Compare · AURORA vs Notion
AURORA vs Notion — when the docs-first workspace stops working for your dev team
Notion is brilliant for personal wikis and marketing copy. It's a struggle for teams that ship code. AURORA is built for the second case — issues that live in GitHub, a kanban that actually scales past 5,000 rows, and a mobile app that works in the metro.
AURORA
AURORA: Free 3 users / Pro €9 / Team €19. AI included with quotas in every paid plan. Self-host AGPL forever, free.
Notion
Notion: Free 10 guests, Plus $10/user/month, Business $20 (with AI), Enterprise on quote. AI gated behind Business.
“Notion mobile is unusable past 5,000 rows. We tried for two years before giving up.”
— Reddit r/Notion thread, March 2026
Feature by feature
Mobile app
AURORAAURORAPWA installable + offline + push
NotionWeb view, slow past 1k items, no offline
GitHub integration
AURORAAURORANative: issues = source of truth, PR auto-status, magic words
NotionEmbed widget, no auto-status
Speed at scale
AURORAAURORASub-100ms TTI, scales to 100k+ rows
NotionSlows past 5k rows, freezes past 50k
Wiki / docs collaboration
OtherAURORAMarkdown docs attached to projects
NotionBest-in-class — pages, databases, embeds
Templates marketplace
OtherAURORAGrowing (30 seeds, mostly dev-focused)
Notion30,000+ templates, every imaginable use case
AI included
AURORAAURORAYes, in every paid plan, with quotas
NotionOnly on Business ($20) — gated
Self-host
AURORAAURORAAGPL Community Edition, free
NotionNo — cloud only
Export (Markdown/JSON)
AURORAAURORA1-click on every plan
NotionLimited, lossy
Min seats
TieAURORANone — Pro from 1 user
NotionNone on Plus
EU hosting + GDPR
AURORAAURORAEU-only by default
NotionUS-cloud (Schrems II concerns)
| Feature | AURORA | Notion | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile app | PWA installable + offline + push | Web view, slow past 1k items, no offline | AURORA |
| GitHub integration | Native: issues = source of truth, PR auto-status, magic words | Embed widget, no auto-status | AURORA |
| Speed at scale | Sub-100ms TTI, scales to 100k+ rows | Slows past 5k rows, freezes past 50k | AURORA |
| Wiki / docs collaboration | Markdown docs attached to projects | Best-in-class — pages, databases, embeds | Other |
| Templates marketplace | Growing (30 seeds, mostly dev-focused) | 30,000+ templates, every imaginable use case | Other |
| AI included | Yes, in every paid plan, with quotas | Only on Business ($20) — gated | AURORA |
| Self-host | AGPL Community Edition, free | No — cloud only | AURORA |
| Export (Markdown/JSON) | 1-click on every plan | Limited, lossy | AURORA |
| Min seats | None — Pro from 1 user | None on Plus | Tie |
| EU hosting + GDPR | EU-only by default | US-cloud (Schrems II concerns) | AURORA |
So which one is right for you?
Choose AURORA if
- ·Your team ships code. Issues, PRs, and roadmap need to live close to GitHub.
- ·You're under 15 people and don't want to fight an enterprise tool.
- ·Half the work happens on a phone — you need a real mobile app.
- ·You care about EU data residency or want self-host for compliance.
- ·You're tired of Notion getting slower every quarter.
Choose Notion if
- ·You need a serious wiki — pages, sub-pages, embeds, complex databases.
- ·Your team is non-technical or mixed (sales, ops, marketing). Notion is hard to beat for general-purpose workspace.
- ·You want one of the 30,000 community templates ready to go.
- ·You don't use GitHub heavily.
- ·You're already deeply invested and migration cost outweighs the gain.
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