Slite vs Notion: Which Team Wiki Fits Your Company

TL;DR

• Slite is a focused team wiki, while Notion is an all-in-one workspace that also does documentation.
• Slite runs $10 and $20 per user per month. Notion runs $10 and $20 per user per month, plus a free tier Slite doesn't have.
• Slite hosts all customer data in the EU on every plan. Notion hosts in the US by default and offers an EU region on its Enterprise plan, but only through a manual setup you have to request.
• Both companies are US entities, so neither one puts your documentation outside US jurisdiction.
• Neither tool can be self-hosted, so if that's a requirement for you, the choice isn't between these two.

Somebody on your team updated the onboarding doc last month. You know it exists, but four levels into the workspace with the search box open, you're still scrolling past a marketing calendar and an SEO strategy, trying to work out where it went.

Most teams have this problem, and it's rarely about writing. People write things down, but the docs get buried under everything else in the same workspace, and keeping them organized turns into a job nobody signed up for.

There's a second problem that shows up later. A prospective customer sends over a security questionnaire before they'll sign, and it asks where your internal documentation is stored and which country's laws apply to it. It's a different problem, but it comes back to the same tool, and most teams don't know the answer.

Slite and Notion answer the first problem very differently. Neither one fully answers the second. This is how the tools compare:

Slite vs Notion

What each tool is built for

Slite: Focused by design

Slite is a place to write, organize, and share team documentation. It's not a project tracker or a database. You get channels, docs, comments, and a search layer, and you can be up and running the afternoon you sign up because there's very little to configure. It also has a document verification workflow, where an owner is assigned to maintain a doc on a regular schedule. 

That matters because most internal wikis stop being useful once nobody trusts what's in them. Notion has page verification too, but only from its Business plan, while Slite includes it on the entry tier.

Notion: Flexible by design

Notion does considerably more. Your docs sit alongside task boards, calendars, relational databases, and whatever else you decide to build, and the block-based editor means a page can be a document, a tracker, or a dashboard depending on how you assemble it. For a team that wants one tool covering several jobs, that's the main appeal.

The disadvantage is setup time. Notion gives you a set of building materials, so somebody on your team has to build a structure and then keep enforcing it as new members join and start building their own pages their own way. When that doesn't happen, you end up with a workspace that contains everything and surfaces nothing, and the people who quietly maintain it never signed up for that job.

Slite vs Notion pricing

Slite has three tiers

• Basic, $10 per user per month. Unlimited docs, the verification workflow, the knowledge management panel, and up to 30 AI search questions per seat each month.
• Pro, $20 per user per month. Everything in Basic, plus unlimited AI search and answers, the Slite Agent and agent workflows, search across connected tools like Slack, Jira, and Google Drive, doc fact-checking with suggested fixes, OpenID SSO, and a custom domain for public docs.
• Enterprise, custom priced. Adds SCIM provisioning, advanced security controls, access logs, reader-only seats, custom agent sources, HIPAA support with a signed BAA, and a service level agreement.

There's no free plan, just a 14-day trial that doesn't ask for a card.

Notion has four tiers

• Free, $0. Databases with subtasks, dependencies, and custom properties, basic forms and sites, Notion Calendar, and a trial of Notion AI.
• Plus, $10 per user per month. Adds custom forms and sites, unlimited charts, unlimited file uploads, and basic connections to Gmail, Google Drive, and Slack.
• Business, $20 per user per month. Adds the Notion Agent, AI meeting notes, enterprise search across tools like GitHub, Jira, and Zendesk, SAML SSO, page verification, private teamspaces, and detailed database permissions.
• Enterprise, custom priced. Adds SCIM, access logs, unlimited version history, and advanced security controls.

Monthly billing is available on both paid tiers at a higher rate.

AI in Slite vs Notion

At $10, Slite gives you AI search and Notion gives you a trial, since Notion folded its ongoing AI access into the Business plan. At $20 they have similar features, with unlimited AI search and answers plus the agent features on Slite Pro, and full AI including agents on Notion Business. If AI search is a main reason you're switching, Slite gets you there a tier earlier.

Guest limits

Slite allows five guests per paying member, so a team of 10 paying members can bring in up to 50 guests. Notion lifted guest limits on all paid plans in March 2026, so Plus, Business, and Enterprise now allow unlimited guests. If you saw a 100-guest limit for Notion mentioned somewhere and it discouraged you, it's out of date.

Where your data lives and who controls it

Slite: EU hosting on every plan

Slite runs on Google Cloud with all production data hosted in the EU, specifically in Belgium. That applies on every plan, not just Enterprise, and it covers document content, the search index, and uploaded media. Slite holds SOC 2 Type II certification, offers a data processing agreement, publishes its sub-processor list, and computes its AI search embeddings on its own infrastructure rather than sending your document content to an outside model provider. For a European team, that's a strong default, and it's better than most tools in this category offer.

Notion: US hosting unless you ask

Notion hosts customer data in the United States unless you change it. EU data residency exists, running out of an AWS region in Frankfurt, but it's available on the Enterprise plan only, and it isn't automatic even then. Notion's own documentation states that if you don't contact your account team and receive confirmation of a data residency migration, your workspace stays hosted in the United States. So if you assumed your data had moved, check.

If EU hosting is your main concern and you're choosing strictly between these two, Slite is your answer.

