Is Notion AI Free? What Each Notion Plan Includes

Notion gives Free and Plus users “a limited number of complimentary AI responses so they can try Notion AI features out”, and as of November 2026 none of Notion’s pricing or help pages says how many. Notion AI itself, in the help center’s words, “is available on Business and Enterprise Plans”, so Notion AI is free only as a trial.

The trial allowance matters less than which of Notion’s other free routes you qualify for. A team on a work email domain can get 30 days of Business with AI included, a university student gets a free plan whose AI stays at trial level, and a startup can apply for up to six months. For two of those three routes, the email on your account is the test: Notion’s Business trial excludes educational and personal domains, and the Education Plan needs a school email as the account’s main address.

Is Notion AI Free?

Not for ongoing use. Notion includes AI on its Business and Enterprise plans. The Free Plan, the Plus Plan and the free student plan get a trial allowance of complimentary AI responses whose size Notion does not publish, and moving from Free to Plus does not renew it. Teams on a work domain can trial Business free for 30 days.

Here is what Notion’s pricing page showed as of November 2026 (rechecked on 4 November). Notion changes prices and limits often, so check the linked page before you pay. The page opens on yearly billing, so its cards show $10 and $20; the monthly-billed prices come from the price data embedded in the same page’s HTML.

The same page also shows:

• The comparison table marks Notion Agent (chat, generate, autofill, translate), Meeting notes and Research mode as “Limited Trial” on Free and Plus.
• Custom Agents are “Free to try, then $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits.”
• The banner says “Save up to 20% with yearly”. On Plus and Business the yearly saving works out to 16.7% by my arithmetic ($144 against $120 a year on Plus, $288 against $240 on Business), so neither plan reaches the 20%. The 20% matches the monthly price measured against the yearly one ($12 is 20% more than $10), not the saving.

The four plan names follow a common SaaS ladder, which I broke down in how SaaS companies name their pricing tiers.

Notion AI Pricing in India: USD on the Web, Rupees in the App Store

Notion’s pricing page labels its prices “Price in USD”. As of November 2026, neither that page nor Notion’s plan help page mentions India, local currencies, tax or GST, so the dollar figures above are Notion’s USD list, not a confirmed India price. The pricing page’s FAQ says Notion accepts “all major credit and debit card brands”, and its plan help page adds Apple Pay and Google Pay, with payments processed by Stripe.

Rupee prices appear on Apple’s India App Store listing for Notion, which showed these four in-app purchases as of November 2026 (unchanged from 31 October).

The listing does not name the billing period for the two Business rows. Grammarly names its App Store plan differently from its web plans, Premium in the app against Pro or Plus on the web, which the Grammarly price check for India maps checkout by checkout. Notion’s plan help page describes mobile upgrades only from Free to Plus, limited to one-member workspaces and managed through the Apple App Store or Google Play. Plus has only the AI trial, so a Plus upgrade on an iPhone at ₹1,199 a month does not unlock Notion AI.

Notion AI Free Limit: What the Trial Allowance Covers

Notion’s trial usage page opens with “Everyone can try Notion AI for free.” It gives no number for the allowance, and neither the AI FAQ (“a limited number”) nor the pricing page (“Limited Trial”) fills that gap. What the pages do define:

The practical rule: if you plan to judge Notion AI by the trial, run it on the job you would pay for, such as a summary of a real meeting page or an autofill on a real database. Not every AI tool leaves the number out: Suno states its free allowance as 50 credits a day, as the breakdown of whether Suno AI is free shows.

What Happens When the Notion AI Trial Runs Out

Once the allowance is spent, the trial page says you “will see a message that an upgrade to the Business or Enterprise Plan is necessary to continue using AI features”, and that a workspace owner on desktop has to make that upgrade (Notion’s plan help page also allows upgrades from the web). The other end-of-AI cases on Notion’s help pages:

If the trial runs out and a Business seat is not in the budget, my roundup of free AI tools for marketing covers free tiers of other writing assistants.

