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Self-host vs Notion
Self-hosting saves about $1,260 a year for 20 seats: SaaS $2,400 vs self-host $1,140 (server $144, backups $36, admin time $960). Break-even at about 10 seats at these numbers.
Admin hours start from our guess for difficulty 2 and are yours to edit. Notion price: $10 per user per month (Plus plan, billed annually). Plus $10/user/mo billed annually ($12 monthly); Business $20/user/mo billed annually ($24 monthly). Corroborated from third-party reads of the vendor page; the vendor page did not render prices as text. Source: vendor pricing page, checked 2026-11-10.
Core under MIT (Community Edition parts under MPL-2.0 per the EE file); server/Enterprise parts under the AFFiNE EE License, production use needs a paid Enterprise subscription
