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Dexi vs Tana

Dexi is an all-in-one workspace where notes, bookmarks, newsletters and RSS feeds land in one searchable knowledge graph; Tana is an AI-native outliner where “supertags” turn notes into structured, queryable objects. Here’s how they compare on pricing, platforms, linking, search, capture and collaboration — and how to decide between them.

What is Dexi?

Dexi is built on a simple observation: your knowledge doesn’t only come from notes you type. It arrives as web pages you want to keep, newsletters you forward, and articles flowing through RSS. Dexi puts all of it in one workspace — everything you save becomes a note, so one search covers your whole reading life. Structure emerges as you write: #hashtags become tags, @mentions become people and sources, and [[wiki links]] connect ideas into a private knowledge graph you can explore in 2D or 3D.

Search works two ways — instant full-text search, and semantic search that finds notes by meaning even when the words don’t match. Capture happens from anywhere: a Chrome extension, a bookmarklet, the iOS share sheet, or simply emailing an article in. Teams can share individual notes with per-note control, and an MCP server lets Claude and other AI assistants search, read and write your notes directly. Free for up to 1,000 notes; Solo is $5/month and Team is $10/member/month.

What is Tana?

Tana’s big idea is the supertag: slap #meeting or #person on any outline node and it gains fields, views and behavior — your notes become a queryable database without leaving the outline. Live queries collect matching nodes anywhere in your workspace, which makes Tana feel like Roam and Notion fused together.

Since 2025 Tana has pivoted hard into being an “AI workspace”: a meeting agent that transcribes calls without a bot, voice capture that structures itself, semantic search, and full MCP support so AI assistants can work with your workspace on paid plans. Pricing reflects the AI ambition — a free tier with capped AI usage, Pro at $20/month (early-bird; $30 regular), and a $80+/month Max tier for heavy AI use. It’s cloud-based with web, desktop and capture-focused mobile apps.

Dexi vs Tana at a glance

Pricing and features as of mid-2026 — check each product’s site for current details.

Where Dexi shines

• One workspace for every input — typed notes, saved web pages, forwarded newsletters and RSS subscriptions are all searchable together instead of living in separate apps.
• Zero-upkeep organization: tags, people and wiki links are written inline as prose, so notes file themselves without folders or manual metadata.
• Semantic search plus a “similar notes” view finds ideas by meaning — you search with today’s vocabulary and still find last year’s thinking.
• First-class AI-assistant support: an MCP server (OAuth-secured) lets Claude search, create and update your notes from claude.ai, Claude Code or Claude Desktop.
• Simple, cheap plans: free up to 1,000 notes, $5/month for unlimited, with team sharing and team-wide search at $10/member/month.

Worth knowing: Dexi is web-first and cloud-based — there’s no offline desktop app or local file storage. It’s a rich-text document editor rather than an outliner, so block-level references and transclusion aren’t the model. There’s no built-in spaced repetition.

Where Tana shines

• Supertags are the most elegant structure system in the category — schema, views and queries grow naturally out of plain outlining.
• The AI feature set is the deepest here: botless meeting transcription, voice capture, agents, and semantic search.
• Full MCP support (on paid plans) makes it one of the few tools built for AI-assistant workflows.
• Real-time multiplayer workspaces work well for teams.

Worth knowing: It’s the most expensive tool in this comparison once you use it seriously — AI usage is metered, and Pro runs $20–30/month. Cloud-only and proprietary: no local files, no end-to-end encryption, and export is limited. The structure-first approach has a real learning curve; casual note-takers may find it over-engineered.

Which should you choose?

Choose Dexi if:

• You want bookmarks, newsletters and RSS feeds in the same searchable space as your notes — not a separate read-later app.
• You want organization to happen as a side effect of writing, with no folders or filing.
• You want your AI assistant (Claude or any MCP client) to work with your notes directly.
• You want team sharing without moving your whole workspace to a heavyweight team tool.

Choose Tana if:

• You want notes with fields, views and queries — a database that emerges from writing.
• Meeting transcription and voice capture are core to your workflow.
• You’ll actually use enough AI to justify the price.

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