A Notion alternative, hosted in Europe
Notion: A workspace of docs, wikis and databases with AI, for knowledge teams. Artavolo is where your team and your AI agents work on the same tables, with no record limit, in our cloud in Germany or on your own server. Here is how they compare, with sources, and where Notion is ahead.
| Artavolo | Notion | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8 a person a month (Standard), VAT included, the same on your own server | about $10: Plus, per member a month billed yearly; Business about $20 with AI. |
| Records | No limit, on every plan, the free one included | 250,000 rows per database; large databases load slowly |
| Where your data lives | OVHcloud in Germany, or your own server | EU (Frankfurt) on Enterprise only |
| Run it yourself | Yes, with the same plans and prices; the Community edition is free | No |
| Getting your data out | Any table as Airtable-format CSV or JSON, the API, and full backups | Markdown and CSV: each database as a CSV of its current view |
| API | REST, plus Airtable’s API at the same paths, on every plan | REST; about 3 database queries a second |
| AI agents | Each with its own access; their changes can wait for a person to accept them, and everything one did can be undone | See Notion’s own AI features |
| Where Notion is ahead | Docs and wikis around the data, in the same pages. | |
| A large template community. |
Notion’s figures as published on its own pages in November 2026: Notion pricing, Export your content, Data residency, API request limits. Prices change: check theirs for today’s. Artavolo’s prices are on the pricing page.
What people moving from Notion tell us about
- Databases slow down as they grow.
- EU data residency only on Enterprise.
Tables for people and AI agents
- No record limit on any plan, and the same price in our cloud in Germany or on your own server.
- Grid, kanban, calendar, gallery, timeline, forms and dashboards, and interfaces for people who should see one page and nothing else.
- AI chat that changes records as the person asking, and AI agents whose changes wait for review.
- An append-only audit log of every change, a 30-day trash, and an export of any table at any time.
- Airtable’s API at the same paths, Zapier, Make and n8n apps, and webhooks.
From Notion in an afternoon
Export from Notion (CSV, one file per database (inside a zip)), and bring the files in: what comes over is shown before anything is made, and a report says what came over and what to rebuild.
- Every row of each database
- Selects, multi-selects, dates, checkboxes, people's names
- Relations between databases, where they export as page titles