Notion changed their pricing model in May 2025, discontinuing the $8/month AI add-on. AI is now bundled only into the Business tier at $20/user/month. Existing Plus customers were left with just 20 'trial' AI responses, forcing an expensive upgrade to continue using AI features.

Paying Plus plan subscribers get the same 20 lifetime AI responses as free users - not per month, lifetime. This limitation was not clearly disclosed when subscribing. Users report running out after just 2 questions, with no warning that paid customers don't get more AI access.

It's surprisingly easy to burn through all 20 AI responses without even thinking about it, leaving users 'high and dry' when they actually need AI help. The confusing free offering cuts users off mid-task with no warning.

Users report Notion's AI is significantly less capable than ChatGPT, with unconvincing functionalities. Despite using GPT-4 and Claude models, the implementation feels limited. Many users already pay for ChatGPT Plus, making Notion AI a redundant expense.

The AI is slow, and when used on pages with extensive data, it experiences severe latency, often freezing for several minutes. Performance becomes unbearable on complex pages with databases, making AI assistance impractical for power users.

Notion performance drops noticeably with databases over 5,000 records, affecting AI features as well. Large workspaces become sluggish, and AI operations compound the slowdown.

The AI provides repetitive content even when the style of the prompt changes. Users trying to get varied outputs for different use cases end up with similar, generic responses regardless of how they phrase their requests.

Notion AI's scope is limited to the current page only, despite being a Notion integration. It cannot access your full workspace, search across databases, or reference information from other pages. Company knowledge spread across multiple tools remains inaccessible.

The AI has trouble interacting with Table databases, a core Notion feature. It cannot effectively query, summarize, or work with structured data in databases, limiting its usefulness for users who rely heavily on Notion's database capabilities.

While the 'ask' AI feature works flawlessly, the research and build AI features are not precise. Users relying on AI for research tasks find the output unreliable and requiring extensive manual verification.

The prompting requires handholding to get specific or technical results. Some prompts the AI simply doesn't understand, forcing users to switch to other tools like ChatGPT for complex queries.

When asked to provide links for articles or sources, the AI generates links that are generally wrong or don't exist. Users relying on AI for research find themselves with dead links and fabricated sources, requiring manual verification of everything.

Users express unease about AI potentially accessing sensitive information within their Notion workspaces. For teams with confidential client data, the lack of clarity about what the AI can access and how data is used creates compliance concerns.