Smartsheet
$60at 5 users
$60 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.
- Also lists intake forms
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Trello alternatives
The 9 closest of 11, each with its real monthly cost at 5 users and what it does that Trello does not. See all 15.
Every platform here that costs less than Trello gives up something we verified. There is no cheaper like-for-like, so the question is which feature you are willing to trade, and the cards below name it for each one. That is a point in its favour, not a dodge.
Why people look for an alternative
Not a planning tool out of the box: Timeline, Calendar and reporting views are Premium only, and the page lists no time tracking, forms, docs, goals or recurring tasks on any plan.
It runs $0 a month at 5 users with the add-ons it forces on you included. Nothing else we list in task and project management tools costs less than that.
The closest thing to Trello
Ranked by how much of what we record for Trello each platform also does. Smartsheet is the nearest, and it is $60 a month dearer at 5 users. On every feature this site records, the two are level.
The rest, in order of how close they are
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.
Wrike
$0at 5 users
Same money$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.
- Also lists docs and notes, intake forms and time tracking
Teamwork.com
$0at 5 users
Same money$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.
- Also lists docs and notes, intake forms and time tracking
monday work management
$60at 5 users
$60 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.
- Also lists docs and notes and time tracking
- Does not list dashboards and reporting
Asana
$67.45at 5 users
$67.45 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.
- Also lists docs and notes, intake forms, goals and OKRs, recurring tasks and time tracking
ClickUp
$0at 5 users
Same money$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.
- Also lists docs and notes, intake forms, goals and OKRs, recurring tasks and time tracking
Zoho Projects
$0at 5 users
Same money$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.
- Also lists docs and notes, intake forms, recurring tasks and time tracking
- Does not list boards
MeisterTask
$0at 5 users
Same money$0 at 1 user
Small teams that want a clean task tool with notes attached, a free plan with unlimited members, and a modest per-user price, rather than a full project suite.
- Also lists docs and notes, recurring tasks and time tracking
- Does not list a calendar view and boards
Basecamp
$29at 5 users
$29 a month dearer$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.
- Also lists docs and notes and time tracking
- Does not list automation rules, a timeline or Gantt view and a mobile app
What Trello is still the best answer for
A small team that wants cards on boards and nothing to learn, with a free plan that genuinely covers up to ten people.
On this site it is the pick for boards as the interface, a free plan a small team can run on and the least to learn. Which is why nothing cheaper here matches it.
Trello against one other, side by side
The pairs people actually search for, each one priced at the same four sizes off both vendors' own pages.
Trello vs AsanaBoth priced at four sizes Trello vs BasecampBoth priced at four sizes Trello vs ClickUpBoth priced at four sizes Trello vs MeisterTaskBoth priced at four sizes Trello vs monday work managementBoth priced at four sizes Trello vs NotionBoth priced at four sizes Trello vs TodoistBoth priced at four sizes Trello vs WrikeBoth priced at four sizes
Questions people ask about Trello alternatives
Is there a cheaper alternative to Trello?
Every cheaper option we price gives something up against Trello, which is a point in its favour.
How much does Trello cost?
Nothing, at the sizes we price. Trello's Free plan covers 1 to 10 users, so the figure in our table is $0 at all four. Paid plans add features rather than seats.
Why do people look for alternatives to Trello?
Not a planning tool out of the box: Timeline, Calendar and reporting views are Premium only, and the page lists no time tracking, forms, docs, goals or recurring tasks on any plan.
How many alternatives to Trello are there?
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.
How to read the feature lines
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.
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This page compares everything to Trello. 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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