{
    "title": "Trello Alternatives 2027: 10 Paid, Free & Open-Source",
    "url": "https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/trello/",
    "summary": "The best Trello alternatives in 2027 are Asana (best overall, $10.99/user/mo), ClickUp (best free plan: Unlimited free members, 60 MB storage, 5 Spaces) and Plane (best open source, AGPL-3.0). Trello itself starts at $5/user/mo. Zekai checked these prices on vendor pages on 11 Nov 2026; 7 more are compared below, including 5 with a free plan and 2 open source.",
    "tool": {
        "name": "Trello",
        "starting_price": "$5/user/mo",
        "free_plan": "10 boards, 10 collaborators per Workspace",
        "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
        "pricing_url": "https://trello.com/pricing"
    },
    "task": "project management tool",
    "prices_checked": "2026-11-11",
    "date_modified": "2026-11-11",
    "alternatives": [
        {
            "name": "Asana",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$10.99/user/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "2 users, unlimited tasks and projects",
            "best_for": "Teams moving from boards to projects",
            "difference": "Asana's free Personal plan offers list, board and calendar views with time tracking integrations but allows only 2 users, where Trello's free plan allows 10 collaborators.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://asana.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://asana.com",
            "zekai_score": 8.4,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/asana/"
        },
        {
            "name": "monday.com",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$9/seat/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "2 seats, 3 boards, 3 Docs",
            "best_for": "Configurable boards with column types",
            "difference": "monday's paid plans start at 3 seats and $9 per seat billed yearly with 8 column types on the free plan; Trello Standard is $5 per user billed yearly.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://monday.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://monday.com",
            "zekai_score": 7.8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/monday-com-ai-project-tracking/"
        },
        {
            "name": "ClickUp",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$9/user/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "Unlimited free members, 60 MB storage, 5 Spaces",
            "best_for": "Free plan with unlimited members",
            "difference": "ClickUp's free plan gives unlimited members with 5 Spaces, 60 MB storage and 500 AI credits; Trello's free plan caps collaborators and boards at 10 each.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://clickup.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://clickup.com",
            "zekai_score": 7.8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/clickup/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Notion",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$10/member/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "5 MB files, 7-day page history",
            "best_for": "Docs and boards in one workspace",
            "difference": "Notion's free plan limits files to 5 MB and page history to 7 days, against Trello's 10 MB per file; its kanban boards sit inside databases beside docs.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.notion.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://www.notion.so",
            "zekai_score": 9.2,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/notion/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Jira",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$8.48/user/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "Up to 10 users, 2 GB storage",
            "best_for": "Software teams outgrowing card boards",
            "difference": "Jira's free plan covers 10 users with 2 GB storage, and Standard is $8.48 per user billed monthly, against Trello Standard at $6 monthly.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing",
            "website": "https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira",
            "zekai_score": 8.5,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/jira/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Wrike",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$10/user/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "Task management with board and table views",
            "best_for": "Teams needing Gantt charts and dashboards",
            "difference": "Wrike's Team plan is $10 per user billed annually for 2 to 15 users and adds Gantt charts, twice Trello Standard's annual price.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.wrike.com/price/",
            "website": "https://www.wrike.com",
            "zekai_score": 7.5,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/wrike/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Basecamp",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$29/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "1 project, 1 GB storage, 3 users max",
            "best_for": "Flat-price project spaces for small teams",
            "difference": "Basecamp charges flat monthly plans, starting at $29 for 3 active projects and up to 5 users, instead of a per-user price as Trello does.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://basecamp.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://basecamp.com",
            "zekai_score": 9,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/basecamp/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Plane",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "$6/seat/mo (hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "AGPL-3.0",
            "best_for": "Self-hostable boards and issue tracking",
            "difference": "Plane has a free cloud plan for up to 12 users and a self-hostable AGPL-3.0 edition, with work items, cycles and modules beyond cards.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://plane.so/pricing",
            "website": "https://plane.so",
            "repository": "https://github.com/makeplane/plane",
            "zekai_score": 8.7,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/plane/"
        },
        {
            "name": "WeKan",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "MIT",
            "best_for": "Free self-hosted Trello-style boards",
            "difference": "WeKan is a free MIT-licensed kanban board built with Meteor that you host yourself, with no per-user fee.",
            "repository": "https://github.com/wekan/wekan",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/wekan/",
            "last_release": "2026-09-06",
            "zekai_score": 7.9,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/wekan/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Kanzo",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "AGPL-3.0",
            "best_for": "Local kanban for people and AI agents",
            "difference": "Kanzo bundles a browser board, a terminal command and an MCP server for AI agents, and has no accounts or logins.",
            "repository": "https://github.com/emanuele-em/kanzo",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/kanzo/",
            "zekai_score": 6.8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/kanzo/"
        }
    ],
    "faq": [
        {
            "q": "What is the best alternative to Trello in 2027?",
            "a": "Asana is the best overall Trello alternative on this page ($10.99/user/mo). For no cost, ClickUp has a free plan (Unlimited free members, 60 MB storage, 5 Spaces). To self-host, Plane is open source (AGPL-3.0)."
        },
        {
            "q": "Is there a free version of Trello?",
            "a": "Yes. Trello has a free plan: 10 boards, 10 collaborators per Workspace. Paid plans start at $5/user/mo, checked on 11 Nov 2026."
        },
        {
            "q": "Is there a 100% free alternative to Trello?",
            "a": "Yes. Plane, WeKan, Kanzo are open source and free to self-host. Asana, monday.com, ClickUp, Notion, Jira, Wrike, Basecamp have a free plan with limits, shown in the table."
        },
        {
            "q": "How much do Trello alternatives cost for a team of 5?",
            "a": "If each of 5 people buys the entry paid plan, at the prices Zekai checked on 11 Nov 2026, the monthly cost is Plane $30/mo, Jira $42.40/mo, monday.com $45/mo, against Trello $25/mo for Trello. Team and business plans can cost more per seat. The Zekai Cost Finder on this page recalculates for any team size."
        },
        {
            "q": "Which is better, Asana or Trello?",
            "a": "Asana's free Personal plan offers list, board and calendar views with time tracking integrations but allows only 2 users, where Trello's free plan allows 10 collaborators. Choose Asana if your boards have grown into projects needing timelines, status updates and several views. Stay with Trello if your free team has up to 10 collaborators and just needs cards on boards."
        },
        {
            "q": "Why are people leaving Trello?",
            "a": "The documented reasons are: Free Trello Workspaces are limited to 10 collaborators including members, guests and pending invitations; Workspaces above the limit became view-only from 20 May 2024 unless they upgraded or reduced collaborators (4 Mar 2024); Trello's pricing page limits the Free plan to 10 boards per Workspace, 10 MB per file and 250 Workspace command runs a month (11 Nov 2026). Each is sourced in the section above."
        },
        {
            "q": "What is better than Trello?",
            "a": "It depends on the work. Asana, monday.com and ClickUp add more views and project features, Jira suits software teams, and Notion suits teams that want docs and boards together."
        }
    ],
    "publisher": "Zekai (zekaiwork.com) — independently reviewed; prices read on vendor pages on the dates shown.",
    "licence": "Free to quote with a link to https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/trello/. Bulk copying or republishing the dataset is not permitted."
}