Best offer on record: Notion Free Plan (individual). 6 verified findings, checked 2026-10-22.
Offers
Notion Free Plan (individual) high confidence
$0/yr. For a single-owner (1-person) workspace: unlimited pages & blocks. A free workspace with 2+ owners is capped at 1,000 blocks per workspace (3-day grace before enforcement). File uploads up to 5 MB each. Page/edit history 7 days. Up to 10 external guests on a single-member workspace. AI features (Notion Agent, Meeting Notes, Research Mode) are available only as a 'limited trial' with no published fixed free-credit allotment; extra Notion credits cost $10/1,000 (monthly) or $13/1,000 (annual), and Standard/Select AI credits are bundled only on Business/Enterprise.
Eligibility
Open to anyone; no .edu email required, no credit card to sign up, no stated region limits.
How to claim
Create a Notion account (web/desktop); you land on the Free plan by default. No card required.
Expiry
No expiry; the free tier is permanent. The AI 'limited trial' is not a recurring free entitlement and continued heavy AI use requires purchasing credits.
Gotchas
Trial-vs-free: AI on the Free plan is a limited trial, not a fixed free-credit pool — heavy AI use pushes you into $10/1,000 credits. The 1,000-block cap only triggers with 2+ workspace owners. Notion does not publish a total-storage figure; the cap is 5 MB per file.
Notion for Education — free individual student/teacher plan high confidence
Free Education plan for a 1-member workspace (individual student or teacher): unlimited pages & blocks, up to 100 guests per workspace, unlimited uploads, 30-day edit history. No AI-credit amount is published. Genuinely free, not a trial.
Eligibility
Students/teachers at accredited colleges or universities listed in the World Higher Education Database (WHED). K-12 students and K-12 educators are NOT eligible. You must sign in with your institutional (.edu/college) email as the account's MAIN email (a secondary school email does not count). Notion does not accept student IDs or other documentation. Each school email claims it once, for one workspace.
How to claim
Be on the Free plan with a single member. Settings -> 'Upgrade plan' -> 'Get free education plan'. If your school is in WHED, the upgrade is automatic once the institutional email is verified.
Expiry
No set end date. Re-verify your school email annually (unlimited re-verifications). Losing your valid school email downgrades the workspace (and all its content) to the Free plan. Upgrading to Plus/Business/Enterprise permanently ends Education eligibility for that workspace.
Gotchas
Upgrading to a paid plan is irreversible for Education eligibility on that workspace. Notion/AI credit counts and per-file size caps are not stated on the page. The individual claim is desktop/web only, not mobile.
Notion for Education — free student-organization plan (unlimited members) high confidence
Free plan for a student-organization workspace with unlimited members: unlimited blocks/files, up to 100 guests, unlimited uploads, 30-day edit history.
Eligibility
Student organizations at accredited colleges/universities in WHED; one-time application (one application per organization). Same institutional-email verification as the individual plan.
How to claim
Apply via the application link on the education help page; on approval the org workspace is granted. One application per organization.
Expiry
No set end date; annual re-verification; loss of a valid school email reverts the workspace to the Free plan.
Gotchas
One application/approval per organization; not stackable across multiple orgs.
GitHub Student Developer Pack — Notion perk medium confidence
Verified students receive 'everything in the Notion Education plan with additional AI responses' (i.e., the free Education-plan entitlements above plus extra AI responses; the exact AI quantity is not published). A separate 'Notion Template Collection' (course dashboards, hackathon tools, portfolio templates) is also in the pack.
Eligibility
Requires GitHub student verification (.edu email + verified student status via the GitHub Student Pack). No credit card required to claim the pack.
How to claim
Verify student status on the GitHub Student Developer Pack, then claim the Notion perk; it links into Notion's Education-plan flow.
Expiry
Tied to GitHub student-verification validity; the underlying Notion education plan persists per its own annual re-verification.
Gotchas
The perk was historically 'free Notion Pro (annual)' for verified students; it is now reworded to the Notion Education plan + additional AI responses — the underlying plan type changed. 'Additional AI responses' quantity is unspecified.
Notion for Startups — up to 6 months free Business plan (with Notion AI) high confidence
Eligible companies get free months on the Business plan (which bundles Notion AI). Tiers: 6 months for partner-affiliated startups (via AWS Activate, Stripe Atlas, HubSpot, Shopify, JP Morgan, etc.); 3 months for non-partner startups meeting criteria; 1 month for SMBs/small teams (<10 employees) or when verification fails. The 6-month track needs a valid Notion domain, a public company website, a company email, and <100 employees. Must be a new, non-paying Notion customer.
Eligibility
Startups building scalable tech-related products/services; partner route or non-partner route. No stated funding cap or minimum company age; headcount limits apply (6-mo: <100; 1-mo: <10). No region limits stated. No credit card requirement per the doc.
How to claim
Partner route: get your partner's unique code, then submit the form at notion.so/startups-apply. Non-partner route: fill the same application form. Notion emails to confirm; the upgrade takes effect immediately. 3-5 business-day review. One redemption; multiple partners do not stack.
Expiry
The free window is fixed (1/3/6 months), after which the Business plan continues as a paid subscription unless downgraded.
Gotchas
Trial-vs-free: after the free months you are on a paid Business plan — downgrade to avoid charges. Applies only to net-new Business plans (not Enterprise); no refunds for previously paid invoices. A failed/weak verification (inactive site, solo applicant, limited footprint) can downgrade a 3/6-month request to 1 month.
Notion Business Plan 30-day trial (no credit card) high confidence
30-day trial of the full Business Plan (includes Notion AI) at $0. No credit card to start; payment is collected only if you upgrade. Auto-renews at trial end if you added payment details; otherwise you are prompted to confirm the upgrade.
Eligibility
Requires a professional domain; educational and personal domains are excluded. Web/desktop only. No credit card required to begin.
How to claim
Start the Business Plan trial from Notion's settings/billing on a workspace using a professional domain.
Expiry
30 days, then auto-renew (if a card was added) or a prompt to confirm; canceling drops you to the Free plan (or back to Plus if the trial started on Plus).
Gotchas
Trial, not a free tier: if you add a card it auto-renews into a paid Business plan. .edu / personal / free email-provider domains are excluded. This is a gateway to a paid plan, distinct from the genuinely-free tiers above.
Changes 2025-2026: (1) K-12 students and K-12 educators are NOT eligible for Notion's free Education plan — only students/teachers at accredited higher-ed institutions in the World Higher Education Database; K-12 users fall back to the general Free plan. This narrows the historical "free for all educators" posture. (2) The GitHub Student Developer Pack Notion perk, historically "free Notion Pro (annual)", is now listed as "everything in the Notion Education plan with additional AI responses" — the underlying plan shifted from Pro to Education, and extra AI is now metered. (3) AI is now usage-metered via "Notion credits" ($10/1,000 monthly; $13/1,000 annual); Standard/Select AI credits are bundled only on Business/Enterprise, and the Free/Education plans list AI as a limited trial with no published fixed free-credit amount. No core free offer was fully sunset in 2025-2026 — the free Education plan (higher-ed), the free student-org plan, the individual Free plan, the Startup program, and the 30-day Business trial all remain active as of 2026-10-22. Method note: web search budget was exhausted this session, so all findings above were verified by WebFetch of official pages (notion.com pricing, education/startups/trials/block-usage/credits help articles, education.github.com/pack) today; not a search-based synthesis.