What project management software really costs

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.

Why this site exists Software prices rose 11.4% last year while inflation ran at 2.7%. Most pricing articles online were written once and never updated, so the numbers in them are wrong. Everything here carries the date it was last verified.

Starting prices compared

Cheapest paid plan for each tool, and what a team of twenty actually pays per month on annual billing.

ToolFromTeam of 20Free plan
Trello $5$100/moYes
ClickUp $7$140/moYes
Jira $7.91$158/moYes
Monday.com $9$180/moYes
Smartsheet $9$640/moYes
Notion $10$200/moYes
Wrike $10$500/moYes
Linear $10$200/moYes
Asana $10.99$220/moYes
Teamwork.com $10.99$220/moYes
Basecamp $15$299/moYes
Airtable $20$400/moYes

Full pricing breakdowns

Asana pricing

Popular with marketing and operations teams. Clean interface, strong task management, but the useful repo...

Monday.com pricing

Highly visual and easy to adopt. The pricing looks cheap per seat until you hit the three-seat minimum an...

Notion pricing

Flexible workspace that doubles as a project tool. Cheap on paper, but the AI features were moved into th...

ClickUp pricing

The cheapest serious option per seat. Enormous feature set, which is either the main attraction or the re...

Airtable pricing

A database that behaves like a spreadsheet. Genuinely powerful, and the most expensive per seat in this c...

Smartsheet pricing

Built for people who think in spreadsheets. Strong in construction and operations, with the most confusin...

Trello pricing

The simplest tool here, and the cheapest paid tier in the category. Fine for straightforward boards, thin...

Jira pricing

Built for software teams and priced for them. Powerful issue tracking, and the steepest learning curve of...

Wrike pricing

Enterprise-grade features aimed at large teams. Its seat-band billing makes it the most expensive tool he...

Basecamp pricing

The only tool here that does not gate features behind higher tiers. Above roughly twenty people its flat-...

Teamwork.com pricing

Aimed at agencies billing clients by the hour. Strong time tracking and profitability reporting, with the...

Linear pricing

Fast, opinionated issue tracking favoured by software teams. Deliberately narrow: it does one thing and d...

How we verify prices

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.