Productivity · Head-to-head
Notion AI vs Tome
Notion AI vs Tome: From $10/mo vs Free tier, Pro from $16/mo. Side-by-side features, pricing, and which to pick.
The verdict
Pick Notion AI if…
- →overall capability matters more than price (AI Score 9 vs 8.4)
- →you want our editor's pick for this category
- →your primary use case is notion users who want an assistant that already knows their pages, databases, and documents for summaries and answers.
- →you need: productivity
Pick Tome if…
- →you need a genuinely free option
- →budget is the constraint
- →your primary use case is sales teams, founders, and marketers who need a persuasive narrative presentation built from a single prompt in under a minute.
- →you need: content-creation, design, marketing
Side-by-side specs
| Spec | Notion AI | Tome |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Productivity | Productivity |
| Pricing model | paid | freemium |
| Headline pricing | From $10/mo | Free tier, Pro from $16/mo |
| Free tier | — | Free tier lets you create a handful of AI-generated presentations to evaluate the tool, but AI credits are limited and exports carry Tome branding |
| AI Score | 9/10 | 8.4/10 |
| Best for | Notion users who want an assistant that already knows their pages, databases, and documents for summaries and answers. | Sales teams, founders, and marketers who need a persuasive narrative presentation built from a single prompt in under a minute. |
| Editor's pick | ✓ Yes | — |
| Use cases | productivity | content-creation design marketing |
| Date added | 2025-05-15 | 2026-05-01 |
Pros and cons
Notion AI
Productivity · paid
Pros
- ✓Deep integration with your existing Notion workspace
- ✓Contextual AI that understands your work
- ✓Excellent summarization and Q&A capabilities
- ✓Saves hours of manual knowledge management
Cons
- ×Requires Notion as your workspace (no standalone)
- ×Add-on pricing on top of Notion subscription
- ×AI responses limited to content in your workspace
- ×Can be slow with very large workspaces
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Tome
Productivity · freemium
Pros
- ✓Generates full narrative presentations from a single prompt in under a minute — exceptionally fast
- ✓Story-first approach produces more persuasive, flowing decks than typical bullet-point generators
- ✓Interactive shareable pages work well for sales outreach and async communication
- ✓Clean, modern design aesthetic out of the box with minimal manual adjustment needed
Cons
- ×Limited layout customization — you're working within Tome's design guardrails, not designing freely
- ×AI-generated images can feel repetitive and generic across pages in a single deck
- ×Free tier is quite restrictive on AI credits compared to Gamma's free offering
- ×Export options are basic — PDF works, but PowerPoint export loses fidelity
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Updated 2026-05-01. Spec data sourced from official product pages and tracked in our public directory at /tools.