Comparison of 12 project management and work tracking tools

Feature by feature

Each column is one plan, named in its heading. Pick the tool in Overview and change the plan to see another plan here.

How this was put together

• Every figure was read on 5 October 2026 by opening the page of the maker and reading the plan cards and the comparison table cell by cell. No search results, no summaries and no review sites.
• Re-checked on 27 October 2026 by opening every maker's pricing page again. Two had moved: Jira (Standard $7.91 to $8.48, Premium $14.54 to $15.56) and Basecamp, whose plan range was rebuilt (Freelancer is now $29 for 3 users, Studio is gone, and Pro $79, Pro Plus $99 and Pro Unlimited $199 were added). Nine were unchanged. Microsoft's Planner pricing page could not be reached, so its figures are the 5 October reading and are marked as such.
• Prices in this market change often, and some pages show a different currency by country.
• One plan per tool at a time. The default is the lowest paid plan; the free plan and the next plans are one tap away.
• Prices are US dollars a user a month. Where a maker bills annually, the figure is the monthly equivalent of the annual price. Where the page states both annual and monthly billing, both are shown.
• Jira: the pricing page shows $7.91 and $14.54 a user without naming a billing basis, and the Atlassian licensing page lists $9.05 and $18.30 billed monthly, with prices that change by user tier. The price per user shown is the pricing page figure. The team cost for Jira is taken from the yearly price table on the licensing page ($900 a year for up to 10 users on Standard, for example), divided by twelve.
• monday.com showed its prices in € on the pricing page (€9, €12, €19). The US dollar figures ($9, $12, $19) are from the pricing article on monday.com, updated March 2025.
• Zoho Projects showed its prices in SAR on the pricing page (SAR 14.60 and SAR 32.85). They are converted at SAR 3.75 to $1, the fixed rate of the riyal, marked ≈ and never ranked as the lowest price.
• The team cost is the price times the number of seats, using the minimum seats of the plan. A plan with a user limit shows no cost above that limit. Basecamp charges a flat price, so its cost does not change with team size.
• "The maker says" is the headline on the pricing page of the maker, quoted as written.
• A feature is marked yes or no only where the page marks it for that plan. Limited, trial and paid add-on are marked ~ with the reason. Where the page has no row for a feature, the cell is a question mark.
• Logos are the marks of the makers, taken from their sites, cropped to the symbol and resized. Nothing else was changed.
• No opinion ranking and no "best tool". Which limit matters most depends on your team.
• Jira's yearly price table sits behind an interactive calculator and was not re-read on 27 October 2026, so the team cost shown for Jira still rests on the 5 October reading.
• Head office: read on 27 October 2026 from each maker's own contact or about page, and quoted as the page words it. Where a page named no city, the row says so rather than naming one. It is shown because the country a maker answers to sits beside data residency in most procurement, and it is not ranked.