The short answer is $20 per member per month, and only if you pay for a year up front. If you pay monthly it is $24. There is no cheaper plan that includes Notion AI, and the $10 Plus plan — the one most people land on — does not include it at all.
That is worth stating plainly, because the pricing page does not. Both Free and Plus list “Trial of Notion AI” as a feature, which reads like access. The help centre is the place where it is said outright: “Notion AI is available on Business and Enterprise Plans.”
The four plans, both ways of paying
| Plan | Billed yearly | Billed monthly | Notion AI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | Trial only |
| Plus | $10 / member / month | $12 / member / month | Trial only |
| Business | $20 / member / month | $24 / member / month | Included |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing | Included | |
The page opens on the yearly figures, with a “Save up to 20% with yearly” banner above them. Switching the toggle to monthly moves Business from $20 to $24. For a team of ten that is the difference between $2,400 and $2,880 a year.
The trial is real, and it is never quantified
Free and Plus users get what Notion calls “a limited number of complimentary AI responses”. There is a dedicated help page about it. That page explains carefully what counts as a response and never says how many you get.
What counts is broad: “Every time you take an AI action (including creating new content, editing existing content, using AI blocks, adding an autofill property, asking a question, etc.) in Notion and receive a response from Notion AI, that counts as an AI response.” And then the sentence that matters most if you are trying to judge the tool: “Anytime you click Try again, that counts as an additional AI response.”
A retry costs the same as a first attempt. So the honest way to read the trial is that you are being given an unknown number of attempts, not an unknown number of finished pieces of work. If you are evaluating Notion AI against something else, assume you will spend two or three responses on anything you actually care about getting right.
What a Business seat actually includes
Each member gets two separate monthly allowances: 1,500 Standard credits and 500 Select credits. Notion is specific about how rigid they are — they “are separate”, you “can’t combine them, trade one kind for another, or move them between members”, and they “each reset monthly and don’t roll over”.
Standard credits cover the everyday things: the Notion Agent on its automatic setting, AI editing, page translation, AI blocks, AI database formulas, and AI Meeting Notes. Select credits cover the two premium cases: running the Agent on a model you choose yourself, and Custom Agents.
Running out is not a soft limit. In Notion’s words: “If you run out of one kind, features that use it pause until your next reset, unless a workspace owner lets you keep going using Notion credits.” You can be mid-month, on a paid seat, with a full Select balance, and still have page translation stop working because the Standard pool is empty.
One date to put in your calendar
AI Meeting Notes does not consume credits today. It will. Notion’s own footnote: “AI meeting notes uses Auto and will begin consuming monthly Standard credit allowance on December 1, 2026. A one hour meeting is estimated to use ~10 Standard credits.”
Ten credits an hour against a 1,500-credit pool is roughly 150 hours of meetings a month, which sounds generous until you remember that the same pool also pays for every AI edit, every translation, every AI block and every database formula. A team that leans on meeting transcription and on AI editing is drawing both from one bucket.
The same page adds a line worth keeping in view: “Features that don’t currently consume credits may do so in the future.” Database Autofill is free of charge against your balance today, and is explicitly described as “does not currently reduce credit balance”.
The part that runs backwards: annual credits cost more
When the included allowance runs out, workspace owners can buy Notion credits. There are two kinds, and this is where the usual logic inverts.
| Monthly credits | Annual credits | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $10 per 1,000 | $13 per 1,000 |
| Paid | Monthly, with your subscription | Upfront, in one payment |
| Expiry | Reset each month, no carry-over | Expire at renewal, no carry-over |
Annual credits are 30% more expensive per credit than monthly ones. Notion explains why, and the explanation is reasonable: “Because you can use annual credits anytime during your subscription year, they cost more and work well as a flexible pool.” You are paying a premium for the right to spend unevenly.
What you are not getting, either way, is carry-over. Both kinds expire unused. Buy a year of credits in January, use a third of them, and the rest disappear at renewal.
Who pays when an agent is shared
This one catches teams out. “By default, a Custom Agent uses its owner’s Select credits, even when you share it with your team.” Build something useful, share it with twelve colleagues, and all twelve are spending your 500 Select credits. A workspace owner can fund an agent with its own budget of Notion credits instead, and set per-agent spending controls — but that is a deliberate step somebody has to take.
Two things are free of credits for now: Workers, which is in beta, and everyday read and write actions through the Notion API and Notion MCP, where “normal rate limits still apply”.
Training, and the line that sits on the Enterprise plan
Notion’s commitment on training is clear, and better than several competitors: “Notion AI will not use your data to train our models unless you opt in to a request to share your data.” It extends that to the model providers it uses: “We specifically have contractual agreements in place with our AI subprocessors that prohibit the use of customer data to train their models.”
One qualification. “Zero data retention with LLM providers” is listed on the pricing page as an Enterprise feature. Not training on your content and not retaining it are different promises, and only the first comes with a Business seat.
There is also a workspace setting, available on any plan, at Settings → Notion AI → “Share data to improve Notion AI”. Worth checking what it is set to before anyone assumes.
So what should you budget?
For a team of five on an annual Business plan, $100 a month gets you the AI, plus 7,500 Standard and 2,500 Select credits spread across five people who cannot lend each other any of it. If one person does most of the AI work, their share runs out first and theirs is the one that pauses.
Heavy Custom Agent use is the thing most likely to push you into buying credits, because agents draw on the smaller Select pool and a shared agent bills its owner. If that is your plan, budget for credits from the start rather than discovering them in week three.
What we checked
Notion’s pricing page and five of its help centre articles — on Notion AI, trial usage, credit eligibility, Notion credits, and AI credit management — were read on 4 November 2026 and quoted directly. Prices are the published US dollar figures and exclude tax. We have not tested Notion AI, and nothing here describes how well it works; this is only what Notion’s published documents commit it to.
For the entry on the tool itself, see Notion AI in the directory. For how credit systems behave elsewhere, see What AI credits actually buy, tool by tool and When the credits run out, what actually stops?