Productivity Software Pricing, Compared

How to read this table

Entry paid price is the cheapest paid tier the vendor publishes, not the plan we would necessarily recommend. Cheapest is rarely the right answer — the entry tier often excludes the one feature that made you look at the tool in the first place. Use it to understand the floor, then read the review for what each tier actually gets you.

Per user/month vs per month matters more than it looks. A $20/month product for a whole account is a different proposition from $20 per person per month; at a team of ten that is $20 against $200. The unit is shown next to every figure for that reason.

The "annual" tag means the price shown is the discounted annual-billing rate. Paying monthly is typically 15–25% more. Round-ups that quote the annual rate without saying so are effectively advertising a discount as the standard price.

"Not published" means the vendor does not put a number on its public pricing page — usually because it routes buyers through a sales call. That is information in itself: it generally signals enterprise pricing well above the tools that publish figures.

What this table does not tell you

Price is the easiest thing to compare and the least useful on its own. This table cannot tell you whether a tool's free plan collapses at the exact limit your team will hit in month two, whether the $7 tier includes the integration you depend on, or whether the interface will survive contact with people who did not choose it. Those judgements are in the individual reviews, and the last column links to each one.

Pricing also changes without notice, and we are not always the first to notice. Each row carries the date its figure was last checked. Confirm the current number with the vendor before you buy, and if you find one that has gone stale, tell us — we will correct it and update the date.