Pricing verified: 11 August 2026. Compiled from Notion’s official pricing page, Help Center and public release notes. We do not hold a paid Notion Business or Enterprise seat and have not run these agents or Workers ourselves — every figure below is a published vendor number with its source named inline, and the arithmetic on top of those numbers is our own and labelled as such. Where Notion’s own pages disagree we say so rather than pick one silently.
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The deadline: Workers stop being free on 15 October 2026
Notion Workers — the hosted runtime that shipped with the Notion Developer Platform in version 3.5 on 13 May 2026 — are free today and metered in nine weeks. The Help Center states it plainly: “Starting on October 15, 2026, they’ll require Notion credits.” Until then, “During the beta, Workers are free to try on Business and Enterprise plans (including Business trials).”
The pricing page carries the same warning without the year, listing Workers as “Free to try now. Starts using credits on October 15.” The year appears only in the Help Center, which is the page to cite if you are budgeting from it.
The rate is published: $0.0023 per run, which Notion puts at roughly 4,348 runs per 1,000 credits. A “run” is one unit of work, and Notion counts three kinds: each scheduled sync execution, each agent-triggered tool call, and each webhook event handled. Anyone who wired a Worker to a high-frequency webhook during the free beta is currently generating a bill that starts arriving in October.
What a Notion credit costs — and why annual costs more
Credits are sold as an add-on, not bundled into the seat price. The Help Center: “Notion credits are an add-on for Business and Enterprise plans.”
| Credit type | Price per 1,000 | Who can buy | Unused balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly credits | $10 | Business, Enterprise | “Unused credits reset each month” |
| Annual credits | $13 | Admins on annual Business or Enterprise plans | “Unused credits expire at renewal and don’t carry over” |
The annual commitment is the more expensive one, and Notion says so directly. Its own FAQ answers the question of whether annual credits are cheaper with a flat “No. Annual credits cost $13 per 1,000 credits, compared to $10 per 1,000 for monthly credits.” That is a 30% premium per credit (our arithmetic) for committing further ahead — the reverse of the usual annual discount, and the reverse of how Notion prices seats, where the pricing page advertises “Save up to 20% with yearly.”
Monthly credits are also the flexible option: they “cost $10 per 1,000 credits per month and you can adjust the amount each month based on your needs.” If you exhaust a balance, “you can buy more mid-cycle to keep features running.”
Credits are consumed by three things, per the Help Center: “Custom Agents, Workers, and additional Notion AI usage beyond the usage allowance.”
What $0.0023 per run actually costs you per month
The per-run price is small enough to look like a rounding error and large enough to matter at machine frequency. At $10 per 1,000 credits, $0.0023 per run works out to 0.23 credits per run. The table below is our arithmetic on Notion’s published rate, not a vendor figure, and assumes a 30-day month and one Worker firing on a fixed schedule.
| Trigger cadence | Runs / month | Credits used | Cost (monthly credits) | Cost (annual credits) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hourly | 720 | 166 | $1.66 | $2.15 |
| Every 15 minutes | 2,880 | 662 | $6.62 | $8.61 |
| Every 5 minutes | 8,640 | 1,987 | $19.87 | $25.83 |
| Every minute | 43,200 | 9,936 | $99.36 | $129.17 |
A single once-a-minute sync costs about as much per month as five Business seats. The same Worker on annual credits costs $29.81 more every month for identical work. Caveat: Notion states the flat $0.0023 rate and also warns that “the actual credits consumed per run may vary depending on processing complexity” — so treat these as a floor, not a quote.
Custom Agents cost 13× to 130× more per run than Workers
The two credit-consuming features are priced in different worlds. Notion publishes per-run estimates by agent type:
| Custom Agent type | Cost per run | Runs per 1,000 credits |
|---|---|---|
| Q&A | ~$0.03–$0.11 | ~90–333 |
| Mail triage | ~$0.04–$0.10 | ~100–250 |
| Task routing | ~$0.05–$0.15 | ~65–190 |
| Status update | ~$0.08–$0.18 | ~57–133 |
| Daily brief | ~$0.10–$0.30 | ~33–100 |
Against the Worker rate of $0.0023, an agent run costs roughly 13× more at the cheapest end and about 130× more at the dearest (our arithmetic). The practical reading: scheduled polling and webhook plumbing belong in Workers, and agent invocations are the line item to count. Notion’s own worked example is consistent — “if your agent is like a ‘Status update agent’ and runs 60 times per month, that’s about $4.80–$10.80 per month” checks out exactly against its $0.08–$0.18 range.
