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published_at: "2026-10-31"
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# Manage your AI credits

## Retrieval answer

Notion is moving Business and Enterprise workspaces to a monthly AI credit system with separate Standard and Select allowances, plus an admin-managed balance for eligible overflow. The distinction changes how teams should monitor usage and plan for work that pauses when a bucket runs out; the published page gives credit estimates, but not the cash price of additional credits.

## Summary
Notion is moving Business and Enterprise workspaces to a monthly AI credit system with separate Standard and Select allowances, plus an admin-managed balance for eligible overflow. The distinction changes how teams should monitor usage and plan for work that pauses when a bucket runs out; the published page gives credit estimates, but not the cash price of additional credits.

## What happened
Notion’s help page says new Business and Enterprise workspaces move to the new credit system starting October 19, 2026, while existing workspaces move on November 2, 2026. Each workspace member receives a monthly allowance of 1,500 Standard credits and 500 Select credits, though Notion says included amounts can vary depending on plan and purchase arrangement. Members can check their allowance and usage in Settings → Notion AI → Usage.

The two included balances pay for different kinds of work. Standard credits apply when Notion selects the model, including Notion Agent on Auto, writing and translation, AI blocks, formulas, and inline editing. Select credits apply when a user chooses a model instead of Auto or uses a Custom Agent set up for personal use. Standard and Select credits are separate: they cannot be combined or transferred between members, reset monthly, and do not roll over. Notion says users receive alerts as a balance approaches or reaches zero.

When a balance runs out, affected work pauses until the next reset unless an administrator enables continued use of workspace Notion credits. Select-dependent work can continue on Standard only if the user switches Notion Agent to Auto and has Standard credits left; remaining Select credits cannot pay for Standard features, or vice versa. Workspace Notion credits also cover certain usage outside the included allowances, such as high-credit-consumption models, workspace-funded Custom Agents, and agents run through the Notion API or a connected app. The page describes this as a separate workspace-managed balance that admins can purchase or allocate; it does not state a dollar price.

Notion describes Auto as its model router, which selects a model to balance quality, speed, and cost. It estimates that everyday work can use up to ten times fewer credits on Auto than on a top model. Its examples compare Auto with Opus 5.5: a simple task is estimated at 5 versus 50 credits, a medium task at 10 versus 85, and a complex task at 25 versus 150. Notion cautions that actual use varies by scenario. AI Meeting Notes begin consuming Standard credits on December 1, 2026; a one-hour meeting is estimated at about 10 Standard credits.

## What the archive adds
The earlier Telegram post on October 30, 2025 said OpenAI let ChatGPT Plus and Pro users buy additional Codex credits after exhausting plan limits. Notion’s page is a new event, not an extension of that offer: it defines per-member monthly AI allowances for Business and Enterprise, with separate work categories and an admin-controlled workspace balance. The archive’s [Univer Workspace note](https://newruntime.com/posts/univer-workspace-an-open-source-office-workspace-where-fdfe2d/) is related only at a broad workspace-and-agent level, not as prior coverage of this credit policy.

## Trend signal
This is a weak but concrete signal for [agent economics moving to completed work](https://newruntime.com/patterns/agent-economics-moves-to-completed-work/): Notion presents estimated credit costs by task complexity, rather than only describing model calls. It does not establish cost per verified completion, and the examples are vendor estimates, so it supports the direction of task-level accounting without proving a reliable unit-economic measure.

## Why now
Notion gives transition dates for both new and existing Business and Enterprise workspaces, and a later date for AI Meeting Notes to start drawing from Standard allowances. That sequencing means teams can prepare before the existing-workspace change on November 2, then account for meeting-note usage from December 1. The page does not explain why those dates were chosen.

## Why it matters
A pooled-looking monthly allowance can obscure who or what consumes it. Notion’s split between Standard and Select makes the model-choice decision operational: choosing a model manually or running a personal Custom Agent draws on a different bucket than leaving work to Auto. Teams that promise uninterrupted AI workflows need to know which features stop at exhaustion, which can switch to Auto, and whether admins have enabled paid overflow.

The estimates also offer a starting point for scenario planning, not a budget forecast. Notion says costs vary and does not provide the cash price of workspace credits here, so an organization cannot calculate spend from the examples alone. Still, administrators can map usage categories, set expectations around monthly resets, and avoid treating unused allowances as transferable capacity.

## Limits and uncertainty
The source is a Notion help page, not an independent assessment or a dated announcement. It does not give the monetary price of Notion credits, explain the full administration controls or allocation mechanics in the excerpt, or establish that the estimated task costs will match a team’s workload. Notion says included allowances may vary by plan and purchase arrangement. The page also does not show measured quality comparisons between Auto and Opus 5.5; its statement that Auto can stretch credits up to ten times further is framed as an estimate, with actual usage varying by scenario.

## Reader takeaway
Treat Standard and Select as separate monthly budgets tied to different ways of using Notion AI—not as a single team pool. Before the transition, identify which workflows use each balance, check whether paid workspace credits are enabled, and confirm the actual cash terms with Notion or your account agreement; the credit estimates alone are not a price list.

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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