The median entry price for Productivity & Notetaking AI in 2026 is $10 a month. Across all 252 tools we price-check the median is $19.99, so this category runs 2.0x below the software average.
That comes from 9 tools in the category whose monthly price the vendor publishes on its own site. The range runs from Obsidian at $4 to Tana at $20 — a spread of 5x for products that sit on the same shortlist.
Every published price in the category
| Tool | Entry price | Free tier | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obsidian | $4/mo | Yes | Per seat |
| Craft | $6.40/mo | Yes | Flat |
| Otter.ai | $8.33/mo | Yes | Per seat |
| Mem | $9/mo | Yes | Flat |
| Notion | $10/mo | Yes | Per seat |
| Coda (now Superhuman Docs) | $12/mo | Yes | Flat |
| Granola | $14/mo | Yes | Per seat |
| Fathom | $15/mo | Yes | Per seat |
| Tana | $20/mo | Yes | Per seat |
How much of this category is free
9 of 9 have a free tier (100%), against 56% across all categories. Free is the norm here, so treat a vendor who will not offer one as telling you something — and never pay before you have run real work through the free plan.
Per seat or flat
6 of 9 charge per seat (67%). Where that is the model, the entry price is not the price: it is the price of one person. Multiply by your real headcount before comparing anything, and check whether viewers are free — on a team with more readers than writers that distinction can halve the bill.
Where to start
The floor is Obsidian at $4, which also has a free tier. Below $10 the category is Obsidian at $4, Craft at $6.40, Otter.ai at $8.33, Mem at $9. Those are real products, not trials, and for a small team they are usually the right place to start: the expensive tiers in this category buy scale and administration, which are worth paying for once you have the problem and not before.
What the headline price leaves out
An entry price is a plan, not a bill. The caveats we recorded while verifying this category are the ones most likely to change what you actually pay:
- Otter.ai — annual $8.33 with a stated 51% saving; monthly $16.99 — unchanged
- Notion — Full Notion AI is now bundled into Business; the standalone AI add-on was retired. Verify on notion.com.
- Granola — Individual tier renamed Business and repriced down from $18
- Fathom — moved to fathom.ai; Premium repriced $19 to $16; Team $15 and Business $25 per user, 2-user minimum
The free tiers in this category, for the record: Coda (now Superhuman Docs), Craft, Fathom, Granola, Mem, Notion, Obsidian, Otter.ai, Tana. Whether each is usable or decorative varies, and the only reliable test is running a real piece of your own work through it before the card comes out.
For what each of these actually does rather than what it costs, see our Productivity & Notetaking AI comparison. Every price here is verified from the vendor’s own page on a recorded date and kept in our public pricing dataset.
What Productivity & Notetaking AI Costs in 2026. DigiJaws, 2026. https://digijaws.com/reviews/what-productivity-notetaking-ai-costs/