The short answer
Notion's paid plans are billed per member: Plus at $12 and Business at $24 per member per month, billed monthly. Pay for a year up front and those drop to $10 and $20, the rates notion.com/pricing shows by default under its “Pay yearly” toggle. There's a free plan aimed at individuals, and an Enterprise tier with custom pricing. Notion's AI features live on Business, with agent usage priced separately in credits.
Multiplied across a real team on Plus, the entry tier for teams, billed monthly: a 5-person team pays $60/month, a 10-person team pays $120/month, and a 20-person team pays $240/month. On Business, the tier the AI pitch points teams at, those numbers are $120, $240, and $480.
If you want the per-member math to stop entirely, there's a flat-rate option: Thicket is $49/month flat for unlimited users. We'll get to that. First, the full Notion breakdown.
Notion's plans, side by side
Verified August 2026 from notion.com/pricing. Monthly-billing rates shown; annual rates in the fine print below.
Notion also has an Enterprise plan with custom, sales-quoted pricing. Agent usage beyond what a plan includes is priced in credits at $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits, after a free trial. Prices verified August 2026.
The advertised price isn't the monthly price
Notion's pricing page defaults to its “Pay yearly” toggle and labels the annual rates “per member / month”, so a reader skimming the page sees $10 (Plus) and $20 (Business) and reasonably takes them for the monthly price. They're not: those are the annual-billing rates, what each month costs when you pay for a year up front. Pay month-to-month and the real prices are $12 and $24 per member. You have to flip the toggle to “Pay monthly” to see them.
The banner says yearly billing saves up to 20%. The real gap is about 17% on Plus and 17% on Business. Put differently: a 10-person team on Plus pays $120/month billed monthly, or $100/month billed annually, a $20/month difference for committing to the year up front.
Neither number is dishonest; defaulting to the annual rate is standard practice across per-seat tools. But when you're budgeting, use the monthly figure unless you're certain you'll commit to twelve months up front.
What Notion AI adds to the bill
Notion now pitches Business as “The AI workspace”: Notion Agent, AI Meeting Notes, and Enterprise Search are bundled into the Business tier rather than sold as a flat add-on. That has a quiet pricing consequence: the AI features the marketing leads with aren't on the $12 Plus tier. A team that wants what's advertised is really shopping at $24 per member per month billed monthly ($20 annually): $240/month for 10 people, $480/month for 20.
Agent usage is metered on top. Beyond what a plan includes, Notion prices agent work in credits at $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits, after a free trial. Light use may never touch it; a team that leans on agents adds a usage line to the per-member bill that doesn't appear on the pricing page's headline number.
To be clear about what this is: a pricing observation, not a feature comparison. Thicket has no AI features and this post makes no claim about the value of Notion's, only about where they sit on the bill: on the higher tier, with a metered component on top.
The free plan is for individuals: Plus is the real team entry
Notion's free plan is genuinely generous for one person. It's one of the best free personal tools anywhere. But it's built around individual use: run it as a team workspace and you hit its collaboration caps quickly, which is exactly how it's designed. For a team, the practical floor is Plus at $12 per member per month billed monthly ($10 annually).
That's worth knowing before you budget “we'll just use the free plan”: a 5-person team on Plus is $60/month from day one, billed monthly. And if the AI features are part of why you're choosing Notion, the realistic floor is Business at $120/month for the same five people.
What Notion actually costs your team
Per-member pricing looks small at one seat. Here's the monthly and annual cost at four common team sizes, on both paid plans, billed monthly.
| Team size | Plus / mo | Plus / yr | Business / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 users | $60/mo | $720/yr | $120/mo |
| 10 users | $120/mo | $1,440/yr | $240/mo |
| 20 users | $240/mo | $2,880/yr | $480/mo |
| 50 users | $600/mo | $7,200/yr | $1,200/mo |
Notion Plus at $12/member/month and Business at $24/member/month, billed monthly. Annual billing drops the rates to $10 and $20. Agent credits ($10 per 1,000/month beyond the included allowance) are extra. Prices verified August 2026.
Is Notion worth it?
Honestly: for the right team, yes. If your team lives in documents and structured knowledge (a company wiki, linked databases with relations and rollups, custom views over content), Notion is the best tool in its class, and the per-member price buys flexibility nothing simpler can match. Wiki-centric teams and heavy database users should pay it without hesitation.
The catch is that the per-member and credits math is the cost of that flexibility, whether or not you use it. Someone has to design and maintain the databases, views, and templates you're paying for; dedicated project management is the weaker half of the product (a “project” in Notion is a database you build, not a workspace you open); and the AI positioning makes $24/member the realistic number for teams that want what the front page advertises. If what your team actually needs is tasks, deadlines, messages, and a schedule, you're paying build-anything prices for a tool you mostly use as a to-do list.
We've written a full feature-by-feature comparison, including the cases where Notion is genuinely the better choice, in the Thicket vs Notion guide. This post sticks to the money.
Or pay $49/month flat with Thicket
Thicket is the opposite bet: six purpose-built project tools instead of a build-anything workspace, and one flat price instead of per-member math. Thicket Pro is $49/month ($39/month billed annually, $468/year) for your whole team: employees, clients, and contractors included at no per-seat cost, with no usage meters and no AI-driven tier ladder.
You get a message board, to-dos, docs and files, a schedule, Boards (a kanban board), and chat, plus client access with approvals and project health charts. No relational databases, wiki nesting, or AI features, on purpose. There's a free plan to start (1 project, 20 people, clients included, 1 GB) and a 14-day Pro trial, no credit card required.
Notion vs Thicket: what you pay
Thicket holds at $49/month at every team size. Here's the side-by-side against both paid Notion plans, billed monthly.
| Team size | Thicket Pro | Notion Plus | Notion Business | You save vs Plus |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 users | $49/mo | $60/mo | $120/mo | $11/mo |
| 10 users | $49/mo | $120/mo | $240/mo | $71/mo |
| 20 users | $49/mo | $240/mo | $480/mo | $191/mo |
| 50 users | $49/mo | $600/mo | $1,200/mo | $551/mo |
Thicket Pro is $49/month flat ($39/month billed annually). Notion Plus at $12/member/month and Business at $24/member/month, billed monthly, agent credits extra. Prices verified August 2026.
An honest note on the crossover: at 1–4 people, Notion Plus ($24–48/month billed monthly) is cheaper than a $49 flat rate. From 5 people on, the flat rate wins ($60 vs $49). At 10 people Thicket saves $71–191/month depending on the tier, before any agent credits. More on the model: why we don't charge per user and why per-seat pricing is dying. For the full feature-by-feature picture, read the Thicket vs Notion comparison or Thicket's pricing in full. And if you want every major tool's verified rates in one dated table, the Project Management Pricing Index carries them all.