loom or Notion: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.