Our grade: 4 checks
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Community rating
- 5 3
- 4 12
- 3 3
- 2 0
- 1 0
Trust in production
- Trust it - 56%
- With caveats - 44%
- Wouldn't - 0%
94% would recommend this server
How reviewers scored it
- Setup & docs 3.9
- Auth experience 3.8
- Reliability 4.1
- Maintainer responsiveness 3.9
Why it got a B
Notion's official server, hosted over HTTPS with OAuth sign-in and no advisories on record. It can create, move and delete pages and databases (deletes go to Trash and need confirmation), and it reads page text and comments other people wrote, so keep tool approval on. Notion's older self-hosted repo is no longer maintained; use the hosted server. Biggest deduction: OAuth grants your full Notion permissions with no scopes or read-only mode (only admin-made workspace tokens on Business and Enterprise limit the tools), and the server is closed source, so maintenance is one band lower.
How to connect
// .cursor/mcp.json (or ~/.cursor/mcp.json for all projects)
{ "mcpServers": { "notion": { "url": "https://mcp.notion.com/mcp" } } }// .vscode/mcp.json
{ "servers": { "notion": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.notion.com/mcp" } } }claude mcp add --transport http notion https://mcp.notion.com/mcpIs Notion MCP safe?
Is Notion MCP safe to use?
Notion MCP grades B (solid, with minor gaps). Login is required, but access is coarse: one sign-in or key covers more than your agent needs, so grant the narrowest account you can. Upkeep is hard to verify (closed source or a single maintainer), so pin the version you tested.
Does Notion MCP have known vulnerabilities?
Not in our current data: it has no open CVEs or advisories. We re-check as new ones are published.
Does Notion MCP support authentication?
Yes. It requires a login, so access can be tied to a person or a scoped key.
Alternatives in Collaboration
- A Google Drive MCP ServerOfficial Google-hosted Drive server (Developer Preview) to search, read, download, create, and copy files, with scoped OAuth.
- A Pragor Project Board MCP ServerHosted server that connects an agent to a Pragor project board to read and update messages, tasks and operations, with a per-agent token limited to its project role.
- A Slack MCP ServerOfficial hosted Slack server to search and read messages, files, and canvases, and send messages as you.
- A monday.com MCPmonday.com's official MCP server, hosted at mcp.monday.com or run locally from npm, to read and update boards, items, columns, updates and forms.
- B Asana MCPOfficial hosted Asana server to search, read, create, and update tasks and projects, with OAuth sign-in.
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Promising, a bit raw
Good for experimenting, still deciding about production. The OAuth flow worked first time in Claude Code. I like that access goes through a proper sign-in instead of a long-lived secret on disk. Nothing to install, I just point the client at the URL. I would use it in prod, but only with a human approving writes.
Used for Posting daily standup summaries
- Setup & docs 3/5
- Auth experience 2/5
- Reliability 3/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 4/5
Surprisingly polished
Clear tool names, sensible outputs, very few surprises. The scope options are worth reading carefully, the defaults are broader than I wanted.
Used for Meeting prep from shared docs
- Setup & docs 4/5
- Auth experience 5/5
- Reliability 3/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 4/5
Recommended it to two teams already
Of the Notion integrations I tried, this one is the most predictable. Updates land regularly, and nothing broke when I upgraded. Happy to run it in production.
Used for Searching old conversations for decisions
- Setup & docs 5/5
- Auth experience 3/5
- Reliability 5/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 5/5
Better than the DIY script it replaced
Our agents call this dozens of times a day. Updates land regularly, and nothing broke when I upgraded. Good choice if you need Notion in your agent.
Used for Keeping project boards up to date
- Setup & docs 5/5
- Auth experience 4/5
- Reliability 5/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 5/5
Good defaults, good docs
Set this up for our team after comparing a few options. Used a fine-grained token with short expiry and it works fine with that. You can tell it is actively maintained, the rough edges keep getting fixed.
