Notion Pricing (2026): Free for Solo, $20 for AI

Notion costs $0 for Free, $10 per member each month for Plus, or $20 per member each month for Business when billed yearly. Solo users can stay free; teams that need ongoing Notion AI and agents should budget for Business, with 1,500 Standard and 500 Select credits per member each month now included under the credit system. Plus remains the collaboration pick when ongoing AI is not required, and additional workspace credits can raise the Business bill.

Notion pricing at a glance

These prices and limits were verified against Notion's live pricing page and billing documentation on November 2, 2026. The yearly figures below are monthly equivalents paid as an annual commitment, not month-to-month contracts.

Plus and Enterprise may not be available to every workspace. Included AI credits can vary by plan and purchase arrangement; Enterprise lists custom amounts. Confirm your allowance in Settings → Notion AI → Usage before comparing a quote. The prices are simple until automation and seat changes enter the bill. Plus is $120 per member per year and Business is $240. Notion charges for members in each paid workspace, while guests remain free but receive access only to invited pages rather than normal teamspace access.

The blunt recommendation is Free for solo use, Plus for collaboration, Business for ongoing AI and agents, and Enterprise for required controls. Paying for Business merely because it says AI is a poor purchase. Name the workflow, calculate its monthly value, and compare that value with the premium first.

Which Notion plan should you choose?

Choose Free when one person needs a flexible personal workspace. An individual gets unlimited pages and blocks, basic databases, one chart, basic forms and sites, 10 guests, and trial access to AI. The meaningful ceilings are 5 MB per uploaded file, 7 days of page history, and limited AI responses.

Choose Plus when two or more members need to collaborate. Plus adds collaborative blocks, raises the file ceiling to 5 GB per file, extends history to 30 days, and includes guest access and charts. It does not provide ongoing Notion AI. Once the limited AI trial is exhausted, continued AI use requires Business or Enterprise. AI trial rules

Choose Business when ongoing AI or tighter governance has a named return. Business includes Notion Agent, AI Meeting Notes, Enterprise Search beta, SAML SSO, private teamspaces, verified pages, and granular database permissions. It extends page history to 90 days. Its AI allowance is metered, so include extra workspace credits in the budget if needed. That bundle costs twice as much as Plus on either billing cadence.

Choose Enterprise when a control is mandatory rather than merely useful. SCIM provisioning, audit logs, advanced security, domain management, DLP and SIEM connections, custom page history, and zero data retention with LLM providers are procurement requirements for some organizations. If none is on a written requirement list, custom Enterprise pricing is unlikely to be the rational starting point.

Our calculated break-even starts with the Plus to Business premium. On yearly billing, Business must return at least $10 per active member per month beyond Plus, before any extra credit purchases. On monthly billing, the threshold is $12 per member per month. A ten-member team therefore pays $1,200 a year for Plus or $2,400 for Business. The annual Business premium is $1,200.

That threshold is more useful than a feature count. If meeting capture, workspace search, and AI drafting together avoid at least $100 of work each month across a ten-person team, Business clears its subscription premium. If the team already pays for an AI product it will keep, or only two people use Notion AI, Business is much harder to justify because all ten members still create paid seats.

The more detailed Notion review covers product fit, offline behavior, and workflow limits. For collaboration alone, start with Plus unless Free covers the job. For a team adopting Notion AI and agents, start the budget at Business and check who will consume the credits.

What the Notion free plan really allows

Notion Free is genuinely sufficient for a solo knowledge system. One person can create unlimited pages and blocks, use databases with subtasks and dependencies, publish pages, collect basic form responses, connect calendars, invite up to 10 guests, and try a limited set of AI responses.

The phrase “unlimited pages” needs one qualification. A Free workspace remains unlimited for an individual, but a workspace with two or more members has a collaborative block limit. Once it is reached, the team can still read, edit, and organize existing content, but it cannot add new blocks until it upgrades or returns to a qualifying setup.

The practical stops are easier to feel than the page count:

• A 5 MB file ceiling rules out many slide decks, videos, design exports, and large PDFs.
• Seven days of history gives a narrow recovery window after an accidental edit or deletion.
• One chart is enough to try dashboards, not to run a reporting layer.
• AI is a limited trial rather than an ongoing personal AI subscription.
• Offline use requires choosing pages to download, while paid plans automatically download recent and favorite pages.

Who never needs to pay? A solo user keeping notes, reading lists, goals, a lightweight task database, and small attachments can remain on Free indefinitely. Ten invited guests also make it workable for occasional client or contractor review. Free stops being the honest answer when another internal teammate needs normal workspace membership, when larger files and longer history matter, or when ongoing AI is part of the job.

