Notion AI vs ChatGPT: Cual herramienta IA para productividad?

Notion AI and ChatGPT both use advanced language models to help you write, think, and work faster. But they solve fundamentally different problems. See also our guide to best Notion AI alternatives. For related options, check out our guide to best AI chatbots. For a hands-on walkthrough, check our Notion AI beginner’s guide.

ChatGPT is a standalone AI assistant — a blank canvas that responds to any prompt with no ties to a specific app. Notion AI is an embedded AI layer inside Notion’s workspace, aware of your pages, databases, projects, and team knowledge.

Choosing between them depends on how you work. This guide compares both tools across features, pricing, writing quality, and real-world use cases so you can figure out which one fits your workflow — or whether you need both.

TL;DR

• Notion AI is best if you already use Notion and want AI that understands your workspace, manages projects, and works across your existing documents
• ChatGPT is best as a standalone, general-purpose AI for creative writing, brainstorming, coding, image generation, and tasks outside any specific workspace
• Notion AI requires the Business plan ($20/user/month) for full access; ChatGPT Plus costs $20/month flat
• For teams, Notion AI offers better value by bundling workspace + AI; for individuals, ChatGPT Plus gives more raw AI capability per dollar
• Many productive teams use both — Notion AI for workspace tasks, ChatGPT for everything else

Quick Comparison Table

Category	Notion AI	ChatGPT
Type	Embedded workspace AI	Standalone AI assistant
AI Models	GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, Gemini 3 (auto-selected)	GPT-5.2 (primary)
Full AI Price	$20/user/mo (Business plan)	$20/mo (Plus)
Free AI Access	~20 responses total (trial)	Yes (limited daily access)
Context Awareness	Your Notion workspace, connected tools	Conversation history + memory
Image Generation	No	DALL-E (included)
Voice Mode	No	Advanced Voice
Templates	Notion workspace templates	Custom GPTs
Team Collaboration	Built-in (real-time co-editing)	Limited (shared GPTs)
Autonomous Agents	Yes (up to 20 min)	Limited
Offline Access	Limited	No
Best For	Workspace productivity, team docs	General-purpose AI, creative tasks

What Is Notion AI?

Notion AI is not a separate product — it is an AI layer built directly into the Notion workspace platform. When you type in a Notion document, Notion AI can generate content, summarize pages, translate text, find action items, autofill database properties, and answer questions using information from across your workspace.

Since the launch of Notion 3.0 in September 2025, Notion AI includes autonomous AI Agents that can work independently for up to 20 minutes, performing multi-step tasks across hundreds of pages simultaneously. These agents can build project launch plans, compile user feedback from multiple sources, draft reports, and create interconnected page structures — all from natural language instructions.

Notion 3.2 (January 2026) added access to the latest AI models including GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, and Gemini 3, with intelligent auto-selection that picks the best model for each task.

Key capabilities:
– Content generation, editing, and summarization inside Notion pages
– Workspace-aware Q&A — ask questions and get answers from your own documents
– Database autofill for project tracking, CRM, and inventory
– Meeting notes to action items conversion
– Translation across 14 languages
– Research Mode (beta) with web search for up-to-date information
– Enterprise Search across connected tools (Slack, GitHub, Jira, Microsoft Teams)
– AI Agents for autonomous multi-step workflows

What Is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is OpenAI’s standalone AI assistant, accessible through web, desktop, and mobile apps. It is not tied to any specific workspace or productivity tool — it is a general-purpose AI that handles writing, coding, analysis, image generation, voice conversations, and more.

ChatGPT Plus at $20/month gives you access to GPT-5.2 with Thinking mode for deeper reasoning, DALL-E for image generation, Sora for video creation, Advanced Voice for spoken conversations, web browsing for real-time research, and Custom GPTs for building specialized workflows.

Key capabilities:
– Text generation for any purpose (no workspace required)
– DALL-E image generation and Sora video creation
– Advanced Voice mode for verbal brainstorming
– Web browsing for current information
– File upload and analysis (PDFs, spreadsheets, images, code)
– Custom GPTs for specialized tasks
– Code writing, debugging, and explanation
– Cross-session memory that remembers preferences and context. For a deeper look, see our roundup of AI writing tools.

