Notion vs Zenhub: which one fits your team?
One is the record of what shipped, the other the record of what was decided. Together they cover almost everything except the hours in between.
It turns on whether your bottleneck is tracking the build or capturing the thinking.
Pick Notion if
the thing you need is a place to write, document and think out loud together. Where it stops: a database of tasks is not a plan, and somebody has to build it first.
Pick Zenhub if
your team runs agile entirely on GitHub Issues and wants the reporting to match. Where it stops: it is engineering shaped, and there is no calendar.
What it costs
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Notion is about €570 a year, Zenhub does not publish a per seat price we can put in this sum, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
Notion: Free plan. €9.50 Plus and €19.50 Business per member per month, with AI credits on top. Zenhub: Paid per user, with a free tier for small teams. Check their current tiers.
Where they part company
Zenhub does more on 6 of them
- linking pull requests to the work
- portfolio and agile reporting
- dependencies and a timeline
- showing who has room
- rules that fire on their own
- being useful before you configure it
Notion does more on 5 of them
- docs and a wiki inside
- turning meetings into tasks
- having a plan for today
- two way calendar sync
- AI that does the work rather than the scheduling
Side by side
| What it does | Notion | Zenhub | UnaTask |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time blocking on a calendar | No | No | Core |
| A plan for today and this week | Partly | No | Core |
| Two way calendar sync | Partly | No | Yes |
| It is the task manager itself | Partly. Tasks are a database you build, not a task manager you are given. | Partly. The issues live in GitHub. Zenhub is the layer that runs agile on them. | Core |
| Dependencies and a timeline | Partly | Yes | Yes. Dependencies with a timeline that shows what is waiting on what. |
| See who has room | Partly | Yes | Core |
| Booking links | No | No | Yes |
| Meetings become tasks | Yes | No | Yes |
| Email and chat become tasks | Partly | Partly | Yes |
| Pull requests linked to work | Partly | Core | Yes |
| Docs and wiki inside | Core. This is the thing it is best at, and it is genuinely hard to beat. | No | Partly. Docs live on a project, they are not a wiki you would run a company from. |
| Portfolio or agile reporting | Partly | Core. Burndown, velocity and story points, which is the reason to buy it. | Partly. Team workload and project progress, not portfolios that roll up to a board. |
| Rules that fire on their own | Partly | Yes | Yes |
| AI that does the work, not just the scheduling | Partly | No | Yes. AI teammates you assign a task to. The work comes back on the task for review. |
| Useful before you configure it | No. A blank page is the point, and it is also the work. | Partly | Core |
| A free plan | Yes | Yes | Yes |
What should not decide it
They answer the same on 5: time blocking on a calendar, being the place the tasks actually live, booking links, turning email and chat into tasks and having a free plan.
And where UnaTask sits
UnaTask is the hours in between, and it links back to the build so the plan and the code stay in step.
It does more than both of them on time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today, two way calendar sync, being the place the tasks actually live, showing who has room, booking links, turning email and chat into tasks, AI that does the work rather than the scheduling and being useful before you configure it.
Common questions
Notion vs Zenhub: which should I pick?
Pick Notion if the thing you need is a place to write, document and think out loud together. Pick Zenhub if your team runs agile entirely on GitHub Issues and wants the reporting to match.
What is the biggest difference between Notion and Zenhub?
The clearest gap is docs and a wiki inside, where Notion does more than Zenhub. Underneath that, Notion is a place to write things down together, with the work living inside the writing, and Zenhub is a system of record for software work, built around issues and cycles.
Is Notion or Zenhub cheaper?
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Notion is about €570 a year, Zenhub does not publish a per seat price we can put in this sum, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
What do Notion and Zenhub have in common?
They answer the same on 5 of our 16 axes, among them time blocking on a calendar, being the place the tasks actually live and booking links. Those are the things that should not decide it for you.
Where does UnaTask fit against Notion and Zenhub?
UnaTask does more than both on time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today and two way calendar sync. It is free on your own and €10 per seat for a team, with every feature included. Where it does less: it is not an issue tracker with sprints and burndown, and it is not a documentation workspace.
Details checked 2 August 2026 and June 2026.