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Airtable vs Notion vs Superhuman Docs

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 23 September 2026.

Compared on
Airtable

Free plan · from $20/seat/mo

Notion

Free plan · from $10/member/mo

Superhuman Docs

Free plan · from $12/Doc Maker/mo

What it isSpreadsheet-style database for building team apps, with AI built inWorkspace for docs, wikis, databases and projects with built-in AIDocs that combine pages, tables, formulas and automations, now Superhuman Docs
Free planUp to 5 editors; 1,000 records per base; 1 GB of attachments per base; 100 automation runs; 500 AI credits per editor per month; 1,000 API calls per workspace per month; 2 weeks of revision history.Pages and blocks unlimited for individuals but limited for workspaces with 2+ members; file uploads up to 5 MB; 7-day page history; up to 10 external guests; 1 chart; Notion AI as a limited trial only.Collaborative docs with connected tables, views, forms, formulas and automations; limited trials of Docs AI and MCP. Doc size, automations and version history are capped (unlimited doc size starts on Pro, unlimited automations and version history on Business); exact Free caps are not listed on the plans page.
Cheapest paid plan$20/seat/mo billed annually (Team)Airtable pricing$10/member/mo billed annually (Plus)Notion pricing$12/Doc Maker/mo billed annually (Pro)Superhuman Docs pricing
What it coversSeats are charged for users with edit permissions; read-only collaborators are free. Includes 15,000 AI credits per paid user per month.Notion AI is only a limited trial on Plus. Full Notion AI starts on Business: $24 per member/month billed monthly, or $20 billed yearly.Only Doc Makers are billed; editors and viewers are free. Pro also includes Grammarly and Superhuman Go.
Free trialNone statedNone statedNone stated
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Chrome extensionWeb
Integrations (vendor's figure)Not statedNot statedNot stated
Open sourceNoNoNo
Good for
  • Tracking clients, inventory or content calendars in a shared database
  • Building a simple internal app or dashboard for a team without code
  • Automating notifications and record updates
  • Keeping a team wiki, meeting notes and project tracker in one shared workspace
  • Building simple databases for clients, content calendars or hiring without code
  • Summarising meetings and drafting documents with AI on the Business plan
  • Building a team project tracker or request intake form inside a shared doc
  • Replacing scattered spreadsheets and docs with one connected team hub
  • Letting many teammates edit docs without paying for each of them
Watch out for
  • Free plan caps each base at 1,000 records and 1 GB of attachments, with up to 5 editors
  • On paid plans, every user with edit access to a base is billed as a seat
  • SAML single sign-on and two-way sync require the Business plan
  • Notion AI is only a limited trial on Free and Plus; full access starts on Business ($20 per member/month billed yearly)
  • Free plan limits file uploads to 5 MB and page history to 7 days, and block storage is limited once a workspace has 2+ members
  • Custom Agents and premium AI models use Notion credits, which are charged separately
  • Unlimited doc size requires Pro; unlimited automations and version history require Business
  • Docs AI is included in paid plans only while in beta, under a fair use policy; the Free plan gets limited trials
  • SAML SSO and SCIM provisioning are limited to Enterprise
Made byAirtableNotion Labs, Inc.Superhuman (formerly Grammarly)

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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