Notion vs Coda: The 2026 Comparison for Small Businesses

Notion gives a small team more admin features at a lower tier; Coda gives a team with many casual editors a smaller bill.

US dollars per month, as of October 2026.

What the free plans actually give you:

• Notion Free: unlimited pages for one person but limited blocks once two or more members share it, 5 MB per upload, 7 days of history, 10 guests and an AI trial.
• Superhuman Docs Free: docs with tables, forms, formulas and a low automation quota, pages and objects "limited for shared docs," 1 GB of attachments per doc, 7 days of history and a Docs AI trial.

What you get by moving up: Notion Plus adds unlimited blocks, uploads and guests, 30 days of history and custom database automations, but AI stays a trial. Notion Business adds Notion Agent, AI Meeting Notes, Enterprise Search, SAML SSO, private teamspaces and 90 days of history. Superhuman Docs Pro adds unlimited doc size, Docs AI, MCP access, 30 days of history and custom domains, and includes Grammarly on yearly billing. Superhuman Docs Business adds unlimited automations and version history, private folders, locking, cross-doc actions and Superhuman Mail.

Other costs to know: Notion charges $8 a month per custom website domain billed yearly ($10 monthly), and extra Notion credits for Custom Agents cost $10 per 1,000.

Notion's AI pricing has shifted more than once since 2025. In May 2025 it folded AI into the Business and Enterprise plans; Free and Plus users get a limited number of complimentary AI responses.

On October 19, 2026 Notion announced a new credit system. Each Business and Enterprise seat includes 1,500 Standard credits a month (for work where Notion's Auto router picks the model) and 500 Select credits a month (for work where you pick the model, or to run your own Custom Agents). Admins can buy more. The system applies to new customers from October 19, 2026, and existing customers move to it on November 2, 2026.

Superhuman Docs is simpler for now: Docs AI is included on any paid plan with unlimited access during the beta (fair use applies), for Doc Makers.

In short, Notion meters AI per member and Coda bundles it per Doc Maker. If you want to compare Notion's AI against a writing-first tool, see our notion AI vs jasper comparison.

A 5 to 15 person service business that needs a wiki and SOPs

Notion. Its page-first layout suits handbooks, onboarding checklists and meeting notes, and Business bundles AI Meeting Notes. If meeting notes are the main job, compare it with dedicated AI note-taking tools first.

A team where two people build and everyone else updates

Coda (Superhuman Docs). Say 2 leads build trackers and 8 staff only update them. On Superhuman Docs Pro that is 2 Doc Makers at $12, or $24 a month billed yearly ($66 on Business), because Editors are free. On Notion every member is a paid seat, so the same 10 people cost $100 a month on Plus or $200 on Business, billed yearly. Coda Editors can add tables, formulas, buttons and automations, but cannot create docs or pages.

Teams that live in formulas, buttons and connected data

Coda. Tables, formulas, buttons and 800+ integrations with two-way sync are its core, and the July 2026 launch added table pages and a closed beta of Superhuman Databases that it says handles up to 1,000,000 rows. For automation that runs between many apps, a dedicated tool from our list of best AI automation tools may still be needed.

Businesses that need single sign-on or tighter permissions on a budget

Notion. SAML SSO, private teamspaces and granular database permissions come with the $20 Business plan; on Superhuman Docs, SAML SSO is Enterprise only.

Teams already paying for Grammarly or ChatGPT

Superhuman Docs Pro includes Grammarly on yearly billing. Notion lets you connect a ChatGPT Plus, Pro or Go plan to your personal Notion Agent.

Coda (Superhuman Docs)

• December 17, 2024: Grammarly agreed to acquire Coda and said Coda co-founder Shishir Mehrotra would become Grammarly's CEO.
• October 29, 2025: Grammarly changed its company name to Superhuman and began selling Grammarly, Coda, Superhuman Mail and the new Superhuman Go as a bundle.
• July 8, 2026: Coda was renamed Superhuman Docs. Existing docs moved over automatically, the company said pricing and "Maker Billing" were not changing, and the launch added a rebuilt Docs AI, a generally available Docs MCP, table pages, a Mac app and closed betas of AI views and Superhuman Databases.
• coda.io's pricing link now redirects to the Superhuman Docs plans page.

Notion

• May 13, 2025: new plans with AI included in Business and Enterprise.
• September 15, 2026 (Notion 3.7): shared AI skills, sub-agents, and Custom Agents that run after meetings.
• October 13, 2026 (Notion 3.8): MCP connections to 150+ tools, database column permissions and rebuilt synced databases.
• October 19, 2026: agents that can work on tasks for up to 24 hours, an upgraded Auto model router and the new credit system.

• Seat counting. Notion bills every member and resyncs seats at each renewal; guests are free but see only pages shared with them. Superhuman Docs bills Doc Makers and prorates mid-cycle changes.
• Refunds. If you signed up by mistake, Notion refunds in full when you downgrade within three days of starting monthly billing or 30 days of starting yearly billing. Superhuman Docs applies a prorated account credit, not a refund, when you remove members or cancel.
• AI data. Notion says it does not train its models on your data unless you opt in, its AI subprocessors are contractually barred from training on customer data, and LLM providers keep data 30 days below Enterprise (zero retention on Enterprise).
• Getting your data out. Notion's pricing page lists a full workspace export as HTML, Markdown and CSV, and also lists a whole-workspace PDF export. Superhuman Docs connects to outside AI tools through MCP.
• Ownership change. Coda now sits inside the Superhuman suite: paid Docs plans already include Grammarly and Go, and Business adds Superhuman Mail.

If you are building a wider stack, our roundup of best AI productivity tools shows where each fits.

• Docs AI pricing after beta. Superhuman Docs says Docs AI is unlimited on paid plans "whilst in Beta." It does not publish what changes when the beta ends.
• How far Notion credits go. Notion says "the vast majority of users are unlikely to run out" of monthly credits, but credit costs per task are not published on the pricing page.
• Docs-specific AI training policy. The Superhuman suite pricing table lists model training as opt out on lower tiers and off by default on Enterprise, but that row sits under Go, and the Docs pricing page does not repeat it.
• Export format for Superhuman Docs. We could not open Superhuman's help center to confirm current export options.

We compared each vendor's own pricing pages, help pages, release notes and official blog posts, all fetched on October 23, 2026. We did not test either product. Prices change often, so check the official pricing page before you buy.