Notion vs Coda vs Slite: Best Team Wiki in 2026

Every growing team eventually needs a single place to store decisions, processes, onboarding docs, and institutional knowledge. The wiki market in 2026 has settled around three strong contenders: Notion, Coda, and Slite. Each approaches the problem differently — Notion as an all-in-one workspace, Coda as a doc-powered app builder, and Slite as a focused team knowledge base.

This comparison is based on using all three tools across teams ranging from 5 to 200 people, with a specific focus on their wiki and knowledge management capabilities rather than their broader feature sets.

Feature Comparison

Pricing

Slite is the most straightforward on pricing — $10/member/month with a single paid tier that includes everything. Notion's pricing is competitive at $12/member/month for Plus, though Business features like advanced permissions push it to $18. Coda's pricing model is unique: only "doc makers" pay, while viewers and commenters are free. This works well for teams where a few people create docs and many consume them, but can get expensive at the Business tier.

Search and Knowledge Retrieval

Search is arguably the most important feature of any team wiki. A knowledge base is only as good as your ability to find things in it.

Slite has invested heavily here. Its "Ask" feature lets team members type a question in natural language and get a synthesized answer drawn from across the knowledge base, with source links. This is not a gimmick — it works well for common questions like "What's our PTO policy?" or "How do we deploy to staging?" The traditional search also works, but the conversational retrieval is the standout feature.

Notion's search has improved significantly over the years but remains a pain point for larger workspaces. Results can be slow to surface, and the lack of robust filtering (by date, author, or database property) makes finding specific documents in a workspace with thousands of pages frustrating. Notion AI Q&A helps — you can ask questions about your workspace — but it sits behind a separate interface rather than being the primary search experience.

Coda's search is functional and fast within individual docs. Cross-workspace search works but feels secondary to the doc-centric model. Coda Brain adds AI-powered Q&A similar to Notion AI, pulling answers from across your docs.

Organization and Structure

How each tool structures information reveals its philosophy.

Notion uses a tree structure. Pages nest inside pages, which nest inside teamspaces. This gives you enormous flexibility but also enough rope to create a confusing maze. Teams that invest in information architecture up front do well with Notion. Teams that don't end up with a sprawling mess of orphaned pages and duplicate content. The sidebar becomes unwieldy past a few hundred pages without disciplined organization.

Coda organizes everything within docs. A single Coda doc can contain multiple pages, tables, and views — essentially functioning as a mini-app. This works brilliantly for structured processes (sprint planning, product specs) but can feel odd for a traditional wiki where you want a flat collection of standalone articles. Cross-doc references help connect information across docs, but the mental model is "docs containing sections" rather than "pages in a hierarchy."

Slite takes a simpler approach with channels (like Slack channels but for docs) and collections. Documents live in channels organized by topic or team. There is no deep nesting, which is both a constraint and a feature — it prevents the organizational sprawl that plagues Notion wikis. The trade-off is less flexibility for teams that want custom structures.

Writing and Editing Experience

Notion's block-based editor is powerful and flexible. You can mix text, databases, embeds, callouts, toggles, and synced blocks on a single page. The learning curve is real — new team members often struggle with the block model initially — but once internalized, it enables rich, interactive documentation.

Coda's editor is similar to Notion's in capability but leans more toward structured data. Tables with formulas are first-class citizens. If your documentation involves calculations, conditional content, or dynamic data, Coda's editor is unmatched. For straightforward prose, it works fine but offers more complexity than needed.

Slite's editor is deliberately simple. It handles text, headings, images, code blocks, and basic embeds. There are no databases, no formulas, no complex block types. This simplicity is the point — anyone on the team can create and edit docs without learning a new tool. The editor gets out of the way and lets you write.

AI Capabilities

All three tools have shipped AI features, but the implementations differ in useful ways.

Notion AI helps you draft content, summarize long pages, extract action items, and answer questions about your workspace. It is deeply integrated into the editor — you can invoke AI inline while writing. The Q&A feature searches across your workspace to answer questions, which works best when your workspace is well-organized.

Coda Brain understands the structured data within your docs, including tables and formulas. You can ask questions that require reasoning across data (e.g., "Which projects are behind schedule?") and get answers that reference specific rows and values. This is more powerful than pure text-based AI search.

Slite's Ask feature is purpose-built for knowledge retrieval. Rather than being a writing assistant, it focuses on helping people find and understand existing knowledge. It verifies answers against source documents and flags when information might be outdated. For a wiki use case, this targeted approach often delivers better results than a general-purpose AI assistant.

Collaboration and Async Work

All three tools support real-time collaborative editing. The differences emerge in how they handle async workflows — comments, reviews, and notifications.

Notion supports inline comments, page-level discussions, and mentions. Notifications work but can be noisy in active workspaces. The lack of a "review and approve" workflow means document quality depends on team discipline rather than tooling.

Coda supports comments and has the unique advantage of buttons and automations within docs. You can build approval workflows directly into a document — a reviewer clicks a button, the status updates, and a notification fires. This is overkill for simple wikis but valuable for process documentation.

Slite includes comments, mentions, and a "verify" feature that periodically asks document owners to confirm their content is still accurate. This verification workflow is specifically designed for wiki maintenance — the most common failure mode of any team knowledge base is content going stale without anyone noticing.