One is priced as a workspace, the other as a board — and the two price lists show the difference.
TL;DR
Notion is a document workspace with databases attached to every page: Free at $0, Plus at $10, Business at $20 per member a month, Enterprise by quote. Trello is a board: Free for up to 10 collaborators with unlimited cards, Standard at $5 per user a month billed yearly, Premium at $10, Enterprise at $17.50. Pick Notion when the deliverable is a page or a structured record; pick Trello when the deliverable is a card that moves across a column.
Notion's pricing page runs Free at $0 per member, Plus at $10 per member and Business at $20 per member a month, with Enterprise quoted by sales. The free tier already includes databases with subtasks, dependencies and custom properties; Plus adds basic connections; Business is the tier where automations handle repetitive work. Notion AI is metered at $10 per 1,000 monthly credits after the trial, custom domains for published sites cost $8 a month per domain billed annually, and a Workers beta allows custom code on top of the workspace.
Trello's page runs Free at $0 for up to 10 collaborators in a Workspace, Standard at $5 per user a month billed yearly ($6 monthly), Premium at $10 yearly ($12.50 monthly) and Enterprise at $17.50 per user billed annually, which the page shows as $210.00 a year per user. Free covers unlimited cards but caps the workspace at 10 boards; Standard lifts that to unlimited boards and adds AI features; Premium adds admin controls, collections, observers and simple data export; Enterprise adds organization-wide security and controls.
| Feature | Notion | Trello |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Free at $0 per member, databases included | Free for up to 10 collaborators, unlimited cards, 10 boards per Workspace |
| Entry paid plan | Plus at $10 per member/month | Standard at $5 per user/month yearly, $6 monthly |
| Mid tier | Business at $20 per member/month | Premium at $10 per user/month yearly, $12.50 monthly |
| Enterprise | Quote-based, contact sales | $17.50 per user/month billed annually, shown as $210.00 a year per user |
| AI pricing | Free to try, then $10 per 1,000 monthly credits | AI features bundled into Standard and above |
| Storage of work | Pages and databases with relations, views and properties | Cards on boards, lists and archives |
| Automation | Included on the Business tier | Automations scale with the paid tiers |
| Platform | Web app, desktop app, mobile apps | Web app, mobile apps for iOS and Android |
| Offline mode | Not covered on notion.so/pricing | Not covered on trello.com/pricing |
| Free-tier ceiling | Paid seats start with the second editor | 10 boards per Workspace, unlimited cards |
Pick Notion if
Notion keeps the writing and the structured data in the same object, so a product spec, a research database and a meeting note can reference each other without leaving the page. The free tier is real, the $10 Plus step is small, and the $20 Business tier is where the automations start earning their keep.
Pick Trello if
Trello charges less and asks less: a card gets created, dragged and closed, and Standard at $5 per user a month billed yearly already unlocks unlimited boards with AI features. Teams that want a shared queue of visible next actions, rather than a knowledge base, get the answer they need in one screen.
No independent reviews or user ratings were collected for Notion or Trello on this page; the bullets are each vendor's own wording from notion.so/pricing and trello.com/pricing, and every figure above comes from those two pages.
Trello's paid entry is cheaper: Standard at $5 per user a month billed yearly against Notion's Plus at $10 per member. Trello also stays cheaper at the mid tier, Premium at $10 yearly versus Notion Business at $20 per member, though Notion's free tier carries more structure for the same $0.
Trello models work as cards on boards and is priced accordingly, with unlimited cards on free and unlimited boards from Standard at $5. Notion models work as pages backed by databases with subtasks, dependencies and custom properties, which is where wikis, specs and structured records live. They overlap on task tracking and diverge on documentation.
Notion's free plan at $0 per member includes databases with subtasks, dependencies and custom properties for individuals. Trello's free plan covers up to 10 collaborators with unlimited cards but stops at 10 boards per Workspace. Choose by shape: documents and records on Notion, cards and columns on Trello.
At list prices, 10 editors on Standard cost $50 a month billed yearly ($60 monthly), and 10 on Premium cost $100 a month billed yearly ($125 monthly). Enterprise is $17.50 per user a month on annual billing, shown on the page as $210.00 per user for the year.
Notion runs AI on credits: the page offers a trial, then $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits. Trello lists AI features as part of Standard and above rather than as a separate metered resource.
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