Airtable vs Notion
Both ladders below were read from the vendors’ own pricing pages, in this market, on the dates shown. Nothing is converted: what you see is what each page showed a reader here.
What each one is
Airtablesite ↗pricing ↗
A spreadsheet-database hybrid: structured records with views and automations, used to run processes a spreadsheet outgrows. Paid plans start at $20/mo (Team); no free plan is published. The ladder we hold runs 2 paid tiers, topping out at $45/mo (Business). We read the same $20/mo in every market we check, so this vendor does not price by country. It quotes USD here rather than local currency, so your bank sets the conversion.
Notionsite ↗pricing ↗
A workspace that combines documents, databases and wikis, used for everything from personal notes to company handbooks. Paid plans start at $16.5/mo (Business); a free plan exists. It bills by country — entry $10/mo to a US reader and €9.5/mo in the eurozone, from our same-day reads.
The two ladders
Airtablesite ↗pricing ↗
read 2026-08-29 · USD
| Plan | Price | What the page says |
|---|---|---|
| Team | $20/mo | |
| Business | $45/mo |
Notionsite ↗pricing ↗
read 2026-08-29 · USD
| Plan | Price | What the page says |
|---|---|---|
| Essentials | Free | |
| Business | $16.5/mo |
Where they differ
- Cheapest way in: Notion at $16.5/mo, against Airtable at $20/mo. That is the entry price in this market on the dates shown, not a judgement about which suits you.
- Free plans: only Notion publishes one — a plan priced at zero, not a trial.
- How far each ladder goes: Airtable tops out at $45/mo, Notion at $16.5/mo. A deeper ladder is not a worse deal — it is a bill that keeps climbing if you keep growing.
- Airtable: We read the same $20/mo in every market we check, so this vendor does not price by country. It quotes USD here rather than local currency, so your bank sets the conversion.
- Notion: It bills by country — entry $10/mo to a US reader and €9.5/mo in the eurozone, from our same-day reads.
How to choose in this category
- Nearly everything here is per seat — multiply by the team before comparing.
- Free tiers cap different things: seats on some tools, features on others. Check which.
- Billed-monthly rates sit above the advertised annual-billed figures.