Teamwork Pricing, Plans, Fees, and Hidden Costs

Teamwork's project management software, known as Teamwork Projects, comprises four tiers in total: the Free Forever tier (free), the Starter tier ($5.99 per user, per month) the Deliver tier ($9.99 per user, per month), the Grow tier ($17.99 per user, per month), and the Enterprise tier (price varies based on features).

While free tiers typically fall short in certain areas, Teamwork's free tier is very commendable. It does have some tight limits in terms of projects and users, but there is a very nice range of features on offer, and it's well worth at least checking out.

However, the free tier isn't the only Teamwork pricing plan worth considering. According to our research team, Teamwork scores 4.4/5 overall, making it one of the best project management software solutions we've assessed. Read on to see the pros and cons of each Teamwork pricing plan, as well as other Teamwork products.

On this page:

• Free Forever Plan
• Deliver Plan
• Grow Plan
• Teamwork CRM
• Teamwork Desk
• Teamwork Chat
• Teamwork Spaces
• Does Teamwork Have a Free Plan?
• Teamwork Alternatives
• Teamwork Pricing: Is Teamwork Worth the Cost?
• About our Research
• Teamwork Pricing FAQs

Teamwork Project Management Pricing Plans

Teamwork is made up of four plans, which include a free plan and a bespoke plan. Here are the major differences between the four.

Free Forever plan

As you may be able to tell from its reassuring name, the Free Forever plan is free. Forever. It's the first Teamwork pricing plan and fairly limited, which is to be expected, as it only allows you to run two projects at a time between five users. The storage limit is quite small as well, only offering users 100 MB of storage.

Even though there are only five available users, you'll still be able to control their actions and what they can see with user permissions. As for the projects themselves, you'll be able to view them on a Gantt chart or a Kanban board. You'll also be able to set up milestones and task dependencies, which can help you stay on top of the individual steps of your project.

When it comes time for team collaboration, there are a fair amount of features that will assist you. You'll get a calendar to view your team's various tasks, and a project message board and task comments where people can weigh in on the various steps. However, you won't be able to access the integrated team chat function that helped Teamwork to a test-high 4/5 for collaboration, a better score than both monday.com (3.8/5) and Smartsheet (3/5).

From a data visualization angle, you'll be given dashboards, as well as preset charts and widgets which can display your progress and results in digestible formats. Finally, you'll also get time tracking, which can show you how long each task is taking.

As far as customer support goes, you'll be able to access a knowledge base, but no phone or email support. All in all, if you can accept the small limits, this is a rather generous free plan – but there are better free project management software options out there too.

The Gantt view in Teamwork. Image: Tech.co's testing process

Starter plan

Teamwork recently added a Starter plan, which retails at $5.99 per user, per month, just one dollar less than ClickUp's first paid plan.

This plan is geared towards teams looking for basic software to get started with managing projects. It has a project limit of 10 and an automation limit of 500, and there aren't many advanced features for tasks like reporting, but there are plenty of essentials for small teams and 50 GB of storage space.

On top of everything in the free plan, you'll get some useful task management tools like Gantt filtering, the ability to add custom branding to your Teamwork software, and the capacity to integrate with more programs, such as DropBox, Microsoft Office, and Quickbooks.

On top of this, there's phone, email, and live chat support, which Teamwork's free subscribers aren't entitled to anymore (the company used to provide the same support across all of their plans).

Deliver plan

The first paid Teamwork pricing plan, the Deliver plan, costs $9.99 per user per month. In addition to containing every feature from the Free Forever plan, it jumps up from a maximum of two projects to a very generous 300 projects. It also allows for unlimited users and 100 GB of storage. Plus, there are integrations for Slack and Microsoft Teams, and guest access if you need it.

When it comes to actual project management, you'll be given a couple more features. If Excel is your happy place, you'll be pleased to know that you'll be given a spreadsheet-type view, which can be a helpful way to visualize your projects. You can also split tasks into sub-tasks, making them easier to tackle.

The broad range of task management features meant Teamwork was eventually awarded a 4.9/5 for this assessment area by our research team, equaled only by ClickUp.

The biggest improvement from the free tier, outside of the massively increased limits, is the introduction of project templates. You can use Teamwork's preset templates, or make 20 of your own custom templates.

This plan also comes with a team-based instant messenger, meaning you won't have to wait for members to see comments in order to respond to them. Finally, you also get a lot of bonus features on this plan, like billing and invoicing, a form builder, and CRM functionality, which can save you a lot of money by forgoing the need for other software.

Adding Tasks in Teamwork. Image: Tech.co's testing process

Grow plan

Teamwork's final paid plan (outside of a bespoke option) is the Grow plan, costing $17.99 per user per month, and including all previous features. This plan doubles the number of projects from the previous plan, going from 300 to 600. Users remain unlimited, and storage increases from 100 GB to 250 GB. You'll also now be able to set up two-factor authentication and integrate with an existing HubSpot CRM account.

As far as new tools and features, there's only a handful. Firstly, you'll get custom fields, which allow you to customize tasks and projects to specifically suit your workplace. You'll also unlock budget management, to ensure your project isn't costing you or your client too much. The number of custom project templates also goes up from 20 to 50.

You'll get access to resource management, allowing you to log and tally any resources that your business is using for specific projects, and burndown charts, which visualize the amount of work left to do against the allotted remaining time.

All in all, this is the most usable Teamwork plan we've covered so far. It has more features than the Deliver plan, and you'll be able to manage significantly more complex projects. Overall, Teamwork scores a commendable 3.9/5 for usability – and it would be higher if some of the Grow plan features, such as custom fields, were accessible on the cheaper plans.

