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Notion
Project Management · www.notion.com
Overview
Notion is a cloud-based workspace that combines documents, wikis and customizable databases, which teams configure into project and task trackers with board, calendar, timeline and table views. Projects are built from database properties such as status, assignee and due date, with sub-tasks, dependencies, automations and charts layered on top. It is sold to businesses through Plus, Business and Enterprise plans, alongside a free plan for individuals.
The problem Notion solves
Teams often split project tracking, product specs and internal documentation across three separate tools, so context about why a task exists lives somewhere the task board cannot reach. Notion collapses that into one workspace: projects and tasks are database records with status, assignee, due date, sub-tasks and dependencies, viewable as boards, calendars or timelines, and they sit alongside the docs that describe them. The trade-off, visible in review themes across G2, Capterra and TrustRadius, is that the structure has to be designed and maintained by the team, and large databases can slow down.
Decision context
Use these points to test whether the product fits your operation, not just whether it has a long feature list.
- Published starting price: Free. Confirm user, usage, and feature limits for the plan you would actually buy.
- Deployment: cloud. Check security, data-residency, and access requirements for every team that will use it.
- Verified integrations include Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, Figma, Jira, Linear. Validate sync direction and plan limits for the connections that matter.
- This record was last checked on 7/31/2026; pricing and features can change.
How to evaluate Notion
A listing helps create a shortlist; a trial with the team’s real workflow decides whether the tool fits. Use this reading with the structured facts and confirm changes with the vendor.
Workflow fit
The record describes it as a fit for Startups and small teams that want project tracking, documentation and a company wiki in a single workspace, Teams that prefer to model their own project structure with databases instead of adopting a fixed PM methodology, Cross-functional groups where task tracking needs to sit directly next to specs, briefs and meeting notes. Check that this context matches the volume, roles, and processes your team needs it to support.
Pilot questions
- Can Notion complete the critical workflow without manual work outside the product?
- Do the recorded connections (Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, Figma) support the sync direction, permissions, and volume we need?
- What user, usage, storage, support, or security limits appear after the headline starting price?
Evidence and freshness
This record was checked on 7/31/2026. That date tells you when the record was reviewed, not that the vendor has left its terms unchanged since then.
Best for
- Startups and small teams that want project tracking, documentation and a company wiki in a single workspace
- Teams that prefer to model their own project structure with databases instead of adopting a fixed PM methodology
- Cross-functional groups where task tracking needs to sit directly next to specs, briefs and meeting notes
Not a fit if
- Teams that need built-in time tracking, resource and capacity planning, or true Gantt scheduling with critical path
- Organizations running very large, heavily related databases where consistent load performance is a hard requirement
Why it’s listed
- Widely adopted as a lightweight project tracker for teams that also want their specs, wiki and meeting notes in the same tool.
- Databases with board, calendar, timeline and table views cover the core project management patterns without a fixed methodology.
- Genuine free plan plus per-seat Business and Enterprise tiers with SAML SSO, SCIM and audit logs make it viable from solo use up to enterprise rollout.
Pricing
Free
FreeEssentials for individuals staying organized, with core databases and limited AI.
- Databases with sub-tasks and dependencies
- Notion Calendar
- Basic forms and basic sites
- Trial of Notion AI
- 7-day page history and up to 10 external guests
- 5MB file upload limit
Plus
$10 per member / month billed monthlyFor small teams and professionals working together in a shared workspace.
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited file uploads
- Unlimited charts
- Unlimited collaborative blocks
- Custom forms and custom sites
- Basic connections to third-party tools
Business
$20 per member / month billed monthlyNotion's recommended plan for companies, adding AI agents, SSO and finer permissions.
- Everything in Plus
- Notion Agent and AI Meeting Notes
- Enterprise Search (beta)
- SAML SSO
- Granular database permissions and private teamspaces
- Premium connections including GitHub and Asana
Enterprise
FreeFor organizations needing scale, advanced security controls and administrative governance.
- Everything in Business
- Zero data retention with LLM providers
- User provisioning via SCIM and domain management
- Advanced security controls and audit logs
- DLP and SIEM connections
- Customer success manager
Features
Integrations
Security & compliance
Pros & cons
Pros
- Extremely flexible: databases, custom properties, multiple views and templates let teams shape the tool to their process rather than the reverse
- Consolidates documents, wikis, task tracking and collaboration in one workspace, which reviewers repeatedly cite as its main advantage
- Large template ecosystem and simple page editing make it easy for non-technical team members to get started with basic tracking
- AI capabilities are among the most frequently praised aspects in G2 reviews, with AI writing and autofill applied to project records
Cons
- Steep learning curve and meaningful upfront configuration time before it works as a project management system
- Performance degrades on large databases, particularly those with many relations and formulas, a theme that appears across Capterra and TrustRadius reviews
- Findability suffers as workspaces grow, because content nests page-inside-page and can be hard to locate again
- Mobile app is reported as limited and slow to load compared with the desktop and web experience
What we found
G2 lists Notion at 4.6 out of 5 across roughly 11,962 reviews, and Capterra shows 4.7 out of 5 from 2,785 reviews, while TrustRadius is notably lower at 7.6 out of 10 from about 1,088 ratings. Across all three the recurring praise is flexibility and having docs plus tasks in one place, and the recurring complaints are the learning curve, the setup effort, and slowdowns once databases get large.
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