Comparacion de precios

This is where the comparison gets nuanced. The headline price is similar, but the pricing structures are very different.

Notion AI Pricing

Plan	Price	AI Access
Free	$0	~20 AI responses total (trial only)
Plus	$10/user/mo (annual)	~20 AI responses total (trial only)
Business	$20/user/mo (annual) / $24/user/mo (monthly)	Full unlimited AI access
Enterprise	Custom	Full unlimited AI access + zero data retention

Important: Notion AI is no longer available as a separate $10/month add-on for Free and Plus plans. As of August 2025, full AI access requires the Business plan at minimum. Free and Plus users get only about 20 AI responses total — not per month, total — as a trial.

This means that for a single user, full Notion AI costs $20/month and includes the entire Notion workspace platform. For a 5-person team, it costs $100/month total.

ChatGPT Pricing

Plan	Price	Key Access
Free	$0	Limited GPT-5.2, basic features
Go	$8/mo	GPT-5.2 Instant, faster responses
Plus	$20/mo	GPT-5.2 Thinking, DALL-E, Sora, 160 msgs/3hrs
Pro	$200/mo	Unlimited access to all models
Team	$25/user/mo	Workspace for teams, admin controls

ChatGPT pricing is per-account, not per-seat in the way enterprise tools work. A single $20/month Plus subscription gives one person full access to everything. The Team plan at $25/user/month adds shared workspace features and admin controls.

Price Comparison by Scenario

Scenario	Notion AI Cost	ChatGPT Cost	Better Value
1 individual (no team needs)	$20/mo (Business)	$20/mo (Plus)	ChatGPT (more AI features)
1 individual (already on Notion Plus)	+$10/mo upgrade	$20/mo	Notion AI (adds to existing tool)
5-person team	$100/mo total	$125/mo (Team)	Notion AI
10-person team	$200/mo total	$250/mo (Team)	Notion AI
Need AI + workspace + storage	$20/mo (all-in-one)	$20/mo + separate tools	Notion AI

For teams, Notion AI is more cost-effective because the $20/user/month includes both the full workspace platform and AI. With ChatGPT, you would need to pay $20-25/user/month for AI only, then separately pay for project management, wikis, and documentation tools.

For individuals who do not need Notion’s workspace features, ChatGPT Plus delivers significantly more AI capability per dollar — image generation, voice mode, video creation, and Custom GPTs that Notion AI does not offer.

Feature-by-Feature Comparison

Writing and Content Generation

Both tools can generate, edit, and improve text. The difference is context.

Notion AI writes within your workspace. When you ask it to draft a project update, it can pull data from your project database, reference related pages, and match the formatting your team uses. It knows your workspace structure and can generate content that fits into existing documents.

ChatGPT writes in isolation (unless you manually provide context). It is a stronger raw writer — better at creative content, varied tones, marketing copy, and long-form articles. ChatGPT’s output is more versatile but requires you to provide all the context it needs through prompts.

Writing Task	Notion AI	ChatGPT	Winner
Draft project updates	Pulls from workspace data	Requires manual context	Notion AI
Blog post drafts	Basic generation	Sophisticated, varied output	ChatGPT
Meeting note summaries	Excellent (native format)	Good (if you paste notes)	Notion AI
Marketing copy	Decent	Strong creative variations	ChatGPT
Technical documentation	Good (workspace-aware)	Good (can reference docs)	Tie
Email drafts	Basic	Strong with tone control	ChatGPT
Translation	14 languages	95+ languages	ChatGPT

Knowledge Management and Search

This is where Notion AI has a clear structural advantage.

Notion AI searches across your entire workspace — pages, databases, wikis, and connected tools like Slack, GitHub, and Jira. You can ask “What did we decide about the Q2 pricing strategy?” and it finds the relevant meeting notes, project pages, and discussions. Enterprise Search extends this to external tools.

ChatGPT only knows what you tell it in the current conversation (plus its persistent memory of past preferences). It cannot access your company’s documents, project databases, or internal knowledge unless you upload files manually in each conversation.

