Every plan, every seat minimum, and every fee that does not appear on the vendor's pricing page. Checked monthly, not written once and forgotten.
Cheapest paid plan for each tool, and what a team of twenty actually pays per month on annual billing.
| Tool | From | Team of 20 | Free plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trello | $5 | $100/mo | Yes |
| ClickUp | $7 | $140/mo | Yes |
| Jira | $7.91 | $158/mo | Yes |
| Monday.com | $9 | $180/mo | Yes |
| Smartsheet | $9 | $640/mo | Yes |
| Notion | $10 | $200/mo | Yes |
| Wrike | $10 | $500/mo | Yes |
| Linear | $10 | $200/mo | Yes |
| Asana | $10.99 | $220/mo | Yes |
| Teamwork.com | $10.99 | $220/mo | Yes |
| Basecamp | $15 | $299/mo | Yes |
| Airtable | $20 | $400/mo | Yes |
Popular with marketing and operations teams. Clean interface, strong task management, but the useful repo...
Highly visual and easy to adopt. The pricing looks cheap per seat until you hit the three-seat minimum an...
Flexible workspace that doubles as a project tool. Cheap on paper, but the AI features were moved into th...
The cheapest serious option per seat. Enormous feature set, which is either the main attraction or the re...
A database that behaves like a spreadsheet. Genuinely powerful, and the most expensive per seat in this c...
Built for people who think in spreadsheets. Strong in construction and operations, with the most confusin...
The simplest tool here, and the cheapest paid tier in the category. Fine for straightforward boards, thin...
Built for software teams and priced for them. Powerful issue tracking, and the steepest learning curve of...
Enterprise-grade features aimed at large teams. Its seat-band billing makes it the most expensive tool he...
The only tool here that does not gate features behind higher tiers. Above roughly twenty people its flat-...
Aimed at agencies billing clients by the hour. Strong time tracking and profitability reporting, with the...
Fast, opinionated issue tracking favoured by software teams. Deliberately narrow: it does one thing and d...
Every price on this site comes from the vendor's own pricing page, checked on the date shown. Where a vendor does not publish a number, we say so instead of guessing. Where reported prices disagree across sources, we say that too.
Written by Sebastian Bru. Sebastian Bru runs administration for a 180-person private hospital. For the past 10 years he has evaluated, bought and renewed the software his organization depends on, which means he has spent a decade learning the difference between the price on the pricing page and the number on the invoice.
Prices last verified on 2026-07-27.