Minor rounding drift, noted for completeness. Three of the five rows reconcile exactly against $10 per 1,000 credits (Q&A, mail triage, daily brief). Two do not: task routing at $0.05 computes to 200 runs rather than the published 190, and status update at $0.08 computes to 125 rather than 133. All the figures are prefixed “~”, so this is rounding rather than contradiction — but budget from the dollar figures, which are the ones Notion’s own example uses.
The Plus-plan conflict: shown the feature, refused the credits
Here Notion’s two pages do not agree, and the gap has a real consequence.
The pricing page lists both Custom Agents and Workers (Beta) with a “Requires Notion credits” marker under the Plus, Business and Enterprise columns. The Help Center states that “Notion credits are an add-on for Business and Enterprise plans” — Plus is absent — and that annual credits are for “Admins on annual Business or Enterprise plans.”
Read together, a Plus customer at $10/member/month appears to be offered two features whose fuel they may not be able to buy. Both readings cannot be right. We assert neither, because Notion has not reconciled them publicly: either the pricing page over-lists the plans, or the Help Center is behind a change that opened credits to Plus. If you are on Plus and planning around Custom Agents, confirm with Notion in writing before 15 October rather than after it.
Notion plan prices, verified August 2026
| Plan | Price (monthly billing) | Can buy credits? |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Not per Help Center |
| Plus | $10 / member / month | Disputed — see above |
| Business | $20 / member / month | Yes |
| Enterprise | Custom | Yes |
Yearly billing is advertised as “Save up to 20% with yearly”; the pricing page did not display the discounted per-plan annual figures when we checked, so we do not restate them here.
Frequently asked questions
When exactly do Notion Workers start costing money?
15 October 2026, per the Help Center: “Starting on October 15, 2026, they’ll require Notion credits.” Before that date they are free to try on Business and Enterprise plans, including Business trials. The pricing page repeats the day and month but omits the year.
How much is a Notion credit?
$10 per 1,000 credits on monthly billing, $13 per 1,000 on annual. Credits are an add-on for Business and Enterprise plans, bought in preset amounts in-product or through an account team.
Are annual Notion credits cheaper than monthly?
No — they are 30% more expensive per credit, and Notion’s FAQ says so outright: “No. Annual credits cost $13 per 1,000 credits, compared to $10 per 1,000 for monthly credits.” Annual credits also “expire at renewal and don’t carry over.”
Do unused Notion credits roll over?
No, on either billing mode. Monthly: “Unused credits reset each month.” Annual: “Unused credits expire at renewal and don’t carry over.” Running out mid-cycle is recoverable — you can buy more to keep features running.
What counts as a Worker “run”?
Three things, per the Help Center: each execution of a scheduled sync, each agent-triggered tool call, and each webhook event handled. Frequency is what drives the bill — a per-minute trigger reaches 43,200 runs in a 30-day month, about $99 at the published rate (our arithmetic).
Is it cheaper to run logic in a Worker or a Custom Agent?
A Worker, by a wide margin, on published rates: $0.0023 per run against $0.03–$0.30 for an agent run. That is roughly 13× to 130×. The comparison is on cost only — the two do different jobs, and we have not evaluated whether a Worker can replace a given agent.
What we could not verify
Gaps we could not close, listed so you find them here rather than after the meter starts.
- Whether Plus plans can actually buy credits — the pricing page and Help Center conflict, and neither reconciles the other.
- The size of the included Notion AI “usage allowance” — credits are described as covering usage “beyond the usage allowance”, but that allowance is not quantified on the pages we read.
- Whether any credits are bundled free with Business or Enterprise seats — credits are described as an add-on throughout, with no stated included balance.
- How far per-run cost varies with “processing complexity” — Notion publishes a flat $0.0023 for Workers and separately warns the figure can vary, without a range or ceiling.
- Whether Business trials remain free past 15 October — trials are named in the free-beta sentence but not in the cutover sentence.
- Discounted annual per-seat prices — “up to 20%” is advertised; the per-plan yearly figures did not render for us.
- Whether existing Workers pause or bill automatically on 15 October — no published statement on what happens to a running Worker on a workspace with no credit balance.
Sources and method
Compiled 11 August 2026 from Notion’s official pricing page, the Help Center pages on Notion credits, Worker pricing and Custom Agent pricing, and the public release notes (version 3.5 on 13 May 2026 introducing Workers; 24 July 2026 adding Workers to the credits dashboard). Vendor figures are quoted; all unit economics, monthly projections and multipliers are our own arithmetic on those published rates and are labelled where they appear. Monthly projections assume a 30-day month. Where Notion’s pages conflict, both versions are named and neither is asserted. Prices and beta terms change — verify before you commit, particularly after 15 October 2026.
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