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Notion
All-in-one workspace for notes, docs, wikis, and databases, with AI features.
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FindThatSoftware verdictEditorial ruling
An excellent fit for teams that want one flexible space for docs, wikis, and light project tracking, with a strong free tier for individuals. That flexibility can become messy without conventions, and it's not a replacement for dedicated project management at scale. Verify per-member pricing and whether AI is an add-on.
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Should you use Notion?
Use it if teams wanting a unified docs/wiki workspace. Avoid it if regulated teams that need SSO and audit logging on a tight budget, because those sit on Business and Enterprise tiers.
Spec sheet
- Starting price
- ₹992/mo$10/user/mo sticker
- Free plan
- Available
- Free trial
- Not listed
- Status
- Source checked 29 Jul 2026
- Source trail
- 2 public sources
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Notion is a developer & data / productivity & knowledge for Indian buyers. All-in it runs about ₹992/mo for a GST-registered business ($10/user/mo sticker plus about 3.5% card forex). It does not issue an India GST invoice, so a registered business reclaims the GST via reverse charge. FindThatSoftware rates it best for teams wanting a unified docs/wiki workspace, and a poor fit if regulated teams that need SSO and audit logging on a tight budget, because those sit on Business and Enterprise tiers.
The trade-off, weighed
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- Free accounts get unlimited pages for individual use plus 10 external guests, which covers solo work and light client sharing
- Plus at 10 dollars monthly lifts the 5 MB file upload cap and adds custom forms and sites for small teams
- Databases, docs and wikis live in one place, so a company handbook and a project tracker share the same links
The catch
- The free plan limits file uploads to 5 MB and page history to 7 days, so older versions cannot be recovered
- SAML single sign on, private teamspaces and the Notion Agent all sit on Business at 20 dollars per seat monthly
- Custom agents bill separately at 10 dollars per 1,000 Notion credits, and agents stop running once those credits run out
- Seats are priced in US dollars with no rupee option, so the real cost moves with the exchange rate and card forex fees
True India price
Registered business, per month
₹992
Notion advertises $10/mo. A GST-registered business in India pays about ₹992 a month (₹11,908/yr) once the roughly 3.5% card forex markup is added, with GST reclaimed as input credit. If you cannot reclaim GST, it is about ₹1,171 a month.
- Sticker price
- $10/mo
- Card forex markup
- about 3.5% over mid-market
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹992
- Registered per year
- ₹11,908
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹1,171
- Try first
- Has a free plan, so you can start without a card.
- Watch for
- Free plan; paid plans from $10/user/mo per member, scaling to higher tiers (monthly billing; ~20% off yearly), with Enterprise custom-quoted. AI add-on extra. USD. Confirm on vendor site.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
Full India pricing breakdownIndia readiness
How well Notion fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- ✗GST invoice
No Indian GST invoice, so a registered business cannot claim input tax credit on the bill.
- ✗Bills in INR
Priced in a foreign currency, so your card or bank adds forex conversion on top.
- ✗India HQ
Headquartered outside India, so check support hours and India-specific features.
How Notion compares
Against the 2 other docs wiki toolswe list, from what we verified on each vendor’s own pages.
Also in most alternatives
Recorded for at least half of the 2 others, and for Notion.
This compares only the capabilities enough rival tools share for a comparison to mean anything — roughly a quarter of what we verified. The full list is under “What we verified” below, and anything absent from both is something we did not record rather than something the product lacks.
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Audit my stackOverview
What is Notion?
Notion is a flexible workspace combining notes, documents, wikis, and lightweight databases, plus AI assistance. Teams use it for knowledge bases, project tracking, and internal docs, customizing pages with blocks and templates.
