What is ClickUp?
Tasks, docs and chat with an AI layer across the workspace.
Who is ClickUp best for?
ClickUp is best for teams that want tasks, docs, chat and AI in one workspace instead of separate apps.
Teams replacing several apps
Tasks, docs, chat, whiteboards and forms live in one workspace, so plans, notes and discussion stay in the same place.
Project and sprint teams
Sprint management, Kanban boards, Gantt charts, time tracking and workload views cover agile and classic project work.
Teams that want AI across their work
Brain AI searches across your workspace, writes drafts and lets you chat with models such as Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini.
Larger companies with admin needs
Enterprise adds SAML SSO, SCIM, audit logs, custom roles, data residency and HIPAA options.
How much does ClickUp cost?
ClickUp has a Free Forever plan, and its paid plans cost $10 (Unlimited) or $19 (Business) per user a month, with AI priced separately from $14 per user a month for Brain AI.
- Unlimited tasks and free plan members
- 60MB of file storage and 5 Spaces
- Docs, Kanban boards, calendar view and 1 form
- Unlimited storage, integrations, Gantt charts and custom fields
- Time tracking, goals and guests with permissions
- ClickUp Chat and email in ClickUp
- Unlimited dashboards, timeline and activity views
- 5,000 automations a month, mind maps and private whiteboards
- Google SSO and unlimited message history
Billed yearly, Unlimited is $7 and Business $12 per user per month. AI is priced separately: Brain AI is $14 and Everything AI $33 per user per month billed monthly, or $9 and $28 billed yearly, with 1,500 or 5,000 AI Super Credits per user a month; extra credits cost $10 per 10,000. Enterprise, with SAML SSO, audit logs and HIPAA options, is priced by sales. An upgrade covers the whole workspace, refunds are available within 30 days, and nonprofits, students, educators and startups can get discounts. Full pricing on clickup.com. We checked these prices on .
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What are the best ClickUp alternatives?
Three tools on Recaply do ClickUp's job. All three are open source, so you can run them on your own server.
Choose it when you want issues, cycles and project pages on your own server instead of a hosted workspace billed per seat
Choose it when you want chat, pages and databases in one workspace, with unlimited users on every cloud plan
Choose it when you want a plain board, list and Gantt tracker with no feature tiers that runs as one container on your server
Questions about ClickUp
What is ClickUp?
Tasks, docs and chat with an AI layer across the workspace.
Who is ClickUp for?
ClickUp is best for teams that want tasks, docs, chat and AI in one workspace instead of separate apps.
Is ClickUp free?
Yes. ClickUp has a free Free Forever plan: unlimited tasks and free plan members.
How much does ClickUp Brain cost?
ClickUp's Brain AI plan costs $14 per user a month billed monthly, or $9 billed yearly, and includes 1,500 AI Super Credits per user a month. Everything AI, which adds the AI Notetaker, AI Fields and more agent use, costs $33 a month or $28 billed yearly.
Is there an open source alternative to ClickUp?
Yes. Plane, Colanode, Kaneo and WeKan and 11 more are open source tools that do the same job, so you can run your own.
What are the best ClickUp alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are Plane, Colanode and Kaneo.
Where can I try ClickUp?
On its official website, clickup.com.
Can I upgrade just one person in ClickUp?
No. ClickUp upgrades a whole workspace at once, so every member is billed on the paid plan, and each workspace is paid for separately. People added partway through are charged a prorated price for the rest of the billing cycle.