Used for Posting daily standup summaries
- Setup & docs 4/5
- Auth experience 5/5
- Reliability 4/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 4/5
Handy for dev, careful in prod
Took longer to configure than I expected. Scoped the token to just what the agent needs and it respected that. Worth it, just do not skip the hardening steps.
Used for Meeting prep from shared docs
- Setup & docs 2/5
- Auth experience 2/5
- Reliability 3/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 3/5
Set it up once, forgot about it
Installed it on a Friday, it was part of my workflow by Monday. You can tell it is actively maintained, the rough edges keep getting fixed. Would recommend without hesitation.
Used for Meeting prep from shared docs
- Setup & docs 4/5
- Auth experience 4/5
- Reliability 4/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 3/5
Solid and well behaved
Started with it as an experiment, now it is a fixture. The scope options are worth reading carefully, the defaults are broader than I wanted. Sign-in flow was painless and I never had to paste a key into a config file. It is in our production agent and I sleep fine.
Used for Keeping project boards up to date
- Setup & docs 5/5
- Auth experience 5/5
- Reliability 5/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 5/5
Exactly what I needed from Notion
Replaced a homegrown script with Notion MCP and have not looked back. Sign-in flow was painless and I never had to paste a key into a config file. Self-hosting it was straightforward and I like keeping the data on our side. It is in our production agent and I sleep fine.
Used for Posting daily standup summaries
- Setup & docs 4/5
- Auth experience 5/5
- Reliability 5/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 4/5
Clean integration, sensible permissions
Installed it on a Friday, it was part of my workflow by Monday. Hosted endpoint means no local process to babysit. Fine in production if you sandbox it.
Used for Turning chat threads into tasks
- Setup & docs 4/5
- Auth experience 4/5
- Reliability 4/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 3/5
Saves me a context switch every hour
Simple to set up in Cursor, simple to reason about. Auth is handled properly, and revoking access later was one click. Filed an issue and got a reply within two days.
Used for Summarising channels I missed
- Setup & docs 4/5
- Auth experience 5/5
- Reliability 5/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 5/5
Easy win for our agent setup
Been running this for about a month now. Sign-in flow was painless and I never had to paste a key into a config file. Nothing to install, I just point the client at the URL. Easy recommendation.
Used for Summarising channels I missed
- Setup & docs 4/5
- Auth experience 3/5
- Reliability 4/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 3/5
Earned a permanent spot in my config
I use this almost daily. Releases come often and the changelog is clear. Sign-in flow was painless and I never had to paste a key into a config file.
Used for Turning chat threads into tasks
- Setup & docs 3/5
- Auth experience 4/5
- Reliability 4/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 4/5
Decent, not set-and-forget
Works well enough for what I need. Self-hosting it was straightforward and I like keeping the data on our side. Releases come often and the changelog is clear. Scoped the token to just what the agent needs and it respected that.
Used for Drafting announcements
- Setup & docs 2/5
- Auth experience 3/5
- Reliability 3/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 4/5
Our team uses it every day
Hooked Notion MCP into Claude Code and it worked on the first try. I like that access goes through a proper sign-in instead of a long-lived secret on disk. Being closed source, I cannot audit it, but the vendor has been responsive.
Used for Drafting announcements
- Setup & docs 5/5
- Auth experience 3/5
- Reliability 5/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 4/5
Trustworthy enough for real work
Simple to set up in Cursor, simple to reason about. Filed an issue and got a reply within two days.
Used for Turning chat threads into tasks
- Setup & docs 4/5
- Auth experience 4/5
- Reliability 4/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 4/5
Does what it says, no drama
Replaced a homegrown script with Notion MCP and have not looked back. Scoped the token to just what the agent needs and it respected that.
Used for Searching old conversations for decisions
- Setup & docs 5/5
- Auth experience 3/5
- Reliability 3/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 4/5
The Notion integration I wanted
Tried it on a side project first, then rolled it out at work. You can tell it is actively maintained, the rough edges keep getting fixed. Scoped the token to just what the agent needs and it respected that.
Used for Drafting announcements
- Setup & docs 4/5
- Auth experience 4/5
- Reliability 4/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 3/5
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