The free plan a small team can actually live on
Ten boards per workspace, unlimited cards, unlimited Power-Ups per board, and 250 Butler automation runs a month. Not a trial, not a use count, not a two week window. A working plan, for up to ten collaborators, indefinitely.
Nothing else in our comparison offers that shape. Asana free is two seats. Notion free stops accepting new blocks. Basecamp free is one project. ClickUp and Wrike are more generous on headcount, with no published member limit on either free plan, and ClickUp hands you 60 MB of storage and sixty uses of Gantt instead.
Trello scores 7.4 under how we rate and it holds our free-plan pick.
What Premium adds, and what it still does not do
Standard is $5 a user a month billed annually and has no Timeline view, which is why our comparison prices Premium at $10, or $1,200 for ten people over a year. Premium brings Timeline, Calendar, Table, Dashboard and Map views and makes Butler runs unlimited.
The pricing page is the clearest of the seven. Both billing cycles are printed beside each plan, the currency is named, and Enterprise prints an annual total of $210 per user a year, which only Notion matches and only in its structured data rather than in its copy.
What Premium does not bring is the rest of a project manager. No dependencies. No resource management. No workload view. If two pieces of work block each other, Trello will let you write that in a card description and nowhere else. That is the honest boundary of the product, and it is where Wrike and Asana earn their prices.
The uptime promise that is not in a contract
Trello's enterprise page says: "With 99.99% uptime and industry-leading compliance certifications, we'll never leave you hanging." Its trust page adds that Trello "experienced 99.99% uptime in 2018", a figure still sitting there in 2026.
Atlassian's contractual cloud service level agreement covers Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence, Bitbucket Cloud, Compass, Loom and Jira Product Discovery. Trello is not on that list.
We are not saying Trello is unreliable; by every public account it is not. We are saying the 99.99 percent is marketing copy rather than a term you could point at, and that a page promising it beside compliance certifications invites the opposite reading. Of the seven tools here, only Basecamp has no SLA and says so.
SAML is not in the price
If your organisation needs single sign-on, Trello Standard and Premium do not have it. SAML arrives through Atlassian Guard, a separate subscription starting at $4 a user a month, and Atlassian has announced that the list price of Guard Standard and Premium changes on 13 October 2026 for new purchases, renewals and upgrades.
Trello Enterprise includes Guard Standard at $17.50 a user a month, and carries a floor Trello states on its own product page: fifty seats and a $10,000 minimum spend. For a team of ten that rate does not exist.
Getting your data out
Better than Wrike, worse than Notion, with two traps.
JSON export works on every plan and carries the 1,000 most recent actions, which includes comments. CSV is a Premium feature and does not include comments at all. Attachments come out as a zip only if you tick "Include raw attachments" when you build the export; otherwise the file links back to Trello, which is not much use once you have left.
Trello also states plainly that neither format can be imported back to re-create a board, which is worth knowing before you treat an export as a backup.
Who should buy it
Use the free plan for as long as it fits, which for a small team is longer than you would think. Ten boards and 250 automation runs a month covers a lot of real work.
Buy Premium when you want the timeline and unlimited Butler, and know you are buying views rather than project management.
Do not buy it if your work has dependencies or you need to know who is over-allocated next month. Do not count on the 99.99 percent as a commitment. And if you need SAML, price Atlassian Guard on top before you compare Trello with anything.
Prices, plan contents, the export behaviour and the SLA product list on this page were read from the vendor pricing page, Trello trust page, Atlassian legal pages and Atlassian support documentation on . We did not test the products in this comparison.
