Mattermost vs. Notion

Mattermost

Notion

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Mattermost	Score 9.0 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	Mattermost from the company of the same name in Palo Alto is a messaging, collaboration and communication platform providing high security and compliance for the businesses that need it.	$0 per month per user
Notion	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	Notion aims to present users with an all-in-one workspace — for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases, from Notion Labs in San Francisco.	$0

Pricing

Mattermost

Notion

Editions & Modules

Free Self-Hosted: $0
per month per user
Professional: $10
per month per user
Enterprise: Contact Us
per month per user

Free: $0
Plus: $12
per month per user
Business: $24
per month per user
Enterprise: Custom Pricing

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Mattermost	Notion
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

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A discount is offered for annual billing.

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Community Pulse
	Mattermost	Notion
Considered Both Products	Mattermost Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost They're very similar. I think it's really a matter of preference. Again, one of the things I like about Mattermost is that it's strictly for business (atleast for us) it's different from the more mainstream messaging apps used so we can kind of separate work vs personal messages. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost Slack, Microsoft Teams and Discord Incentivized Helpful? Nayan Shah Senior Software Engineer Chose Mattermost Microsoft Teams and Slack Incentivized Helpful? MR Muhammad Rohan Director Chose Mattermost It's cheaper and similar to Slack. You can break down your project modules better here. It's secure and self-hosted. Incentivized Helpful? JH Jeremy Herman Engineer Chose Mattermost Much more expensive than most chat applications but you have more control over things by self-hosting. Your security team will be able to design a very secure place to store all your code, passwords, and internal details, but most companies will not require this. It would be … Incentivized Helpful? ME Momen Eldyrani SF Admin Chose Mattermost In comparison to Slack, where Slack is strictly for internal communication, Mattermost actually has the format to display and not alter source code. Google chat is also even more limited in comparison to Slack and Mattermost. If you collaborate on code every single day, then … Incentivized Helpful? SI Sid Iyer BizOps Lead Chose Mattermost It is just as good if not better. Can be a superior option depending on the needs of your organization. Incentivized Helpful? JL Justin Leopold Automation Architect Chose Mattermost These products all required cloud connectivity and licensing that was a significant cost. Mattermost allowed us to pilot this among just the Ops team and then evangelize this to the other infrastructure team. This allowed us to slowly show the value of this software and expand … Incentivized Helpful? Atlas Vieira Ops and Project Analyst Chose Mattermost Unlike Slack and Discord, Mattermost is self-hosted and focused on security. I used Discord before for community management and much simpler and less secure operations. Slack is great, but the fact that is cloud based takes out a lot of its independence. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost We used to have Mattermost and now we have Microsoft Teams. They are both very similar. Mattermost and Microsoft Teams are both great for communicating internally via calls, chats, meetings, etc. They are also both easy to set up an use. However, the Microsoft Teams mobile app … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost to reduce cost we shifted to Mattermost. Incentivized Helpful? Kulbhushan Mayer Co-Founder & Technical Architect Chose Mattermost Discord and Microsoft Teams Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost Mattermost works better in that there aren’t constant updates and changes which can make finding past messages difficult. Mattermost also works better for channel creation and communication Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost Slack is by far my personal favorite due to the age of the platform and the maturity of the features. Mattermost is a close 2nd- Incentivized Helpful? Sanjay Singh Business Development Manager Chose Mattermost Honestly iv just used these two but when it comes to customization, they don't come close to Mattermost. Slack and Teams are Less flexible, Not self hosted. Not Open source,etc I will also say that i noticed integration capabilities are very limited with teams and slack and not … Incentivized Helpful? David Noah Controls Engineer Chose Mattermost Mattermost is much faster and easier to use. It also has many more features beyond chat. They are more customizations and features for workflow and messaging on this platform also. The ability to integrate with other platforms via plugins, the security features, and the open … Incentivized Helpful? SR Shannon Robertson Network Engineer Chose Mattermost We cannot connect to the internet so skype/teams is not a possible solution. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost Mattermost is easier to use, faster, and less resource-intensive. Cross-platform support is great, and the mobile experience is awesome. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost I feel slack is a bit more difficult to use overall than Mattermost. Mattermost makes the tasks of communicating across departments and team members easier, as well as giving the ability to share information via hyper links, attachments, and other forms of communication among … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost We selected mattermost since we can control storage of our data. Slack is a great tool and offers more robust features compared to mattermost. However, the previously mentioned reason & the competitive pricing allowed us to stick with mattermost. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost key selling points for us was that its open source and can be self hosted. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost Mattermost is cheaper and offers the possibility of self-hosting compared to other competitors. This is a great advantage for our company. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost Microsoft Teams feels quite clunky and the video chat is buggy. Slack is close but maybe not quite as feature-rich. Mattermost just feels like the right tool for a company my size ~1000+ users. No one has had any major issues with this tool and there haven't been any … Incentivized Helpful? Abhigyan Tiwari Senior Software Engineer Chose Mattermost First of all, we don't lose messages; we can see or search messages from any point in the past. Second, it offers to manage the whole product ourselves from hosting to serving users of our organisation. We feel that we have full control over data, managing users, … Incentivized Helpful? Olga Khazanov Full Stack Software Engineer Chose Mattermost It was selected before i got to the company. Incentivized Helpful?	Notion Juliana Guzzo Bertolini Operations Assistant Chose Notion because Notion is more comprehensive and offers greater possibilities. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion Notion is far superior to OneNote. OneNote is unnecessarily complex and quite constrained by 'old ways' of doing things. Notion is a more simplistic interface and just 'works'. Incentivized Helpful? Anushka Garg Senior Associate Chose Notion Needed something outside of Microsoft Office for overall deal and project tracking and collating our collective knowledge and learnings from different deals. We have not evaluated against anything else. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion I listed only the other tools we use. These are not necessarily competitors to Notion, nor we use them for the same things. For organising tasks and collaborative work we only use Notion. Slack is good for communication, Figma for design and development, while Miro for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion I like the Notion interface and possibilities. Incentivized Helpful? Julia Schaider Closer Chose Notion I tested Trello, which is great for visual tasks, but I missed something more complete. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion Notion brought the two together with features from each that we liked being put into one place. Incentivized Helpful? Janesia Dcosta 🗓️ Freelancer Chose Notion I like Notion more than Trello and Google Sheets because it has the best parts of both. Trello is good for making lists of tasks, but it can’t do much else. Google Sheets is great for organizing data, but it can get messy. I chose Notion because I can make lists, tables, and … Incentivized Helpful? Larissa Bravim Furlan Operations Analist Chose Notion The first major difference is the ability to create formulas using other columns and even using other formulas. This increases the possibility of customization to another level. I couldn't do the same things using these other tools. The second is the infinite number of things … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion I think Miro also has it's downsides but in general there is more options to illustrate one's creative ideas and workflows etc. Notion is slightly more limiting in that sense. And due to two facor authentification I also tend to work more in google sheets and google docs and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion Notion pretty much combines all the capabilities each one of these platforms have and just takes the most important ideas and concentrates on making them stand out. I can create a "Trello" type of timeline, and use a more traditional "Jira" or "Asana" type of waterfall view. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion Notion goes beyond file storage, which are what the two selected above primarily offer. Also I have used Notion for personal use cases and projects and have found it to have a really amazing user experience and UI. Microsoft products tend to fail at having a good UX. Also, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion The company uses both Notion and Trello within the company. Notion is more for North America employees while Trello is used between Operation team overseas and in North America. Sometimes it's a preference of how the tools look like for project management. I would say both … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion Jira is a great tool, that is probably more robust than Notion and more scalable. But for a small company (under 50 people) the investment is hard to swallow without a significant revenue stream justifying it. Notion is a perfect low cost option that meets 80% of the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion We found Notion to be a lot easier to use than ClickUp. They offer a similar feature set, but ClickUp was a lot less user-friendly in my opinion. We also tried Trello and Todoist, but found they were just lacking the features we needed. We still use Trello for some internal … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion Notion's flexibility and extensive customization options make it the perfect tool for my personal organization. I appreciate not being confined to a single format, and I find that the process of personalizing my workspace sparks creativity, which is a great asset for managing … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion Notion is the most in depth of all of the above applications. You can make a simple to-do list and share it with other people, or dive deep into formulas and page linking. I appreciate that it does not take a large time to set up like Monday.com, but it still offers a huge … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion Notion has a powerful feature, and it is their templates within databases. They allow our operation to flow seamlessly and create new tasks with defined subtasks in seconds. Incentivized Helpful? Sebastian Paredes Smith Researcher Chose Notion not nearly as useful, it is just a file organiser tool but Notion has the functionality of creating many thing in one page, allowing to include more pages and link with other spaces. such as Miro, google drive, calendar, etc Integration is part of what makes Notion the best … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion A lot more features for collaboration and sharing information. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion I think that Notion adds a better user experience which is more customisable. Some of these apps are really rigid and dont give youthe flexability that Notion does. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion I found that Notion offered the most versatility. In particular it allowed me to super easily format and reformat information depending on how I was using it. This has proven incredibly useful. And has allowed me to store various types of information all in the same place. Incentivized Helpful? Long Nguyen Vu Research Engineer Chose Notion Notion is less complicated than ClickUp and more user friendly, especially for those who prefer simplicity. I am aware that ClickUp does offer simple template and let us scale it but Notion is one step ahead because of the UI design is easier to use. I like Confluence at work … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion I've used Evernote in the past and currently use Asana alongside Notion, so I can compare them based on my experience. Notion is much more flexible than Evernote. While Evernote is great for basic note-taking, Notion allows me to structure my notes with nested pages, databases, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion We were using Nation for the whole company and it's amazing, however, for the CS team with the tech/ops we are using Trello. As a CS & Operation manager, the reminders/alarms/notifications are the most important for handling time and minimizing the SLAs, so I created automation … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Mattermost

