Trello Pricing 2022 – How Much Does Trello Cost?

Trello has a great Free plan which will appeal to most individual users or even very small teams. But, larger teams and businesses will need to consider Trello Standard ($5 per user per month) or Trello Premium ($9.99 per user per month). If you're a much larger business though, Trello Enterprise ($17.50 per user per month) is going to be your best option.

In this guide to Trello pricing, we explain what you get for your buck in each Trello plan, whereas the best alternatives to Trello are covered in a separate page on our site. Here are the prices of Trello's plans:

We'll be discussing Trello Pricing in depth throughout this article, with a full breakdown of Trello's price plans and recommendations for what type of user they each suit. But first, to make sure you don't miss out on the best prices around, take a glance at our project management software deals table, below:

Trello offers four different pricing plans:

• Trello Free – great plan to get started, but has some serious limitations
• Trello Standard ($5/user/mo) – ideal for smaller businesses that need more than the free plan
• Trello Premium ($10/user/mo) – perfect for growing businesses, houses all the core features you'll need for project management
• Trello Enterprise ($17.50/user/mo) – ideal for larger companies, not necessary for teams smaller than 100

The free Trello plan, while attractive, is understandably limited compared to the paid plans. The Standard plan fits right in with small teams on a budget, as its much more affordable, and offers core features that can get you by. The Premium plan is ideal for growing businesses, as it offers most of the business-facing features needed for project management. And finally, the Enterprise plan, as you can imagine, is ideal for much larger businesses. Take a look at the table below to see how they match up with each other, and read on for more specifics about each.

In This Guide:

Trello Free Plan

As we mentioned earlier, Trello pricing starts at zero with unlimited personal boards (viewable only by a single individual), 10 team boards, unlimited cards, unlimited lists, 10MB per file attachment on task cards, and 1 Power-Up per board.

That last limit is really the key issue, as Power-Ups are how you add a lot of common project management tools to Trello. The free tier also limits the amount of automation you can do for your board if you decide to use Butler.

Trello Standard Plan

A new plan from Trello, the Standard tier offers small businesses a more affordable option for project management that still offers core features necessary for professional operations. You'll get access to unlimited boards, advanced checklists, and custom fields, a big step up from the free plan.

You do miss out on some of the cooler Trello features found in the Premium plan though, like dashboard, calendar, and timeline views. Additionally, you'll only get standard support, rather than the priority support found in more expensive plans. Still, this is a great entry-level option that is quite affordable, and you can always scale up if you need that extra firepower.

Trello Premium Plan

Going up to the Premium tier will cost $10 per user, per month billed annually. This tier supports the same unlimited personal boards, cards, and lists, but adds unlimited Power-Ups, unlimited team boards, and raises the per-attachment limit to 250MB.

The Business Class plan also adds priority support, custom backgrounds and stickers, the ability to group boards together, unlimited Butler customizations,  and now, no limit on automation runs at all. You also get advanced administrative permissions, Google single sign-on, and a simple data export mechanism.

Trello Enterprise Plan

Finally, there's the Enterprise tier, which has variable pricing depending on the number of team members. To use Trello with 100 Enterprise users — the minimum number of users — you'll be paying $17.50 per user, per month billed annually.

The Enterprise plan supports all the features in Business Class without much in the way of increases–the file attachment remains at a hard 250MB. But Enterprise does offer unlimited use of Butler including “advanced automation” features.

Trello Enterprise also adds key features big businesses need such as single sign-on for SAML IdPs, administrative control over available Power-Ups, attachment restrictions, permissions, and public board management.

Trello started life as a product of Fog Creek Software (now known as Glitch) in 2011; it was eventually turned into its own company before being purchased by Atlassian in 2017.

The fact that Trello didn't start life under Atlassian is kind of surprising, because just looking at Trello you can see a lot of shared traits with Jira, Atlassian's project management tool geared towards software development. Trello uses a similar Kanban board interface as Jira, and it offers as much simplicity as its corporate cousin.

The big difference is that Trello is clearly built for generic project management with task cards that support far more detail than Jira's. To start, Trello offers a free tier with a basic feature set, and then you can upgrade as needed with two payment tiers.

Trello's fundamental data structure starts with teams, as many project management software tools do. Then you have boards, which are best thought of as cork boards for pinning tasks written on index cards. The basic idea is to use a separate board for each project or client. Then there are lists where you organize your tasks such as “In process,” “Pending approval,” or “Completed.” Finally there are cards, which are the basic units where you input your tasks, responsible team members, and other details.

Trello claims its product is flexible enough to accommodate any project, or day-to-day jobs that require task lists. It doesn't have quite the same flexibility as something like Monday.com simply because its interface and data hierarchy is much simpler. Nevertheless, there's a lot to like about Trello's basic approach.

Trello alternatives

Check out some of our full reviews of Trello's key rivals, such as this rundown of Zoho Projects' features and pricing, see our guide to the best project management software, or see how its main competitors:

Trello users start life on the free tier, which has no limits on personal boards, and a healthy cap of 10 shared boards for teams. Like Jira, the idea with Trello is that you manage tasks by moving the cards between different lists on  your board. What those lists are named is completely up to you. Task cards might start life in a “Not started” list, before moving over to “In process,” and then finally, “Completed.” As the task cards move through these different stages users simply have to drag-and-drop them to the next list.

The downside of the free tier is that the use of Power-Ups is limited, and many key features needed for project management just aren't available without that extensibility. Trello also doesn't have task dependencies, though you can use the site's linking features to achieve a similar result. It's also lacking a calendar view and a timeline for seeing all the tasks at once; however, both of those features can be added via Power-Ups.

Power-Ups

Trello's third-party integrations and extensions for added functionality are known as Power-Ups. Similar to extensions built for the Chrome and Firefox browsers, Power-Ups can be created and submitted by other Trello users, third-parties, or Atlassian itself.

There are tons of Power-Up options such as Butler for task automation, timeline views, Gantt charts, and integrations for popular work tools such as Slack, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and Salesforce. There's even a voting plug-in if you want to poll your team on a certain issue.

Board views

Trello is famous for its board system, allowing users to seamlessly pass through the steps of a project for all to see. From the idea stage to the completed stage, you'll be able to drag and drop tasks along a timeline to keep track of it all.

However, if you opt for the Premium plan, you'll get access to a wide range of other board views, including calendar, timeline, dashboard, map, and team table, all offer a different look at your team's progress. Check out the gallery below to see how each of these board views looks:

Email to task card conversion

Every single team member on a Trello board receives their own personal email address for the board. They can then send an email to the board to add a new task, or forward messages that are then automatically converted to tasks. There could be a board dedicated to filling a specific company position, for example, and then every application received via email could be forwarded to the board.

For each email the  subject line becomes the task card name, the written contents of the message become the details view, and any attachments are included as well. It's a very handy feature and a good way to get information into Trello from multiple places.

Trello Video Overview: Project Management in Action

This video from Trello shows the basics of the project management tool including how to navigate the app, and how to organize tasks and lists within boards.