Complete comparison
See how Plane and Notion compare across project management, AI agents, planning, reporting, and pricing. Explore deployment options from cloud to airgapped, along with what it takes to move your work.
50,000+ teams run on Plane, from startups to the Fortune 500
Alignment from plan to delivery
For us, the biggest benefit is visibility and alignment. Product requirements can move into design, pass through approval gates, and then flow into engineering without losing context. It reduces coordination overhead, makes ownership clearer, and gives the team a reliable view of what is planned, what is blocked, and what is ready for delivery.
CIO, Fortune 500 financial services company
Where Plane goes further than Notion
Built to run the work
Plane ships work item types, estimates, time tracking, and cycles with burn-down ready on day one. In Notion, most of these are database properties someone sets up and keeps up.
Agents inside the work
Plane Agents take assignments and mentions, run on schedules or when work items change, and act only in the projects you grant them. Notion's Custom Agents need Business and a credits add-on.
Runs where you need it
Run Plane in Plane Cloud, on your infrastructure, or fully airgapped, with the Commercial and Airgapped editions at full parity with Cloud. Notion is cloud-only, and its AI runs outside the chosen data region.
Controls for how work moves
Required fields, workflow approvals, and custom roles for who can change work come built in, with nothing to assemble. Notion has none of these natively.
Let agents run your busywork
Agents take the work nobody wants: triage, status, spec drafts. The team reviews everything in the activity trail.
Work item types, estimates, and dashboards in one place.
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Plane vs Notion, feature by feature
Compare twenty-two capabilities across execution, planning, governance, collaboration, AI, and deployment.
Capability | Notion |  |
Run the work | ||
Work models and custom properties How different kinds of work are structured | Custom properties added to a Tasks database by hand. No per-item types or required fields. | Work item types with custom properties, required fields, defaults, visual identity, and activity history. |
Cycles Timeboxes, progress, and unfinished work | Sprints of one to eight weeks. No burndown or velocity. | Project-based cycles with manual start and stop, burn-down charts, and unfinished-work transfer. An active-cycles view spans projects. Business adds automatic scheduling. |
Dependencies What blocks what when plans change | Blocked-by and blocking links only. No start-to-start, finish-to-finish, or critical path. | Finish-to-start, start-to-start, and finish-to-finish dependencies, with dates that move when upstream work changes. Critical path shows on the Timeline. |
Estimates and time tracking Effort and hours on the work | No native estimates or time tracking. Teams add number properties and templates. | Estimates by points, categories, or time. Time tracking with worklog reports on Pro. |
See the whole picture | ||
Cross-project planning How work rolls up across the organization | No goals or initiatives. Built by hand with relations and rollups. | Initiatives connect projects across teams with owners, states, dates, and updates. Teamspaces show each team’s work across projects. |
Project updates How leaders see progress and risk | No structured project updates. Teams assemble them from templates. | On-track, at-risk, and off-track updates with ownership, dates, and progress, rolled up to initiatives. |
Dashboards Reporting people can open themselves | One chart on Free. Dashboard views only on Business and above. | Dashboards start on Pro. Business adds advanced widgets for analysis across projects and teams. |
Keep control | ||
Custom workflows Rules for how work moves | Statuses inside three fixed groups. No transition rules. | Control who moves work between states, with type-specific workflows and designated approvers. |
Approval gates Required sign-off before work moves | No native approvals. Teams build them from buttons and automations. | Designated approvers sign off before work moves, with a fallback state for rejected work. |
Roles and permissions Who can see, manage, and change work | No custom content roles. Row-level permissions only on Business and above. | Admin, Contributor, Commenter, and Guest roles per project. 5 free Guests per paid seat on Pro and Business. Custom roles and granular permissions on Enterprise Grid. |
Configuration as code Review project structure in Git | Notion as Code is an apply-to-join beta, marked alpha in Notion’s own repo. | Plane Compose defines states, workflows, types, labels, and custom fields in YAML for Git review, versioning, and reuse. |
One workspace | ||
Docs and wiki Long-form context beside the work | Nested pages and wikis. Verifying pages outside a wiki needs Business. | Pages inside each project, next to the work they describe, plus a workspace Wiki with nested pages, collections, page locking, external publishing, and Notion/Confluence imports. |
Request intake Turn outside requests into trackable work | Forms on every plan. Email intake only through paid Custom Agents. | In-app Intake starts on Free. Business adds email intake and public forms that need no account. |
Git integration Pull requests linked to work | GitHub and GitLab only, with syncs only on Business and above. No Bitbucket. | GitHub (including Enterprise Server) and GitLab (including self-managed) with two-way sync. Bitbucket Cloud and Data Center for pull request automation. |
Customer requests Link work to the customers who asked | No customer object. Teams build one as another database. | Customers on Business link requests to customer profiles and the work items they drive. |
AI in the work | ||
Assignable agents AI teammates that take work | Custom Agents only on Business and above, as a paid add-on. | Plane Agents take assignments and mentions, run on schedules or work item events, and show up in the same activity trail as people. |
MCP server Use AI clients with your workspace | Hosted MCP. The self-hostable server is no longer maintained. | MIT-licensed MCP server, hosted by Plane or run on your infrastructure. |
Bring your own model Your provider and your keys | No customer keys. Admins pick from Notion’s model list. | Self-hosted Plane (Commercial Edition) uses your OpenAI or Anthropic keys, AWS Bedrock, Ollama, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. |
Yours to run | ||
Self-hosted deployment Run in your infrastructure | No. Cloud only. | Deploy Plane on your infrastructure using Docker or Kubernetes. |
Airgapped deployment Run without external network access | No | Yes. Run Plane fully isolated, with no external network dependencies. Updates come from your own registry. |
Identity and audit Controls procurement expects | SAML from Business. SCIM, audit log, and IP allowlisting only on Enterprise. No LDAP. | SAML and OIDC with any identity provider, from Business (Pro on self-hosted). LDAP, granular access controls, and API-enabled audit logs on Enterprise Grid, plus IdP group sync on self-hosted. |
Moving from Notion What comes with your workspace | Not applicable | Notion pages import into the Wiki on Business, and task databases come in as work items through CSV. Enterprise Grid adds migration and implementation services. |
Your Notion history comes with you
Export your Notion workspace as HTML and Plane rebuilds it as Wiki pages, keeping subpages and hierarchy. Export task databases as CSV and bring them in as work items.
Lower price, fewer upgrade walls
Pro is $6 per seat per month vs Notion Plus at $10, both billed annually. On Notion, dashboards and Notion AI need Business at $20. Plane has both from Pro.
Run Plane anywhere
Choose Plane Cloud, deploy with Docker or Kubernetes, or go airgapped with zero external calls and offline updates. Self-hosted deployments support your models and keep logs local.
Ready for procurement
Plane is ISO 27001 certified and SOC 2 Type II audited, with support for GDPR and HIPAA requirements. Unlike Notion, self-hosted Plane keeps your data on your own servers and can run AI on a model inside your network.
Ready to switch from Notion?
Bring your Notion docs and databases into Plane, trade the tracker you maintain for one that’s built in, and
move at your own pace. Enterprise Grid adds hands-on migration services.
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