Trello
Trello pricing, checked August 2026
The cheapest tracker on this list, and the one teams outgrow fastest.
What it costs
Trello lists Standard at $5 per user per month on annual billing and $6 on monthly, and Premium at $10 annual and $12.50 monthly, checked on trello.com/pricing on 21 August 2026. Enterprise is $17.50 per user per month on annual. Free allows 10 boards and up to 10 collaborators per Workspace. Polaris charges nothing for software.
- Standard
- $5 annual / $6 monthly
- Premium
- $10 annual / $12.50 monthly
- Free limit
- 10 boards per Workspace
- Checked
- 21 August 2026
Trello plans on both billing bases
Read from trello.com/pricing on 21 August 2026.
- Free$0
- Standard$5 / user / month
- Premium$10 / user / month
- Enterprise$17.50 / user / month
| Plan | Annual billing | Monthly billing | What it adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | Unlimited cards, 10 boards per Workspace, up to 10 collaborators, inbox, unlimited Power-Ups per board |
| Standard | $5 / user / month | $6 / user / month | Unlimited boards, AI features, Planner, card mirroring, custom fields |
| Premium | $10 / user / month | $12.50 / user / month | Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard and Map views, workspace templates, admin controls |
| Enterprise | $17.50 / user / month | Not published | Unlimited Workspaces, org-wide permissions, Atlassian Guard Standard, 24/7 admin support |
The ten-board wall, not the price, is what moves teams
Trello Free gives unlimited cards and caps you at 10 boards per Workspace. Boards multiply faster than anyone expects, because a board is how Trello models a project, a client, a quarter and a checklist all at once. The eleventh board is the upgrade trigger for most teams, and it arrives long before the tenth teammate.
The second wall is views. Calendar, Timeline, Table and Dashboard sit on Premium at $10 per user per month, double the Standard rate, and they are the features a team asks for the moment more than one project runs in parallel.
A five-person team on Trello and the rest of the stack
Monthly-billing rates, since small teams rarely commit annually. The annual column shows what committing would save.
- Trello Premium$62.50
- Slack Pro$43.75
- Notion Plus$50.00
- Total$156.25
- Total per year$1,875.00
- Polaris software$0.00
| Line | Monthly rate | Seats | Per month | Annual-billing equivalent / month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trello Premium | $12.50 | 5 | $62.50 | $50.00 |
| Slack Pro | $8.75 | 5 | $43.75 | $36.25 |
| Notion Plus | $10.00 | 5 | $50.00 | Up to 20% less with yearly |
| Total | 5 | $156.25 | $136.25 | |
| Total per year | 5 | $1,875.00 | $1,635.00 | |
| Polaris software | $0 | unlimited | $0.00 | $0.00 |
Three things about Trello worth being honest about
It is the easiest tool here to get people to actually use
A board with three lists needs no training. That adoption advantage is real, and it is why Trello survives in companies that also pay for something heavier.
It is an Atlassian product
Enterprise bundles Atlassian Guard Standard, and Trello sits in the same account structure as Jira and Confluence. Consolidation conversations tend to pull all three together.
It tracks, and that is the ceiling
A card moving from Doing to Done is a record of a person's afternoon. Trello never produces the afternoon.
Trello Premium against Polaris
Trello Premium
- $10 per user per month annual, $12.50 monthly
- Board, calendar, timeline, table and dashboard views
- Boards as the unit of everything, which is both the charm and the ceiling
- Docs and team chat live in other subscriptions
Polaris
- $0 software, unlimited people, boards and workstreams
- Lanes shared between list and board view, so you organise once
- Focus lane pinned first: today, this week, next 30 days
- Roughly $2 per human-equivalent hour an AI worker delivers
Where to go next
A Trello alternative for teams who outgrew ten boards
Trello made work visible to everyone. Visible work is still work waiting for a person.
Trello vs Asana
For a small team on a free plan this is no longer close. For a team with dependencies it never was.
Trello vs monday.com
Both put cards in columns. Only one of them expects the columns to do arithmetic.
Replacing Trello and Slack
A board that everyone can read and nobody maintains, plus a channel where the real assignments happen.
Replacing Notion and Trello
A page describing the project and a board describing the same project, kept in step by somebody's memory.
Tool stack cost for a 5-person team
Three subscriptions, five people, and the arithmetic laid out so you can check it against your own invoices.
Questions people ask
+How much is Trello per user per month?
Standard is $5 per user per month on annual billing and $6 on monthly. Premium is $10 annual and $12.50 monthly. Enterprise is listed at $17.50 per user per month on annual billing, which works out to $210 per user per year. All were read from trello.com/pricing on 21 August 2026.
+What are the limits on Trello's free plan?
Unlimited cards, but 10 boards per Workspace and up to 10 collaborators per Workspace. Boards are the constraint that bites first, because Trello uses a board for almost every kind of container.
+Is Polaris free the way Trello is free?
No, it is broader. Trello Free is a capped tier that upsells you at 10 boards. Polaris software is free with no caps on people, tasks, workstreams or docs, and the money comes from a different place entirely: roughly two dollars per human-equivalent hour that an AI worker delivers.
+How is a human-equivalent hour estimated?
By a published formula applied to what the job did: fifteen minutes of base pickup time, twelve minutes per web search, finished prose at about ninety characters a minute, eight minutes per acceptance-criteria item, ten minutes per comment and per file, five per PDF, clamped between five minutes and eight hours. It is an estimate from observable effort, and every input is on the work log.
+What if an AI worker gets the task wrong?
Send it back. The worker delivers as a comment and ticks its own acceptance criteria, but a person closes and rates the task. Nothing is marked done by the machine, in any circumstance.
Related
A Trello alternative for teams who outgrew ten boards
Trello made work visible to everyone. Visible work is still work waiting for a person.
Trello vs Asana
For a small team on a free plan this is no longer close. For a team with dependencies it never was.
Trello vs monday.com
Both put cards in columns. Only one of them expects the columns to do arithmetic.
Replacing Trello and Slack
A board that everyone can read and nobody maintains, plus a channel where the real assignments happen.
Tool stack cost for a 5-person team
Three subscriptions, five people, and the arithmetic laid out so you can check it against your own invoices.
Asana pricing, checked August 2026
One of the few vendors that prints both billing rates, and the gap is twenty-three percent.
Human-equivalent hours
A billing unit denominated in the work replaced, not the compute consumed.
Focus lane
A commitment for a horizon, not a filter over everything you have.