Craft and Notion get compared constantly on Reddit forums, and the discussion always lands in the same place: Craft wins on native app polish, Notion wins on database power. What most of those threads miss is that Craft just restructured its entire pricing model, dropping per-seat business pricing in favor of something that looks a lot more like a consumer app bundle. That change matters more than another round of "which one is prettier."
Two Different Products Wearing the Same Label
Craft is a document editor built Apple-first: block-based pages, real-time collaboration, backlinks, and daily notes, all wrapped in an interface that's noticeably faster and better designed than Notion on Mac and iOS specifically. It supports markdown input. What it doesn't do is databases, at least not in any form comparable to what Notion offers, there's no relational data, no rollups, no formulas, and no way to build even a simple linked task list the way Notion's database views handle natively.
Notion is a database-first workspace that happens to also do documents well. Linked views, rollups, formulas, and relations let you build a lightweight CRM, content calendar, or hiring pipeline without leaving the tool, and the public API (launched 2021) is solid enough that real integrations get built on it. The tradeoff is performance: workspaces past 500 pages slow down noticeably, and global search is measurably worse than dedicated note tools.
Craft's Pricing Just Changed, and It's a Real Story
This is the part worth reading past the usual comparison points. Craft's live pricing page no longer shows the per-seat "Pro" and "Business" tiers that used to define it. The current structure: Starter (free), Plus at $8/month or a discounted $6.40/month (Craft's pricing page doesn't say which billing period that rate applies to) for one full-featured account, Family at $15/month ($12 billed annually) as a fixed-price bundle covering 2 to 6 Plus accounts, and Team at a flat $50/month for up to 10 Plus accounts. Team isn't priced per seat at all, it's a flat fee, which works out to $5/account/month at full capacity, cheaper than either Plus or Family scale up to individually.
More telling than the numbers: I checked the current pricing page for any mention of SSO, SAML, or an admin console, features Craft's Business tier used to advertise, and found none. Craft has moved away from selling itself as an IT-managed enterprise tool and toward a consumer and small-team bundle model, closer in spirit to how Apple or Google price a Family plan than how a B2B SaaS company prices seats. If your evaluation criteria include centralized admin control or SSO enforcement, Craft currently doesn't have an answer, where it used to at least claim one.
Notion's Pricing Hasn't Moved
Notion's pricing confirms Plus at $10/user/month and Business at $20/user/month, unchanged and matching what's been true for a while. Business remains the "Recommended" tier on Notion's own pricing page, and it's the one that adds SAML SSO, 90-day page history, and private teamspaces, exactly the enterprise controls Craft just dropped from its own lineup. Enterprise is custom-quoted and adds SCIM provisioning and audit logs on top.
Worth sitting with for a second: two products that get compared constantly are now priced on completely different axes. Notion charges per user, scaling linearly with headcount the way almost every B2B SaaS tool does. Craft charges per bundle, flat regardless of exactly how many of the 2 to 6 (Family) or up to 10 (Team) seats get filled. A 4-person team on Craft Family pays the same $12-15/month whether it uses 2 seats or all 6, while a 4-person team on Notion Plus pays $40/month flat, scaling up precisely with headcount. Below the bundle's seat ceiling, Craft is almost always cheaper. Cross that ceiling and there's no smooth upgrade path, just a jump to the next bundle tier.
API and Integrations
Notion's public API has been live since 2021 and it shows: real third-party integrations exist for automation tools, custom dashboards, and workflow builders, because developers have had years to build against a stable interface. Craft also offers API and MCP access. Its pricing page lists it at 100 requests per minute on both the free and Plus plans, and its homepage advertises MCP connections for tools like Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, so the gap is smaller than I first wrote. Notion's API has the longer track record and wider third-party support, which still matters if workflow automation is central to how your team works.
Security Posture, Worth Checking Given the Pricing Shift
Craft's security page lists encryption at rest and in transit, regular third-party penetration tests, and sections for SOC 2 certification and GDPR compliance, none of which is tied to the pricing restructure. What did change is who that security posture is aimed at: with no admin console or SSO shown on the pricing page, there's apparently no way for an IT team to centrally enforce Craft's security settings across a group of users, each account manages its own settings independently. For a family or a small team that trusts each other, that's a non-issue. For any organization that needs centralized policy enforcement, it's a real gap that wasn't there when Craft still sold a Business tier.
Where Each One Actually Wins
Craft wins for individuals and small teams fully on Apple hardware who want the fastest, best-looking place to write and organize notes. The free Starter tier is genuinely one of the better free note-taking offers available, unlimited documents with real backlinks and markdown export. If your whole household or small team is on Mac and iPhone, the new Family tier at $12-15/month for up to 6 accounts is a legitimately good deal, cheaper per person than almost anything comparable.
Notion wins the moment structured data enters the picture. Platform is less clear-cut than I first wrote: Craft ships Windows and Android apps as well as Apple ones, though the product data I work from says the Windows app trails the Mac and iOS versions, and I haven't tested that myself. Notion's cross-platform consistency isn't exciting, but it's reliable everywhere, which is worth more than native polish once a team spans more than one operating system.
The Recommendation
If your team is Apple-only, values design and speed over structured data, and doesn't need SSO or admin controls, Craft is the better daily-writing tool and its new pricing (particularly Family and Team) is worth a serious look before defaulting to Notion out of habit. If you need databases, cross-platform consistency, or actual enterprise controls like SSO and audit logs, Notion remains the right choice and Craft's recent move away from those features only widens that gap. If your team is mixed-device, test Craft's Windows and Android apps on real notes before you commit. I first wrote that Craft had no Android app. That was wrong, but a bundle plan is only a good deal if everyone in it is happy in the app on their own device.
For a broader look at note-taking alternatives beyond just these two, the Notion alternatives roundup covers more of the field, and the Notion vs Obsidian refresh is worth reading if local-first storage and speed matter more to you than Notion's database features or Craft's Apple-native design.
Correction, 2026-09-25: an earlier version of this post said Craft had no Android app and no public API. Craft offers both, and the text above has been updated. I also removed export-format claims and security-page details I could not confirm on Craft's site.