The 30-Day Business Trial Includes Notion AI

For a team, this is the Notion AI free trial that includes the full feature set. Per Notion’s paid plan trials page:

• What you get: “For 30 days, the Business Plan trial gives users access to all features in the Business Plan”, and the list starts with “Notion AI, including AI Meeting Notes, Research Mode, Notion AI connectors, and more”.
• Who can start it: teams that “use a professional domain and aren’t already on a Business or Enterprise Plan”, from Notion’s web or desktop app.
• Who cannot: “If you’re using an educational domain or a personal domain, your team won’t be eligible”. A Gmail address or a college email does not qualify.
• When it ends: if you entered payment details, Notion auto-renews into a paid Business subscription; if you did not, it asks you to confirm the upgrade.
• One limit inside the trial: the AI FAQ says “Business trials may not have access to the model picker.”

Is Notion AI Free for Students?

No, the free Education Plan keeps Notion AI at trial level. Notion’s pricing FAQ says “The Plus Plan (with a 1-member limit) is free for students and educators”, and the pricing table gives Plus only a “Trial of Notion AI”. The Education Plan help page lists guests, uploads and 30-day page history, and its plan description does not mention Notion AI.

What the Education Plan needs from you, in Notion’s terms:

• Who qualifies: students and educators at accredited colleges and universities listed in the World Higher Education Database. K-12 students and educators are not eligible.
• Which email: a school email that is the main email on your Notion account. A school email added as an extra address does not count, a personal address such as gmail.com does not qualify, and Notion does not accept student IDs instead.
• How long: no set end date, as long as you verify your school email once a year. If you cannot, the workspace and its content move to the Free Plan.
• Group work: the individual plan allows one member and up to 100 guests. Student organisations can apply for a multi-member Education Plan.
• The trap: “Upgrading it to a Plus, Business, or Enterprise plan permanently ends that workspace’s Education eligibility.” Each school email can also claim the offer only once.

So for a student on a school email, neither free route includes AI beyond the trial: the Education Plan carries the trial only, and the Business trial excludes educational domains. Other tools treat students differently. Figma, for one, gives verified learners its Professional plan free (my Figma student plan breakdown has the details), and my guide to which Claude routes a student in India can use covers Claude.

How Much AI the Business Plan Includes

Notion’s credit pages give Business and Enterprise members a monthly AI allowance. Notion’s 19 October 2026 announcement put new customers on this credit system that day and said “Existing customers move over on November 2”. As of November 2026, the credit help pages give no start date and describe the allowance below as what Business and Enterprise plans include.

Notion adds that “Your included amount may vary depending on your plan and purchase arrangement,” and that AI Meeting Notes start drawing on Standard credits on 1 December 2026, at about 10 credits for a one-hour meeting.

To size 1,500 Standard credits, Notion’s own estimates on Auto are 5 credits for a simple task (polishing an email), 10 for a medium one (writing a work report) and 25 for a complex one (drafting a performance review). At those estimates, my arithmetic gives about 300 simple, 150 medium or 60 complex tasks per member per month. Notion says actual use varies.

Extra Notion credits cost $10 per 1,000 billed monthly, or $13 per 1,000 as annual credits, which in-product billing sells only to annual Business and Enterprise plans, per What are Notion credits?.

Notion for Startups and Third-Party “6 Months Free” Pages

Search results for free Notion AI also surface third-party pages offering “6 months free”. The terms that govern them sit on Notion’s own startups page, which lists three tiers, each “including monthly AI credits”:

The page names “consultancies, agencies, and companies under 10 employees” among those who receive the 1-month trial, says an offer can be redeemed once, and applies it to new Business Plans only, not Enterprise. A partner’s code matters only for the 6-month tier, and the partner has to be on the list Notion links from its startups page, so check that list before you hand your details to a landing page. Notion’s page sets the eligibility for every tier. Notion’s free-to-paid path is a familiar product-led growth case, which I covered in product-led growth examples.

Which Notion Plan to Pick for AI

For a team that converts, the cost is per member: a five-person team on Business pays $1,200 a year billed yearly, against $1,440 billed monthly ($24 x 5 x 12), by my arithmetic from the prices above.

Is Notion AI Free for You? Check Your Account Email First

For most people Notion AI is free only until an unpublished allowance runs out, so the choice that matters is which free route you can open before spending it: the Business trial needs a professional domain on the team, the Education Plan needs a school email set as the account’s main email, and the startups program needs an application.

Before you spend a single trial response, check the main email on your Notion account.