Best Project Management Software in 2026

Asana is a work and project management platform developed by Asana, Inc., a San Francisco company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker ASAN. Its founders, Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein, built the first version while leading engineering at Facebook. The company is led by chief executive Dan Rogers and reported revenue of US$216.4 million for its second quarter of fiscal 2027, ended 31 July 2026, an increase of 10% year over year.

Asana organises work into tasks and projects shown as lists, boards, calendars, timelines and Gantt charts, with portfolios and goals to roll projects up to company objectives. Its AI layer includes AI Teammates, the Asana Dash assistant and AI Studio for building automated workflows; in its September 2026 results the company announced Agentic Work Management, bringing AI Teammates, AI Studio and Asana Dash to every paid tier.

The plan structure places the features that larger teams usually need relatively high: portfolios, resource management, approvals and proofing, and connections to Salesforce, Tableau and Power BI are on Advanced, while SAML SSO, SCIM and capacity planning require Enterprise. AI usage is capped at five Teammates and Dash requests per user per month, with additional requests charged per request.

monday.com Work Management is the core product of monday.com Ltd., a company with offices in New York and Tel Aviv that is listed on Nasdaq under the ticker MNDY and run by co-founders and co-CEOs Roy Mann and Eran Zinman. The company reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of US$377.5 million, up 19% year over year, and 5,038 paid customers with more than US$50,000 in annual recurring revenue. Its investor site describes it as trusted by nearly 250,000 customers.

The product is built on configurable boards whose columns hold statuses, dates, people and numbers, with views including timeline, Gantt and calendar from the Standard plan. The same platform underlies separate monday CRM, monday service and monday dev products priced on their own. Every paid Work Management plan includes a monthly AI credit allowance, from 1,000 credits on Basic to 3,000 on Pro.

Limits are tied closely to plan level. Standard includes 250 automation and 250 integration actions a month, against 25,000 each on Pro; private boards and time tracking are Pro features, and portfolio and resource management require Enterprise. Plans start from three seats, and the FAQ states monthly billing is not discounted, with annual billing saving 18%.

Smartsheet is a work management platform with a spreadsheet-like grid at its centre, developed by Smartsheet Inc. of Bellevue, Washington. The company was taken private by funds managed by Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners in a transaction valued at about US$8.4 billion; on 22 January 2025 it announced completion of the deal, under which shareholders received US$56.50 per share, and that its stock was no longer listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Sheets can be shown as grid, Gantt, board and calendar views, with rich formulas, forms and reports. The Business plan adds a timeline view, workload tracking, an Admin Center, unlimited automations, connections to external AI tools via the Model Context Protocol and 1 TB of storage. Enterprise adds scenario planning, portfolios and SAML-based SSO, and a separate Advanced Work Management tier bundles Data Shuttle, DataMesh, connectors and premium support.

Smartsheet publishes prices in a dozen currencies and offers a 30-day trial without a credit card. Its Pro plan is limited to ten Members and is available only to new customers, and portfolio features sit on quote-based tiers.

ClickUp is a work management application that combines tasks, documents, whiteboards, wikis and AI agents in one workspace. The company lists San Diego as its headquarters, with staff in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and Australia.

Its Free Forever plan includes unlimited tasks, members and guests, along with Kanban, calendar, sprints and time tracking, but caps storage at 60 MB, spaces at five and automation actions at 100 per workspace a month. Core adds custom fields and task types, unlimited storage and spaces, unlimited Gantt charts and forms, and goals. Business adds advanced dashboards, webhooks, resource management, timesheets and Google SSO, and Enterprise adds white labelling, SAML SSO, SCIM, audit logs, data residency and HIPAA support with a business associate agreement.

AI is metered in pooled credits: 1,000 per user on Core, 1,500 on Business and 3,000 on Enterprise, with extra credits at US$10 per 10,000. A Max plan at US$100 per user per month adds premium model usage, custom skills, MCP connections and autonomous agents. The breadth of features means a steeper set-up than simpler board tools, and the pricing page shows annual prices without listing monthly ones.

Wrike is a collaborative work management platform founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Diego. Its own timeline records that Wrike became part of Citrix in 2021, became an independent entity in 2022 and transitioned to new ownership and leadership in 2023; it says more than 20,000 organisations and over two million users use the product, with more than 1,000 employees.

