How Much Does Project Management Software Cost in 2026?
Project Management software is billed per user, typically $0 to $45 per user/month across 21 tools; billed as a flat monthly fee, typically $0 to $1500 per month across 5 tools. 21 of the 28 tools we track offer a free tier.
What you will actually pay
- Cheapest paid plan: nTask at $3 per user/month.
- Typical spend: $14 per user/month, the median across the 21 tools billed per user in this category.
- Quote-only: 1 of 28 tools publish no price and quote per deal.
Project Management pricing, cheapest first
| Product | Price range | Billing unit | Free tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| GoodDay | $0–$7 | user/month | Yes |
| nTask | $0–$8 | user/month | Yes |
| Todoist | $0–$10 | user/month | Yes |
| ClickUp | $0–$12 | user/month | Yes |
| Jira | $0–$14.54 | user/month | Yes |
| Height | $0–$15 | user/month | Yes |
| Zoho Projects | $0–$15 | user/month | Yes |
| Paymo | $0–$16.9 | month | Yes |
| Trello | $0–$17.5 | user/month | Yes |
| Hive | $0–$18 | user/month | Yes |
| Monday.com | $0–$19 | user/month | Yes |
| Notion | $0–$24 | user/month | Yes |
| MeisterTask | $0–$25 | user/month | Yes |
| Wrike | $0–$25 | user/month | Yes |
| Teamwork | $0–$25.99 | user/month | Yes |
| Coda | $0–$30 | maker/month | Yes |
| Microsoft Planner | $0–$30 | user/month | Yes |
| Asana | $0–$30.49 | user/month | Yes |
| Airtable | $0–$45 | user/month | Yes |
| Basecamp | $0–$349 | user/month | Yes |
| Nifty | $0–$399 | forever | Yes |
| Smartsheet | $9–$19 | user/month | — |
| Microsoft Project | $10–$55 | user/month | — |
| SmartSuite | $20–$36 | user/month | — |
| ProofHub | $45–$135 | flat/month | — |
| BugHerd | $50–$150 | month | — |
| Process Street | $100–$1500 | month | — |
All 28 project management products · Compare every tier side by side
01 How much does project management software cost?
Project Management software is billed per user, typically $0 to $45 per user/month across 21 tools; billed as a flat monthly fee, typically $0 to $1500 per month across 5 tools. 21 of the 28 tools we track offer a free tier.
02 What is the cheapest project management software?
The lowest paid entry point we track is nTask at $3 per user/month. 21 tools also offer a free tier, including Airtable, Asana, Basecamp — free plans are usually capped on seats, usage or features rather than being time-limited.
03 Why do project management prices vary so widely?
Because the tools are not billed the same way. 21 are billed per user at $0–$45 per user/month, and 5 are billed as a flat monthly fee at $0–$1500 per month. Those numbers are not directly comparable — a $50 per-user plan and a $50 flat plan cost very different amounts at 20 seats, so compare within a billing model, not across them. A further 1 of the 28 tools publish no price at all and quote per deal.
04 Is there free project management software?
Yes — 21 of 28 project management tools we track have a plan at $0: Airtable, Asana, Basecamp, ClickUp, Coda, GoodDay, and 15 more. Check whether each is a permanent free plan or a time-limited trial before committing; each product profile records which.
05 How does CostBench verify these project management prices?
Every price on this page is read from the vendor's own public pricing page and re-checked on a schedule, with the verification date recorded per product. Ranges show the 90th-percentile high rather than the maximum, and outliers more than 20× the category median are held out of the headline range so a single enterprise contract value cannot distort it — those products still appear in the table below with their verified prices.