Teamwork.com alternatives are sought by two groups. Agencies and small services firms find that budgets, retainers and invoicing sit on the plans above the entry tier, while teams doing internal work discover they pay for a client-billing apparatus they never use. The first group moves to a cheaper planner with time tracking, or to deeper resource planning; the second to a plainer task tool or a flat-priced one.
Short answer: The first three alternatives to Teamwork.com in our project management ranking are awork, Paymo and Stackfield. Places 1 to 3 go to challengers, vendors outside the best-known brands in a category, wherever the category has them; the established names follow from place 4 in their ranked order. Choose awork if you want time tracking and workload planning at a lower price, with data held in Germany. All 11 alternatives below are ranked products from Best Project Management Software in 2026, and each says where it differs from Teamwork.com.
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Pricing: Free plan for 5 users and 5 projects; paid per user per month with a 3-seat minimum, published; top plans by quote
Established in: Ireland
Built for: An agency that needs to know whether a project made money
Not for: An internal team with no billing or client access
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Why buyers look past Teamwork.com
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The billing features sit on the second paid plan
Teamwork.com sells itself on client work and profitability, but its pricing page puts time budgets, retainers, invoices built from logged time and live capacity planning on the Accelerate plan (24.99 per user per month billed yearly). The Basics plan at 9.99 covers views, templates and billable time tracking. A firm that bought for budgets and retainers therefore prices the higher tier, and that is usually the moment it compares alternatives.
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Quotes, role-based scheduling and profitability are quote-only
Quotes, scheduling by role or skill, multi-currency budgets and revenue, cost and profitability insights belong to the Optimize plan, which is priced by conversation with sales, as is Enterprise. Teams that want to know the price of the full profitability promise before a demo find the published figures stop one tier short.
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A client-work model applied to internal work
Teamwork.com describes its product as software for client projects, and it lists itself against PSA tools as well as against Asana, monday.com and ClickUp. For an internal team with no clients, rates or budgets, the project, client and billing structure is overhead. Those teams tend to look for a lighter task tool, not a cheaper copy of the same product.
Everything in one place, whether you wanted it or not
you want time tracking, goals and docs in one cheaper tool and will set conventions yourself
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What each one does differently
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awork
Germany · Per user per month, published; free trial
awork is a German planner that adds time tracking and capacity planning to projects and tasks, and states that all data is hosted on Microsoft servers in Germany. Prices start at 5 euro per user per month billed annually, and capacity planning arrives on the Standard plan. It does not present itself as a profitability or client-billing product, so retainers and invoices are not its centre.
Switch from Teamwork.com if you want time tracking and workload planning at a lower price, with data held in Germany.
Romania · Free plan for one user; paid per user per month, published
Paymo is the closest small-scale match: tasks next to time tracking, estimates, invoices, retainer and flat-rate projects, and project profitability. Prices are in US dollars, from 10.9 per user per month on Plus, and the free plan covers one user, one client and two projects. Gantt charts, dependencies and workload scheduling are limited to the Pro plan.
Switch from Teamwork.com if a small services team wants billable hours, estimates and invoices at a lower per-user price.
Germany · Per user per month, published; 14-day trial; on-premise edition from 100 users
Stackfield combines team chat, tasks, Kanban and Gantt in one German-hosted workspace, ISO 27001 certified, and offers an on-premise edition. It prices per user in euro from 9 on Starter, which is capped at 10 users. It has no budgets, retainers or client invoicing, so it replaces Teamwork.com for collaboration, not for agency finance.
Switch from Teamwork.com if chat and tasks belong in one tool and German hosting or an on-premise option matters.
United States · Free plan; Team and Business per user per month, published; Pinnacle and Apex by quote
Wrike lists free, Team at 10 and Business at 25 per user per month, with Pinnacle and Apex by quote. Budgeting, advanced resource and capacity planning and advanced reporting appear from Pinnacle, so the finance layer is also behind a sales conversation. It is a broader enterprise work platform than Teamwork.com, and the Team plan is limited to 2 to 15 users.