For teams with significant internal documentation, this is often the deciding factor in favor of Notion AI.

Task and Project Management

Notion AI works directly within Notion’s project management system. It can create tasks from meeting notes, update database properties, generate project timelines, identify risks in project plans, and even run autonomous multi-step workflows across your workspace. The AI Agents feature (Notion 3.0) can work independently for up to 20 minutes, handling complex operations like building launch plans or compiling cross-team feedback.

ChatGPT has no native project management capabilities. You can ask it to help plan a project, generate task lists, or create timelines, but the output is text that you then need to manually transfer into your actual project management tool.

Multimodal Capabilities

ChatGPT wins this category outright:
– Image generation (DALL-E) — included on Plus
– Video generation (Sora) — included on Plus
– Advanced Voice mode for spoken conversations
– File analysis (PDFs, spreadsheets, images, code files)
– Web browsing for real-time information

Notion AI has none of these. It cannot generate images, create videos, or engage in voice conversations. It can summarize text content from uploaded files within Notion but does not process PDFs directly with the same depth as ChatGPT.

Team Collaboration

Notion AI is built for teams. Multiple users work on the same pages simultaneously, and AI features are available to everyone on the Business plan. Team members share the same workspace context, so Notion AI’s responses are consistent and informed by shared knowledge.

ChatGPT is primarily an individual tool. The Team plan ($25/user/month) adds shared Custom GPTs and a workspace, but it does not offer the real-time co-editing and shared context that makes Notion AI effective for teams.

Privacy and Data Handling

Privacy Feature	Notion AI	ChatGPT
Data used for training	Not by default	Not on paid plans (opt-in)
Enterprise data controls	Yes (Enterprise plan)	Yes (Team/Enterprise)
Zero data retention	Enterprise plan only	API only
Connected tool data	Shared with AI subprocessors	N/A
SOC 2 compliance	Yes	Yes

Both tools take privacy seriously on paid plans. Notion AI does not use your data to train models by default, and Enterprise plan data gets zero retention from LLM providers. ChatGPT does not train on paid plan conversations by default either.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Notion AI

Pros:
– Deep workspace awareness — understands your pages, databases, and team knowledge
– AI Agents can work autonomously across hundreds of pages
– Multi-model access (GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, Gemini 3) with auto-selection
– All-in-one value: workspace + project management + AI in one subscription
– Better team economics at scale ($20/user covers everything)
– Enterprise Search across Slack, GitHub, Jira, and more
– Real-time team collaboration with shared AI context

Cons:
– Requires Business plan ($20/user/month) for full AI — Free and Plus get only 20 responses total
– No image generation, video creation, or voice mode
– Limited AI capabilities outside the Notion workspace
– Steep learning curve for Notion itself (nested databases, block-based editing)
– Performance issues with very large databases
– AI throttling under heavy use (“fair use policy” without published limits)
– Not useful if you do not use Notion as your primary workspace

ChatGPT

Pros:
– Most versatile standalone AI — works for any task, any context
– Full multimodal suite: text, images (DALL-E), video (Sora), voice
– Custom GPTs for building specialized workflows
– Persistent cross-session memory for personalized responses
– Web browsing for real-time information
– Largest third-party ecosystem and plugin library
– Works independently of any workspace or platform
– Free tier is genuinely useful for light tasks

Cons:
– No awareness of your workspace, documents, or team knowledge (unless manually provided)
– No project management, database, or wiki features
– Limited team collaboration (no real-time co-editing)
– Cannot search across your internal tools and documents
– Each conversation starts without organizational context
– $20/month is per-person with no workspace features included
– Usage caps on Plus (160 messages per 3 hours)

When to Choose Notion AI

Choose Notion AI if:
– You already use Notion as your primary workspace for documents, projects, and wikis
– Your team needs AI that understands your internal knowledge base
– You want one subscription that covers workspace + project management + AI
– Team collaboration is central to your workflow
– You need to extract insights from existing documents and databases
– You want AI agents that can autonomously manage multi-step tasks across your workspace
– Your team size makes the per-user pricing more economical than separate subscriptions

When to Choose ChatGPT

Choose ChatGPT if:
– You need a general-purpose AI that works for any task without being tied to one platform
– Creative writing, brainstorming, and content creation are your primary AI use cases
– You want image generation, video creation, or voice mode
– You work across multiple tools and do not centralize everything in Notion
– You are an individual user who wants the most AI capability for $20/month
– You need AI for coding, data analysis, or tasks outside productivity workflows
– You prefer a simple chat interface over a full workspace platform

Can You Use Both?

