If you want agents to run a team workspace, Notion already does that on its Business plan. If you want to write with the Claude Code or Codex subscription you already pay for, pick a tool where the documents are files: Palette, StashBase, or Obsidian with a plugin.
You can also keep Notion and connect Claude Code to it through MCP. That works for boards and databases. For long documents, the agent edits a translated copy of each page, which is the reason to look at the others.
Facts come from each product’s own pages, checked on September 18, 2026. We haven’t tested Palette.
Does Notion already have AI agents?
Yes. Notion Agent works across your pages and databases, and since August 28 it can suggest edits for you to approve one at a time. Notion 3.6 brought in Claude and Cursor as agents you can assign tasks to from a board, and 3.7 added skills a whole team can share.
The agents need the Business or Enterprise plan. Business is $20 a seat per month billed monthly. Claude inside Notion is billed in Notion credits, and the help page says “using your own Anthropic account isn’t possible.”
If your team’s work is already in Notion and you want agents to update boards, fill in databases and write up meetings, stay there.
Can Claude Code or Codex open the documents directly?
| Option | What the agent edits | Uses your Claude or ChatGPT plan |
|---|---|---|
| Notion’s own agents | Notion blocks | No. Notion credits, on Business or higher |
| Notion through MCP | A Markdown copy of the page, sent through Notion’s server | Yes, from Claude Code or Codex |
| Palette | Files in a folder | Yes |
| StashBase | Files in a folder | Yes |
| Obsidian with Copilot or Agent Client | Files in your vault | Yes |
Claude Code and Codex were built to read and edit files. Through Notion’s MCP server they work on Notion-flavored Markdown, which writes tables, multi-line quotes and blank lines differently from the standard. Notion vs. Markdown files for Claude Code goes through the differences.
Palette and StashBase both open a folder and let you choose the agent in the app, so you don’t work in a terminal. Palette also supports Gemini CLI and Mistral Vibe, and StashBase supports Antigravity. Obsidian needs a plugin you pick and configure yourself; our Obsidian comparison covers that route.
How do I review what the agent changed?
In Notion, ask the agent to suggest edits and approve them one by one. Edits made through MCP are applied straight to the page, as far as the tool descriptions show. Page history keeps them for 7 days on Free, 30 on Plus and 90 on Business.
Palette starts each session separately. You review the changes and save the approved work back to the folder.
StashBase shows the agent’s file edits beside the chat, and Review shows each change inside the prose to undo or keep.
With any of the file-based options you can also put the folder in Git and read the diff after each session.
How does a team share the documents?
This is where Notion is strongest: live editing, comments and page permissions, in the browser and on phones.
Palette’s answer is a shared folder. You keep the workspace in Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or iCloud, and each teammate opens their synced copy in Palette. It runs on macOS 12 or later; Windows is in development.
StashBase doesn’t sync between devices yet, and it has no live editing. If several people need to edit the same documents, it isn’t the right pick today.
Some people use both: draft in files, then copy the document to a Notion page for comments. The comparison has the steps.
What does each one cost, and where does it run?
| Option | Price | Runs on |
|---|---|---|
| Notion | Agents need Business, $20 a seat per month billed monthly | Web, desktop, iOS, Android |
| Palette | Free with 200 Palette credits; team plan €149 a month at the intro price, any number of users | macOS 12 or later |
| StashBase | Free, open source | macOS 12 or later, Windows 10 or later; Linux is community-supported |
| Obsidian | Free app; Copilot is free with your own agent account | macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android |
Palette’s credits pay for its own agent. It says it adds no markup when you bring your own Claude, Codex, Gemini or Mistral subscription. With StashBase and Obsidian you also use your own agent account, and your plan’s usage limits still apply.
What does StashBase add?
StashBase is for one person writing from their own material. PDFs, Word files and images in the folder are prepared as searchable text, so Claude Code, Codex or Antigravity can use them as sources. You can ask the agent to build Wiki pages, which are Markdown files in your folder that link back to the originals. Keyword search works without an account. Search by meaning is optional and needs your own OpenAI or OpenRouter key. See Get started and agent setup.