ClickUp
ClickUp pricing, checked August 2026
Cheap seats with an AI add-on that can cost more than the seat it sits on.
What it costs
ClickUp lists Unlimited at $7 per user per month on annual billing and $10 on monthly, and Business at $12 annual and $19 monthly, checked on clickup.com/pricing on 21 August 2026. AI is a separate add-on: Brain AI at $7.20 annual or $9 monthly, Everything AI at $22.40 annual or $28 monthly. Polaris charges nothing for software.
- Unlimited
- $7 annual / $10 monthly
- Business
- $12 annual / $19 monthly
- Brain AI add-on
- $7.20 annual / $9 monthly
- Checked
- 21 August 2026
ClickUp plans and AI add-ons
Read from clickup.com/pricing on 21 August 2026. The AI tiers are priced per user per month on top of a base plan, not instead of one.
- Free Forever$0
- Unlimited$7 / user / month
- Business$12 / user / month
- EnterpriseCustom
- Brain AI add-on$7.20 / user / month
- Everything AI add-on$22.40 / user / month
| Line | Annual billing | Monthly billing | Monthly premium |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Forever | $0 | $0 | n/a |
| Unlimited | $7 / user / month | $10 / user / month | 43% more |
| Business | $12 / user / month | $19 / user / month | 58% more |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Not published |
| Brain AI add-on | $7.20 / user / month | $9 / user / month | 25% more |
| Everything AI add-on | $22.40 / user / month | $28 / user / month | 25% more |
The add-on can exceed the product
ClickUp Unlimited is $7 per user per month on annual billing. Everything AI is $22.40 per user per month on the same basis. A team that wants the full AI layer pays roughly three times more for the assistant than for the workspace it assists in, and both lines scale with headcount whether or not a given person uses the AI.
That is the clearest example in this cluster of what per-seat AI pricing does. You are billed for access, so the finance question becomes who is allowed to have it rather than what any of it produced.
Twenty people on ClickUp Business with Brain AI
Annual-billing rates, straight multiplication. Both lines are per user per month.
- ClickUp Business$240.00
- Brain AI add-on$144.00
- Total, annual billing$384.00
- Same stack on monthly billing$560.00
- Polaris software$0.00
| Line | Rate | Seats | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ClickUp Business | $12.00 | 20 | $240.00 | $2,880.00 |
| Brain AI add-on | $7.20 | 20 | $144.00 | $1,728.00 |
| Total, annual billing | 20 | $384.00 | $4,608.00 | |
| Same stack on monthly billing | $19 + $9 | 20 | $560.00 | $6,720.00 |
| Polaris software | $0 | unlimited | $0.00 | $0.00 |
What the ClickUp price list tells you about the model
The monthly penalty is the largest here
Business is 58 percent more on monthly billing, $19 against $12. No other vendor in this cluster charges that much for flexibility, and it is a deliberate push toward annual commitment.
AI billed per seat is AI billed for nothing in particular
A per-user AI charge is the same whether that user ran two prompts or two hundred. Access has a price; output does not.
Credits underneath the add-on
ClickUp also sells AI Super Credits alongside the per-seat AI tiers, so a full AI configuration can carry a fixed line and a variable one at the same time.
Two ways to pay for AI at work
Per seat, per month
- $7.20 or $22.40 per user per month on annual billing
- Charged for everyone with access, used or not
- Cost rises with headcount, not with work
- Nothing on the invoice names an output
Per hour delivered
- $0 until an AI worker delivers something
- Roughly $2 per human-equivalent hour of delivered work
- Every hour tied to a named job with its inputs logged
- A quiet month costs nothing at all
Where to go next
A ClickUp alternative where AI is not a second subscription
The everything app, plus an everything AI add-on, priced per seat on top of the seat you already bought.
ClickUp vs monday.com
Two platforms that both claim to replace your whole stack, with very different ideas about who does the configuring.
ClickUp vs Notion
Both promise one tool for everything. They disagree about which half of everything comes first.
Replacing ClickUp and Slack
You already bought one all-in-one product. The Slack subscription next to it is the interesting fact.
The cost of AI subscriptions for a team
Five figures a year at fifty people, and no shared record of what any of it produced.
Per-seat pricing and usage pricing charge for different things
One model prices access. The other prices output. Almost every argument about software cost is really about which of those you are buying.
Questions people ask
+How much is ClickUp per user per month?
Unlimited is $7 per user per month on annual billing and $10 on monthly. Business is $12 annual and $19 monthly. Both were read from clickup.com/pricing on 21 August 2026, and Enterprise is custom.
+Is ClickUp Brain included in the paid plans?
No. Brain AI is a separate per-user add-on at $7.20 per user per month on annual billing or $9 on monthly, and Everything AI is $22.40 annual or $28 monthly. The Free plan includes trial access to advanced AI features only.
+Why does ClickUp charge so much more for monthly billing?
ClickUp's page shows up to thirty percent off standard plans for yearly billing, which works out to 43 percent more on Unlimited and 58 percent more on Business when paying monthly. It is the steepest monthly premium among the vendors checked in this cluster.
+What does Polaris charge for its AI?
Nothing for access and roughly two dollars per human-equivalent hour of work an AI worker actually delivers. There is no per-seat AI charge, no credit pack and no tier. A person who never assigns anything to a worker generates no bill.
+What if the delivered work is not good enough?
You do not close the task. An AI worker posts its result as a comment and ticks its acceptance criteria, but only a person closes and rates a task in Polaris. Work you send back is work you can argue about, and the work log shows exactly what the estimate was built from.
Related
A ClickUp alternative where AI is not a second subscription
The everything app, plus an everything AI add-on, priced per seat on top of the seat you already bought.
ClickUp vs monday.com
Two platforms that both claim to replace your whole stack, with very different ideas about who does the configuring.
ClickUp vs Notion
Both promise one tool for everything. They disagree about which half of everything comes first.
monday.com pricing, checked August 2026
Seats sold in blocks, AI sold in credits, and four separate products under one brand.
The cost of AI subscriptions for a team
Five figures a year at fifty people, and no shared record of what any of it produced.
Per-seat pricing and usage pricing charge for different things
One model prices access. The other prices output. Almost every argument about software cost is really about which of those you are buying.
Usage-based pricing
The bill follows consumption, which cuts both ways for buyer and vendor.
Replacing ClickUp and Slack
You already bought one all-in-one product. The Slack subscription next to it is the interesting fact.