What is Notion?
Notion is an all-in-one workspace combining docs, databases, projects, and knowledge bases with AI features including agents for task automation, meeting notes, and enterprise search for teams to collaborate and organize work.
Notion pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From £8.50/seat/month (Plus). Free tier available. 20% discount with annual billing.
Free
FreeFor individuals to organize personal projects and life
- Trial AI capabilities (generating docs, autofilling databases)
- Trial Notion AI
- Basic forms
- Basic sites
- Notion Calendar
- Databases with subtasks and dependencies
- Organize hundreds of thousands of items
Plus
For small teams and professionals to work together
- Everything in Free
- Remove Notion branding from public forms
- Custom forms
- Custom sites
- Unlimited charts
- Unlimited collaborative blocks
- Unlimited file uploads
- Basic connections
Business
For growing businesses to streamline teamwork
- Everything in Plus
- Notion Agent (multi-step task automation)
- AI Meeting Notes
- Enterprise Search (across connected apps like Slack, GitHub)
- SAML SSO
- Granular database permissions (row-level access control)
- Verify any page feature
- Private teamspaces
- Premium connections
Enterprise
Contact salesFor organizations to operate with scalability, control, and security
- Everything in Business
- Zero data retention with LLM providers
- User provisioning via SCIM API
- Advanced security & controls
- Audit logging
- Customer Success Manager
- Security & Compliance connections (DLP, SIEM)
- Domain management
- Advanced connections
Add-ons
- Custom Agents & Workers$10 per 1000 credits/month
What Notion does
The capabilities that matter for knowledge base software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Real-time co-editing
- ✓
- Structured database / table blocks
- ✓
- Bidirectional links / backlinks
- ✗
- Markdown-native
- ✗
- Version history
- ✗
- Local-first / offline files
- ✗
- AI writing / Q&A over content
- ✓
- Publish pages to the web
- ✓
- Permissions granularity
- Block
- Answer verification / expiry
- ✓
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- SSO / SCIM
- ✓
- Public API
- ✗
- Free tier
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- iOS
- macOS
- Web
- Android
- Windows
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (5)
Independently observed- Slack
- Google Drive
- GitHub
- Asana
- Google Analytics
Notion alternatives
Other knowledge base software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- ObsidianSharpen your thinkinglow · 35%
- Codamedium · 63%
- CraftYour space for notes, tasks, and big ideaslow · 37%
- NuclinoYour team's collective brainmedium · 53%
- Confluencemedium · 50%
- TettraStop answering repetitive questions in Slack. Create an AI-powered knowledge base that does it for you.medium · 59%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Notion, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 87 | 32.00 | 2775.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 16.00 | 1600.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 10.00 | 800.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 12.00 | 600.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 50 | 12.00 | 600.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 22 | 18.00 | 402.8 | ✓ |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"cloud","sso_scim":true,"free_tier":true,"api_access":false,"local_first":false,"ai_assistant":true,"markdown_native":false,"version_history":false,"databases_tables":true,"public_publishing":true,"bidirectional_links":false,"real_time_coediting":true,"verification_expiry":true,"permissions_granularity":"block"} | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 5 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |