Framekit vs Notion 2026: Organising or Presenting

Framekit vs Notion is a comparison people reach after publishing a Notion page as a portfolio, or presenting a Notion page as a deck, sending the link to a prospective client, and feeling something they cannot quite name.

The thing they cannot name is that it looks like a Notion page.

That is not a criticism of Notion, which is superb at the job it was built for: organising notes, databases and documents for a person or a team, with publishing and, since March 2026, a presentation mode added on top.

It is a statement about what a portfolio or a pitch has to do, which is convince someone you are worth hiring before they read a word.

A workspace tool is software for organising notes, databases and documents, with web publishing and presenting added as conveniences rather than as the point; a portfolio platform is software built to present finished work to the people who might pay for it.

Notion is the first and Framekit is the second. Framekit is an AI website builder for photographers, filmmakers and designers, with Slides for treatments and portfolio decks, client galleries, video review and a store on one account.

On 12 October 2026 we re-verified Notion's plans, upload limits, custom domain pricing and presentation mode on its own pricing page, help centre and release notes, and rewrote this page's methodology and its description of Framekit's AI, along with what Framekit's team members can reach, which is the website and not the decks, galleries or review links.

Full disclosure: Framekit is our own product. Notion is less a competitor than a tool people press into service as a portfolio or a deck, and the section on what it does better is specific. Notion facts come from its own pricing page, help centre and release notes, read on 12 October 2026; Framekit facts come from the shipped product. Nothing here is a timed or scored hands-on test of either tool.

How This Comparison Was Put Together

This comparison is built from what Notion and Framekit each publish about their plans, limits and features, plus arithmetic on those figures, because the decision is about cost, upload limits and how the published result looks rather than about which editor feels faster.

Read at the source. Notion's pricing page, with its full plan comparison, shown in US dollars; Notion's help article on Notion Sites availability and pricing, which sets out the custom domain add-on; and Notion's 2 March 2026 release note introducing presentation mode.

For Framekit, the shipped product and its published pricing.

Calculated. The year-one costs further down are Notion's yearly per-member prices plus its domain add-on, set against Framekit's yearly prices, at three levels of use.

Not claimed. There is no shortlisting experiment or reader survey behind this page, and no load times or performance scores for either tool.

Where the page says a published Notion page looks like Notion, that is a description of Notion's fixed typography and block layout, not a measured reaction.

Framekit vs Notion by the Numbers

These are the figures that decide most Framekit vs Notion choices for a creative, each read from the vendor's own page in October 2026 or calculated from it, and each one comes back in a table further down with the reasoning beside it.

• 5 MB. Notion Free's limit on a single file upload, which a full-resolution portfolio image can exceed. Paid Notion plans make uploads unlimited.
• $8 a month. Notion's custom domain add-on billed annually, or $10 monthly, per domain, on paid plans only.
• $216 a year. One person on Notion Plus ($10 a month billed yearly) plus one custom domain add-on.
• $84 a year. Framekit Starter billed yearly, with your own domain, 30 site pages, galleries, review and decks.
• Plus and above. Where Notion's presentation mode, launched on 2 March 2026, is available.
• 0. The number of client galleries, video review links or stores on any Notion plan.
• 10 pages. What Framekit Free publishes on a framekit.ai subdomain, with a starter set of site templates.

Framekit vs Notion at a Glance

Read this table with its weighting in mind, because the design and delivery rows decide it for client-facing work, the database and collaboration rows decide it for everything internal, and the overlap between the two products is far narrower than it looks.

In one lineNotion is where the work gets organised and Framekit is where it gets presented, which is why the right answer for most creatives is both rather than either.

Where Notion Wins

Notion beats Framekit in five areas, and almost none of them are about portfolios, which tells you most of what you need to know about how these two tools relate, because each one is a genuine capability Framekit does not have.

Databases and structure. Linked databases, filtered views, subtasks, dependencies, custom properties, charts, forms and automations.