Switch from Teamwork.com if you need enterprise reporting and resource planning across departments, not only client projects.
United States · Free plan for one project; paid plans are flat monthly prices capped by active projects, with unlimited users from Studio upwards; published
Basecamp replaces per-user pricing with flat monthly prices that rise with the number of active projects. Studio at 59 a month and above includes unlimited users, and the free plan covers one project and 5 users. It offers time tracking on paid plans, but not budgets, retainers or invoice generation.
Switch from Teamwork.com if the seat count keeps growing and clients mostly need a place to talk and see progress.
Germany · Free community edition; paid Enterprise plans per user per month from 25 users, published
OpenProject is open source under GNU GPL v3 and can be installed on your own infrastructure, with a free Community edition. Paid support plans start at 5.95 euro per user per month with a 25-user minimum. It is a classic and agile project planner, not a client-billing tool, and the administration of a self-hosted install falls to you.
Switch from Teamwork.com if you want to self-host project management and keep the data on your own servers.
Germany · Free plan; paid per user per month, published
MeisterTask offers kanban boards with a free plan of up to 3 projects and unlimited team members. Pro is 12.50 per user per month and Business 24 per user per month in euro. It has recurring tasks, automations and a team overview, but it is task management, with no client budgets or retainers.
Switch from Teamwork.com if your team only ever used Teamwork.com for task boards and wants a lighter tool.
Zenkit builds on flexible lists shown as Kanban, Gantt or calendar, priced per seat in euro from 8 on Plus, which allows up to 10 users. Plans are capped by items, lists and automation runs, and advanced Gantt features sit on the Business plan. It has no client billing or profitability layer.
Switch from Teamwork.com if your work fits custom lists better than fixed projects and you want published euro pricing.
United States · Free plan for 2 users; paid per user per month, published
Asana treats projects as internal coordination with reporting dashboards, goals and a free plan for 2 users. Starter is 10.99 per user per month billed annually and includes timeline and Gantt views, forms and unlimited free guests. It tracks time only through integrations and does not carry billing rates, retainers or invoicing.
Switch from Teamwork.com if work crosses departments and the reporting matters more than client profitability.
Israel · Free plan for 2 seats; paid per seat per month from 3 seats, published
monday.com gives teams customisable boards and priced seat bundles, with a free plan of up to 2 seats and Basic at 9 euro per seat per month on the yearly calculator shown. Its pricing is built from seat counts and AI credits, which differs from Teamwork.com's per-user tiers. Client budgets and retainers are not part of the entry plans.
Switch from Teamwork.com if adoption by non-specialists and flexible boards matter more than agency billing.
United States · Free tier; paid per user per month, published
ClickUp lists a free plan, Unlimited at 7 and Business at 12 per user per month billed yearly. Unlimited already includes native time tracking, goals and portfolios, and resource management, at a lower entry price than Teamwork.com's Accelerate tier. The trade is a broader, denser product that has no retainer or invoicing focus.
Switch from Teamwork.com if you want time tracking, goals and docs in one cheaper tool and will set conventions yourself.
Teamwork.com remains the right choice when client work is the business. Billable time, budgets that track against time and cost, retainers, invoices built from logged time, and resource capacity are designed in, with 150+ integrations and a free plan for 5 users and 5 projects to test the structure first. If you run an agency or services firm and the Accelerate or Optimize plan pays for itself in recovered billable hours, a generic task tool will force you to rebuild that layer in spreadsheets.
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What moving off Teamwork.com involves
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Budgets, rates and retainers rarely transfer
Time entries, rates and budget structures are part of Teamwork.com's own model. Check which alternative stores billable rates and retainers at all: Paymo does, while Basecamp, MeisterTask and Asana mostly do not. Export time logs before cancelling and decide which closed projects need history kept for invoicing disputes.
