The best Basecamp alternatives for a small business (2026)

Why do people look for alternatives to Basecamp?

• The smaller flat-price plans cap active projects and users: Freelancer allows 3 projects and 5 users, Pro allows 8 and 10, and Pro Plus allows 12 and 15.
• Every person invited to a project counts toward its plan's user limit, including clients. That matters when several clients need access.
• Basecamp offers outside AI agents through connectors, MCP and its CLI on every plan; its pricing page does not sell a built-in AI assistant.

What are the best Basecamp alternatives?

1. Trello: best for a visual board for each small project

Trello puts work in lists and cards with assignees and due dates. Standard adds unlimited boards, custom fields, advanced checklists and card mirroring. Choose it when seeing each job move across a board matters more than keeping a message board and chat inside every project.

• Standard: $5 per user per month, billed annually; $6 billed monthly¹
• Standard includes: Everything in Free; AI features; Unlimited boards; Planner; Custom Fields, card mirroring, advanced checklists; Unlimited storage, 250 MB per file; 1,000 Workspace command runs per month; Single board guests²
• Feature: Boards, lists and cards with assignee and due dates; iOS, Android and desktop apps.³

2. Asana: best for timelines, intake forms and client guests

Asana Starter adds timeline and Gantt views, forms, custom fields and unlimited free guest seats. Advanced adds portfolios and resource management. It suits an agency coordinating several deliveries and outside reviewers, where a list of tasks alone doesn't show whether the schedule is realistic.

• Starter: $10.99 per user per month, billed annually; $13.49 billed monthly⁴
• Starter includes: Timeline and Gantt views; Reporting dashboards; Unlimited automations; Forms; Custom fields and templates; Unlimited free guests; AI Teammates and Asana Dash: 5 requests per user per month, up to 50 requests per account; AI Studio: 50K credits per billing account per month⁵
• Feature: Portfolios, Goals, resource management, time tracking, and approvals and proofing from Advanced.⁶

3. Mojobase: best for customer work that starts in email and team conversations

Mojobase puts Email, Team chat, Tasks, Calendar, Documents and Customers together. A customer request becomes a suggested task linked to its email; a chat decision becomes a proposed Handbook update. Choose it when keeping the work current takes more effort than planning the project. It has no Gantt charts or Hill Charts.

• Price: $39 a month for the first person and $25 for each after; the first 10 companies pay $29 and $19, for life
• AI: included, with your choice of model, or bring your own

4. ClickUp: best for detailed workflows with many views and automations

ClickUp organizes tasks inside Workspaces, Spaces, Folders and Lists, with more than fifteen view types. Core adds Gantt charts, custom fields and unlimited forms; Business adds resource management and timesheets. Choose it when you want to define how work moves through a process and can maintain that structure.

• Core: $9 per user per month, billed yearly ('Regular price $12'); $12 billed monthly⁷
• Feature: Tasks and subtasks in a Workspace > Space > Folder > List > Task hierarchy; 15+ view types.⁸
• Feature: Dashboards (advanced on Business), resource management and timesheets on Business.⁹

5. Notion: best for projects organized around a wiki and databases

Notion combines pages, wikis and databases with custom properties, filters, subtasks and dependencies. Business includes Notion Agent and AI Meeting Notes. It suits research, specifications and internal projects where the written context is the main asset and the task list belongs beside it.

• Plus: $10 per member per month, billed yearly (page shows 'Save up to 20% with yearly'); $12 billed monthly¹⁰
• Feature: Pages and wikis with blocks; databases with subtasks, dependencies, custom properties and filters; views and charts.¹¹
• Business includes: Everything in Plus; Notion Agent, AI Meeting Notes, Enterprise Search (beta); SAML SSO, private teamspaces, granular database permissions, verify pages; Premium connections (e.g. GitHub, Asana); Page history 90 days¹²

6. Todoist: best for shared task lists with dates and repeat reminders

Todoist keeps tasks, priorities, subtasks and recurring dates easy to enter. Business adds a shared team workspace, project folders and roles, with Pro features for every member. Choose it when you need clear ownership and reminders while project discussions and files already have a suitable home.

• Business: $8 per user per month (plus local tax), $96 billed yearly per user; $10 billed monthly¹³
• Business includes: Everything in Pro for every member; Shared team workspace; Up to 500 team projects; 1,000 team members and 1,000 guests; Team roles and permissions; Team project folders; Centralized team billing; Shared templates and granular team activity logs; SOC 2 Type II¹⁴
• Feature: Tasks with due dates and times, priorities, sub-tasks, reminders, labels and recurring due dates on every plan.¹⁵