For a shoot schedule, a client tracker, a content calendar or an invoice log, Notion is the right tool and Framekit is not competing.

Internal documentation. Team handbooks, SOPs, meeting notes and project wikis, with page history from 7 days on Free to 90 days on Business. A website builder should not be doing this job.

Real-time collaboration. Several people editing the same page at once, external guests (10 on Free, unlimited on paid plans) and teamspaces. Framekit has no live co-editing and no comments on decks.

AI across your own notes. Notion's Business plan includes Notion Agent, AI Meeting Notes and Enterprise Search; Free and Plus get a trial of Notion AI. Framekit's AI writes and lays out site sections and slides, but it does not read your workspace.

Presenting a document you already wrote. Since its 2 March 2026 release, any Notion page can become a full-screen presentation on Plus and above: add dividers between slides, press the shortcut or choose Present, and the content scales to fit with a title slide and working toggles.

For an internal update or a project review, presenting the page you already have beats rebuilding it as a deck.

Where Framekit Wins

Framekit wins on four points, and all four are about the moment someone who might hire you looks at your work, which is the one moment Notion was never designed around and the reason creatives move the public half of their setup.

The design is the product. A Notion page has Notion's type scale, spacing and blocks, and a visitor who uses Notion recognises it immediately.

For a designer or photographer judged on visual craft, publishing in a tool with a fixed visual identity is a quiet argument against yourself.

Framekit's site templates are built with AI and trained by senior designers, its AI generates full sections and writes copy, and it can rebuild a layout from a reference image you upload.

Images are treated as work. A portfolio lives or dies on how images sit at full width, in a grid, at the right rhythm. Notion renders them as blocks in a document, and on Free a single upload is capped at 5 MB.

Framekit accepts photos up to 100MB on every plan, from one storage pool of 10GB on Free to 2TB on Business.

Client delivery and selling are built in. Unlimited client galleries with a password, a separate download PIN, favourites and watermarks; video review with frame-accurate comments and approvals; and a store that sells digital files from your site or a buy link.

Notion has none of the three.

Decks made for creative work. Framekit Slides has templates for treatments, lookbooks, portfolio books, case studies and proposals, with ready-made shot lists, storyboard rows, moodboards and look cards.

Notion's presentation mode turns a document into slides; it does not give you a designed deck.

In one lineNotion publishes and presents documents that happen to be public, and a portfolio or a pitch is not a document, which is the whole of Framekit's argument.

Can Notion Replace a Deck Tool Now?

Notion's presentation mode, added in March 2026, makes this a real question for the first time, and the honest answer is that it can replace a deck tool for internal and text-led presentations but not for the image-led treatments, lookbooks and portfolio decks creatives send to clients.

Here is how Notion's version works, from its release note: write a normal page, insert dividers where each slide should break, then press Cmd+Option+P on Mac or Ctrl+Alt+P on Windows, or choose Present from the page menu.

Notion scales the content to fill the screen, adds a title slide and keeps toggles working. It is available on Plus and above.

That is excellent for a weekly update, a project review or a reading-heavy pitch where the words carry the argument.

What it does not give you is layout. Every slide is your page content, scaled; there are no image grids built for photographs, no full-bleed covers, no storyboard rows.

Framekit Slides starts from the document instead: a portfolio deck template already has the grid of eight projects, a treatment template already has the visual approach and the storyboard, and each slide is designed rather than scaled.

You share it as a link anyone can open without an account, export a PDF on every plan, or export PowerPoint as pictures on Pro, up to 60 slides.

Framekit's deck tool has its own gaps, stated plainly: no password on a deck link, no per-viewer analytics (a total view count per deck instead), no live co-editing and no comments on decks.

If several people need to edit a deck together and leave notes, Notion's collaboration is better even if its slides are plainer.

In one linepresent the Notion page you already wrote when the audience is internal, and send a Framekit deck when the audience is a client deciding whether to hire you.

