The Verdict
Notion AI is genuinely valuable if you're already a Notion user — the AI summarisation and action-item extraction from meeting notes alone justifies the £8/mo add-on. If you're not in the Notion ecosystem yet, don't switch just for the AI. The writing features are outclassed by dedicated tools like Claude.
Six weeks. Our entire Notion workspace. Notion AI switched on for everything. Here’s what we found.
What Is Notion AI?
Notion AI is an add-on layer for the Notion workspace, available at £8/month per member on top of your existing Notion plan. It’s not a standalone AI product — it lives inside Notion and works on your Notion content.
That positioning matters. This isn’t a general AI assistant. It’s an AI that understands and operates within your workspace structure — your pages, databases, linked content, and documents.
Notion AI is a solid £8/month add-on for anyone already in the Notion ecosystem. The meeting notes → action items workflow alone saves significant time. The writing assistant is useful but not best-in-class. Worth it if Notion is your primary workspace.
What We Liked
- Excellent at summarising long pages and meeting notes
- Action item extraction is genuinely accurate
- AI search across your entire workspace is a game-changer
- Tight integration — no copy-pasting to an external tool
- Reasonable price at £8/mo add-on
What We Didn't
- Writing quality lags behind Claude and ChatGPT
- Can't operate across databases without manual linking
- No tool access or web browsing
- Limited context window on large pages
The Use Cases We Tested
We tested Notion AI on six distinct workflows over six weeks:
- Meeting notes → action items
- Long document summarisation
- Writing first drafts
- AI search across the workspace
- Database entry from freeform text
- Weekly review automation
Use Case 1: Meeting Notes → Action Items
Verdict: Excellent. This alone justifies the cost.
This is where Notion AI genuinely shines. Paste in raw meeting notes (or record with Otter.ai and paste the transcript), ask Notion AI to extract action items, and it produces a clean, accurate list with owners and deadlines.
We tested this on seven different meeting types over the trial period. The accuracy rate was high — it correctly identified who was responsible for what in six out of seven cases. The one miss was a complex multi-party handoff that was ambiguously phrased in the notes.
Screenshot: Notion AI extracting action items from a 1,500-word project meeting transcript. Output shows a clean list with task names, owners, and dates.
For anyone who runs meetings and then manually writes up action items: this feature pays for itself in week one.
Use Case 2: Document Summarisation
Verdict: Very good, with length limitations.
Notion AI can summarise any page in your workspace. We tested it on:
- A 6,000-word strategy document → produced a clean 8-bullet summary in 12 seconds
- A 40-page board pack (uploaded as individual pages) → summarised each page accurately
- A project retrospective spanning 15 sub-pages → struggled with the cross-page structure
The limitation becomes apparent with very long documents or content spread across linked pages. Notion AI works best on self-contained pages with clear structure.
Use Case 3: Writing First Drafts
Verdict: Useful as a starting point, but not best-in-class.
The writing assistant can generate content from a brief, continue partially written text, or rewrite existing content. The output quality is adequate but noticeably behind Claude and ChatGPT for writing tasks.
The real advantage isn’t quality — it’s workflow. You never leave Notion. You write your brief, generate a draft, and continue editing in the same document. For internal documents, proposals, and standard business writing, this convenience often outweighs the quality gap.
For client-facing content or anything where writing quality matters, we’d still recommend exporting to a dedicated writing tool.
Use Case 4: AI Search Across Workspace
Verdict: Transformative if you have a large Notion workspace.
Ask Notion AI a question about your own content and it searches your entire workspace for the answer. “What was the conclusion from the Q4 strategy meeting?” “What are the onboarding steps for new clients?” “What did we decide about the website redesign?”
For small workspaces (under 50 pages), this isn’t life-changing — you can find things manually. For larger workspaces with hundreds of pages, databases, and documents, this feature is genuinely transformative.
Pricing
| Plan | Monthly cost | AI included? |
|---|---|---|
| Free | £0 | No |
| Plus | £8/member/mo | No |
| Business | £15/member/mo | No |
| AI add-on | +£8/member/mo | Yes |
Notion AI requires the Plus plan or higher, so the minimum realistic cost for one user is £16/month (Plus + AI). At that price point, it’s competitive.
Who Notion AI Is For
Buy it if:
- You’re already using Notion as your primary workspace
- You run regular meetings and manually write up action items
- Your team generates a lot of internal documentation
- You want AI that understands your own content and context
Skip it if:
- You’re not already in Notion — the switching cost isn’t worth it just for the AI
- You primarily need AI for writing quality, not knowledge management
- You’re budget-constrained — £8+/member/month adds up for teams
The Honest Verdict
Notion AI is a well-executed, pragmatic AI product. It doesn’t try to be everything — it focuses on making your Notion content more useful, and it largely succeeds.
The £8/month add-on is fair value for solo users and small teams who live in Notion. It won’t replace a dedicated AI writing tool for content creation, but it will meaningfully reduce the administrative overhead of managing a knowledge-heavy business.
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