Notion's pricing looks simple on the page: Free, Plus, Business, Enterprise. The catch is that the jump between tiers isn't about "more of the same." Each step unlocks a different kind of feature, and the per-seat math changes fast once you have more than a handful of people. Here's what each plan actually costs, what you get for it, and who should pay for what.
All prices below are the monthly list prices we track on our Notion product page. Notion also offers discounts for annual billing, so check the official pricing page before you commit.
The Plans at a Glance
Free ($0). Unlimited pages and blocks for individuals, up to 10 guest collaborators, 7-day page history, and a 5MB cap on file uploads. That upload limit is the one people trip over: a PDF or a decent screenshot-heavy page can bump into it.
Plus ($10 per member per month). Unlimited guests, 30-day page history, unlimited file uploads, and a trial of Notion AI. This is the plan built for small teams that collaborate on shared workspaces.
Business ($20 per member per month). SAML SSO, 90-day page history, private teamspaces, and advanced permissions. Notion's built-in AI agent also lives here as an included feature rather than a trial. Business went from $18 to $20 per user in April 2026, which is a roughly 11% increase that's easy to miss if you haven't looked at your invoice lately.
Enterprise (custom pricing). Unlimited page history, SCIM user provisioning, audit logs, and dedicated support. You'll need to talk to sales, and there's no public number.
What Each Team Size Actually Pays
Per-seat pricing sounds cheap until you multiply it. Here's the monthly cost at list price for common team sizes:
| Team size | Plus ($10) | Business ($20) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $10 | $20 | $10 |
| 5 | $50 | $100 | $50 |
| 10 | $100 | $200 | $100 |
| 25 | $250 | $500 | $250 |
| 50 | $500 | $1,000 | $500 |
The thing to notice is that Business costs exactly double Plus at every size. So the real question is never "is $20 reasonable?" It's "are the Business features worth an extra $10 per person, per month, for everyone on the team?" For a 25-person company, that's an extra $3,000 a year. For 50 people, $6,000.
One detail worth knowing: Notion bills for members, not guests. On Free you get 10 guests, and Plus and above give you unlimited guests. If you work with lots of clients or contractors who only need to view or comment on pages, you can keep your paid seat count low and still share widely. That can make Plus considerably cheaper in practice than the table suggests.
Free: Better Than It Sounds, With Limits
For a solo user, Free is genuinely usable. You get the full block editor, databases with linked views, rollups, formulas and relations, and unlimited pages. Plenty of people run a personal wiki, reading list, or side-project tracker without ever paying.
Where it stops being comfortable:
- ▸File uploads cap at 5MB. If you attach contracts, design exports, or recordings, you'll hit it quickly.
- ▸7-day page history. If someone (or you) overwrites something and notices two weeks later, it's gone.
- ▸10 guests. Fine for a freelancer with a couple of clients, tight for anything more.
If you're a team of two or three and just testing the waters, you can often start on Free. But the moment more than one person is editing shared databases and you care about being able to roll back mistakes, the 7-day history alone is a good reason to move up.
Plus: The Sweet Spot for Most Small Teams
At $10 per member, Plus is where Notion makes the most sense for teams of roughly 2 to 25 people. You get unlimited guests, unlimited uploads, and 30 days of history, which covers the practical needs of most documentation and lightweight project tracking.
Notion is strong here for the work it was designed for: wikis, meeting notes, content calendars, a simple CRM, hiring pipelines. We've seen teams replace three or four separate tools with a single workspace, which is where the per-seat price starts to look like a bargain rather than another subscription.
What Plus doesn't give you is control. There's no SAML SSO, permissions are simpler, and there are no private teamspaces. If you need to restrict who sees the HR or finance areas of your workspace, you'll feel that gap. And the AI access on Plus is a trial rather than a real included capability, so don't count on it as a reason to pick this tier.
Business: Worth It Only If You Need the Controls
The $20 tier is the one that deserves the most skepticism. What you're really paying for is:
- ▸SAML SSO, which matters if your company mandates single sign-on or you need to offboard people centrally.
- ▸Private teamspaces and advanced permissions, which matter when different departments need genuinely separate areas.
- ▸90-day page history, which is useful but not essential for most.
- ▸Included AI agent access, which is the part you should evaluate honestly. If your team is going to use it daily, it can justify some of the extra cost. If it's a nice-to-have, a dedicated AI subscription for the two or three people who actually want one is likely cheaper. We dig into that math in our Notion AI pricing breakdown.
A practical rule: if nobody on your team can name a specific Business feature they need, stay on Plus. If a security review or compliance requirement says you need SSO, the decision is already made for you.
Enterprise: When Sales Calls Are Unavoidable
Enterprise adds SCIM provisioning (automatic user creation and removal from your identity provider), audit logs, unlimited page history, and dedicated support. There's no published price, and that's typical for software at this tier. Expect the number to depend on seat count and contract length, and expect room to negotiate if you're bringing a large team. If you're under around 100 people, you probably don't need it unless a specific compliance requirement forces your hand.
The Honest Pros and Cons
What we like:
- ▸The free plan is actually usable for individuals, not a crippled demo.
- ▸Plus is reasonably priced for what a flexible block-based workspace replaces.
- ▸Unlimited guests on paid plans keep costs down when you collaborate externally.
- ▸The database system (linked views, relations, rollups, formulas) is more capable than most tools at this price.
- ▸An API is available for integrations if you want to connect it to the rest of your stack.
What bugs us:
- ▸Business is exactly double Plus, and the features that justify it are mostly about administration, not day-to-day work.
- ▸Costs scale linearly with every member, so a growing team feels it quickly.
- ▸Performance can drag in large workspaces. Reports from productivity communities consistently flag slowdowns once you pass several hundred pages, and global search lags behind tools like Obsidian or Confluence.
- ▸Your data lives in Notion's cloud. There's no self-hosting, and local backups mean manual exports, which is a real lock-in consideration.
- ▸The block editor has a steeper learning curve than something like Google Docs, so budget onboarding time for non-technical teammates.
Alternatives Worth a Look
If Notion's per-seat pricing doesn't fit, there are a few directions to consider. If you want local files and no per-seat fee, see our Notion vs Obsidian comparison. If you need stronger task and project management, Notion vs ClickUp is a useful side-by-side. For a broader list, we keep a roundup of Notion alternatives. Open-source options like AppFlowy are covered in our AppFlowy vs Notion piece if self-hosting matters to you.
So Which Plan Should You Pick?
- ▸Solo user, personal projects: Free. Upgrade only when you hit the 5MB upload limit or want longer history.
- ▸Small team, 2 to 25 people, no compliance requirements: Plus. It's the best value in the lineup.
- ▸Team that needs SSO, private teamspaces, or heavy AI use: Business, but only for the people who truly need it, and verify whether you can limit paid seats.
- ▸Large organization with provisioning and audit needs: Enterprise, via sales.
The common mistake is jumping to Business because it sounds like the "real" plan. In most cases Plus does the job, and the $10-per-seat difference adds up to thousands of dollars a year for mid-sized teams. Start on the cheaper tier, note which limits actually bother you, and upgrade when you have a specific reason.
Pricing changes often, and Notion has adjusted its tiers more than once recently, so double-check the official pricing page before you buy. We track changes on our pricing history page and update this guide when something shifts.