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Notion MCP Server

Notion MCP Server is an MCP server that adds productivity tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Token-auth Notion MCP: pages, databases, blocks, comments, files. It has 173 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y notion-mcp-server.

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Install Notion MCP Server

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "notion-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "notion-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NOTION_TOKEN": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env NOTION_TOKEN=your-value --transport stdio notion-mcp-server -- npx -y notion-mcp-server

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "notion-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "notion-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NOTION_TOKEN": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "notion_token",
      "description": "NOTION_TOKEN",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "notion-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "notion-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NOTION_TOKEN": "${input:notion_token}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
NOTION_TOKENsecretYesNotion Personal Access Token (ntn_...) or Internal Integration Secret. Create at https://app.notion.com/developers/tokens
NOTION_PAGE_IDNoOptional default parent page ID used by createpage / createdatabase when no parent is passed.

About Notion MCP Server

Give your AI read/write access to Notion with one token and one command. Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Cline, Zed, anything that speaks MCP: it can create pages, query databases, append blocks, apply templates, comment and upload files, in plain language.

  • mcp
  • mcp-server
  • notion
  • notion-ai
  • notion-mcp
  • ai-agent
  • anthropic
  • chatgpt
  • claude
  • claude-desktop

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What is Notion MCP Server?

Notion MCP Server is an MCP server that adds productivity tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Token-auth Notion MCP: pages, databases, blocks, comments, files. It has 173 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y notion-mcp-server. The source code is at github.com/awkoy/notion-mcp-server.

How do I install the Notion MCP Server MCP server?

Add the command npx -y notion-mcp-server to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Notion MCP Server free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It needs credentials (NOTION_TOKEN) for the service it connects to, which may require a paid account.

Is Notion MCP Server actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 4, 2026. The latest release is v3.1.2, published Oct 4, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.