--- title: "Notion database alternative for agent-made tables – Display" description: "The open alternative to Notion databases for the tables your agent makes. Readers are free. Display is not a relational database. Native tables are Planned." --- # The open alternative to Notion databases for agent-made tables read by your whole company Your agent makes the tracker or dashboard. Display shares it at one URL, as the agent built it. People who read and comment are free on every plan. Team is $79 a month, billed monthly, for up to 150 Editors and Contributors. [Start free](https://app.display.dev/) · No card required · Unlimited viewers Kestrel's churn dashboard, an HTML page with its own figures and chart, open on Display. The version history lists four versions at the same URL. Claude Code published v1 for Ana Ruiz. Codex published v2 for Ben Okafor. Priya Shah edited v3 on the page. Cursor published v4 for Maya Lind. Version 4 answers Priya's comment “Can we split EMEA out?” ## Should I use Notion databases or Display? Use Display when an agent already writes the table, tracker or dashboard, and many people must open it and comment on it. Display keeps the HTML page as the agent built it, with the sort and filter that the agent wrote, at one URL. Viewers and Commenters are free on every plan. Team is $79 a month, billed monthly. You can use both: keep the data in Notion, and publish the agent's report to Display. Display is not a relational database. If your team needs relations, rollups, formulas, or rows that people edit together, stay on Notion or use Airtable. Native tables in Display are Planned. ## Notion databases and Display, side by side A Notion database holds rows that people edit. Display holds the table or dashboard that your agent made, for the people who read it. | | Notion databases | Display | |---|---|---| | **People who only read or comment** | Partly – Members pay, guests free | Yes – Free, unlimited | | **One price for the whole company** | No – A fee per member | Yes – $79 a month, flat | | **Invite people outside your company** | Partly – Guests need a Notion account | Yes – Email invite with a role | | **Keeps the HTML file your agent made** | Partly – Import converts it | Yes – Files stay as made | | **Agents can publish into it** | Yes – Through Notion's MCP | Yes – MCP, API or CLI | | **Search inside CSV and Excel files** | Not documented – Not documented | Yes – Words inside the file | | **Sort and filter the table** | Yes – In each view | Partly – As the agent built it | | **Relations, rollups and formulas** | Yes | No – Planned | | **Rows that people edit** | Yes – Each row is a page | No – Planned | | **Board and calendar views** | Yes – 7 layouts | No – Planned | | **Real-time co-editing** | Yes – In the same block | No – One editor at a time | Checked 12 November 2026. Sources: [Import data into Notion](https://www.notion.com/help/import-data-into-notion) · [Who's who in a workspace](https://www.notion.com/help/whos-who-in-a-workspace) · [Notion pricing](https://www.notion.com/pricing) · [Add members and guests](https://www.notion.com/help/add-members-admins-guests-and-groups) · [Notion MCP](https://developers.notion.com/guides/mcp/get-started-with-mcp) · [Views, filters and sorts](https://www.notion.com/help/views-filters-and-sorts) · [Relations and rollups](https://www.notion.com/help/relations-and-rollups) · [Formulas](https://www.notion.com/help/formulas) · [What is a database](https://www.notion.com/help/what-is-a-database) · [Collaborate in a workspace](https://www.notion.com/help/collaborate-within-a-workspace) ## Edit any document in-line. Fix any line right where you read it. 1. Select Edit on the page 2. Change it on the page 3. Save – the next version at the same URL ## Share each table and dashboard with the right people A page stays private until you share it. Then choose who can open it – one page, a folder or a whole Space. - **Private by default** – Every doc stays private until you share it with people and groups. - **One-click sign-in for colleagues** – On Solo and higher plans, colleagues use the Google or Microsoft account they already have. Readers need no seat. - **Invite people outside your company** – Invite clients and partners by email, and give each one a role: Viewer, Commenter, Contributor or Editor. They need no Notion account. - **Know who opened it** – On Team and Business, see who opened which doc, and when, before you follow up. ## Notion databases or Display? Choose by what you do with the data. You can use both. ### Keep Notion databases for - Relations, rollups and formulas across your data. - Rows that several people edit at the same time. - One set of data shown as a board, a calendar or a timeline. - Forms that collect information, and automations that run when the data changes. ### Use Display for - The table, tracker or dashboard that your agent writes as HTML or Markdown. - Pages that your whole company or your clients read and comment on, without a seat for each reader. - CSV and Excel files that people and agents find with search. - Each update at the same URL, with the version history on Solo and higher plans. > “We gave it to a few people, expecting the super users who’d been asking for a publishing platform. We didn’t realize the whole business would pick it up.” > > – Rory Powell, IT and AI Ops Manager, Kogan.com **Free plan: $0.** One editor, 3 docs behind your company sign-in, unlimited public docs and 50 MB of storage. No card required. Viewers and Commenters are free. [Start free](https://app.display.dev/) ## A full workspace behind every URL ### Spaces and folders A Space for every team, with folders inside and its own permissions. ### Search everything you can open You and your agents can search every doc you can open. ### Work across every agent and plan Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, on personal or company plans. One doc, one URL. ### Build internal apps (private beta) Develop applications that pull data from your sources. ### Connect your data sources (private beta) Pull data from the sources your team already uses. ## Before you choose between Notion databases and Display ### We already pay for Notion. Why add Display? For the tables, trackers and dashboards that your agents write and that many people only read. In Notion, each member of a paid workspace is a paid seat. In Display, Viewers and Commenters are free and unlimited on every plan. Keep the data in your Notion database, and publish the agent's report to Display. ### Is there a per-seat fee? No. Display charges one flat price for the company. Team is $79 a month, billed monthly, for up to 150 Editors and Contributors. Viewers and Commenters are free and unlimited on every plan, including Free. ### Does Display have databases? No. Display hosts the table that your agent writes as an HTML or Markdown page, and people read it and comment on it. Display is not a relational database. If your team needs relations, rollups, formulas, or rows that people edit, stay on Notion or use Airtable. Native tables are Planned in Display. ### Can my agent update the table? Yes. Your agent reads the page and its comments, and publishes the next version at the same URL. On Solo and higher plans, you can open and restore earlier versions. In Notion, an agent can change one row through Notion's MCP server. In Display, the agent publishes the page again. ### Can people change the table? A person with edit access selects Edit and changes the text of the page, including the text in a table. One person edits at a time, and each save adds the next version at the same URL. This is in-line editing of a document. For rows that many people edit together, use a Notion database. ### Can people outside our company contribute? Yes. Invite them by email to a doc or a folder, and give them a role: Viewer, Commenter, Contributor or Editor. They sign in with a one-time password, Google or Microsoft. They do not join your organization. ### What happens to our CSV and Excel files? Display stores them, and you can download them. Search finds the words inside a CSV or Excel file, for people and for agents. A CSV file that opens as a table is Planned. Today, your agent publishes the table as an HTML or Markdown page. ### Is Display open source? No. “Open” means three things. Any agent can publish to Display. Anyone you choose can open a doc without a seat. You can download the source file of any doc at any time. ## Publish the next tracker where everyone can read it Viewers and Commenters are free on every plan. Team is $79 a month, billed monthly, for up to 150 Editors and Contributors. [Start free](https://app.display.dev/) · No card required · Unlimited viewers