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Notion AI vs DeepSeek

Notion AI (Notion) and DeepSeek (DeepSeek) both sit in Writing. DeepSeek is the cheaper entry point at Pay-as-you-go API pricing based on token consumption. No flat monthly fee.. Notion AI shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (10 vs 9). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

AttributeNotion AI

Notion

DeepSeek

DeepSeek

SegmentWritingWriting
Version3.7DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
Entry costFree tier · from $10/moPay-as-you-go API pricing based on token consumption. No flat monthly fee.
Pricing tiersNotion AI Add-on / Plus Plan member price $10 · Business Plan member price $20 · Custom Agents Add-on $10deepseek-flash (Input Cache Hit - Off-Peak) $0.003 · deepseek-flash (Input Cache Hit - Peak) $0.006 · deepseek-flash (Input Cache Miss - Off-Peak) $0.15 · deepseek-flash (Input Cache Miss - Peak) $0.3 · deepseek-flash (Output - Off-Peak) $0.6 · deepseek-flash (Output - Peak) $1.2
Model stackClaude · Claude Sonnet 4.5 · Codex · Cursor · disclosed · GLM 5.2 · GPT-5.2 · GPT-5.6 Sol · Grok 4.3 · Kimi K3 · LLM providers · Notion AI LLMs · Opus 4.8 · Opus 5DeepSeek-R1 · DeepSeek-V3.2 · deepseek-v4-flash · DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 · DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp · DeepSeek-V4-Pro · DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 · DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
Context windowNot published1M
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d109
OriginGlobalChina
CapabilitiesWorkspace Q&A, AI meeting notes, Enterprise search, Research mode, Autofill databases, AI Meeting Notes, Enterprise Search, Custom AgentsReasoning mode, Open weights (MIT), OpenAI-compatible API, Context caching, Function calling, Thinking Mode, Context Caching, JSON Output

DeepSeek

Hangzhou lab whose V and R series models are released under permissive licences and undercut Western API pricing by an order of magnitude.

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