Notion
Notion pricing, checked August 2026
Two seat prices and a second meter for AI, which is the part that surprises people on renewal.
What it costs
Notion lists Free at zero, Plus at $10 per member per month and Business at $20 per member per month on notion.com/pricing, checked 21 August 2026, with up to twenty percent off for yearly billing. AI is metered separately: Custom Agents are free to try, then $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits. Polaris charges nothing for software.
- Plus
- $10 / member / month
- Business
- $20 / member / month
- AI credits
- $10 per 1,000 monthly
- Checked
- 21 August 2026
Notion plans as listed
Read from notion.com/pricing on 21 August 2026. The page shows these per-member rates with a yearly toggle marked "Save up to 20% with yearly" and does not print a separate yearly figure.
- Free$0
- Plus$10
- Business$20
- EnterpriseCustom
| Plan | Per member / month | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Trial of Notion AI, up to 10 guests, 5MB file uploads, 7-day page history, block limit once a workspace has two or more members |
| Plus | $10 | Unlimited file uploads, unlimited blocks, custom forms and sites, unlimited charts, basic connections |
| Business | $20 | Notion Agent, AI Meeting Notes, Enterprise Search in beta, SAML SSO, private teamspaces, premium connections |
| Enterprise | Custom | Zero data retention with LLM providers, audit logs, DLP and SIEM connections, customer success manager |
The credit meter is the part to model
Notion credits are an add-on for Business and Enterprise that pay for Custom Agents, Workers and AI usage beyond the plan allowance. Monthly credits cost $10 per 1,000 and reset each cycle with no carryover. Annual credits cost $13 per 1,000 and stay available until renewal. Notion's own help page states both figures.
Workers, Notion's agent product, is listed as free to try and begins consuming credits on 15 October. So a Business workspace has one predictable line and one variable line, and the variable line is the one nobody forecasts correctly in the first quarter.
Ten people on Notion Business, with credits
Arithmetic at the listed rates. The credit row is an assumption, marked as such, not a Notion quote.
- Notion Business seats$200.00
- AI credits (assumed 3,000 / month)$30.00
- Total$230.00
- Polaris software$0.00
| Line | Rate | Quantity | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notion Business seats | $20 / member / month | 10 members | $200.00 | $2,400.00 |
| AI credits (assumed 3,000 / month) | $10 per 1,000 monthly credits | 3,000 credits | $30.00 | $360.00 |
| Total | $230.00 | $2,760.00 | ||
| Polaris software | $0 | unlimited members | $0.00 | $0.00 |
Four things that move a Notion bill
Members and guests are billed differently
Notion charges by seats assigned in the workspace. Guests get page-level access and are limited by a plan guest cap rather than billed as members, which is why guest-heavy workspaces look cheap until someone is promoted.
The Free plan gets tight at two members
Notion's free tier applies a block limit to workspaces with two or more members, which is the point most small teams discover they are on a paid product.
Monthly credits expire, annual credits are dearer
Monthly credits cost less per thousand but reset with no carryover. Annual credits cost $13 per 1,000 and last until renewal. Choosing wrongly costs about thirty percent.
Notion is a place to write, not a thing that writes
Agents and credits move that line, and they are worth trying. The base product's job is still to hold what people already produced.
Notion Business against Polaris
Notion Business
- $20 per member per month, checked 21 August 2026
- AI on a second meter at $10 per 1,000 monthly credits
- Docs, databases and Notion Agent in one workspace
- Tasks and team chat still live in other subscriptions for most teams
Polaris
- $0 for the software, no seats, no tiers
- Docs, tasks and team chat in the same product
- AI workers you hire in about sixty seconds, with an editable SKILL.md
- Roughly $2 per human-equivalent hour an AI worker delivers, itemised
Where to go next
A Notion alternative for teams tired of maintaining the database
Notion is the best place to write the plan. The question is who executes it once the page is written.
Replacing Notion and Jira
The spec lives in one product, the work lives in another, and the two stop agreeing about four days in.
Replacing Notion and Slack
A stack with a writing tool and a talking tool, and no place where a piece of work has an owner and a date.
Confluence pricing, checked August 2026
Priced by a function rather than a number, and bundled with the rest of Atlassian by design.
Per-seat pricing and usage pricing charge for different things
One model prices access. The other prices output. Almost every argument about software cost is really about which of those you are buying.
Connect Notion to Polaris
Notion decides what Polaris can see, page by page, because an internal integration only reaches what you explicitly share with it.
Questions people ask
+Is Notion's $10 the monthly or the annual rate?
Notion's pricing page displays $10 for Plus and $20 for Business per member per month and carries a toggle marked "Save up to 20% with yearly" without printing a separate yearly figure. Treat $10 and $20 as the rates shown on 21 August 2026 and check the toggle for your own billing choice before you budget.
+Do I need Notion AI credits to use AI in Notion?
Custom Agents are free to try and then consume credits at $10 per 1,000 monthly credits, and Workers is free to try now with credit consumption starting on 15 October. Credits are an add-on for Business and Enterprise workspaces.
+Is Polaris really free, or does the cost show up somewhere else?
The software is free with no seat count. The cost shows up only when an AI worker delivers work, at roughly two dollars per human-equivalent hour, and every hour is itemised on that worker's log. If no worker delivers anything in a month, the bill for that month is zero.
+How do I know Polaris is not inflating the hours?
The estimate comes from a published formula applied to what the job actually did: base pickup time, web searches at about twelve minutes each, finished prose at about ninety characters a minute, and fixed overheads for checklist items, comments and files. The inputs are on the work log, so you can recompute a line and dispute it.
+Can Polaris and Notion run side by side?
Yes. Notion is one of the connections an AI worker can be given, authorised once and stored server-side, so a worker can pull context out of Notion and write results back. Teams usually run both for a while and only cut seats once the habit has moved.
Related
A Notion alternative for teams tired of maintaining the database
Notion is the best place to write the plan. The question is who executes it once the page is written.
Replacing Notion and Slack
A stack with a writing tool and a talking tool, and no place where a piece of work has an owner and a date.
Replacing Notion and Jira
The spec lives in one product, the work lives in another, and the two stop agreeing about four days in.
Confluence pricing, checked August 2026
Priced by a function rather than a number, and bundled with the rest of Atlassian by design.
Per-seat pricing and usage pricing charge for different things
One model prices access. The other prices output. Almost every argument about software cost is really about which of those you are buying.
The cost of AI subscriptions for a team
Five figures a year at fifty people, and no shared record of what any of it produced.
Per-seat pricing
The bill tracks headcount, which is only a proxy for value received.
Connect Notion to Polaris
Notion decides what Polaris can see, page by page, because an internal integration only reaches what you explicitly share with it.