Case Studies: Draft in Notion, Publish in Framekit

Case studies are where most designers already use both tools, often without deciding to, because the writing benefits from a workspace and the publishing benefits from a portfolio, and the handoff between the two is simpler than it looks.

A case study needs a problem, a process and a result, with the images that prove each.

Notion is excellent for drafting that: a database of projects with a page each, a template for the structure, comments from a collaborator, and page history if you cut too much.

Where it falls down is the published result, because the same case study on a designed page with full-width images reads as professional work, and in Notion it reads as notes about professional work.

The handoff is copy and paste plus re-uploading images at full resolution rather than as they were compressed for a Notion page. On Framekit the case study becomes a project page on your site, and if you pitch with it, the same material becomes a case-study slide in a deck.

If case studies are your main deliverable, how to make a case study deck and the best case study templates for designers go deeper on structure.

How Each Tool Handles AI

Both Notion and Framekit gate their AI by plan, so neither can be described as offering AI without limits, and the useful comparison is what the AI is for in each product rather than whether it exists.

Notion's pricing page lists a trial of Notion AI on Free and Plus, with Notion Agent, AI Meeting Notes and Enterprise Search on Business, and Custom Agents that run on Notion credits at $10 per 1,000 a month.

Notion's AI works across your workspace: it summarises, drafts, searches and fills databases.

Framekit has a monthly AI allowance on every plan, Free included, that grows with the plan.

On the site it generates sections, writes copy and rebuilds a layout from a reference image; in Slides it writes and lays out slides from a description, and all deck AI draws on one pool. Framekit does not publish the allowance as a count.

What is fixed: decks are unlimited, editing by hand never touches the allowance, and when the month's allowance is used, AI pauses until it resets while every manual tool keeps working.

In one lineNotion's AI helps you think inside your notes, and Framekit's helps you make the public page and the deck, which is the same split as the products themselves.

What a Year Costs at Three Levels of Use

Both tools have generous free plans, so money rarely decides this on its own, but the cost of putting a Notion site on your own domain surprises people, so here is a year priced at three realistic levels using Notion's yearly rates and Framekit's yearly prices.

The middle row is where most solo creatives sit. Putting a Notion site on your own domain needs a paid Notion plan and the domain add-on, $216 a year; the paid plan also lifts the 5 MB upload cap.

Framekit Starter puts a designed site on your domain for $84 and adds galleries, review and decks. Keeping Notion Free for the workspace alongside it costs nothing.

The bottom row is honest in both directions. A three-person studio that runs its operations in Notion will pay for Notion Plus anyway, because Notion Free is limited once a workspace has two or more members.

The question is only what the public side sits on: $96 a year for a Notion domain with no galleries or review, or $180 a year for Framekit Pro with both, where the three team members can update the site and one person, the account holder, sends the galleries, review links and decks.

Your domain registration is a separate cost on either.

Run it on your own setup. Open Notion's billing page and note your plan and any domain add-ons, then list what your public pages do: show work, take enquiries, deliver files, sell anything.

If the answer is only "show work" and you are happy with how it looks, stay. If it includes delivering or selling, add up what you pay elsewhere for those jobs.

Limits Side by Side

Most decisions between Notion and Framekit are settled by a limit you meet once real images and real clients arrive, so this table puts the published limits next to each other with the plan each one needs.

One row needs a caveat: Notion's pricing page does not publish a storage pool, only per-file limits, so the storage row says exactly that and nothing more.

The Honest Case for a Notion Portfolio

There is a real case for a Notion portfolio and it is worth stating properly, because many good people use Notion this way and are not wrong to, especially early in a career or when the work is mostly words.

If you are early, unsure what the work is yet, and need something at a URL today, a Notion page is free and far better than nothing.

It is genuinely good for a case study in progress, where the writing matters more than the presentation and you want to iterate in public.

Writers, researchers, strategists and developers lose less to Notion's visual identity than photographers and designers do, because their work is words or code rather than images.

And if your clients already live in Notion, a shared Notion page they can comment on may beat any designed site for a working relationship. The argument for Framekit is about the first impression on someone who does not know you yet.

