Anticode vs Notion Sites: publish the pages you already keep or design a site from scratch
Notion Sites puts a Notion page and its subpages on the web with one click, and the site changes whenever the page does. Anticode designs a site from a description, with its own layout, forms and booking calendar, and checks it before it goes live. If your handbook, job board or portfolio already lives in Notion, publishing it there is hard to beat; if you're starting a business site from nothing, Anticode suits better.
The short answer
Choose Notion Sites when the content is already written in Notion and kept up to date there: a team handbook, a help centre, a reading list, a public roadmap. You keep editing the page you know and the web copy follows. Choose Anticode when you need a site that looks like a brand rather than a document, takes enquiries and bookings, and passes design and security checks before anyone sees it.
Publishing a page versus building a site
Notion's help page on publishing a Notion Site says any page can be turned into a site: open Share, choose Publish, and it's live. Subpages are published with it unless you restrict them, databases on the page let visitors switch views and open entries, and changes you make in Notion reach the live site automatically. You can also let visitors duplicate the page as a template into their own workspace.
Anticode starts from a sentence instead of a page. The Architect asks up to three questions that would change the build, shows a plan, and the design engine lays out a landing page, portfolio, booking site, small store or dashboard in one of seven design systems, with optional Services, About, Pricing, FAQ and Contact pages. Content you want to keep editing as entries, such as news or a menu, goes into CMS collections.
Anticode vs Notion Sites, side by side
| Anticode | Notion Sites | |
|---|---|---|
| Design approach | A website layout in one of seven design systems, checked by a design lint | Your Notion page as it looks in Notion, with a header bar, theme and favicon |
| How you build | Describe the site; edit visually, in code or in words | Write in Notion, then publish from the Share menu |
| Code ownership and export | One HTML file or a Next.js project | The content stays in your Notion workspace |
| Hosting and custom domains | name.anticode.dev free; own domain on paid plans | notion.site domains on every plan; a custom domain is a paid add-on per domain |
| Security checks | Twelve checks on the HTML; failing pages are blocked | Enterprise owners can turn publishing off; no pre-publish scan described |
| Pricing model | Build allowance per plan, quote before each build | Per-member workspace plans, plus a per-domain fee for custom domains |
| Best for | New business sites with forms and bookings | Publishing content you already maintain in Notion |
Domains and what you pay
Every Notion plan can publish unlimited pages and claim a notion.site domain (one on Free, five on paid plans), according to Notion's pricing page. As of 24 October 2026 it lists custom domains with Notion branding removed as a separate charge, priced in USD: $8 a month per domain paid annually, or $10 a month per domain paid monthly. The Notion Sites page lists what the Plus, Business and Enterprise plans add: a custom navigation bar, light or dark mode, a favicon, Google Analytics and removal of the Notion logo. The plans themselves are charged per member.
Anticode's own domain comes with any paid plan, connected by CNAME or TXT with the certificate issued for you, and paid plans drop the Made with Anticode badge. The bill depends on how much you build, not how many people are in the workspace; amounts are on pricing.
Forms, visitors and privacy
Notion's pricing lists forms on every plan, and its help page explains that a published page, including a form, can be embedded in another website. One detail is worth knowing before you publish: Notion says a public page's metadata includes the names, profile photos and email addresses of the Notion users who contributed to it.
On Anticode, the contact, booking and newsletter forms are part of the layout. Submissions are sealed at rest, kept for as long as you choose, and can be sent to email, Slack, Google Sheets, Notion, Airtable and other connectors, so a Notion database can still receive every enquiry. Analytics count visits without cookies, and each site serves its own robots.txt, sitemap.xml and llms.txt. Notion notes its sites can take up to four weeks to appear in search.
Where Notion Sites is the better choice
- The content already exists. Nothing to rebuild; publish the page you use every day.
- Many editors, no new tool. Anyone in the workspace who can edit the page can update the site.
- Browsable databases. Visitors can switch between views of a database and open each entry.
- Templates people copy. Duplicate as template lets visitors take a copy into their own Notion.
Where Anticode is the better choice
- A site that doesn't look like a document. Type, colour and spacing come from a design system.
- Bookings and enquiries. A calendar that refuses double bookings and forms that reach you.
- Taking payment. Buy buttons open a checkout link from Stripe, PayPal, Gumroad or Whop.
- Owning the result. Export to HTML or a Next.js project, or push it to GitHub.
Who should pick which
A startup publishing its careers page and roadmap from the workspace it already runs on should use Notion Sites. A salon, a consultant or a launching product that needs a front door with a form should start in Anticode, and can still send submissions into Notion through the Notion connector. For other options, see Notion Sites alternatives.
Anticode's limits
Anticode can't import Notion pages, and its published pages are always public, with no password protection or member areas. Design-engine pages can't embed outside widgets or play video, built-in forms on them have fixed fields (a custom form with a site function takes up to 30), and booking times are six fixed slots a day. The builder works in English and doesn't make multilingual sites. Notion facts above come from Notion's own pages on 24 October 2026.
Questions people ask
Is a Notion Site free?
Publishing pages to a notion.site address is included on the Free plan. A custom domain is a paid add-on charged per domain, on top of a paid plan for features such as custom metadata and Google Analytics.
Can Anticode use my Notion content?
Not as a source for pages. You can paste text into the brief or the visual editor, and the Notion connector can send form submissions into a Notion database.
Do Notion Sites update automatically?
Yes. Notion says changes to a published page appear on the site automatically. Anticode changes go live when you publish, after the checks pass.
Sources
- Notion Help: Publish a website with Notion Sites, checked
- Notion pricing, checked
- Notion Sites, checked