Airtable's pricing page is short. The Free plan is available at no cost, Team is $20 per user per month when billed annually for teams that need more capacity than Free, Business is $45 per user per month when billed annually, and Enterprise Scale is quoted. The page states the billing rule plainly: on Team and Business you are charged for all users who have edit permissions on at least one base, so read-only viewers are not the unit of cost. Airtable describes agents, teams and workflows as living in one space, and the examples it shows on its own site are structured records rather than prose: a software and vendor request tracker with requester, priority and status fields, an objectives-and-key-results plan with linked epics and tasks, and campaign moodboards built from typed assets.
TL;DR
Airtable's paid ladder is Team at $20 per user per month and Business at $45 per user per month, both billed annually, with Enterprise Scale quoted. Notion's ladder is Plus at $10 per member per month and Business at $20, both published as flat per-member rates. So on entry price Airtable is twice Notion, and on the second step Airtable is more than twice. The difference is what you are buying: Airtable bills every user who can edit a base and sells structured records, linked tables and pipelines as the product, while Notion bills per member for documents, databases and wikis, and meters AI separately at $10 per 1,000 Notion credits rather than bundling it into a seat.
Notion prices per member with two published paid steps: Free at $0, Plus at $10 per member per month and Business at $20 per member per month, with Enterprise quoted. Both figures are flat per-member rates, so the arithmetic is per head and nothing is hidden in a billing-period toggle. Notion handles AI differently from a seat upgrade: agents are free to try and then cost $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits, which means agent-heavy use is metered rather than charged as a per-person add-on. Related items are priced on their own lines, including a custom domain at $8 per domain per month paid annually or $10 paid monthly, and file uploads jump from a 5 MB per-file cap on Free to unlimited uploads at roughly 5 GB per file on paid plans.
The practical split is the shape of the work. Airtable's two published steps sit at twice and more than twice Notion's equivalents, and in exchange the free tier and the paid tiers are built around typed fields, linked records and pipelines, which is the right shape for inventories, request queues and anything where a status field drives a view. Notion's free tier allows unlimited collaborative blocks for solo workspaces but limits blocks once a free workspace has more than one member, and the paid entry at $10 per member is half Airtable's. If what you are writing is documentation, meeting notes and a knowledge base that occasionally holds a table, Notion starts cheaper and stays cheaper; if the tables are the point, Airtable's premium is the price of that structure.
| Feature | Airtable | Notion |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Available at no cost for teams building their first applications | Free at $0 per member per month, with unlimited collaborative blocks for solo workspaces |
| Entry paid plan | Team, $20 per user per month billed annually | Plus, $10 per member per month |
| Second paid plan | Business, $45 per user per month billed annually | Business, $20 per member per month |
| Top published plan | Enterprise Scale, quoted | Enterprise, quoted |
| Billing unit | Per user with edit permissions on at least one base | Per member |
| Monthly versus annual | Both published paid prices are annual-billing figures | Flat per-member rates published for Plus and Business |
| AI pricing | Agents presented as part of the platform, with no per-plan AI allowance itemised | Free to try, then $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits |
| Custom domain | Not a line item on the pricing page | $8 per domain per month paid annually, or $10 paid monthly |
| File uploads | Not itemised as a tier limit on the pricing page | 5 MB per file on Free; unlimited uploads at roughly 5 GB per file on paid plans |
| Free tier limits | Free plan for users getting started | Block limit once a free workspace has more than one member |
| Education pricing | Not shown on the pricing page | Plus free for students and educators at a one-member limit |
| Product centre of gravity | Typed records, linked tables and pipelines | Documents, wikis and databases with AI agents on top |
| Best fit | Inventories, request queues and pipelines where a status field drives the view | Documentation, notes and knowledge bases that occasionally hold a table |
Pick Airtable if
Airtable is the better buy when what you are managing is structured records: vendor and software requests with priority and status fields, inventories, objectives with linked key results, epics and tasks. Its free plan costs nothing and the two published paid steps, $20 for Team and $45 for Business per user per month billed annually, are framed as capacity and administration rather than feature gates, with agents described as living in the same workspace as teams and workflows. The catch is the arithmetic: entry is twice Notion's Plus, both figures are annual-billing, and billing counts every user who can edit a base rather than every viewer. If the work is genuinely tabular and the team is small enough that editors and total headcount are close to the same number, that premium buys the structure the other product only approximates.
Pick Notion if
Notion wins on published price per head and on how it bills AI. Plus is $10 per member per month and Business is $20, both flat rates, which puts the paid entry at half Airtable's Team and the second step well below Airtable's Business. Agents are free to try and then cost $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits, so AI spend tracks usage instead of becoming a per-person line the whole team pays for. The free tier is generous for a solo workspace, with unlimited collaborative blocks, but shared free workspaces hit a block limit and have to upgrade, and a custom domain is an extra $8 per domain per month paid annually. For teams whose output is documentation, specs and a knowledge base that holds an occasional table, this is the cheaper and more flexible path.
Neither Airtable nor Notion publishes third-party review data we are willing to restate as fact, and we did not run either product. Every figure on this page is taken from the two vendors' own pricing pages and product pages as published when this comparison was written. The lists headed 'vendor-published claims' are the vendors' own statements, not user reviews.
On published prices, yes on both paid steps. Notion Plus is $10 per member per month against Airtable Team at $20 per user per month billed annually, and Notion Business is $20 per member per month against Airtable Business at $45 per user per month billed annually. Airtable's entry price is exactly double and its second step is more than double.
Notion meters it: agents are free to try and then $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits, and the pricing page lists which features require credits. Airtable presents agents as part of the platform rather than a separate product, and its pricing page does not itemise a per-plan AI allowance.
Airtable states that on Team and Business you are charged for all users who have edit permissions for at least one base in the workspace, while on the Free plan all users are free. That makes editor count, not headcount, the number that drives the invoice.
The Notion pricing page shows flat per-member rates of $10 for Plus and $20 for Business without a separate annual figure alongside them. Airtable's two published paid prices, $20 and $45 per user per month, are both described as annual-billing figures.
On Notion, a custom domain is $8 per domain per month paid annually or $10 paid monthly, and AI features consume Notion credits priced at $10 per 1,000. On Airtable, Enterprise Scale is quoted rather than published, and the pricing page does not split out add-on charges the same way.
If the work is documents, notes and a wiki, Notion's free plan covers a solo workspace fully and Plus at $10 per member per month is the cheapest published paid entry of the two. If the work is a tracker, inventory or pipeline where the fields matter, Airtable's free plan is a real starting point and the $20 Team step buys the structure, with the caveat that everyone who can edit a base is billed.
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