In one lineNotion is a fine first portfolio and a poor fifth one, and the moment to move is when the people judging your work start judging how it looks.

What Happens When You Hit the Edges

The edge cases are where the difference between Notion and Framekit becomes concrete, so here is what each does in six situations creatives actually hit, using the vendors' documented behaviour rather than assumption.

A client wants 400 photos from the shoot. Notion has nowhere to deliver them. Framekit puts them in a gallery with a password, a download PIN and favourites, within your storage pool: 10GB on Free, 50GB on Starter, 300GB on Pro.

Your hero image is 12 MB. On Notion Free it will not upload; on any paid Notion plan it will. Framekit accepts photos up to 100MB on every plan.

You need to pitch a commercial tomorrow. Notion's presentation mode on Plus will present your notes. A Framekit treatment template gives you the visual approach, storyboard and shoot plan already laid out, shared as a link or a PDF.

A collaborator needs to edit at the same time. Notion handles it.

Framekit has no live co-editing; a team member on Pro or Business can work on website pages, but a deck belongs to the account that made it and a teammate cannot open it, so send them the PDF and fold their notes in yourself.

You want to sell a preset pack. Notion has no checkout. Framekit's store sells it from your site or a buy link, through your own Stripe account, and the buyer downloads instantly; Framekit does not handle VAT, and its fee is kept on refunds.

You stop paying. Notion offers its custom domain add-on only on paid plans, and Framekit offers custom domains only from Starter, so on either tool a move to Free means planning for the site to leave your domain.

Framekit's Free plan itself is permanent and keeps unlimited decks and galleries.

Moving the Public Half From Notion to Framekit: A Checklist

Moving from a Notion portfolio to Framekit is a rebuild rather than an import, since Framekit has no Notion importer, so this checklist moves only the public pages and leaves the workspace exactly where it is.

What does not move: Notion's databases, collaboration, page history and AI over your notes. None of it needs to.

How to Choose: A Decision Tree

Go through these questions one at a time and stop where you answer yes, because the first two describe different jobs rather than competing products, which is why most people reading this end up using both tools.

1. Is this internal: a database, a wiki, a tracker or notes? Yes: Notion. Framekit does none of it. No: go to question 2.

2. Will a prospective client judge your craft by this page or deck? Yes: Framekit, where the design is yours rather than the workspace's. No: go to question 3.

3. Do you need to deliver photos or video to clients? Yes: Framekit, which has galleries and review. No: go to question 4.

4. Do you need to sell a file? Yes: Framekit, with instant download and a fee falling to 0 percent on Business. No: go to question 5.

5. Is the presentation internal and text-led? Yes: Notion's presentation mode on Plus. No: go to question 6.

6. Most creativesboth, with Notion for the workspace and Framekit for everything public.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I use Notion as a portfolio website?

Yes, and for a first portfolio it is a reasonable choice: free, quick and far better than no site. What it costs you is distinctiveness, because a published Notion page carries Notion's typography and block layout however you arrange it.

On Free, a single upload is limited to 5 MB, and a custom domain needs a paid plan plus Notion's $8 a month add-on.

Is Framekit better than Notion for a designer portfolio?

For the portfolio itself, yes, because Framekit builds a designed multi-page site around your images on your own domain, so the page argues for your taste rather than the workspace's.

Notion remains better for everything behind the portfolio: the client tracker, project notes and case-study drafts. Most designers do best with both.

Can Notion make a presentation or slide deck?

Yes. Since its 2 March 2026 release, Notion can present any page as full-screen slides on Plus and above: add dividers between slides and choose Present, and the content scales to fit with a title slide.

It works well for internal, text-led decks. For image-led treatments, lookbooks and portfolio decks, Framekit Slides gives you designed templates rather than a scaled page.

How much does a Notion site on my own domain cost?

A Notion site on your own domain needs a paid Notion plan, from $10 a member a month billed yearly on Plus, plus Notion's custom domain add-on at $8 a month billed annually or $10 monthly, per domain.

