A Potion alternative for moving a Notion-based site to managed publishing

Why people look for a Potion alternative in 2026

Potion publishes Notion content as a branded website, which can suit teams that want Notion to remain their source of truth. The current evaluation is complicated by inaccessible public pricing and separate legacy and beta account paths. Those access problems require confirmation; they do not establish a company shutdown.

Current public pricing could not be verified

The HTTPS request to Potion’s public pricing failed certificate validation during this review. Earlier research recorded a deployment error on 11 September. Treat this as an availability and procurement concern, and verify the current account, support and pricing path directly rather than treating archived prices as a live offer.

It is worth being precise about what this does not prove. The infrastructure is running: a Potion-built documentation site was still syncing content on 10 September 2026, and its certificate was renewed on 6 August. Existing sites are being served. This is a broken shopfront, not a dead product. But a shopfront is what you buy through, and a vendor who has not noticed their own certificate lapse for three and a half months is telling you something about how closely the public surface is watched.

The product split in two and the new half needs an access code

Potion has been rebuilt. app.potion.so serves Potion BETA and states that using it requires a new account, separate from your legacy Potion account. Signup is gated behind a private beta access code. The old dashboard still runs separately at dashboard.potion.so and exposes a /migrate route, but no migration deadline, grandfathering policy or changelog has been published. Potion's own beta notes concede that support for all Notion blocks is not yet complete. Whatever the plan is, you cannot self-serve onto the current product, and nobody has written down what happens to the sites on the old one.

Everything that is not a page is somebody else's widget

Potion renders Notion pages. That is the scope, and within it the work is good. Outside it there is nothing. There are no products, no cart, no checkout, no stock and no payment handling, so selling means embedding Gumroad, Flurly, Buy Me a Coffee or a Stripe link and sending the buyer to that provider's checkout on that provider's fees. There are no lists, no broadcasts and no automations, so capturing an address means embedding a ConvertKit, Mailchimp, Typeform or Paperform form. Analytics is not built in at all: Potion's own guide is a set of instructions for pasting a Google Analytics, Fathom, Simple Analytics or Panelbear script into the HTML injection editor yourself. Each of those is a separate bill and a separate login, and the total is rarely the $12 a month you started from.

A Notion page tree and a dedicated editorial CMS serve different needs. Before moving, list the feeds, archive pages, author information and templates readers use. The earlier Potion site sample did not expose common feed paths, but that result alone cannot establish a platform-wide limitation. Test the current version against your publishing requirements.

How Grigora compares

Grigora is the other kind of product: one plan, one login, one bill, and the site is only the first part of it. You generate a site from a description or start from one of website templates, edit it in a block editor with custom code injection, and publish through a CMS that has categories, author profiles, directories, collections and moderated comments with admin replies. The store, the subscriber list and the SEO tooling are in the same plan rather than in four other tabs.

A platform that renews its own certificate

Starter is $12 a month billed annually, which is $144 a year, or $15 month to month. That covers one site, 15,000 AI credits and 2,500 email subscribers, and it includes the store with variants, stock and digital downloads at 0% platform commission on Stripe or Razorpay, the newsletter with campaigns, segmentation and automations, schema controls, sitemaps, IndexNow submission and access to free SEO tools. Pro is $20 a month for two sites, 40,000 credits and 7,500 subscribers. Business is $45 a month for five sites, 250,000 credits and 25,000 subscribers. Hosting, SSL and the CDN are part of the service, so the renewals that lapsed on potion.so are not a thing you have to think about, and a free trial is available. Professional mailboxes are available from $5 per mailbox, and agencies can white label the platform on a separate $199 a month plan.

Set that against the archived Potion page: $12 a month for one site, $30 for three, $60 for eight, with no yearly option on the last version published. Potion is cheaper per domain if you run many small sites, at $7.50 a site on the eight-site plan against $9 a site on Grigora Business. It is more expensive in practice for any one site that needs to sell something or keep a list, because both of those arrive as separate subscriptions. And you cannot currently confirm either price on a live page.

Where Potion still wins: your content is already in Notion

The honest concession is the one Potion was built on. If your team drafts every doc, spec and note in Notion, Potion publishes the exact thing you are already looking at, through the official Notion API with OAuth so the source page never has to be made public. There is no export step, no paste, no second editor to teach anyone, and no risk of the same content sitting at two indexable URLs competing with itself. A nested wiki becomes a nested URL structure on its own, with slugs editable from a Notion property, which is a real saving on a two-hundred-page help centre. Grigora cannot match that, because Grigora is by definition the second place your writing has to live. If publishing Notion pages is the whole job and you already have an account, Potion still does that job well. If the site also has to sell, send and be bought from, the state of potion.so this year is the argument against it.