10 Best Notion Alternatives of 2026

Obsidian takes the opposite approach to Notion: instead of a cloud workspace, it is a free app that keeps your notes as files on your own device in open formats, so they work offline and stay readable if you ever leave. Obsidian's pricing page says the app is free without limits and needs no sign-up, and a commercial license at $50 a user a year is optional even for work use. You link notes to each other, view the links as a graph, lay out ideas on Canvas and extend the app with thousands of plugins and themes. Paying is only needed for services: Sync costs $4 a user a month billed yearly and adds end-to-end encryption, version history and shared vaults, while Publish costs $8 a site a month billed yearly. The tradeoff is teamwork. Obsidian has no Notion-style databases or live co-editing, so it fits personal knowledge bases better than company wikis. We compared documented features and published prices.

ClickUp suits teams that use Notion mainly for project tracking and want stronger task tools. Its Free Forever plan includes unlimited tasks and subtasks, unlimited free members, collaborative docs, Kanban boards, a calendar view, sprint management and time tracking, though storage is limited to 60 MB. The Core plan costs $9 a user a month billed yearly on the current pricing page, down from a listed regular price of $12, and adds unlimited storage and spaces, custom fields, unlimited Gantt charts and forms, ClickUp Chat and 1K automations a month. Business at $17 a user a month billed yearly adds private docs and views, advanced dashboards, timesheets and Google SSO. ClickUp Brain, its AI layer, comes with pooled credits that grow with each tier. The downside is weight: ClickUp has far more views and settings than a simple doc tool, so writers who want a calm editor may prefer Craft or Obsidian. We compared documented features and published prices.

Coda is the closest Notion alternative for teams that treat docs as small apps. Every plan, including Free, has collaborative docs with connected tables, views, forms, formulas and automations, so a project tracker, a meeting log and a roadmap can share the same data. Docs AI, currently in beta, can draft content and build trackers and dashboards from a prompt. Pro removes the doc size limit and adds 30-day version history, hidden pages and custom branding and domains, while Business adds unlimited automations, unlimited version history, private team folders and page locking. Coda bills per Doc Maker, the people who create docs, which can keep costs lower than per-seat tools when most colleagues only use existing docs. Enterprise adds SAML SSO, SCIM and HIPAA compliance. Coda's pricing page showed euros from our location, so the USD price check is pending. We compared documented features and published prices.

Anytype is the Notion alternative for people who want a similar block-and-object workspace without handing their data to a cloud provider. It is made by Any, a Swiss association, and its plans are priced by remote storage and shared channels. The free plan includes 100 MB of remote storage, 10 shared channels and unlimited private channels. Plus costs $4 a month for 1 GB of storage and unlimited shared channels, Pro costs $8 for 10 GB, and Ultra $16 for 100 GB, with about 20% off on yearly billing. Each paid plan reserves an ANY ID name you can use for web publishing. Anytype also lets you self-host your own network with no membership required, and Anytype for Business adds SSO and an admin panel. Paid plans have a 30-day money-back guarantee, and educators and students get 50% off. The main limit is the small free storage allowance for synced files. We compared documented features and published prices.

Capacities is a personal knowledge tool that replaces Notion's pages and databases with typed objects. You create object types such as Book, Person, Meeting or Project, give them properties, and link them as you write, so a meeting note can point to the people and projects it mentions. The free Basic plan is generous: unlimited spaces, objects and blocks, sync across all devices, unlimited custom object types, offline support, full import and export and full-text search. Media uploads are limited to 5 GB total and then 100 MB a month. Capacities Pro costs $9.99 a month and adds an AI assistant, whiteboards, task management, smart queries, calendar integration, Readwise and Kindle import, version history and a public API. A Plus AI add-on covers heavier AI use. Sharing on the free plan is view-only and there is no team plan, so Capacities is for individuals rather than company wikis. We compared documented features and published prices.

AppFlowy is an open-source workspace built to feel familiar to Notion users, with pages, databases and project views, and it can run on AppFlowy Cloud or on your own servers. The free Personal plan is meant for personal productivity: one workspace owner, 100 MB of storage, 7 MB file uploads, 1 form, 1 chart and 7 days of version history. Pro costs $12 per member a month billed yearly or $16 monthly and adds unlimited members charged per member, free guest editors, a timeline with dependencies, dashboards, custom team spaces, permission groups, unlimited storage and 90 days of history. AI features include meeting notes, transcripts and AI search, with a local AI option. Each workspace is billed on its own, so two Pro workspaces mean two payments. The small free storage cap means most teams will need Pro or self-hosting. We compared documented features and published prices.

Confluence is the Notion alternative for companies that want a structured wiki, especially if engineering already uses Jira. The free plan covers up to 10 users with pages, spaces, databases, templates, up to 3 active whiteboards per user, 50 automation steps a month and 2 GB of storage. Standard, shown at $5.78 per user a month on monthly billing, adds Rovo Search, Chat and Agents with 25 Rovo credits per user a month, free guest access, advanced permissions, 250 GB of storage and up to 250,000 users per site. Premium at $11.16 per user a month adds unlimited whiteboards, admin controls and insights, unlimited storage, 24/7 support for critical issues and a 99.9% uptime SLA. Atlassian advertises savings of up to 17% on annual billing. SSO and SCIM require a separate Atlassian Guard subscription below Enterprise, which raises the real cost for larger teams. We compared documented features and published prices.

Craft is the Notion alternative for people who care most about how documents look and read. It has native apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows, Android and Vision Pro, and pages can be published with one click to a custom domain with your own branding. The free Starter plan allows 1,500 blocks across all documents, 1 personal space and 1 GB of storage, which is enough to try it but not to move a full Notion workspace. Plus removes content limits and adds 10 personal spaces, the Max AI model and advanced export and publishing control. The Team plan costs $5 per member a month with a minimum of 3 members and adds 25 shared team spaces, roles, permissions and centralized billing. Students get Plus free with yearly verification, and a Family plan covers 6 accounts. Craft lacks the database depth of Notion or Coda, and Plus showed only local currency from our location, so its USD check is pending. We compared documented features and published prices.

Evernote suits people who use Notion mainly as a place to capture things: web pages, PDFs, receipts, meeting notes and quick ideas. Every plan includes Tasks, Evernote Calendar and the Web Clipper, and paid plans add advanced search with Boolean, geographic and filtered queries, offline notes and PDF annotation. Recent AI features include an AI Assistant that works from a chat, semantic search, AI Transcribe for meetings and AI Edit, and Evernote can connect your notes to Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP tools. The free plan is now very limited at 50 notes, 1 notebook and 1 device, so most users need Starter, which allows 1,000 notes and 3 devices, or Advanced with unlimited notes and devices. A Flexible plan covers teams. Evernote has no databases or relational views, and its pricing page showed only local currency from our location, so the USD check is pending. We compared documented features and published prices.

Slite is a company knowledge base for teams that use Notion as an internal wiki and struggle to keep it accurate. The Basic plan costs $10 per user a month billed yearly and includes unlimited docs, Ask for AI search and answers within Slite, a doc verification workflow, doc ownership, a Knowledge Management Panel for bulk actions, and MCP and API access. Pro at $20 per user a month billed yearly adds the Slite Agent, search across connected tools, doc fact-checking with suggested fixes, agent workflows with 50 monthly credits per seat, OpenID SSO and a custom domain for public docs. Slite lists SOC 2 Type II compliance and AI answers in Slack. There is no free plan, only a 14-day trial, and the Basic price is higher than Confluence Standard, so Slite makes sense when keeping docs verified is the main problem. We compared documented features and published prices.