Category pricing · Project management software
Project management pricing — what every tool charges at your team size
Per-seat price is honest, but the Business → Enterprise edition jump triples the seat cost once SSO and audit log enter the conversation.
30 tools in this category. Every row in the table below links to the full per-tier pricing page for that vendor, with hidden fees, recommended tier by team size, and tier-jump pain spelled out.
About Project management software
Project management is the most crowded SaaS category we track and the one where price-per-seat tells the truth more reliably than any other. Every leading tool — Asana, ClickUp, Monday, Notion, Linear, Jira Software — publishes a per-seat ladder with no contact-tier overlay, no usage-based add-on, and no edition-gated APIs at the cheapest paid tier. The buying decision is therefore almost entirely about feature fit and tier-jump pain rather than pricing-model arbitrage. Where the cost surprises happen is at the Business / Enterprise jump (gating SSO, custom roles, audit log, advanced security) and at the platform-extension price (timeline view, workload, goals, OKR modules) that some vendors break out as paid add-ons rather than tier upgrades. The pages below show every paid tier with the seat math computed for 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, and 200 seats, and the gating ladder between Business and Enterprise on each platform so you can see the real switching cost before you commit a year.
30 project management software compared
Entry-tier price below is the cheapest paid per-seat or per-month tier each vendor publishes. Custom-quote tiers and usage-based add-ons aren't included; click any tool to see the full per-tier breakdown.
Best for
- Cross-functional teams adopting their first paid PM tool
- Engineering teams choosing between Jira, Linear, and ClickUp
- Operations leaders consolidating spreadsheet+Trello onto a single Work OS
What to evaluate
- Per-seat list at the cheapest paid tier and the Business / Enterprise jump
- Whether timeline / workload / OKR is included or sold separately
- Guest user policy — whether external collaborators count as paid seats
- API rate limit on the tier you're actually buying
Frequently asked questions
What does project management software cost per seat?
On the cheapest paid per-seat tier across the PM tools we track, list price ranges from 5 USD per seat per month (ClickUp Unlimited, Notion Plus) to 19 USD per seat per month (Monday Pro, Asana Advanced) on annual billing. The Business and Enterprise tiers — which add SSO, audit log, custom roles, and HIPAA — usually land at 24 to 36 USD per seat per month and 36 to 60 USD per seat per month respectively.
Is Jira cheaper than Linear at 50 seats?
On the cheapest paid per-seat tier, Jira Software Standard at 50 seats is roughly 7.75 USD per seat per month on annual billing; Linear Standard is 8 USD per seat per month on annual billing. They land within a few dollars of each other. The two tools diverge at the Premium / Enterprise tiers and at the platform-bundling decision — Linear stays single-product while Jira bundles into Atlassian Cloud with Confluence and Bitbucket.
Do guest users count as paid seats in most PM tools?
It depends on the vendor. Asana, Monday, and ClickUp generally allow guests on a board without counting them as paid seats up to a per-board cap (typically 5-10 guests per item) before forcing a paid seat. Notion counts external collaborators as guests for free across the workspace but limits guest count by plan. Linear and Jira treat any user who interacts with issues as a paid seat. The vendor pricing pages below note the guest policy on each tier.