Do not classify employees as guests merely to avoid seat charges. Guests are designed for external collaborators and can access only pages that are individually shared with them. They do not receive normal access to the team's workspace structure.

Monthly versus annual Notion pricing

Our calculation: yearly billing saves 16.7% at the current USD rates. Plus falls from $12 to a $10 monthly equivalent, saving $24 per seat per year. Business falls from $24 to $20, saving $48 per seat per year.

For ten seats, the comparison is:

• Plus costs $1,200 yearly or $1,440 across 12 monthly payments.
• Business costs $2,400 yearly or $2,880 across 12 monthly payments.
• The yearly commitment saves $240 on Plus or $480 on Business.

The annual discount is worth taking for a stable team. Monthly billing is the better risk control during a hiring freeze, a merger, a short implementation, or any period when member count could contract. Notion recalculates seats at renewal, not whenever a member is removed.

That creates the annual-lock trap. Additions are prorated when they consume a new paid seat. Removals do not create a mid-cycle credit, although the vacated seat can be assigned to someone else until renewal. If a Plus seat becomes idle after the first month of an annual term and cannot be reused, as much as $110 of its prepaid value remains exposed. The comparable Business figure is $220. Those amounts are not new charges; they are the maximum unused value on the existing commitment.

What Notion AI costs in 2026

Business and Enterprise include AI allowances; Free and Plus offer a limited trial. The buying decision is whether your team needs ongoing AI, then whether its work fits the included allowances or needs purchased workspace credits.

Since November 2, 2026, Notion's credit system applies to existing Business and Enterprise workspaces; new workspaces moved on October 19, 2026. The published monthly allowance is 1,500 Standard and 500 Select credits per member, subject to your plan and purchase arrangement. Check Settings → Notion AI → Usage for your allowance and reset date. Enterprise lists custom amounts. The switch applies even before contract renewal; at renewal, credits are set according to the plan. Current credit rules · Notion's announcement

A Standard credit pays toward work where Notion chooses the model. Auto, Notion's model router, selects a model for the task. Standard covers Notion Agent on Auto, writing and translation, AI blocks, inline editing and AI database formulas. A Select credit pays toward an eligible model you choose yourself, or a Custom Agent you own. Some high-consumption models require purchased Notion credits instead. Standard and Select are usage allowances, not cash balances. Eligible features

Neither credit promises a whole message or completed workflow. Notion's published estimates are about 5 credits for a simple Auto task, 10 for medium work and 25 for complex work; its comparison for manually selected Opus 5.5 is 50, 85 and 150 respectively. These are Notion's estimates, and context changes consumption. An email polish and a long strategy task do not spend the same amount. Notion's task estimates

The allowances belong to each member. You cannot pool them across the workspace, transfer them between people or exchange Standard for Select. Each resets monthly at the start of the billing cycle, and unused credits do not roll over. Spare credits held by an occasional user cannot cover a heavy agent owner's workload. Credit rules

When Standard runs out, Auto and other Standard-funded features pause; when Select runs out, Select-funded features pause. The pause lasts until the monthly reset unless an admin permits continued use of available workspace Notion credits. If Select runs out but Standard remains, switch your personal Notion Agent to Auto. Spare Select cannot cover Standard features. To enable continuation for either balance, open Settings → Notion AI and turn on Allow workspace to use Notion credits after AI limit is reached. This is off by default. What happens at the limit

AI Meeting Notes starts consuming Standard credits on December 1, 2026. It uses Auto; Notion estimates a one hour meeting at ~10 Standard credits, with actual usage varying. It does not yet reduce the allowance, so current usage understates the Standard credits a meeting-heavy team will need after that change. Basic Database Autofill does not currently reduce the credit balance. Feature-specific rules

Bring your own key, or BYOK, means connecting your own model-provider API key. Notion announced it as a private alpha for Enterprise, with access through the account team. Treat it as an access request, not a generally available way to avoid buying credits. BYOK announcement

Custom Agents use the owner's Select credits by default

A shared Custom Agent can spend its owner's allowance even when colleagues run it. Custom Agents automate recurring or triggered work. Under the new system they draw from the owner's Select credits first, then any additional Notion credit allowance and authorized workspace credits. An admin can fund an agent directly from the workspace instead, and owners can set per-agent caps. Custom Agent credit rules

For a shared intake or reporting agent, assign an owner and agree its funding before enabling a frequent schedule. Included Select credits let you start without a separate purchase, but the rest of the team's unused Select credits do not become a shared budget. If the owner's allowance runs out and there are no authorized credits left, the agent pauses until credits reset or become available.

