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The 9 closest of 14, each with its real monthly cost at 5 users and what it does that Basecamp does not. See all 15.
Wrike does everything we verified about Basecamp for $29 a month less at 5 users, $0 against $29. It is a price cut rather than an upgrade: on the two features checked against the vendors’ own pricing pages the two are level. The trade: Basecamp is built for one price for everyone and the least to learn and Wrike is not, so this is a swap with a cost.
Not for a one or two person team wanting a cheap paid seat (the first paid step is $25 a month for the whole account, and only 3 active projects) nor for anyone needing Gantt charts, forms, automation rules or goals, none of which the pricing page lists.
It runs $29 a month at 5 users with the add-ons it forces on you included. 9 of the 14 alternatives to Basecamp cost less than that.
Ranked by how much of what we record for Basecamp each platform also does. Wrike is the nearest, and it is $29 a month cheaper at 5 users. On every feature this site records, the two are level.
$29 a month cheaper$0 at 1 user
A mid-sized team that expects to grow into resource planning, budgeting and BI, and can commit to a year up front.
Everything this site records for Basecamp is also recorded for these, and they cost less at 5 users. That is not the same as saying they are better: the last column is what Basecamp is built for that they are not, and for someone who needs that, the saving is not a saving.
| Platform | At 5 users | You save | What Basecamp does that it does not |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wrike | $0 | $29 | one price for everyone and the least to learn |
| Teamwork.com | $0 | $29 | one price for everyone, the least to learn and the one most teams know |
| ClickUp | $0 | $29 | one price for everyone, the least to learn and the one most teams know |
Prices are the real monthly cost at 5 users with the add-ons each platform forces on you included, from the same engine the shortlist quiz uses.
$29 a month cheaper$0 at 1 user
An agency or services team that bills clients for its time and wants intake forms, time budgets, retainers and client invoicing in the same tool as the tasks.
$31 a month dearer$0 at 1 user
A team of three or more that wants colourful boards with automations, timelines and guest access, and an upgrade path to portfolio and resource management on Enterprise.
$38.45 a month dearer$0 at 1 user
A team that already knows Asana or wants the most widely used project tool, with a clear path from Starter up to goals, portfolios, resourcing and enterprise controls.
$29 a month cheaper$0 at 1 user
A team that wants tasks, docs, goals, time tracking and dashboards in one configurable app and is happy to pay per user for the lot, or run a small team on the free plan with no member cap.
$21 a month dearer$0 at 1 user
One person, or a very small team, who wants the quickest way to get tasks out of their head into lists, boards and a calendar, with a free plan that covers five projects.
$31 a month dearer$0 at 1 user
A team whose wiki and docs come first and that wants its tasks, databases, forms and AI agent living inside the same pages, with a free plan that genuinely works for one person.
$29 a month cheaper$0 at 1 user
A small team that wants cards on boards and nothing to learn, with a free plan that genuinely covers up to ten people.
$29 a month cheaper$0 at 1 user
Teams that want a full project suite, with Gantt, timesheets, budgets and workflow automation, at the lowest per-user price in the category, especially if they already run on Zoho.
A team that wants one fixed monthly price however many people join, with message boards, to-dos, chat, docs and a Kanban-style card table in a single calm tool.
On this site it is the pick for one price for everyone, the least to learn and the one most teams know. If that is you, read the savings above and then ignore them.
The pairs people actually search for, each one priced at the same four sizes off both vendors' own pages.
Wrike. It is $29 a month cheaper at the size we compare on and gives up nothing we verify, though you should read why it exists before swapping: no two of these do exactly the same job.
Wrike, Teamwork.com and ClickUp are cheaper and level with Basecamp on every feature we verify. Nothing here is strictly better: each one exists to do a slightly different job.
Basecamp is free at 1 user, $29 a month at 5 users and $79 at 10 users, read off their own pricing page and re-checked every week.
Not for a one or two person team wanting a cheap paid seat (the first paid step is $25 a month for the whole account, and only 3 active projects) nor for anyone needing Gantt charts, forms, automation rules or goals, none of which the pricing page lists.
We compare 14 of them here, every one priced at the same size off its own pricing page, and the whole list of 15 is on the task management page.
Should yours be on this list? If you make task and project management tools and it is not compared here, ask to be shortlisted. Listings are free and cannot be bought.
Two features were checked against each vendor's own pricing page: a price that does not move with users and a free plan. Those are the ones written above as does and does not. The other 14 are read out of each vendor's own pricing page, so an absence there means we did not find it listed, not that the product lacks it, and those lines say lists and does not list instead. How all of this gets checked.
This page compares everything to Basecamp. The shortlist asks 6 questions about who the work is for and how you like to see it, and gives you four picks priced at your own team size, which is a better question than “what is like the one I already have”.
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