Comparison
Glattice vs Notion
The short version
| Dimension | Notion | Glattice |
|---|---|---|
| Board structure | One axis, with sub-grouping available as a display setting. | Two axes. 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 axes 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 | Every member with edit access is a paid seat. | 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 $5/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. And the API is not a companion to the interface, it IS the interface: a lint rule and a CI check ban the Glattice web app from touching the database directly, so anything you can do in the browser is by construction something an API client or an MCP agent can do.
Moving from Notion
Export a Notion database as CSV and import it. You choose which two columns become the axes; the rest can stay as additional facets or as card content. Export back out to JSON or CSV whenever you like, on any plan.