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Client access and hosting choices change
Teamwork.com offers US or EU data hosting on every plan. If you moved for data location, confirm the same on the new tool: awork and Stackfield state German hosting, OpenProject can run on your own servers. Re-invite clients to the new workspace and tell them in advance.
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Questions about replacing Teamwork.com
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Is Teamwork.com free?
There is a free plan for up to 5 users and 5 projects, with task, list, board, Gantt and table views, time logging and 100 automations.
Paid plans start at Basics (9.99 per user per month billed yearly) and Accelerate (24.99). Optimize and Enterprise are priced on request.
What is the cheapest Teamwork.com alternative for an agency?
Paymo and awork are the closest in purpose and cost less per user, with time tracking and, in Paymo's case, invoices and project profitability.
ClickUp is cheaper still on published price but is not built around client billing. Compare with Teamwork.com's Accelerate tier, since that is where budgets and retainers start.
Which alternative can I host myself?
OpenProject can be installed on your own infrastructure under GNU GPL v3, and Stackfield offers an on-premise edition. Teamwork.com, Asana, monday.com and Paymo are hosted services, though Teamwork.com lets you choose US or EU hosting.
Is there an alternative that keeps data in Germany?
awork states that all data is hosted on Microsoft servers in Germany, and Stackfield describes itself as made and hosted in Germany and ISO 27001 certified. Teamwork.com offers an EU hosting option, though its company is based in Ireland.
Which alternative suits a team with no clients?
Asana, MeisterTask and Basecamp suit internal work better than Teamwork.com, since none of them is organised around billing. Basecamp's flat pricing helps if the team is large, and MeisterTask's free plan allows unlimited team members on up to 3 projects.
Does Teamwork.com cover resource planning?
Workload and live capacity planning start on Accelerate. Scheduling by role or skill, tentative and active work planning, and profitability insights belong to Optimize. Wrike and Paymo also place their workload and resource features on higher plans.
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Checked 9 October 2026
Teamwork.com pricing: Free plan (5 users, 5 projects, 100 automations), Basics 9.99 and Accelerate 24.99 per user per month billed yearly, Optimize and Enterprise by quote, features per plan, US or EU hosting, 14-day trial, comparison pages versus Asana, monday.com and ClickUp.
awork pricing: Prices from 5 euro per user per month billed annually, capacity planning on Standard, plan structure.
awork homepage: Data hosted on ISO 27001-certified Microsoft servers in Germany.
Paymo pricing: Free plan limited to 1 user, 1 client, 2 projects; Plus 10.9 USD; retainer and flat-rate projects, profitability, invoicing; Gantt, dependencies and workload on Pro.
Stackfield pricing: Euro per-user pricing, Starter capped at 10 users, on-premise edition, made and hosted in Germany, ISO 27001.
Wrike pricing: Free, Team 10 and Business 25 per user per month, Pinnacle and Apex by quote, budgeting and resource planning on Pinnacle, Team limited to 2 to 15 users.
Basecamp pricing: Free plan (1 project, 5 users), flat monthly prices capped by active projects, unlimited users from Studio, time tracking on paid plans.
OpenProject pricing: Free Community edition, Basic at 5.95 euro per user per month with 25-user minimum, on-premises or cloud.
OpenProject homepage: Open source, licensed under GNU GPL v3, installable on-premises.
MeisterTask pricing: Free plan with up to 3 projects and unlimited team members, Pro and Business per-user euro prices.
Zenkit pricing: Per-seat euro pricing, Plus max 10 users, quotas, advanced Gantt on Business.
Asana pricing: Free plan for 2 users, Starter 10.99 per user per month billed annually, timeline and Gantt, unlimited free guests, time tracking via integrations.
monday.com pricing: Free plan up to 2 seats, Basic 9 euro per seat per month, seat-based calculator with AI credits.
ClickUp pricing: Free plan, Unlimited 7 and Business 12 per user per month billed yearly, native time tracking, goals and portfolios, resource management.