For one person that is $216 a year before the domain registration itself. Framekit Starter includes a custom domain for $84 a year.

Does Notion have client galleries?

No. Notion has no gallery with a password, download controls, favourites or a separate download PIN, so a photographer using Notion as a site delivers work through something else.

Framekit includes unlimited client galleries on every plan, Free included, with photos and video in the same gallery.

Can I sell products through Notion?

Not natively. Notion has no checkout, automatic file delivery or store, so selling means adding a separate payment service and handling delivery yourself.

Framekit's store handles the product page, a shareable buy link and instant download, with a platform fee of 5 percent on Free and Starter, 3 percent on Pro and 0 percent on Business.

What is Notion's upload limit on the free plan?

Notion's pricing page lists file uploads up to 5 MB on the Free plan and unlimited on paid plans. For a photographer or designer that matters, because a full-resolution portfolio image can exceed 5 MB.

Framekit accepts photos up to 100MB on every plan, within a pooled storage allowance of 10GB on Free.

Which is cheaper, Notion or Framekit?

For a public site on your own domain, Framekit is cheaper: Starter is $84 a year with the domain included, while Notion needs a paid plan from $120 a year plus its $8 a month domain add-on, $216 a year for one person.

For a private workspace, Notion is cheaper, because Framekit does not do that job at all and Notion Free costs nothing for one person.

Can I move my Notion portfolio to Framekit?

There is no importer, so moving means rebuilding: let Framekit's AI generate the site from a description of your practice or start from a template, paste each case study's text, and re-upload the images at full resolution.

Keep the Notion pages as your drafting space, which is what they are good at.

Does a Notion site rank in search?

Notion sites can be indexed, with basic search engine indexing on Free and advanced options on paid plans.

A portfolio with separate project pages, each with its own title and description, gives search engines several pages to rank for several queries.

If commissions come through referral, that matters little; if they come through search, it is most of the game.

Can several people edit a Framekit site or deck at the same time?

No. Framekit has no live co-editing and no comments on decks.

Its team members, three on Pro and unlimited on Business, are website admins who can work on site pages, but a deck belongs to the account that made it and a team member cannot open it, so decks are built by one person and shared with everyone else as a link or PDF.

Notion is built for simultaneous editing and comments.

Does Framekit have AI like Notion?

Framekit has AI with a different job. Every Framekit plan has a monthly AI allowance that generates site sections, writes copy, rebuilds layouts from a reference image, and writes and lays out slides.

Notion's AI works inside your workspace, summarising and searching notes. Neither is unmetered; Notion's fuller AI features sit on its Business plan.

What does Framekit not do that Notion does?

Databases, filtered views, relations, automations, wikis, internal documentation, real-time collaborative editing and AI across your notes. That is a substantial list and none of it is what a website builder is for.

Anyone running their business operations in Notion should keep doing so.

Should I keep Notion if I build a Framekit site?

Yes, almost certainly. Notion stays as the workspace: client tracker, shoot schedules, invoicing notes, case-study drafts and anything the public never sees.

Framekit takes the public half: the portfolio, client galleries, review links, decks and the store. Notion Free costs nothing for one person, so keeping it is free.

Final Verdict

Notion organises and Framekit presents, and pressing either into the other's job produces something that works but reads wrong.

A published or presented Notion page is a document that happens to be public, which is exactly right for a spec, a wiki or an internal update, and exactly wrong for the thing a client uses to decide whether to hire you.

Where Framekit loses. Framekit does not do databases, wikis or internal documentation, and does not support real-time co-editing or comments on decks.

It is not for anyone whose need is organising work rather than showing it, and Notion's presentation mode is the better fit for internal, text-led decks.

Where it wins. Creatives whose work is judged visually and who have a portfolio or pitch living inside a tool with its own visual identity.

Keep Notion for the workspace, and put the public half, the site, the galleries, the review links and the decks, somewhere it argues for you.

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