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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 (not fully detailed in text). Free tier or flat-rate seats not specified.. DeepSeek shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (11 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

AttributeNotion AI

Notion

DeepSeek

DeepSeek

SegmentWritingWriting
Version3.8DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Entry costFree tier · from $10/moPay-as-you-go API pricing (not fully detailed in text). Free tier or flat-rate seats not specified.
Pricing tiersFree free · Plus $10 · Business $20 · Custom Agents (credits) $10Pay-as-you-go API free
Model stackAstra · Auto · Claude · Claude Sonnet 4.5 · Codex · Cursor · disclosed · GLM 5.2 · GPT 6.1-Sol · GPT-5.2 · GPT-5.6 Sol · GPT-6 Luna · Grok 4.3 · Kimi K3 · LLM providers · Notion AI LLMs · Opus 4.8 · Opus 5 · Opus 5.5 · Sonnet 5.5deepseek-flash · DeepSeek-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 · DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Context windowNot published1000000
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d011
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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