A Nuclino alternative for teams whose documents carry sheets, reviews and game data.
Nuclino and Nodary both link a team’s documents, show them as a graph, draw Mermaid diagrams and let AI agents in over MCP. The differences are in what a document can hold and how work is followed. Checked against Nuclino’s own pages.
In short
Choose Nuclino if
- You want a team wiki with web, desktop and mobile apps.
- You need SAML single sign-on or unlimited version history (Nuclino Business).
- You publish a workspace as a website on your own domain.
- You want an assistant that also generates images (Sidekick, on Nuclino Business).
- You want a lower price per seat: Nuclino Starter is US$8 a month (US$6 billed yearly), against €15 for Nodary Pro.
Choose Nodary if
- Your documents hold their own spreadsheets, with no outside account: formulas across cells and sheets, live charts, and agents that edit them cell by cell.
- You want signed review decisions and a burn-up that says whether a milestone lands by its date.
- You make games: string tables, loot tables, branching dialogue and art review are built in.
- You want built-in AI on every plan, counted in Comets, where Nuclino’s Sidekick comes with Business.
Feature by feature
| What you compare | Nodary | Nuclino |
|---|---|---|
| Price of the paid plans | Pro: €15 per seat per month, or €12 billed yearly. Studio: €29, or €24 billed yearly. Plus tax where it applies.3 | Starter: US$8 per user per month, or US$6 billed yearly. Business: US$12, or US$10 billed yearly. In euro countries the same figures in euros, before VAT.1,2 |
| Free plan | 2 members, one project, 10 documents, 50 MB of files and 20 ☄ of Studio AI a month, with no time limit.3 | Up to 50 items, 3 canvases and 2 GB of storage in all.1 |
| Seeing how documents connect | Every document of a project on one map you work on: file by dragging, link, assign, filter what is overdue, and see teammates’ pointers live. | List, board, table and graph views on every plan.1 |
| Calculations | A spreadsheet inside any document: about 60 functions, references between the sheets of a document, and live charts drawn from it.8 | Tables whose cells hold text, lists, tasks, equations, dates and files; inline arithmetic (a number, an operator and another number, then =); and live Google Sheets or Excel spreadsheets embedded in an item, on every plan, seen by people signed in to an account with access (or by anyone, for a public Google sheet).4,5,6,7 |
| Diagrams written as text | Mermaid diagrams (flowchart, sequence, class, state, entity, gantt, mind map, timeline), with errors explained in plain words. | Mermaid diagrams in items, on every plan.9 |
| Editing together | Real-time co-editing: each person’s cursor and selection shows, and changes to different cells of a sheet combine. | Real-time collaboration on every plan.1 |
| Boards and canvases | Boards inside a document: notes, shapes, arrows, freehand, named frames, document cards and pictures, presented frame by frame. | Canvases for whiteboards and diagrams: 3 on Free, unlimited on paid plans.1 |
| Built-in AI | Studio AI on every plan, counted in Comets: 20 ☄ a month per person on Free, 800 per Pro seat, 1,500 per Studio seat.3 | Sidekick, on Business: answers from your content, drafting and editing, image generation.1 |
| MCP server for AI agents | On every plan, Free included within its limits: OAuth or an API key, 98 tools, 120 requests a minute and no daily write quota.11 | An MCP server on every plan, with OAuth 2.0 or an API key, and 26 tools.10 |
| Export | A document as Markdown, JSON, CSV tables or an editable PowerPoint, or printed to PDF; a whole project as a .zip of Markdown with editable sources. | A workspace as a .zip of Markdown files with attachments; an item as Markdown, Word or PDF.12,13 |
| Version history | Each editing session of up to ten minutes and every agent write make a version; the 50 newest by people and the 50 newest by agents are kept per document, to compare and restore. | 30 days on Starter, unlimited on Business.1 |
| Apps and offline use | A web app for desktop and phone browsers, installable from the browser. No offline mode and no native desktop or mobile app.14 | Web, desktop and mobile apps.1 |
| Single sign-on | Not available: email and password, with optional two-step verification by authenticator app.3 | SAML single sign-on on Business.1 |
| Integrations | No native Slack, Jira, GitHub or Notion integration: review decisions can post to Slack or Discord, and agents connect over MCP. | Integrations such as Slack and Google Drive, and an API.1 |
| Publishing | Read-only share links to a document, a branch or a whole workspace, with an end date or none. No custom domain. | Publish a workspace as a website; a custom domain on Business.1 |
Inside Nodary
A map you work on, not only look at
Every document of a project sits on one map, filed in folders you open like clusters. You drag a document to file it, draw a link that says why, assign it and filter the map to what is overdue, while your teammates’ pointers move on it live.
