Notion AI credits explained: what changes for your team on November 2

Notion AI credits are now two fixed monthly allowances for each Business or Enterprise member: 1,500 Standard credits for work on Auto and 500 Select credits for picking a model or running Custom Agents, according to Notion's October 19 announcement. New workspaces switched that day. Existing workspaces move on November 2, 2026.

That leaves admins about ten days to answer three questions: which work belongs on Auto, who pays for each Custom Agent, and whether to switch on paid overflow. The figures below come from Notion's announcement and help center as of October 23, 2026, and Notion says it may change the features, allotments and consumption rules later.

Notion AI credits per seat, at a glance

The split is set out on Notion's eligible-features page. Standard and Select credits belong to each person: Notion's guide to managing AI credits says you can't combine them, move them between members or trade one kind for the other. The same page footnotes that "your included amount may vary depending on your plan and purchase arrangement", so check Settings → Notion AI → Usage rather than assuming 1,500 and 500.

Notion credits cost $10 per 1,000 on a monthly plan and $13 per 1,000 as annual credits, and they are only sold on Business and Enterprise. Notion's credit guide names Fable and Astra as high-consumption models that only Notion credits can pay for.

What one credit buys: Notion's own task estimates

Notion publishes rough per-task costs on its Auto help page. On Auto, a simple task such as polishing an email is estimated at 5 credits, a medium task such as writing a work report at 10, and a complex task such as drafting a performance review at 25. The same tasks with Opus 5.5 picked by hand are estimated at 50, 85 and 150 credits.

The last two columns are our arithmetic, assuming one kind of task all month. A member who leaves Notion Agent on Auto has plenty of headroom. One who pins a frontier model can spend the whole Select allowance on about ten polished emails.

Notion's "90 percent cheaper" claim, checked against its own table

The announcement says Auto delivered "similar results to Opus 5.5 and Astra at about 90% lower average cost" across more than 20 use cases, so credits "go about 10× further". The Auto help page gives a slightly different testing figure, 87% lower than Opus 5.5. Its method: real tasks replayed in a simulated workspace, answers judged in pairs by a panel of models and scored with Elo ratings.

Notion's own table backs the 10× figure only for light work. By its estimates, Auto saves 90% on simple tasks, about 88% on medium ones and about 83% on complex ones, which is closer to 6× than 10×. Notion does not publish the task set, so the claim that quality holds up can't be checked from outside.

Do Notion AI credits reset each month?

Yes. Standard and Select credits each reset monthly, at the start of your billing cycle, and unused credits don't roll over, Notion says. Monthly Notion credits also reset to the amount purchased each month. Annual Notion credits can be used at any time in the subscription year but expire at renewal.

What happens at the credit limit

Running out pauses the feature, not the account. When Standard credits are gone, features that use them pause until the next reset, and leftover Select credits won't cover them. When Select credits are gone, Notion suggests switching Notion Agent back to Auto. Admins can turn on "Allow workspace to use Notion credits after AI limit is reached" in Settings → Notion AI. It covers both credit types and is off by default.

That is a real change from 2025. Notion's May 2025 release notes said the Business and Enterprise plans "now include unlimited usage of Notion AI". Under the new system each member has a fixed monthly allowance, and work stops at zero unless an admin pays for more.

The strongest case for not worrying comes from Notion itself: "the vast majority of users are unlikely to run out of monthly credits," the announcement says. For members who stay on Auto, the table above supports that. Those who pick models by hand or own agents will notice.

Notion Custom Agents pricing: the owner pays by default

Custom Agents are where the meter runs. By default a Custom Agent uses its owner's Select credits, even when teammates use it, according to Notion's page on how AI credits work for Custom Agents. It draws on the owner's Select credits first, then any extra allowance the owner has, then the workspace's Notion credits if an admin allows that. Owners can cap each agent, and admins can move any agent onto a workspace budget.

Two details matter for the November 2 switch. Custom Agents created before November 2 keep drawing from shared workspace credits, per the same page. And the announcement says you no longer need to buy credits to start building Custom Agents, because included Select credits now cover trials.

Notion does not publish a per-run cost for Custom Agents. If a run costs what Notion estimates for a task on Auto, 5 to 25 credits, then 500 Select credits cover roughly 20 to 100 runs a month, and an agent that runs once a day needs about 30. Past the allowance, those runs cost 5 to 25 cents each at the monthly $10 per 1,000 rate. Treat that as arithmetic, not a quote, and note that a shared agent on one person's Select credits also eats that person's ability to pick models.

Can you use your ChatGPT plan in Notion?

Yes, in your personal Notion Agent only. Notion's ChatGPT help page says Business and Enterprise members with a ChatGPT Plus, Pro or Go account can connect it. The plan is used only when you pick a specific GPT model. Auto still draws Standard credits, and picking a non-GPT model draws Select credits. It doesn't work with Custom Agents.

The sources disagree slightly on eligibility. The announcement's body and the help page include ChatGPT Go, but the announcement's FAQ mentions only Pro and Plus. If you hit your ChatGPT plan's limit, Notion Agent offers to switch the session to workspace Notion credits.

Skip the connection if your team already works on Auto, because it only saves Select credits spent on GPT models. It helps most for someone who already pays for ChatGPT and wants a specific GPT model in Notion. Enterprise customers can instead ask their account team about the Bring Your Own Key alpha.

Notion AI credits before November 2: an admin checklist

1. Open Settings → Notion AI → Usage and confirm each member's actual allowance.
2. List every Custom Agent and its owner. Move shared ones the team depends on to a workspace budget, and set caps on the rest.
3. Decide whether members may continue on Notion credits after their limit, and set a budget if so.
4. Tell the team that Auto is the default for everyday work; Notion's FAQ recommends it for writing, summarizing and asking questions.
5. Plan for AI Meeting Notes, which starts drawing Standard credits on December 1 at about 10 credits per hour of meeting. At that rate, meetings alone would use a full 1,500-credit allowance after about 150 hours.

If your contract hasn't renewed yet, the announcement says you still move on November 2 with the same Standard and Select credits, and at renewal your credits are set based on your plan.

Once the agent map is done, compare the result with what your team pays per seat. If the numbers don't work, Upfynd lists 145 notes and knowledge tools and 589 task and project management tools as of October 23, 2026, alongside our page for Notion itself. Teams building agents outside Notion can browse AI agent tools, and ChatGPT has its own page in our directory.