The short version
Terms comparison from both official pricing pages, captured in USD on October 4, 2026. No accounts were created.
Evernote and Notion stopped competing years ago — Evernote is a notes and clipping archive, Notion is a workspace with a notebook attached. But plenty of people still run into the question while migrating an old notebook, and the free tiers make the answer obvious.
The free-tier gap
This is the whole comparison. On the same day, on the same evidence:
| Free plan limit | Notion Free | Evernote Free |
|---|---|---|
| Notes / pages | Unlimited for an individual | Up to 50 notes |
| Notebooks | Unlimited (as pages) | 1 notebook |
| Devices | Unlimited | 1 device |
| Monthly uploads | 5 MB per file | 1 GB |
| Notebooks & spaces | Unlimited | 1 notebook / 5 spaces |
| Tags | Unlimited | Up to 20 |
| Attachments | Unlimited | Up to 200 |
50 notes is the number that ends the comparison. A single week of meeting notes exceeds it. A serious Evernote notebook has been a paid product for over a decade for exactly this reason — and the free tier’s single-device limit means you cannot read that notebook on your phone and your laptop at the same time.
Notion’s free tier has no note cap at all. Its limit is different in kind: the 5 MB per file ceiling, which only bites if you attach large media.
Pricing side by side
| Notion | Evernote | |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0, unlimited pages, 5 MB/file | $0, 50 notes, 1 notebook, 1 device |
| Entry paid | Plus $10/member/mo yearly · $12 monthly | Starter $8.25/mo or $99.00/year |
| Upper self-serve | Business $20 yearly · $24 monthly | Advanced $20.83/mo or $249.99/year |
| Team tier | Enterprise custom | Business, “Flexible”, from $10/month per seat |
| AI | Trial on Free and Plus; full from Business | AI Assistant, Semantic Search, AI Transcribe, AI Edit listed in the paid-plan matrix |
| Page history | 7 / 30 / 90 / unlimited by tier | Not published as a per-tier number |
Evernote’s billing is unusual and worth understanding before you buy: the page prints both a monthly and a yearly price per tier — Starter at $8.25/month or $99.00/year, Advanced at $20.83/month or $249.99/year. Those yearly figures are ~$99 and ~$250 annually, not per month. A team plan sits separately at “from $10 per month per seat.”
What each product is actually for
Evernote’s paid tiers are built around capture and retrieval: Web Clipper, Tasks, Calendar, offline notes, advanced search with Boolean and geographic filters, PDF annotations, plus an AI row (AI Assistant, Semantic Search, AI Transcribe, AI Edit, AI Cleanup, and MCP connectivity to Claude and ChatGPT). Its Advanced plan lifts notes, notebooks, attachments and synced devices to unlimited.
Notion’s paid tiers are built around structure: databases with custom properties and relations, unlimited file uploads, custom forms and sites, charts and dashboards, calendar connections, and — from Business — Notion Agent, AI Meeting Notes, Enterprise Search, SAML SSO and private teamspaces.
There is no feature in Evernote’s matrix that turns it into a project tracker, and no equivalent in Notion’s to the Web Clipper plus in-note search on a single device.
Who should pick which
- Migrating an Evernote notebook: Notion’s free plan holds an unlimited import at no cost. Evernote’s own free tier will not hold more than 50 notes.
- You clip and search, one person: Evernote Starter at $99/year is a fair price for the Web Clipper and offline access. Notion does not replicate that workflow.
- You need a team workspace with a notebook in it: Notion Plus at $10 per member, with guests free on every paid plan.
Verdict
Notion’s free plan is not comparable to Evernote’s — one is unlimited, the other stops at 50 notes and one device. Beyond the free tier the prices are similar (Notion Plus $10/month per member vs Evernote Starter $99/year), and you are choosing between a workspace and an archive.
If you are weighing the wider field rather than this specific pair, see Notion alternatives and Notion vs Obsidian for the note-taking end of the market.
Pricing verified against evernote.com/compare-plans and notion.com/pricing on October 4, 2026.