- Links read the right way from either end: blocks, depends on, inspired by, related
- Filter to what is yours, overdue, due this week or undated
- Change the owner, status or due date of many documents at once, with Undo
- Follow a teammate from the map into the passage they are reading
What it does not do The map shows documents and their links, not an RDF knowledge graph; graph views and canvases from other tools are not imported.
A real spreadsheet inside the document
A sheet lives in the document it explains, with about 60 functions, references to the other sheets of that document, formats, choice lists and validation. Charts are drawn from it live, and teammates edit different cells at the same time.
- XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, INDEX and MATCH, PERCENTILE and more
- Colour past dates, near deadlines, missing values and numbers over a threshold
- Import a CSV or an Excel workbook with a preview of each column’s type
- Read a sheet from your build over HTTP with a read-only key
What it does not do A sheet cannot yet reference a sheet in another document.
AI agents that work with your permissions
Studio AI works inside Nodary, and Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or VS Code connect over MCP on every plan. An agent reads and writes documents block by block and sheets cell by cell, with the permissions of the person who connected it, and every write keeps the version before it.
- 98 MCP tools, with OAuth or an API key that can be limited to one project
- One connection can work in several workspaces you tick
- Agents’ versions never push out people’s
- Share links, members, roles, keys and billing stay human decisions
What it does not do Studio AI runs on Claude models through Amazon Bedrock in the United States, and its use is counted in Comets with a monthly allowance per plan.
Built for game production, nothing to install
The blocks a game team needs are part of the editor: string tables with a state per translation, length and placeholder checks and files for Unity, Unreal and Godot; loot tables read in players, with pity rules; branching dialogue exported to Yarn Spinner; Fountain screenplays.
- String tables export CSV, JSON, gettext .po and XLIFF
- Drop rates: the pull by which nine players in ten have an item
- Branching dialogue played through and read as a graph
- Moodboards, palettes with contrast checks and signed picture decisions
What it does not do Dialogue conditions are written in brackets, not evaluated, and there is no Final Draft export.
Questions
Do Nuclino and Nodary both have a graph view?
Yes. Nuclino lists a graph view among its views on every plan. Nodary’s map is where the work happens: you file, link with a reason, assign and filter documents there, and see teammates’ pointers live.
Can I move a Nuclino workspace into Nodary?
Nuclino exports a workspace as a .zip of Markdown files with attachments (Nuclino’s help). Nodary imports Markdown files, folders and .zip archives with a preview. Nodary has no importer made for Nuclino and we have not tested a Nuclino export, so check the preview and the links before importing everything.
Which one is cheaper?
Nuclino. For a team of five billed monthly, Nuclino Starter costs US$40 a month (€40 in euro countries, before VAT) and Nodary Pro €75, checked on 23 October 2026: Nuclino Starter costs less per seat. Nuclino’s AI comes with Business, at US$12 a seat; Nodary Pro includes 800 ☄ of Studio AI per seat.
Do both work with AI agents?
Yes, both have an MCP server on every plan. Nodary’s has 98 tools that reach sheets cell by cell, boards seen as pictures and picture decisions, and it keeps a version before every agent write.
Does Nodary have desktop apps or single sign-on?
Neither yet: Nodary runs in the browser on desktop and phone, and signs in with email and password and optional two-step verification. Nuclino lists web, desktop and mobile apps, and SAML single sign-on on Business.
See your documents, sheets and reviews on one map.
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How this page is made
Every fact about Nuclino comes from Nuclino’s own pages, read on 23 October 2026 and listed below. Every fact about Nodary comes from the product and its public pages. We compare what a team relies on, including where Nuclino does more, and we never rate or rank. Prices and features change: check the source before you decide.
Sources · Checked on 23 October 2026
- Nuclino: Pricing (nuclino.com)
- Paddle price data loaded by nuclino.com/pricing (checkout.paddle.com)
- nodary.ai/pricing
- Nuclino Help: Embed spreadsheets from Google Sheets (help.nuclino.com)
- Nuclino Help: Embed spreadsheets from Microsoft Excel (help.nuclino.com)
- Nuclino Help: Use tables (help.nuclino.com)
- Nuclino Help: Use automatic calculations (help.nuclino.com)
- nodary.ai/game-balancing
- Nuclino Help: Use Mermaid diagrams (help.nuclino.com)
- Nuclino Help: Connect Nuclino to AI assistants with MCP (help.nuclino.com)
- nodary.ai/docs/mcp
- Nuclino Help: Export a workspace (help.nuclino.com)
- Nuclino Help: Export an item (help.nuclino.com)
- nodary.ai/game-design-document
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