Spodus vs Notion
Notion is where you write it down. Spodus is where it happens.
Notion is documents with databases attached, and it is very good at that.
Notion
Spodus- Starting price
- $10/seat/mo, Plus
- Quoted per seat — one rate at any size
- Documents & wiki
- Included
- Not offered
- Custom databases & views
- Included
- On our records
- Purpose-built CRM
- A database you build
- Included
What sets us apart
A database of deals is not a pipeline.
Notion will happily hold a table of customers. It will not raise the invoice, start the SLA clock, or tell you what is overdue this morning.
Notion
Docs, wiki and databases
- Notion Plus is $10 per seat a month, $20 on Business.
- Databases you design yourself, with the process held together by team discipline.
- No invoicing, no help desk, no HR and no shared team inbox.
- Every teammate is a seat, so the bill grows with the team rather than with the plan.
Spodus
The whole suite, one seat
- One rate per seat, billed annually, and it never changes with team size.
- Records that do things. Balances update, SLAs count down, invoices come from deals.
- Five products, one record, so the customer is the same customer everywhere.
- The process is the product, not a page describing how everyone agreed to work.
What the bill is counted by
You will still need the other four.
Notion Plus is $10 per seat a month, so ten people is $100, or $200 on Business.
Notion figures are their own published prices as of August 2026.
A Spodus bill has one meter.
- Seats, and only seats: the people you give a login.
- Not contacts, not the customers in your portal, not payroll headcount.
- No packs, no bands. The eleventh person is one more seat.
- One rate covers all five products. A plan sets limits and controls, never which products you get.
The argument
Why teams switch.
Three arguments for moving off Notion, the row-by-row table behind them, and one argument against.
- 01
Records that act, not pages that describe
A Notion database will store an invoice number. It will not carry a balance that changes when a payment lands, or reopen when you issue a credit note.
- 02
The four things Notion has no answer for
Invoicing, a ticket queue with SLAs, an HR record and a shared team inbox are not Notion features at any tier. In Spodus they are four of the five products.
- 03
One rate per seat, at every size
Ten people on Notion Plus is $100 a month, or $200 on Business, and you still have no way to bill anyone. Spodus charges one rate per seat at any size.
Side by side.
Row by row, with Notion’s own published plans in the right-hand column.
| Spodus | Notion | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Quoted per seat — one rate at any size | $10/seat/mo, Plus |
| Documents & wiki | ||
| Custom databases & views | On our records | |
| Purpose-built CRM | A database you build | |
| Invoicing & finance | ||
| HR & people | ||
| Help desk with SLAs | ||
| Shared inbox | ||
| One shared customer record |
Notion plans and pricing reflect publicly listed information as of August 2026. Spodus is priced per seat; customers in the support portal are free.
The honest part
Being fair about it.
Where Notion fits better, and it is not close: documents.
Does Spodus have docs like Notion?
No. There is no document or wiki product in Spodus at any plan, and we would rather tell you now than let you find out. Records carry notes, comments and attachments, which is not the same thing. Many teams keep Notion for writing and use Spodus for operating.
We run our CRM in a Notion database. Why change?
Because a database stores and a product acts. Winning a deal in Spodus drafts the invoice on the same customer, support sees what they have paid, and an SLA clock actually runs. A Notion table records that those things happened, after someone remembers to update it.
Can we import from Notion?
Yes. Export a database to CSV and import contacts, companies and deals onto the matching Spodus records, with fields mapped across. Your pages and wiki stay in Notion.
Head to head
Compare Spodus with the rest of your stack.
The same side-by-side, for the other tools a Spodus seat replaces.
Trade Notion for the whole suite.
Start today, or bring your own data to a demo and see it there.
