# Notion MCP vs Outline (slim)

> Outline scores 60.3 (C) on agent readiness against Notion MCP's 58.9 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Notion MCP leads on reliability. Both do docs and wikis. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Outline scores 60.3 (C) on agent readiness against Notion MCP's 58.9 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Notion MCP leads on reliability. Both do docs and wikis.

- Notion MCP: C 58.9, rank #442 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/notion-mcp.min.md
- Outline: C 60.3, rank #408 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outline.min.md
- Notion MCP, good for Agents that read and write a team's Notion pages and databases, or hand work to Notion's Custom Agents. Ahead on Reliability, 72 against 67. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- Outline, good for Teams that keep their wiki in Outline and want an agent to search, read, write and comment on Markdown documents, on the hosted service or a self-hosted copy with the same API. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 76 against 71; Agent ergonomics, 62 against 51; Security & auth, 71 against 60.

| Category | Notion MCP | Outline |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 72 | 67 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 71 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 51 | 62 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 60 | 71 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 81 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 72 | 69 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Notion MCP | Outline |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Notion | General Outline, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.notion.com/mcp` | `https://app.getoutline.com/api` |
| Transports | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Your plan | Paid |
| Licence | MIT | Source available under BSL 1.1, which bars running it as a document service for third parties and converts each release to Apache 2.0 on its change date (2030-09-09 for 1.10.1). The OpenAPI description is BSD-3-Clause. The hosted service is under the vendor's terms |
| Tools exposed | 36 | 19 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `com.notion/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-09 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-29 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 4.6k stars, 193k npm/wk | 41k stars |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |