One price for everybody
$59 a month. Ten people, fifty people, a hundred and fifty people. The invoice does not move.
Every other tool in our comparison charges per seat, so hiring somebody costs you twice: once in salary and once in software. Basecamp sells the opposite premise and claims it as its own: "one of the few products in the entire industry with an all-inclusive, unlimited users package for one fixed, capped price."
Studio is $708 for twelve months, which is the lowest figure on our page and would be the lowest at twenty people too. It scores 7.1 under how we rate and it holds our flat-bill pick.
What it does not have
Before anything else, because the vendor will not tell you and its competitors will.
No Gantt chart, at any price. Basecamp publishes nothing about Gantt charts either way. There is The Lineup, which is a timeline of projects rather than of tasks, a Schedule that is a calendar, and Hill Charts, which show how far along a piece of work is rather than when it lands.
No automation rules, at any price. The only thing in that shape is Automatic Check-ins, which ask recurring questions on a schedule. No triggers, no conditions, no rules engine.
No SSO and no SAML, at any price. The help centre says it in one line, updated in June 2026: Basecamp does not support SSO or SAML authentication. Google sign-in is available.
No SOC 2 and no ISO 27001. Instead a self-assessed CSA Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire covering all 283 questions, and a security page that volunteers this: "Our application databases are generally not encrypted at rest."
No SLA, in the terms, in those words: Basecamp does not offer service-level agreements.
That is the list, and it fails two of the three conditions our comparison anchors on. What is remarkable is that every item above comes from a Basecamp page. No other vendor here publishes its own absences.
The cap that bites is projects, not people
Free is one project. Freelancer at $25 is three active projects and twenty users, and it is the only paid tier with a headcount limit, which matters because clients and contractors count toward it. Studio is ten. Pro at $99 is twenty five. Unlimited is $299 a month billed annually, and no annual total is published for it.
Archived and deleted projects do not count, which is more generous than it sounds: a team that closes work properly will sit on Studio for years.
One clause to know before you start on a paid plan: you cannot go back. Basecamp does not allow downgrading from a paid package to the free package.
Cancelling, which is the clearest here
Every other vendor in this comparison is vague about what happens to your data when you leave. Asana, ClickUp and Trello publish no deletion timetable at all. monday.com reserves the right to delete an inactive account's data at any time.
Basecamp publishes the whole thing:
"We'll permanently delete the content in your account from our servers 30 days after cancellation, and from our backups within 60 days."
Cancellation is immediate. The account is inaccessible at once. Export first, and the export is an HTML copy of individual projects, a selection or the entire account, available on every plan including the free one. Wrike cannot manage that on the plan we price.
What you get instead of features
Message boards, to-dos, card tables, chat, schedules, docs and check-ins. One place for each kind of thing, nothing to configure, and a new person finds their way around in an afternoon. It is the least to learn of the seven and, more usefully, the least to maintain: nobody has to own the Basecamp setup the way somebody has to own the ClickUp hierarchy.
Behind it is a company that describes itself as having had "27 profitable, financially responsible years in business", with no debt and no investors, which is a different kind of reassurance from a SOC 2 report and not a substitute for one.
Who should buy it
Buy Studio if you are growing and you want the bill to stay still. At ten people $708 is cheap; at thirty it is remarkable.
Buy it if your team would rather have seven things that work than forty that need configuring, and if you would rather a vendor told you what it lacks.
Do not buy it if your work has dependencies, a critical path or people to schedule, because none of that exists here and no plan adds it. Do not buy it if procurement asks for SOC 2 or SAML. And take the export before you cancel, not after, because after is thirty days.
Prices, plan caps, the security posture and the cancellation timetable on this page were read from the vendor pricing page, features page, security page, terms of service and help centre on . We did not test the products in this comparison.