The question residency doesn't answer

There's a distinction your legal team will raise, because where the servers sit and whose laws apply to the company running them are two separate questions. Both Slite and Notion are US-incorporated companies, and Slite's own GDPR documentation relies on Standard Contractual Clauses for international transfers, which tells you data moves across borders somewhere in the chain even when the primary storage doesn't. EU hosting changes the location of the disks, but it doesn't change the jurisdiction of the company holding the keys.

There's a second limit that applies to both. Neither tool lets you pick where it runs. You take the region the vendor offers, on whichever plan they attach it to, and if your requirements change you're waiting for them to support it rather than changing a setting yourself.

When neither one fits

If documentation has to sit on infrastructure you control, then neither of these is your answer, because both products are cloud services.

That's the gap Docmost is built for. It's an open-source wiki you deploy on your own servers, in whichever country or data center you choose, and it runs in air-gapped environments with no outbound dependencies. AI features can run against local models rather than a third-party provider, so document content doesn't have to leave your network for search or writing assistance to work.

What you get from running it yourself:

• Your data never leaves infrastructure you control.
• You define your own compliance posture, including access controls, encryption, and retention, instead of inheriting whatever your vendor has decided.
• Hosting, backups, upgrades, and security patching become your IT team's responsibility rather than someone else's.

That third point is the real cost, and it's why plenty of teams stay on a hosted tool. Docmost also offers a hosted version, and you can see how that's priced on the Docmost pricing page.

If you want the longer version of either comparison, there's a Docmost and Slite breakdown and a Docmost and Notion breakdown that go feature by feature.

Exporting and migrating your data

What you can export

• Slite. PDF, Markdown, and HTML, on every plan.
• Notion. Markdown, CSV, HTML, and PDF, with the option to export a whole workspace at once.

The words come across fine and the structure mostly survives, but you lose anything that only works inside the tool itself:

• From Notion: databases, relations, and views.
• From Slite: the verification state attached to your docs.

What happens when you delete

Deleting a workspace is immediate and can't be undone with either tool.

Slite gives you a window on the way out. The workspace owner is emailed a link to download the shared docs plus their own private channel, and every member is emailed a link to their own private docs. Those links expire after 15 days, and Slite removes the stored data after that. Notion describes workspace deletion as permanent.

The safer habit is to export everything you need before you delete. If you have a retention policy that requires you to prove data is gone by a specific date, verify with the vendor before you sign.

So which one should you pick?

Pick Slite if:

• Documentation is a separate job you want done well
• You already track projects and tasks somewhere else
• You want something your whole team will use without training
• EU hosting on the entry plan matters to you

Pick Notion if:

• You want docs sitting next to tasks, plans, and structured data
• You have someone willing to keep the workspace in order
• The flexibility is worth the setup time
• You can budget for the Business tier to have ongoing access to Notion AI

Look further if:

• Documentation has to sit on infrastructure you control
• You have contractual commitments to your own customers about where their data lives
• An internal policy governs where company knowledge is allowed to sit

Neither Slite nor Notion can meet those requirements, and no plan tier changes that.

Frequently asked questions

1. Does Slite have EU data residency? 

Yes, on every plan. Slite hosts all production data on Google Cloud in Belgium, covering document content, search indexes, and uploaded media. Slite is a US-incorporated company, so EU hosting doesn't put the data outside US jurisdiction.

2. Can I import my Notion workspace into another wiki? 

Usually yes, with some loss. Notion exports Markdown, HTML, CSV, and PDF, and most wikis accept Markdown. Pages and hierarchy survive. Databases, relations, formulas, and views usually don't. Docmost has a Notion importer on the free self-hosted edition.

3. Can I import my Slite workspace into another wiki? 

Usually yes. Slite exports PDF, Markdown, and HTML on every plan, so pages and structure carry over through Markdown. The verification state on your docs doesn't, since it only exists inside Slite. Docmost accepts Markdown import on the free self-hosted edition.

4. Do Slite and Notion support SSO on every plan? 

No. Slite puts OpenID SSO on Pro and Notion puts SAML SSO on Business, both at $20 per user per month. SCIM and access logs are Enterprise on both. If SSO is mandatory, you're comparing the $20 tiers.

5. What happens to my documents if I cancel my Notion subscription? 

Export first, because access stops when the plan does. Notion exports Markdown, CSV, HTML, and PDF, and you can take a whole workspace in one go. Deleting a workspace is immediate, and Notion describes it as permanent.

6. What happens to my documents if I cancel my Slite subscription? 

Export first here too. Slite gives you PDF, Markdown, and HTML on every plan. On deletion, Slite emails the owner a link to the shared docs and their private channel, and each member a link to their own private docs. Those links expire after 15 days, and the stored data is removed after that.

7. Can either tool be self-hosted? 

No. Both are cloud-only, with no self-hosted or on-premises option on any plan including Enterprise. If you need documentation on your own infrastructure, you'd need an open-source wiki built for it. Docmost is one, and it runs fully offline in air-gapped environments.

Choose where your documentation lives

Most teams comparing Slite and Notion are choosing between focus and flexibility, and either answer can be the right one depending on how your team works.

But if you got here because someone asked you where your company's knowledge is stored and you didn't like your own answer, that's a different question, and it doesn't get resolved by moving between two cloud tools.

Try Docmost on your own infrastructure, or talk to our team about what your setup would look like.