Best for
- Teams wanting a unified docs/wiki workspace
- Startups building a knowledge base
- Individuals organizing notes and projects
Who should avoid it
- Regulated teams that need SSO and audit logging on a tight budget, because those sit on Business and Enterprise tiers
- Buyers who want predictable AI spend, because custom agent usage is metered in credits on top of the per seat fee
What Notion does
What we verified about Notion
Read from Notion’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
Features we confirmed31
- Template gallery
- Browse Templates is a first-class resources section
- Scim provisioning
- Enterprise unlocks the Notion SCIM API for provisioning
- Sso saml
- SAML SSO becomes available on the Business plan
- Offline mode
- Feature table lists using Notion offline on desktop and mobile
- Forms
- Basic forms free, custom forms without Notion branding on Plus
- External sharing controls
- Enterprise can disable guests and block external page sharing
- Custom AI agents
- Custom Agents handle repetitive tasks and consume Notion credits
- Audit log
- Enterprise adds a detailed security activity audit log
- AI writing assistant
- Notion AI generates and edits docs and autofills databases
- AI meeting notes
- AI Meeting Notes transcribes meetings with a summary
- AI research mode
- Research mode produces detailed reports using workspace and web
- Block based document editor
- Pages are built from blocks such as checkboxes and paragraphs
- Calendar app
- Notion Calendar connects multiple calendars from the free plan
- Custom branded sites
- Plus adds custom header, theme, favicon on published sites
- Custom code extensions
- Workers extend Notion with custom code and external syncs
- Database charts
- Charts visualise database data as donut, bar, line
- Dlp and siem connections
- Enterprise connects SIEM and DLP tools for policy enforcement
- Domain verification and management
- Domain verification unlocks SSO and workspace ownership actions
- Enterprise search across connected apps
- Enterprise Search finds answers across Slack, GitHub and more
- Granular database row permissions
- Business limits access to rows where collaborator is assigned
- Guest collaboration
- External guests such as agencies and contractors can collaborate
- Notion agent multi step tasks
- Notion Agent completes complex multi-step tasks using connected context
- Page verification badge
- Verify any page adds a badge appearing in AI citations
- Page version history
- Page history ranges from 7 days to unlimited
- Permission groups
- Permission groups organise people by role or department
- Private teamspaces
- Private teamspaces cannot be seen except by added members
- Public API and developer platform
- Site maintains a Developers section and integrations platform
- Publish page to web
- Free plan can publish a Notion page to the web
- Relational databases
- Databases support subtasks, dependencies and custom properties
- Team wiki
- Knowledge Base product centralises company knowledge in Notion
- Zero data retention for enterprise AI
- LLM providers use zero data retention on Enterprise workspaces
What people use it for4
- Manage projects and tasks
- Free plan pitched for individuals organising personal projects and life
- Build forms and surveys
- Forms capture, organise and act on responses inside Notion
- Build company wiki
- Knowledge Base product centralises handbook and internal documentation
- Build a website
- Custom sites publish Notion pages with branding and analytics
Works with10
- Slack
- Basic connections connect to Slack from Plus tier
- Salesforce
- Salesforce listed as a beta Enterprise Search connector
- Onedrive
- OneDrive named among beta Enterprise Search connectors
- Microsoft teams
- Enterprise Search covers connected tools including Microsoft Teams
- Jira
- Jira listed as an Enterprise Search connector in beta
- Google drive
- Google Drive named in basic connections on Plus
- Google analytics
- Custom sites can integrate with Google Analytics tracking
- Github
- GitHub listed under premium connections and Enterprise Search
- Box
- Box named among beta Enterprise Search connectors
- Asana
- Asana named in premium connections on Business
Terms, compliance and how you buy24
- Self serve signup
- Get Notion free requires no sales conversation
- AI metered in credits
- Custom Agents cost ten dollars per 1,000 Notion credits
- Audit log gated to enterprise
- Audit log sits behind the Enterprise contact-sales tier
- Beta heavy AI features
- Enterprise Search, meeting notes and research mode marked Beta
- Connections gated by tier
- Basic connections on Plus, premium and advanced connections higher
- Consultant partner network
- Resources include a Consultants directory for implementation help
- Consumer and work dual positioning
- Use cases split into For work and For life
- Enterprise quote only
- Enterprise tier shows custom pricing and Contact Sales
- Five mb file cap on free
- Free plan caps uploads at five megabytes each
- Flexibility requires conventions
- Our verdict warns flexibility becomes messy without team conventions
- Free plan available
- Free tier is unlimited for individuals with no charge
- Free plan block cap once multi member
- Pages unlimited for individuals but limited for two or more members
- Learning academy
- Help section includes Notion Academy and product tours
- No free trial only free plan
- Our record shows no time-limited trial, only free tier
- No INR billing
- Seats priced in dollars, real cost moves with exchange rate
- Not a full project management replacement
- Our verdict says it does not replace dedicated PM at scale
- Per seat pricing
- Plans are quoted per member per month
- Seven day page history on free
- Free plan retains only seven days of page history
- Sso gated to business tier
- SAML SSO first appears on the twenty dollar Business plan
- Ten guest cap on free
- External guest limit on free plan is ten
- Thirty day AI data retention below enterprise
- Free, Plus and Business all show 30 day retention
- Unpredictable AI spend
- Agent usage is metered on top of per-seat fee
- Usd billed
- Pricing page states price in USD only
- Yearly billing saves twenty percent
- Pay yearly toggle advertises saving up to twenty percent
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Pricing caveat and source trail
Pricing and free-plan claims can change. FindThatSoftware keeps source URLs visible so users can verify before buying.
Free plan; paid plans from $10/user/mo per member, scaling to higher tiers (monthly billing; ~20% off yearly), with Enterprise custom-quoted. AI add-on extra. USD. Confirm on vendor site.
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Does Notion give a GST invoice in India?
Notion does not issue an India GST invoice. A GST-registered business can still reclaim the 18% through the reverse-charge route by raising a self-invoice, but there is no vendor GST invoice to claim against directly.
Is Notion good for Indian small businesses?
Notion can work for Indian buyers, but check currency, tax, billing, support, and whether the workflow justifies foreign-currency pricing.
Does Notion have a free plan?
Notion lists a free plan, but check the official pricing page for current usage limits before choosing it.
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