Yes, and many productive teams do exactly this. The two tools complement each other well:

• Use Notion AI for workspace tasks: summarizing meeting notes, updating project databases, searching internal knowledge, generating project documentation, and running autonomous workflows across your Notion workspace
• Use ChatGPT for standalone tasks: brainstorming marketing campaigns, drafting content from scratch, generating images, analyzing uploaded files, coding assistance, and any task that does not require workspace context

This combination costs $40/month for an individual ($20 Notion Business + $20 ChatGPT Plus) but covers virtually every AI productivity use case.

Preguntas frecuentes

Is Notion AI worth it if I already use ChatGPT?

It depends on how much you use Notion. If Notion is your primary workspace for documents, projects, and team collaboration, Notion AI adds significant value by understanding your workspace context. It can answer questions about your own data, automate database tasks, and generate content that fits your existing structure. If you only use Notion for light note-taking, ChatGPT is likely sufficient.

Can Notion AI replace ChatGPT?

Not entirely. Notion AI is excellent within the Notion workspace but cannot generate images, create videos, engage in voice conversations, or work outside of Notion. It also requires the $20/user/month Business plan for full access. ChatGPT offers broader AI capabilities as a standalone tool. Most users who try to replace ChatGPT with Notion AI find they miss the creative versatility and multimodal features.

Which is better for writing?

For raw writing quality and versatility, ChatGPT produces better creative content, marketing copy, and varied writing styles. For workspace-integrated writing — project updates, meeting summaries, documentation that references existing pages — Notion AI is more efficient because it understands your context without requiring manual input.

Is Notion AI free?

Not meaningfully. Free and Plus plan users get approximately 20 AI responses total as a trial — not per month. Full Notion AI access requires the Business plan at $20/user/month (billed annually). ChatGPT has a more useful free tier with daily access to GPT-5.2, making it the better option for users who need free AI access.

Which is more private?

Both are comparable on paid plans. Notion AI does not use your data to train models by default, and Enterprise plan data gets zero retention from LLM providers. ChatGPT does not train on paid plan conversations either. For maximum data control, Notion’s Enterprise plan and ChatGPT’s Enterprise tier both offer robust privacy guarantees.

Can Notion AI use ChatGPT’s models?

Yes. As of January 2026, Notion AI includes access to GPT-5.2 (the same model powering ChatGPT Plus), Claude Opus 4.5, and Gemini 3. Notion auto-selects the best model for each task, so you get multi-model access without managing separate subscriptions. However, Notion’s implementation focuses on workspace tasks rather than the full ChatGPT feature set (no image gen, voice, etc.).

Conclusion

Notion AI and ChatGPT are not really competitors — they fill different roles in a productivity stack.

Notion AI is the right choice for teams and individuals who live in Notion. Its workspace awareness, database integration, and autonomous agents make it a powerful productivity multiplier for anyone already managing projects, documents, and knowledge inside Notion. The Business plan at $20/user/month bundles everything into one subscription, making it cost-effective for teams.

ChatGPT is the right choice for anyone who needs a versatile, standalone AI assistant. It is stronger at creative writing, offers multimodal features that Notion AI lacks (images, video, voice), and works for any task regardless of what tools you use. At $20/month for individuals, it delivers the broadest AI capability available at that price.

The best answer for many professionals is both. Use Notion AI where your work lives and ChatGPT for everything else. At $40/month combined, you get workspace-integrated AI plus the most capable general-purpose assistant — covering virtually every productivity AI use case in 2026.

Related: See our guide to AI productivity tools.

Actualizado: February 2026 | por AIToolVS Team