By monday.comTel Aviv, Israel1 product across 1 category
Strong fit. Work management with AI blocks you drop into a board, so the automation is visible rather than hidden behind a prompt.
Free plan
Yes
Free forever plan for up to 2 seats, with up to 3 boards, up to 3 docs, 200+ templates and 8
Month to month
$12/mo
Basic
Billed yearly
$9/mo
Basic plan −25%
Watch out: Seats are sold in blocks, so a team of three often pays for five. The free plan stops at two seats and carries no AI at all.
All plans (5)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free forever plan for up to 2 seats, with up to 3 boards, up to 3 docs, 200+ templates and 8 column types, but no AI at all — the AI features start at Basic
Basic
$12/mo · $9/mo yearly
unlimited free viewers and unlimited items, plus Basic AI at 3 tools and 1,000 AI credits a month
Standard
$14/mo · $14/mo yearly
adds 3 workflows, automations and integrations at 250 actions a month each, and AI Essentials at 5 tools and 2,000 AI credits a month
Pro
$24/mo · $22/mo yearly
adds Premium AI at 6 tools and 3,000 AI credits a month, covering the AI agent workforce, the meeting notetaker, the Sidekick assistant and the Vibe app builder
Enterprise
Custom
adds 250 workflows, enterprise-grade security and governance, and Enterprise AI at 6 tools on a custom credit allowance. Every figure above is quoted at the 10-seat team size the page opens on, and the per-seat rate moves with the team size you choose
By ClickUpSan Diego, United States1 product across 1 category
Strong fit. Docs, tasks, chat and whiteboards under one AI that can see all of them, which is a genuine advantage over four separate tools.
Free plan
Yes
Free Forever plan, capped on storage rather than on time: 60MB, with unlimited tasks and
Month to month
$10/mo
Unlimited
Billed yearly
$7/mo
Unlimited plan −30%
Watch out: The breadth is also the complaint — it is a lot of product to configure before it helps. The free plan is real but holds 60MB, so it is storage that runs out rather than time or seats.
All plans (4)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free Forever plan, capped on storage rather than on time: 60MB, with unlimited tasks and unlimited members, collaborative docs, Kanban boards, sprint management, calendar view, two-factor authentication and 24/7 support
Unlimited
$10/mo · $7/mo yearly
unlimited storage, integrations, Gantt charts, custom fields and spaces, plus native time tracking, goals and portfolio management, resource management, guests with permission control and ClickUp Chat
Business
$19/mo · $12/mo yearly
unlimited dashboards, message history, activity and timeline views, webhooks and automation integrations, 5,000 automations a month, mind mapping, private whiteboards and custom exporting
Enterprise
Custom
enterprise permissions and governance, unlimited custom roles, SAML SSO and SCIM provisioning, an audit log, session management, the enterprise API, 250,000 automations a month, custom branding, and MSA and HIPAA available. Brain, the AI layer, is a separate product in the navigation and does not appear on these plan cards
By AtlassianSydney, Australia1 product across 1 category
Can do it. The simplest board tool that a whole team will actually adopt, now with AI that drafts cards and summarises lists.
Free plan
Yes
Free plan for up to 10 collaborators a workspace, with unlimited cards, up to 10 boards a
Month to month
$6/mo
Standard
Billed yearly
$5/mo
Standard plan −17%
Watch out: A board tool with AI added rather than an AI tool. If you want the model to do the work rather than tidy the card, look elsewhere.
All plans (4)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free plan for up to 10 collaborators a workspace, with unlimited cards, up to 10 boards a workspace, and to-do capture from email, Slack and Teams
Standard
$6/mo · $5/mo yearly
unlimited boards, AI, and to-do capture from email, Slack and Teams powered by AI
Premium
$12.50/mo · $10/mo yearly
adds the Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard and Map views, and workspace-level views
Enterprise
$17.50/mo yearly
the rate moves with the number of users, so it is not a fixed figure. Adds unlimited workspaces, organisation-wide permissions, organisation-visible boards, Atlassian Guard Standard and 24/7 enterprise admin support. AI starts at Standard, so the free plan is boards without it
By ZapierRemote, United States1 product across 1 category
Built for this. Connects thousands of apps and now runs agents across them. The integration count is the moat — an agent is only as useful as what it can touch.
Free plan
Yes
Free forever plan, 100 tasks a month; unlimited Zap workflows, Tables and Forms, two-step Zaps
Month to month
$29.99/mo
Professional
Billed yearly
$19.99/mo
Professional plan −33%
Watch out: Free tier caps task volume quickly. Debugging a broken multi-step automation is genuinely tedious.
All plans (4)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free forever plan, 100 tasks a month; unlimited Zap workflows, Tables and Forms, two-step Zaps and Zapier Copilot
Professional
$29.99/mo · $19.99/mo yearly
multi-step Zaps, unlimited premium apps, webhooks, AI fields, conditional form logic
Team
$103.50/mo · $69/mo yearly
25 users, shared workflows and app connections, SAML SSO, priority support
Enterprise
Custom
unlimited users, advanced admin and app controls, annual task limits, observability, a technical account manager. Every paid tier is priced from a task volume you choose, so the price rises with the tasks
Two things separate these and both are on every card.
Fit
Whether a tool is built for this job, a strong fit for it, or
able to do it without that being its focus.
Free plan
Whether there is a tier you can keep using rather than a
trial that expires.
The order
Fit first, then a free plan, then alphabetical. There is
no score, no weighting we decline to publish, and nothing on this site a company can buy.
Questions
What is the best ai for project management?
There is no single answer, which is why this page lists 8 rather than one: Monday.com, ClickUp, Trello, Motion, Taskade, Notion, Zapier, ChatGPT. 3 of them are built for this kind of work rather than able to do it. Start with a free one.
Which of these have a free plan?
7 of the 8: Monday.com, ClickUp, Trello, Taskade, Notion, Zapier, ChatGPT. Free means a real free tier you can keep using, not a trial that expires.
How was this list chosen?
By hand, from the 750 products this site tracks, and it is checked against the catalogue on every build — a product renamed or removed breaks the build rather than quietly disappearing from here. Nothing on this site can be paid for: no listing, no position, no wording.
