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Teamwork.com true cost: the 36-month total
Teamwork.com costs $3,596.40 over 36 months on Basics at 10 users, billed annually, before 6 cost lines that sit outside the plan price.
What Teamwork.com costs over 36 months
Every figure below is Teamwork.com's own published rate, annualised and multiplied out over 36 months at 10 users. Where Teamwork.com publishes no rate, the row says so instead of guessing.
Billing Teamwork.com monthly instead of annually costs $119.90 a month rather than $99.90, a difference of $720 across the 36 months. That is the single largest lever on this page that costs nothing to pull.
The same plan at four team sizes
Teamwork.com charges per user, so the 36-month figure scales linearly with headcount. These are Basics totals, on annual billing, with no fees added.
2 tiers are sales-led (Optimize, Enterprise), so they carry no figure here.
Renewal sensitivity: three scenarios, not a forecast
Nobody knows what Teamwork.com charges in 2029. The table below is arithmetic on a rate you choose, not a prediction: it compounds the year-one total forward at 0%, 5% and 10% so you can see how much of the 36-month figure is exposed to a renewal you have not negotiated yet.
Scenario arithmetic on Teamwork.com's own published year-one figure. Uplift rates are illustrative inputs, not observed or predicted rates.
What sits outside the Teamwork.com list price
6 lines, sorted by when in the contract lifecycle they land. Lines marked as derived are arithmetic on Teamwork.com's own tier table rather than vendor prose.
Each line, what triggers it, and how to avoid it
Vendor-specific term
Stated on the pricing page: Annual subscriptions are non-refundable mid-term.
What triggers it. This one does not fit the usual fee taxonomy. Read it against Teamwork.com's per-user pm for client services, which is the context in which it changes your total.
How to avoid it. Raise it explicitly during the Teamwork.com quote conversation and get the answer into the order form. What is not written into the contract is not part of the price you think you agreed.
Contract and commitment terms
Stated on the pricing page: 29% saving advertised only with annual billing.
What triggers it. Triggered at signature. The $99.90 a month for 10 users rate is conditional on the commitment. Take the flexible route and the headline price is not the price you get.
How to avoid it. Read the auto-renewal and notice terms before the discount. A good rate on a contract you cannot leave is a worse deal than a fair rate on one you can.
Unpublished pricing
Derived from the published tiers: 2 of 5 Teamwork.com tiers publish no price (Optimize, Enterprise). No total on this page includes them.
What triggers it. Fires at quote time. Unpublished pricing means the comparison you can do from public data is necessarily incomplete for Teamwork.com.
How to avoid it. Treat the unpublished element as a risk line in the business case with an explicit assumed value. A named assumption can be challenged; a gap cannot.
Trial and free-tier conversion
Derived from the published tiers: Teamwork.com publishes a free tier. Every 36-month figure above starts from the month you leave it, not from signup.
What triggers it. The clock, not a decision, triggers this one. Teamwork.com's free entry point ends on a date, and the $99.90 a month for 10 users rate starts whether or not anyone has finished evaluating.
How to avoid it. Ask for the trial to be extended to cover a full billing cycle of real use. Vendors grant this far more often than buyers ask.
Feature gated to a higher tier
Derived from the published tiers: Moving from Basics to Accelerate costs a further $5,400 over 36 months at 10 users, which is 2.5x the entry total.
What triggers it. A gate rather than a fee. It costs nothing until the day it costs a full tier upgrade, and it invalidates the $3,596.40 figure above the moment it does.
How to avoid it. Ask whether the capability can be bought as an add-on to Basics. Vendors frequently unbundle when the alternative is losing the deal.
Seat expansion
Derived from the published tiers: Five more users on Basics add $1,798.20 across 36 months, on top of the $3,596.40 above.
What triggers it. Growth is the trigger. Because Teamwork.com bills on a per-user pm for client services, adding people mid-term adds cost on the original rate card, not on whatever you negotiated once.
How to avoid it. Audit entitlements quarterly. On a three-year term, seats assigned to people who left are the most reliably wasted money in the whole project management budget.
How that compares across project management software
The median project management software tool we track charges $9 a month at its cheapest paid tier. Re-expressed on the same basis as the figure above, 10 users for 36 months, that median works out at $3,240.
Teamwork.com lands $356.40 above that figure, 11.0%, measured across 30 tracked tools. A gap either way is a question, not a verdict: cheaper often means fewer included seats or a thinner support tier, and the fee lines below are where that difference usually reappears.
What changes at enterprise scale
Everything above prices the self-serve ladder. Enterprise sits off that ladder, which means the $3,596.40 figure is a floor for a large deployment rather than an estimate of one.
Optimize and Enterprise tiers are custom-quoted with advanced workflows and security.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Teamwork.com cost over three years?
$3,596.40 on Basics at 10 users, billed annually, which is $99.90 a month held flat for 36 months. That figure covers the subscription only.
Does paying Teamwork.com annually save money?
Yes. Monthly billing costs $119.90 a month against $99.90 on annual commitment, a difference of $720 over 36 months at 10 users.
What does Teamwork.com charge for outside the plan price?
6 lines: vendor-specific term, contract and commitment terms, unpublished pricing, trial and free-tier conversion and 2 more. Each one is broken down above with what triggers it and how to avoid it.
Could Teamwork.com cost more at renewal?
Possibly, and nothing on this page predicts it. If the rate held flat the three-year total would be $3,596.40; at a hypothetical 10% a year it would be $3,968.03. Cap the uplift in the contract and the question stops mattering.
What does Teamwork.com cost for a team of 25?
$8,991 over 36 months on Basics, billed annually. Teamwork.com charges per user, so that scales directly with headcount.
Price Teamwork.com on your own numbers
This page holds the term axis. The pricing breakdown holds the seat axis: every tier, the per-seat calculator, and the same fee list against the monthly figure.
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Sources and method
- List rates and fee disclosures: Teamwork.com official pricing page, verified 17 May 2026.
- 36-month totals: the published annual-equivalent rate multiplied by 36, at 10 users. No inflation, no discount, no fee estimates included.
- Renewal rows: scenario arithmetic on rates stated in the table. They are inputs, not observations.
- Category median: the cheapest paid monthly tier of every tool we track in the same category, re-expressed over 36 months.