How does Notion price its AI?

Notion sits at the “Hard allotment” rung of the AI Credit Index metering continuum. A usage meter was bolted onto a seat you already pay for — the subscription is no longer the whole bill.

Has Notion changed its AI pricing since January 2025?

3 dated, sourced pricing changes are on record since January 2025, and it shifted on the metering continuum over that window.

Notion pricing, reviewed — Strategy of Finance

CompanyNotion
CategoryIncumbent meters
AudienceBusiness
PatternIncumbent bolt-on
Last observedJun 2026
Confidencehigh

Jan 2025 Rung 2 · Soft meter
May 2026 → now Rung 3 · Hard allotment Custom Agents begin consuming credits; a hard stop at zero on the agent layer

Moved across the continuum this window — pattern: Incumbent bolt-on.

The short version A usage meter was bolted onto a seat you already pay for — the subscription is no longer the whole bill.

The verdict

Notion AI launched in 2023 as a flat $10/member add-on with effectively unlimited fair-use usage — a soft meter, and still that at the start of 2025. Around May 2025 Notion folded AI into Business/Enterprise seats (Business rising to $20/seat), deepening the seat-bundled model. Then in 2026 it bolted a real meter onto the new autonomous layer: Custom Agents began consuming Notion credits at $10 per 1,000 (May 4, 2026) with no credits included — run out and agents pause until an admin tops up, while bundled AI keeps running to fair use. The hard allotment governs only the agent layer.

Current pricing snapshot

As published on Notion's own pages · captured Jun 12, 2026. Unit: Notion credits.

Plan	Price / mo	Included	At zero	Top-up vs plan
Business	$20	—	Hard stop	Yes · price hidden
Enterprise	Custom	—	Hard stop	Yes · price hidden

Credit ↔ dollar: Pegged — one credit is a fixed $ amount
Credit burn rate: Varies by model / action
Model choice: Unstated
Billing: Monthly or annual
Included credits: Unstated
Purchased credits: Expire each cycle

What changed

Aug 11, 2026 · Credit burn-rate repricing · Workers (Beta) 'Free to try now. Starts using credits on August 11' — a feature moving from free into the credit meter at a pre-announced date.
May 4, 2026 · Meter adopted · Custom Agents begin consuming Notion credits at $10 per 1,000 credits (Business/Enterprise add-on, NO credits included with any plan); run out and agents pause until an admin adds credits (hard stop), with per-agent/workspace spend caps and auto-pause on spikes.
May 1, 2025 · Policy change · Notion retires the standalone AI add-on for new Free/Plus users and bundles AI into Business/Enterprise seats; Business annual price rises ~$15 to $20/member (existing add-on subscribers grandfathered), keeping AI flat-per-seat with fair-use.

Where it's headed

The seat-bundled AI stays soft; the agent layer is a fresh hard allotment. The rung's gravity says expect included-credit grants and, eventually, automatic overage on the agent meter as autonomous usage scales.

A read on the likely next move from where Notion sits today — association, not a forecast (the panel is observed, not sampled). How the continuum works →

Sourced from Notion's official pricing pages and archived snapshots. Primary: pricing page. Method & limits: Methodology & data.