Notion Custom Agents Paywall Starts Today — A Free Alternative That Runs All 6 Life Departments

Starting Today, 5/4

At 2026-05-04 00:00 UTC, Notion Custom Agents (Business/Enterprise add-on) switches to $10 / 1,000 credits (usage-based). The free trial through 2026-05-03 ends today.

Two-source triangulation (Notion's 45–90 runs/1,000 credits + independent estimates at 30–60) lands a conservative $0.11–$0.33 per agent run.
10 runs/day = $33–$99 / month. And credits reset monthly — unused ones evaporate.

Sources:

• https://www.notion.com/help/custom-agent-pricing
• https://www.notion.com/releases/2026-04-14

Two preview posts led here:

• Post A (D-6): Notion Custom Agents Goes $10/1,000 Credits on 5/4 — A Free Way to Run All 6 Departments
• Post B (D-2): 2 Days to Notion Paywall — Split Your Personal AI to a Free 6-Department Hub First

This D-0 post closes with a two-path choice.

Your Two Options

Option A: Replacement (Leave Notion, Run Jibun Inc. Alone)

Avoid the Notion credit billing.
Run all 6 departments on Jibun Inc. (Flutter Web + Supabase), free.

Fits you if:

• Solo dev / freelancer
• Work notes and personal logs are small-scale
• You hate the cognitive cost of metered billing
• Japanese-native UX matters more than English-first

What you get:

• Zero credit-balance watching
• 6-department (R&D / Finance / Marketing / HR / HQ / Health) integration
• Supabase persistence (your own PostgreSQL)
• ai-hub routing bundling Claude + OpenAI + Gemini + fallback

Option B: Coexistence (Notion = Work-Centric / Jibun Inc. = Personal / Health / Finance)

Restrict Notion to work-only use, accept credit billing as meaningful spend.
Split personal side (health / household / daily KPIs) to Jibun Inc.

Fits you if:

• You're inside an org and Notion Custom Agents stays in use
• You want a deliberate separation between work data and personal data
• You're actively using Notion's team-RAG strength

What you get:

• Work credits aren't drained by personal logging
• Role split: "Notion for meetings → Jibun Inc. for post-work health logs"
• Reduce single-vendor liability on Notion

Both paths are rational. The axis: as a personal CEO, which side of your balance sheet do you want to thicken?

Jibun Inc. 6-Department Summary (One Screen)

Single dashboard view:

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  🏢 Jibun Inc. — 6 Departments, Today's Summary  │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  🔬 R&D       | AI University 133 / +2 learned   │
│  💰 Finance   | Δ -¥1,200 vs yday / -3.2% MoM    │
│  📢 Marketing | Posts 2 / reactions +14          │
│  🧑 HR        | Sleep 7.2h / mood 7/10           │
│  🏛️ HQ        | 9 principles / 1 decision log    │
│  ❤️ Health    | Exercise 30min / condition good  │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

All free. No credit balance to read — only your "yesterday-you" KPI comparison.

Notion Side (If You Pick Option B)

If you keep Notion Custom Agents, a recommended setup to minimize personal credit burn:

1. Detach Custom Agents from personal notes (move them to Agent-free pages)
2. Move daily routines (health logs, household) to Jibun Inc.
3. Restrict Custom Agents to work projects only
4. Log the monthly credit review in Jibun Inc.'s Finance department

→ Crystal-clear line: credits for work, Jibun Inc. for personal.

The Tech Stack Making Free Predictable

Behind Jibun Inc.'s free operation:

• Flutter Web (Dart): one codebase across iPhone Safari / Android Chrome / desktop
• Supabase: PostgreSQL + Edge Function (Deno) + Auth + Storage — generous free tier
• 16 Edge Function hubs: core / growth / ai / admin / app / schedule / tools / media / enterprise / social-commerce / lifestyle + 5 standalone
• ai-hub: 130+ AI providers unified (Claude + OpenAI + Gemini + fallback)
• Firebase Hosting: static hosting on the free tier

"Free" here isn't a shady hobby server. Supabase / Firebase / Flutter are open and SLA-backed. The core value is predictability: you don't have to read a credit meter.

3 Actions You Can Take Right Now

1. Open Jibun Inc.: https://my-web-app-b67f4.web.app/
2. Look at the 6-department summary: feel how your life decomposes
3. Pick Option A or B: match it to your own balance sheet

Try It

• Live: https://my-web-app-b67f4.web.app/
• Landing: https://my-web-app-b67f4.web.app/
• 21-competitor comparison: https://my-web-app-b67f4.web.app/comparison

This Isn't Just Notion (The Vendor Paywall Pattern)

Six-source triangulation (Anthropic's own pricing + The Register + PYMNTS + Gizmodo + Kingy AI + npifinancial) confirms Anthropic Enterprise also migrated to $20/seat + usage starting 2025-11, with a new structure:

1. Mandatory consumption commits — pre-pay Anthropic-estimated monthly token volume; if actual usage falls below, you're still billed
2. Volume discounts (10–15%) removed
3. Per-token unit price unchanged

Redress Compliance's heavy-user estimates land at 2–3× cost increase.
Notion and Anthropic are heading the same direction: vendors stabilize their revenue via metered + commit billing; users absorb the unpredictability.

Jibun Inc. has zero commits, zero credits, fully free. Structurally insulated from "pricing update" news cycles.

Credit billing starts today. "Replace" or "coexist" — you, the personal CEO, decide. Either way, if Jibun Inc. is the receiver, your time capital survives.