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The 9 closest of 11, each with its real monthly cost at 5 users and what it does that Todoist does not. See all 15.
Basecamp does everything we verified about Todoist for $21 a month less at 5 users, $29 against $50. 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: Todoist is built for one person's to-do list and a free plan a small team can run on and Basecamp is not, so this is a swap with a cost.
Not for managing client projects or reporting: the pricing page lists no Gantt, time tracking, docs, automation rules, forms or dashboards, and the team price cannot be read without JavaScript.
It runs $50 a month at 5 users with the add-ons it forces on you included. 8 of the 11 alternatives to Todoist cost less than that.
Ranked by how much of what we record for Todoist each platform also does. Basecamp is the nearest, and it is $21 a month cheaper at 5 users. Nothing we verified is missing; the only gaps are features Todoist lists and Basecamp does not, which is weaker evidence.
$21 a month cheaper$0 at 1 user
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.
Everything this site records for Todoist 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 Todoist 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 Todoist does that it does not |
|---|---|---|---|
| ClickUp | $0 | $50 | one person's to-do list and the least to learn |
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.
$50 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.
$10 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.
$10 a month dearer$12 at 1 user
A team that thinks in spreadsheets and wants Gantt, forms, dashboards and automations on top of a grid, with free viewers for the people around it.
$17.45 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.
$50 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.
$50 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.
$50 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.
$50 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.
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.
On this site it is the pick for one person's to-do list, the least to learn and a free plan a small team can run on. 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.
Basecamp. It is $21 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.
ClickUp is cheaper and level with Todoist on every feature we verify. Nothing here is strictly better: each one exists to do a slightly different job.
Todoist is free at 1 user, $30 a month at 3 users and $100 at 10 users, read off their own pricing page and re-checked every week.
Not for managing client projects or reporting: the pricing page lists no Gantt, time tracking, docs, automation rules, forms or dashboards, and the team price cannot be read without JavaScript.
We compare 11 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 Todoist. 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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