Notion

Project Management

Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
	Mattermost 8.3 Ratings 7% above category average	Notion 9.9 Ratings 25% above category average
Task Management	7.00 Ratings	9.60 Ratings
Gantt Charts	8.40 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Scheduling	8.40 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Workflow Automation	7.40 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Mobile Access	9.10 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Search	8.90 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Visual planning tools	9.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Communication

Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
	Mattermost 8.4 Ratings 6% above category average	Notion 9.6 Ratings 19% above category average
Chat	9.20 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Notifications	8.40 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Discussions	8.80 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Surveys	8.90 Ratings	9.30 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase	6.10 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting	8.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts	8.70 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook	8.30 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

File Sharing & Management

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
	Mattermost 9.1 Ratings 14% above category average	Notion 9.9 Ratings 23% above category average
Versioning	9.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Video files	9.30 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Audio files	9.30 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Document collaboration	7.90 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Access control	9.90 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Advanced security features	9.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive	8.60 Ratings	9.20 Ratings
Device sync	10.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
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User Ratings
	Mattermost	Notion
Likelihood to Recommend	7.8 (0 ratings)	8.3 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	6.4 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	6.4 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	7.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Mattermost	Notion
Likelihood to Recommend	Mattermost is definitely appropriate for a growing company with team members spread out across the u.s. and Canada. It’s given me the ability to have access to anyone with the information I need or the ability to develop friendships, working relationships with people I otherwise wouldn’t have access to Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	At the company I work for, we use Notion as an organizational base for all sectors and projects. For example, we use it for the marketing team, customer support team, among others. And for each one, we can create pipelines, tasks, due dates, execution time, tags with different colors. It's something very versatile that helps with everything around here. We've even created a sales funnel in Notion. Incentivized Larissa Bravim Furlan Operations Analist Read full review
Pros	Easy intergration to our main CRM (Monday.com) I'm not techy myself but I have seen a lot of our previous integrations in Slack transferred over to Mattermost so that's fun The desktop and phone app (android) works well enough. I haven't tried it on the Apple ecosystem yet. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I love that you can create nested pages, allowing for separate sections to organize information as needed. I appreciate the convenience of effortlessly uploading images to any section. I appreciate that when adding links, you can embed them so the website displays directly on the page. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Basic features like custom status, collapsed reply threads are JUST rolling out - kind of slow for a workplace chat app. I don't really get the idea of Playbooks and Boards - there are better, dedicated tools for stuff like this and it's not so easy to turn off. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I use Notion on my personal tablet, and unlike on the computer, I have a lot of difficulty editing backgrounds, GIFs, and page dividers. It's not as user-friendly, and often the elements end up cut off or misaligned, which is frustrating. While the current calendar feature is helpful, I'd love to see more customization options. The Google Calendar style isn't always ideal, especially for tasks without specific times or for ongoing projects that require daily maintenance. It would be fantastic to have more flexibility in customizing Notion pages. For example, I'd love to create planners with the freedom to add illustration boxes, stickers, or GIFs without being restricted to a fixed layout. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Mattermost works perfectly within our company as a way to communicate seamlessly. I have had no issues with the product and continue to use it often while on and off site. The mobile app allows me to continue to communicate with my team even when I don't have my laptop with me. Incentivized RF Ryne Fiebig Chiropractor Read full review	We're too settled in the ecosystem and we have no major complaints with it. No reason to move unless you have a burning pain point Incentivized Mantra Manan Saraswat Product Manager Read full review
Usability	It's an extremely easy to use software, and I would recommend it to every company that is growing. I think they could improve their notification system, as it gets a little spammy sometimes and important notifications get lost. Also needs to improve the number of private chats that you are allowed to create. Incentivized María Lucía Santagata Coordinadora Ssr Read full review	Notion addresses most of our needs and help teams to organize their tasks, track their progresses and then archive for future reference. The company uses Notion to share announcement, holiday schedules, employee contact information and organizational structures. Everyone finds it useful and helpful. The notifications are instant. Reminders are on time. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	We have not had to contact support for Mattermost ever. All that we have needed has been available in the documentation or website. One of our DevOps team members set it up in a couple of hours. The whole team was using Mattermost that same day. No support needed. Incentivized Angela Goldsmith, PMP Director of Systems Development Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	This went as expected. No surprises or major hurdles. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Unlike Slack and Discord, Mattermost is self-hosted and focused on security. I used Discord before for community management and much simpler and less secure operations. Slack is great, but the fact that is cloud based takes out a lot of its independence. Incentivized Atlas Vieira Ops and Project Analyst Read full review	Notion is much more robust than Google Tasks, which I find very limited. Notion is far more customizable and affordable than Asana, which is more of a turnkey solution for teams that want to work within a pre-defined structure. Notion and ClickUp are comparable, in my opinion, in terms of task management and affordability, however Notion is the more customizable and expansive option whereas ClickUp is mostly just for task management. Incentivized April Jordan CMO Read full review
Return on Investment	The platform is adaptive to storage data center outages in case our cloud storage provider goes away, Mattermost still works with our local database. However, files couldn't be shared. We can switch storage to local temporarily; that's a benefit. Later it all syncs up to main storage. When our team switched to Mattermost from paid solutions, we had much savings and access to unlimited past messages and storage quota (we use our cloud storage provider) We have better visibility of our tools and other products running adjacent to Mattermost due to integration capability. We use it for notifications/ updates sent from other products. Incentivized Abhigyan Tiwari Senior Software Engineer Read full review	It has streamlined our processes across various teams to all work from a signle source of truth Maintaining this source of truth is a full time job It has reduced our overall tool set by completely eliminating two other softwares we were paying for Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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