Every price below is a public list price, read from the vendor's own pricing page on August 2, 2026. Seat minimums and seat blocks are included, because they are the reason a quoted per-seat price and an actual invoice disagree.
At 10 seats, the cheapest option here is Magnifi at $300 a year.
Annual billing where the vendor publishes a per-seat rate, on the plan a typical small team ends up buying. Seat minimums and seat blocks are included. Tools that only quote custom pricing are listed last.
The eleventh user costs you $950 a year, not $95
The free plan runs out of issues, not people
Everyone upgrades or nobody does
The free plan went from 10 seats to 2
Seats are sold in blocks, so you pay for people you do not have
Every view except the board costs $10 a seat
Free beats us, and we are not going to pretend otherwise
There is nothing to buy
For teams that already live in GitHub, GitHub Projects is free and GitHub Team is $4 per user per month, which undercuts everything else. Among standalone tools, Magnifi is $3 per seat per month and free up to 5 seats, then Trello Standard at $5 and ClickUp Unlimited at $7.
monday.com has a 3-seat minimum and sells seats in blocks of 3, 5, 10 and up, so a 4-person team pays for 5. Asana does not sell single seats — paid plans start at a 2-seat bundle. Jira, Trello, ClickUp and Linear bill per seat with no minimum.
Jira Free covers 10 users and Trello Free covers 10 collaborators, which are the two most generous. Asana cut its free plan to 2 users for accounts created after 12 November 2025, and monday.com's free plan is 2 seats. ClickUp and Linear allow unlimited members but cap usage instead — 60 MB of storage and 250 issues respectively.
Where both are published, yes, by roughly 18–25%. Asana Starter is $10.99 per user annually against $13.49 monthly, and monday.com quotes an 18% annual discount. Linear and ClickUp publish annual rates only. Jira is the exception worth checking: its annual pricing is banded by user count rather than charged per seat, so the saving depends on where your team size falls in a band.
Free for teams up to 5. No seat minimums, no seat blocks, no separate AI subscription.
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