Comparison

Glattice vs Notion

Notion is a workspace: documents, wikis, databases, and a board view over those databases. Glattice is not trying to be that — it is a board — rows and columns both live, not just columns — with a public API that its own interface is built on. If your boards live inside a larger body of documents, Notion’s integration of the two is genuinely hard to beat. If the board itself is the work, a second axis and a real API matter more than the wiki around them.

The short version

Notion and Glattice compared across 7 dimensions
Dimension	Notion	Glattice
Board structure	One axis, with sub-grouping available as a display setting.	Two fields at once. Any facet on the rows, any other on the columns.
Changing the question	Change the group-by; it is a view configuration rather than an axis swap.	Swap the rows and columns in one click; the same cards re-sort.
Public API	Public API, rate-limited, with a documented lag behind the UI’s capabilities.	REST, 76 documented endpoints, not tier-gated.
AI agents	Official MCP server, scoped to Notion’s API surface.	Remote MCP server over OAuth 2.1; agents read and write the same board.
Change history	Page history and version restore.	Append-only, tagged with the interface behind each change. 30 days on Free.
Seats	Workspace members are billable; guests can edit the specific pages shared with them without becoming members.	Viewers and billing-only members are free; you pay for people who edit.
Entry price	Free tier; paid from around $10/user/month.	Free for 5 boards per space; Pro $6/month.

Where Notion is strong

A comparison that concedes nothing is not worth reading, so here is the honest read on where Notion earns its place — and where the two of us are simply built for different jobs.

Documents, wikis and databases in one place. If your boards live inside a larger body of writing, that integration is genuinely hard to beat.
Relations and rollups between databases, and a template community large enough that someone has usually built what you need.
A general-purpose workspace: one tool for notes, specs, boards and the wiki around them.

Where Glattice is different

Two things. The board is the product rather than a view over a database, so the second axis is a first-class property you can swap rather than a group-by setting — and dragging across a row boundary reliably sets both fields. The Glattice web app dogfoods the public REST API, with direct database access banned by lint and CI. MCP deliberately exposes a coarser set of agent-focused workflows through the registered application handlers, under the shared permission and audit boundary.

Moving from Notion

Export a Notion database as CSV and import it. You choose which two fields drive the rows and the columns; the rest can stay as additional facets or as card content. Export back out to JSON or CSV whenever you like, on any plan.

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Frequently Asked Questions

No, and it does not try to be. Notion is documents plus databases plus boards. Glattice is a board. People who move tend to keep their docs where they are and move the boards, usually because they wanted a second axis or a real API.

Export it as CSV and import it. You map one column to the rows and one to the columns; other columns can become additional facets.

If the board is a view over a body of documents, Notion. If the board IS the work — and you want two fields you can swap and an API your own tooling can rely on — this. Most people who move keep their docs where they are.