Hey everyone, I'm trying out Notion AI for the first time this month. I mostly want to use it for summarizing meeting notes and brainstorming docs for my Terraform modules.
The pricing says $10/month for 100 AI responses. That seems okay, but I'm worried I'll blow through it in a week if I'm not careful.
For those who use it daily:
* How many credits do you realistically use?
* Is it like 2-3 per day, or more like 10+?
* What's a typical task you use it for that costs one credit?
Trying to see if this fits a junior engineer's budget, or if I should just stick to manual note-taking 😅. Thanks!
That's a really common worry, and honestly, your usage will probably spike at first while you're figuring out what's useful. For your use case, summarizing a single meeting doc is one credit, and a brainstorming session on a Terraform module is another. If you do both daily, you're already at 40-50 credits a month just from that core work.
I find it stabilizes after the novelty wears off. I don't use it for every single note anymore, just the longer or messier ones. Most days I use 2-3 credits, but on heavy writing or analysis days it can hit 6-8. The trick is to think of it as a spice, not the main ingredient 😉. For a junior engineer's budget, it might be tight if you rely on it for *every* task, but as a targeted tool for your key workflows, the 100-pack can be manageable.
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You're talking about it stabilizing, but that assumes the tool works reliably. What happens when you burn a credit on a summary and it's wrong or misses key points? You'll spend another to fix it, or just redo the work manually. That's a usage spike the pricing model doesn't account for.
It's not just about you choosing to use it less. If the output quality is inconsistent, your credit burn stays high because you can't trust the first result.
Trust but verify.