Two products that both get called a workspace, priced and structured in different ways.
TL;DR
ClickUp sells one subscription that bundles tasks, sprints, whiteboards, chat, calendar and docs: Unlimited at $7 per user a month billed yearly ($10 monthly), Business at $12 yearly ($19 monthly), with AI sold separately at $9 or $28 per user. Notion sells a document and database workspace: Free at $0 per member, Plus at $10, Business at $20 per member a month, with AI metered at $10 per 1,000 credits. Pick ClickUp when work is tracked as tasks with owners, dates and statuses; pick Notion when work lives in pages, wikis and relational records.
ClickUp's pricing page leads with a free-forever tier that needs no card, then charges per user: Unlimited at $7 per user a month billed yearly or $10 billed monthly, Business at $12 yearly or $19 monthly, and an Enterprise tier you quote with sales. The paid ladder carries the extras that matter day to day — unlimited spaces, folders and forms, unlimited Gantt charts, unlimited integrations and unlimited storage start at Unlimited, while Business adds 5,000 automations a month and Enterprise lists 250,000 plus audit log, session management and SSO/HIPAA availability. AI is a separate line item: Brain AI at $9 per user a month, Everything AI at $28, with Super Credits at $10 per 10,000.
Notion's page starts at $0 per member and prices the team tiers at $10 per member for Plus and $20 per member for Business, with Enterprise quoted by sales. The free tier already covers databases with subtasks, dependencies and custom properties; Plus adds basic connections, and Business is where the automations sit — the tier described as handling repetitive tasks on its own. Notion AI runs on credits: free to try, then $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits. Publishing a site to a custom domain costs extra at $8 per domain a month billed annually, or $10 monthly, and the Workers beta lets teams extend the workspace with their own code.
| Feature | ClickUp | Notion |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Free forever, no card required | Free at $0 per member |
| Entry paid plan | Unlimited: $7 per user/month yearly, $10 monthly | Plus: $10 per member/month |
| Mid tier | Business: $12 per user/month yearly, $19 monthly | Business: $20 per member/month |
| Enterprise | Quote-based, with audit log and SSO/HIPAA availability | Quote-based, contact sales |
| AI pricing | Brain AI $9 and Everything AI $28 per user/month; Super Credits $10 per 10,000 | Free to try, then $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits |
| Automation | 5,000 runs a month on Business, 250,000 on Enterprise | Automations included on the Business tier |
| Core unit of work | Tasks with owners, dates, statuses and views | Pages backed by databases with subtasks and relations |
| Platform | Web app, desktop app, mobile apps, browser extension | Web app, desktop app, mobile apps |
| Offline mode | Not covered on clickup.com/pricing | Not covered on notion.so/pricing |
| Extras priced separately | AI plans; higher automation ceilings | AI credits; custom domains at $8/month annually; Workers beta |
Pick ClickUp if
ClickUp charges per user for a suite where every task carries an assignee, a due date and a view, and the $7 yearly rate undercuts Notion's $10 entry. Sprints, Gantt charts, whiteboards and chat arrive inside the same subscription, so a team does not have to bolt four tools together to run a delivery cycle.
Pick Notion if
Notion charges for a document surface where a database row and a readable page are the same object, and the free tier is a genuine starting point rather than a trial. Writers, researchers and small teams that think in outlines and linked databases get more from $10 a member than from a task board they have to fill in.
No independent reviews or user ratings were collected for ClickUp or Notion here; the bullets above are the vendors' own claims copied from clickup.com/pricing and notion.so/pricing, and every price on this page comes from those two pages.
At the entry paid tier, yes: ClickUp's Unlimited plan is $7 per user a month billed yearly against Notion's Plus at $10 per member. The gap narrows higher up — ClickUp Business is $12 yearly per user and Notion Business is $20 per member — and ClickUp's AI add-ons ($9 or $28 per user) are billed on top, while Notion meters AI at $10 per 1,000 credits.
Both sell a free tier. ClickUp's free-forever plan requires no card but holds back unlimited Gantt charts, integrations and storage until the paid Unlimited tier. Notion's free plan at $0 per member includes databases with subtasks, dependencies and custom properties for individuals organizing personal projects.
Notion's structure is pages backed by databases, which suits wikis, meeting notes and research where reading matters as much as tracking. ClickUp carries docs, whiteboards and chat alongside tasks, so documentation sits next to the work items it describes rather than in a separate surface.
ClickUp sells AI as named plans — Brain AI at $9 per user a month, Everything AI at $28 — plus Super Credits at $10 per 10,000. Notion offers AI as a metered resource: free to try, then $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits, with the automation-heavy behavior landing on the $20 Business tier.
ClickUp publishes hard numbers: 5,000 automation runs a month on Business and 250,000 on Enterprise. Notion places its automations on Business without publishing a run count on the pricing page, and it also sells a Workers beta for extending the workspace with custom code.
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