Guru vs Notion
Guru and Notion are both wiki and knowledge base software. Guru is a commercial product from Guru Technologies. Notion is a commercial product from Notion Labs.
Which to pick
- Pick Guru when
- Support or sales teams need accurate, owner-verified answers available where they already work.
- Pick Notion when
- A small or mid-size team wants one flexible tool for docs, wiki and light project tracking.
Side by side
A knowledge base of verified cards that surfaces answers inside Slack, Teams and the browser, with AI answers and expert verification.
A workspace of pages and databases for notes, wikis, project tracking and docs, with AI search and agents built in.
Per-seat pricing, and it only works if people keep verifying content.
Cloud only, slow on large workspaces, offline support is limited, and its flexibility leads to messy structures.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service and browser extension
Cloud service, desktop app and mobile app
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by Guru Technologies
Closed source, sold by Notion Labs
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
No Wikipedia article of its own
4.1k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.