Existing Custom Agents created before November 2, 2026 keep drawing from shared workspace credits. The migration has not automatically moved those agents onto an owner's Select allowance. Review each agent's credit source before assuming the seat allowance will replace an existing purchase. The separate Custom Agents pricing analysis discusses budgeting; use the current funding rules here for the new system.

Purchased Notion credits cost $10 per 1,000 monthly credits or $13 per 1,000 annual credits. Monthly credits reset without rollover; annual credits are a flexible prepaid pool that expires at subscription renewal, including credits bought partway through the year. In-product purchases follow the plan's billing cadence; account teams can offer monthly, annual or on-demand arrangements. These purchase prices do not assign a cash value to included Standard or Select credits. Purchased credit pricing

To add Notion credits, a workspace owner opens Settings → Access & billing → Notion credits, selects Add Notion credits, and chooses an amount; an account team can also arrange the purchase. A monthly-credit increase is available immediately and raises the recurring credit amount for the next monthly service date. Buying credits and enabling members to continue after their AI limit are separate settings. Review member spending in the same Notion credits dashboard. Purchase steps · Usage controls

If the shared workspace balance runs out, workspace-funded Custom Agents and high-consumption models pause until credits reset or an admin adds more. An owner-funded agent can keep using its remaining Select allowance. Workspace credit limits

Workers remain free during beta

Workers currently use no credits during beta on Business and Enterprise. They run hosted code for syncs, agent tools and webhook triggers. Notion says they will eventually require credits, but its current public pricing guide does not give a billing start date. Workers pricing

The beta exemption applies to the Worker, not to a Custom Agent that calls it. Notion shows preview usage for planning, but that usage does not reduce the credit balance during beta. Check the Worker's Free badge in the credits dashboard for its free-period details before approving a production budget.

Do not confuse hosted Workers with the public Notion API. Ordinary API and MCP read/write actions do not use credits, although rate limits apply. Running an agent through the API or a connected app uses workspace Notion credits. That distinction keeps routine integration work separate from AI consumption. API credit rules

The hidden Notion costs most likely to change the bill

Auto Adjust is a recurring plan increase

Purchased Notion credits can use an optional Auto Adjust setting. It is off by default, but when enabled and triggered near the usage limit, it raises the workspace's monthly credit amount for the current and following billing periods. It is not a one-time top-up.

This is the most consequential hidden-cost rule in the current documentation. Each later trigger can raise the recurring credit amount again, up to the configured spending cap. Lowering the next period's credit amount does not disable Auto Adjust; the owner must turn Auto Adjust off separately.

Unused credits now have explicit expiry rules: included Standard and Select reset monthly, purchased monthly credits do not carry over, and purchased annual credits expire at subscription renewal. Size the purchase for work you expect to finish within that period. Notion credit terms explained

A custom domain is another recurring add-on

Free includes one notion.site domain and paid plans include up to five. A paid plan can connect an existing domain to a Notion Site and remove Notion branding for $8 per month per domain billed annually or $10 monthly. Each additional domain needs its own add-on. Our calculation: three annually billed custom domains add $24 a month to the workspace before domain registration costs.

Separate workspaces can bill the same person twice

Notion plans apply at workspace level. One account can belong to several workspaces, each with its own plan. If a person is a member of two paid workspaces, both can bill for that member. A company split into departmental workspaces should compare that duplication with one workspace divided into teamspaces and permission groups.

Mobile purchases complicate credits and refunds

A Plus subscription bought through iOS or Android is limited to a one-member workspace and managed through Apple or Google. A mobile subscriber that needs a multi-member plan must upgrade on web or desktop. To buy Notion credits directly, cancel the store subscription and move to a directly billed Business or Enterprise plan. Mobile billing rules

For a mistaken purchase, Notion says it can generally process a refund when the owner or billing contact requests one within three days of a monthly invoice or 30 days of an annual invoice. Apple App Store purchases go through Apple. Accidental member charges require removing the member and contacting support within three days of the invoice. Purchased credits are refundable only before any portion is used. Refund policy

Notion versus ClickUp and Superhuman Docs on price

ClickUp is worth comparing when project control matters more than a shared docs-and-wiki context. Confirm the plan and AI package offered to your workspace on ClickUp's pricing page before comparing a quote with Notion. The older Unlimited and separate AI add-on figures are not a dependable basis for a new AI-team budget.

A base-plan quote is not a complete AI comparison. Compare the included allowance, who can spend it and the price of additional usage. Notion Business now includes personal Standard and Select allowances, while purchased workspace credits fund additional usage and shared agent budgets. Choose ClickUp when workload, time, and project controls justify the heavier project system, not merely because the first number is lower.