Teamwork's Table view. Image: Tech.co's testing process

Enterprise plan

Teamwork's Enterprise plan is the only Teamwork pricing plan with no public pricing. This means that users will be able to decide on the specific options and features they want to include in their plan, which will then dictate the price.

Since the features and pricing hinge on each user's requests, there's not much concrete information we can give on this plan. However, things you can get on this plan that you can't get on a lower plan include unlimited projects and storage, as well as onboarding assistance for new users.

Teamwork CRM Pricing

Teamwork's own CRM software costs $12 per user, per month. There's a 30-day free trial, as well as a bespoke tier, where you can change the price based on the features you opt to include.

Teamwork CRM includes a ton of tools for the price. Some highlights are:

• Board and list views, allowing for a birds-eye view of your CRM pipeline
• Separate pipelines for leads and opportunities
• Auto-prioritization of potential leads
• Deal and activity reporting
• Forecast reports with probability
• Integration with all Teamwork products and Gmail
• Mobile device compatibility

Those are the top highlights, but there are many more features included in Teamwork's CRM bundle. And, as mentioned, this CRM suite is included in the Deliver and Grow project management plans.

Teamwork Desk Pricing

Teamwork Desk has three paid tiers, as well as a bespoke tier. These tiers are Starter ($8.50 per user per month), Pro ($15 per user per month), and Premium ($29.50 per user per month).

There are some nice features locked behind the higher tiers, like customer satisfaction ratings and Mailchimp integration. However, even the lowest tier is still worth consideration, as it includes things like taggable tickets, mobile apps, database backups, and integration with all Teamwork software.

Teamwork Desk is a help desk platform that businesses can use to support their own customers. For example, if your business needed to set up a network through which your customers could call about problems or queries, this is the best way to do it.

Teamwork Chat Pricing

Teamwork Chat is included with every paid Teamwork Project Management tier (and is unavailable on the Free Forever plan). However, if you want to add unlimited video calls, this will cost an extra $4 per user per month.

Teamwork Chat is exactly what it sounds like – a chatroom-esque service that allows teams and businesses to communicate with each other. This includes all the communication staples, like private and public channels, video calls (for an extra $4 per user per month), file sharing, and integration with all existing Teamwork products.

Teamwork Spaces Pricing

Teamwork Spaces has two priced tiers and a bespoke tier. The first tier costs a flat rate of $8 for up to five users, while the next level costs $4 per user per month. There isn't a free version, but there is a 30-day free trial, and there is the ever-present bespoke option.

Teamwork Spaces is a document management software, allowing your business or team to store all relevant documents in a safe, accessible location. Highlight-worthy features of Teamwork Spaces include:

• Status markers
• Template and image galleries
• User permissions
• The ability to notify other users
• PDF exportability
• Internal links to other pages or spaces

Teamwork Spaces can also integrate with other appropriate Teamwork software.

Does Teamwork Have a Free Plan?

Teamwork has a very robust free plan. It's discussed in detail above, but here are some of the highlights:

• Gantt chart and Kanban board
• Milestones and task dependencies
• Team calendar
• Preset data visualization charts and widgets
• Time tracking
• Knowledge base for troubleshooting issues

The downside is that the limits are very small. You're only allowed two projects at once, and only five users can access the account. You also only get 100 MB of storage, so any reasonably-sized business will outgrow this plan.

Teamwork Alternatives

While Teamwork is both affordable and stocked with a good amount of features, it still has its shortcomings. Its biggest weakness is perhaps the fact that it can be a bit tricky to navigate. With those issues in mind, let's have a look at some alternatives.

ClickUp – best overall

ClickUp performs the best on our testing, scoring 4.8/5 overall and a test-high 4.9/5 for task management (joint first with Teamwork). ClickUp is heavily customizable, very easy to use, packed with features, and offers a solid free tier that allows users to get to grips with all of the tools it comes with without spending a cent.

For more information, visit our ClickUp pricing page.

Trello – best for basic task management

Trello scores 4.1/5 according to our research team. Trello doesn't have the tools Teamwork provides for handling complex tasks such as task dependencies, which will help preserve your project's critical path as you progress. It does, however, provide a simple user interface that's easy to get to grips with, and there's an automation builder as well as custom project templates included in all Trello plans.

Trello's paid plans start with the Premium plan ($5 per user, per month). This is cheaper than Teamwork's first paid plan ($9.99 per user, per month) as well as most other Trello alternatives.

Smartsheet – best for ease of use

Ease of use will always be a relatively subjective topic, but Smartsheet (4.6/5) is consistently touted as one of the smoothest and easiest-to-navigate platforms on the market, with its simple, spreadsheet-style view that makes the transition from Microsoft Excel a little bit easier. Plus, Smartsheet's Pro plan is just $7 per user, per month, which is cheaper than Teamwork's Deliver plan (although Teamwork's Starter plan is just $5.99 per user, per month, and will be a good option for a small team).

As well as being easy to use, Smartsheet scores a test-high 4.3/5 for usability. This means Smartsheet is better than other providers we've tested at progressing projects from A to Z, and it does that by including a vast number of dedicated features that can deal capably with a huge range of tasks. The fact it remains so easy to use, despite all these options and features, is all the more impressive.

Find out more about Smartsheet Pricing.

About our Research

Here at Tech.co, we don't just pluck our product rankings and provider scores out of thin air – we have a research team that tests all of the products we write about. They also create the research frameworks we use to test them, which often take weeks of market research to create.

When testing project management software, our researchers honed in on five key assessment areas: usability, customer support, features, pricing, and customer score. They subsequently broke down “features” into four sub-categories: task management, data visualization, collaboration, and workflow creation.

Tech.co does have commercial partnerships with some of the providers that feature on our site, but our research team allows us to remain editorially independent. All the conclusions we draw in our content are backed by the latest data we've collected from testing.

Teamwork Pricing: Frequently Asked Questions