Notion

Category: Productivity

Workspace and wiki, with AI now metered rather than unlimited.

Notion combines documents, databases, wikis and project tracking in one workspace, which is why marketing teams run content calendars, campaign briefs, brand guidelines and meeting notes in it rather than across four tools. Databases with multiple views, relations and rollups do most of the heavy lifting. The AI layer now covers writing and editing, enterprise search across connected tools, meeting notes, agents that can run for extended periods, and Skills. Two changes matter. Notion reversed its AI bundling in October 2026: having withdrawn the paid add-on in 2025 and folded unlimited AI into Business and Enterprise, it has now moved to metered credits per seat with no rollover, and free and entry tiers get only a trial. Second, the MCP position is unusually good, a hosted remote server with around sixty tools, client-agnostic, available on every plan, with ordinary read and write actions explicitly not consuming AI credits.

Our verdict

Still the best general workspace for a marketing team, and the MCP implementation is the strongest in this directory: hosted, OAuth, available on every plan including free, works with any client rather than just Claude, and ordinary reads and writes do not burn AI credits. Being able to have Claude update your content calendar or pull a brief without opening Notion is a genuine change in how the tool gets used. GBP pricing is published across the full ladder, including Enterprise, which is rare. The caution is the AI pricing reversal. Business and Enterprise customers were sold unlimited AI and have now been moved to metered credits with no rollover, roughly seventeen months after the promise. The credits are reasonably generous and the top-up packs are not cheap. If you bought Business specifically for the unlimited AI, reassess what you are now getting. Also note free workspaces with more than one member are now capped at a lifetime block limit, enforced through the API.

Best for: Marketing teams who want their calendar, briefs, brand guidelines and notes in one place, and anyone wanting a workspace an AI assistant can actually operate.

Pros

  • Hosted MCP server on every plan, client-agnostic, with reads and writes not consuming AI credits
  • Around sixty MCP tools, the most complete implementation in this directory
  • Full GBP pricing ladder published, including Enterprise
  • Databases with relations and multiple views handle real campaign complexity
  • AI meeting notes, enterprise search and long-running agents included on higher tiers
  • EU data residency available in Frankfurt on Enterprise

Cons

  • AI moved from unlimited to metered credits in October 2026, about seventeen months after the promise
  • AI credits do not roll over, and top-up packs are expensive
  • Free and entry tiers get an AI trial only
  • Free workspaces with more than one member are capped at a lifetime block limit
  • EU residency is Enterprise only and the default is US until you migrate
  • Notion Mail, Calendar and beta services sit outside the residency scope

Pricing: Free, then from £8.50/seat/mo (Freemium)

Rating: 4.5/5