Coda, now branded Superhuman Docs on its pricing page, can be dramatically cheaper when a few builders support many collaborators. Pro costs $12 per Doc Maker each month yearly or $15 monthly. Business is $33 yearly or $40 monthly. Editors and viewers are free. Superhuman Docs pricing

Our calculation for ten collaborators with three paid Doc Makers: Pro costs $36 a month on yearly billing and Business costs $99. Notion charges all ten members, producing $100 on Plus or $200 on Business. The maker model is a clear price win when a small operator group builds and the rest mainly edit or view.

The exact flip is useful. Against ten Notion Plus seats, Superhuman Docs Pro stays cheaper through eight Doc Makers at $96, then becomes more expensive at nine makers at $108. Against ten Notion Business seats, Superhuman Docs Business stays cheaper through six makers at $198, then flips at seven makers at $231.

This comparison is about billing structure, not feature parity. Superhuman Docs is the price pick when builder roles can remain scarce. Its weakness is the operating discipline that model requires: formulas, automations, and Doc Maker permissions need clear owners. Notion is simpler when most teammates actively create workspace structure and shared knowledge. ClickUp is the better value when project mechanics, rather than documents, are the center of work.

Notion discounts, trials, and price history

Eligible university students and teachers can get a one-member Education Plan workspace free. The institution must be accredited in the World Higher Education Database, and the applicant needs an eligible school email. K-12 students and educators are not eligible. Verified student organizations can get a free Education Plan with multiple members. The Education Plan includes up to 100 guests, file uploads and 30-day history. Education eligibility and features

Organizations and teams may be eligible for a 30-day Business trial. That is enough time to price a real workflow, but the test should measure saved work per member and credit burn per useful automated outcome. A trial that merely generates a few documents does not answer whether ten Business seats are worth $2,400 a year.

Notion's current structure arrived in several steps:

• On 26 June 2024, Plus moved to $10 per member monthly on yearly billing or $12 on monthly billing for new customers.
• On 13 May 2025, Notion bundled its main AI experience, Enterprise Search, Research Mode, and AI Meeting Notes into Business and Enterprise. Updated prices began immediately for new subscriptions and at the first renewal after 13 August 2025 for affected existing customers.
• On October 19, 2026, Standard and Select allowances began for new Business and Enterprise workspaces; the system has also applied to existing workspaces since November 2, 2026.
• From December 1, 2026, AI Meeting Notes will consume Standard credits.

This history matters at renewal. A legacy invoice or an old screenshot may not describe a plan sold today. Recheck the live price, AI inclusion, member count, credit amount, and Workers usage before approving a new annual term.

Notion pricing FAQ

Is Notion really free?

Yes. Notion Free costs $0 and gives one person unlimited pages and blocks, basic databases, one chart, 7-day history, 10 guests, and uploads up to 5 MB per file. A Free workspace with two or more members has a collaborative block limit, and ongoing Notion AI is not included.

Does Notion offer a student discount?

Eligible university students and teachers at accredited institutions can get a one-member Education Plan workspace free with a qualifying school email. Verified student organizations can receive a free Education Plan with multiple members. K-12 users are not eligible.

Can I get a refund from Notion?

Notion generally processes eligible requests within three days of a monthly invoice or 30 days of an annual invoice. Contact support from the owner or billing email; Apple purchases require an Apple refund request. For accidental member charges, remove the member and contact support within three days of the invoice. Purchased credits must be entirely unused. Local mandatory refund rules may provide longer windows.

Is Notion cheaper when billed yearly?

Yes. Plus is $10 per member per month as a yearly equivalent versus $12 month to month. Business is $20 versus $24. That is a 16.7% saving, or $24 per Plus seat and $48 per Business seat each year. The tradeoff is that removed seats receive no mid-cycle credit, though they can be reassigned until renewal.

Is Notion AI included in the price?

Business and Enterprise now use the credit system, including existing workspaces since November 2, 2026. The published allowance is 1,500 Standard and 500 Select credits per member monthly; your plan and purchase arrangement can change the amount, and Enterprise lists custom amounts. Standard covers Auto; Select covers eligible chosen models and owner-funded Custom Agents. Extra usage can require purchased workspace credits with admin permission. Free and Plus have limited trial AI.

Is paid Notion worth it?

Plus is worth $10 per member monthly on yearly billing when a team needs shared pages, databases, larger uploads, longer history, and guest access. Business is worth $20 when ongoing AI or Business-only controls return at least the $10 monthly premium per member, plus any additional credit spend. A solo user without those requirements should remain on Free.

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