Wrike provides boards, tables, dashboards and interactive Gantt charts, with templated workspaces on Business. Its paid plans include AI features branded AI Essentials and AI Elite; Pinnacle adds advanced resource and capacity planning, budgeting and advanced reporting and BI, and Apex adds unlimited whiteboards, Wrike Integrate and the bi-directional Wrike Sync integrations.

Wrike sells Team and Business plans online in fixed seat groups and requires a sales conversation for larger or more complex deployments. The pricing page states its prices apply to new purchases made on or after 21 January 2026. Business is offered with annual billing only, and the two upper tiers do not publish prices.

Jira is a project and issue tracking product made by Atlassian. It began as a tool for software teams and is now marketed to engineering, product and marketing teams alike, with boards, lists, timelines and calendars as views over the same work items.

Teams can start from templates for agile sprints and marketing campaigns, map dependencies between work owned by different teams, collect requests through forms and track goals. Built-in reports cover cycle time, burndown charts and capacity. Atlassian's Rovo AI can create automation rules from natural language, flag risks and generate status updates from work history. Administrators get global and project-level configuration, data residency and SAML SSO, and Atlassian states that over 3,000 integrations are available in the Atlassian Marketplace.

Jira's Free plan covers up to ten users. Atlassian's structured price data lists Standard at US$8.48 and Premium at US$15.56 per user per month, with Enterprise sold by quote. The depth of configuration that makes Jira suitable for large engineering organisations also means it typically needs an administrator, and non-technical teams may find simpler tools quicker to adopt.

Trello is a visual board tool in which work is represented as cards moved across lists, typically in a Kanban layout. Atlassian agreed to acquire Trello on 9 January 2017 for US$425 million, of which about US$360 million was cash, at a time when Trello had about 19 million users.

The Free plan offers unlimited cards, up to ten boards and up to ten collaborators per workspace, with unlimited Power-Ups per board and a 10 MB file limit. Standard adds AI features, Planner, advanced checklists, custom fields and unlimited boards. Premium adds Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard and Map views, workspace-level views and templates, and admin and security features. Enterprise adds organisation-wide permissions, multi-board guests, attachment permissions and SSO and user provisioning through Atlassian Guard.

Trello's simplicity is its main advantage for small teams, but dependency management, resource planning and portfolio reporting are thin compared with dedicated project management suites, and timeline views require Premium. Multi-board guests are billed at the member rate.

Basecamp is a project management and team communication product designed, built and backed by 37signals LLC, whose co-founder Jason Fried writes on the product's about page that he has run the company for 27 years and that Basecamp has served customers for 23 years.

Each Basecamp project combines several tools in one place, and higher plans allow more tools per project, unlimited tools on Pro Unlimited, project templates and time tracking. All plans, including Free, list AI agent access and connectors for ChatGPT and Claude.

Basecamp's pricing departs from the per-user norm. Free and small plans are capped by active projects, storage and users, and Pro Unlimited is a flat fee for unlimited users and projects with 1 TB of storage. A 30-day trial requires no card and does not convert automatically. The flat price favours large teams and organisations that invite clients, but the product lacks Gantt-based dependency scheduling, resource management and the portfolio reporting found in enterprise suites. The pricing page is also inconsistent about whether templates and time tracking are included on the Freelancer plan.

Teamwork.com is a project management platform aimed at agencies, consultancies and other teams that deliver work for clients. Alongside list, board, Gantt and table views, it builds billable time tracking, time budgets, retainers and client invoicing into the project record, and its upper tiers add quotes, CRM-to-project handover, resource planning, multi-currency budgets and profitability insights.

The Free plan covers up to five users and five projects with 100 MB of storage. Basics adds billable time tracking, reporting and unlimited project templates; Accelerate adds smart intake forms, workload and capacity planning, retainers, client invoicing and HubSpot and QuickBooks integrations; Optimize adds Salesforce and NetSuite integrations. Customers can choose US or EU hosting. The company also sells a separate help desk product, Teamwork Desk, priced per agent.

Paid plans carry user minimums of three on Basics and five on Accelerate, and the pricing page shows only annual prices, noting that annual billing saves about 29% compared with monthly. Project counts are capped at 300 on Basics and 600 on Accelerate.

Zoho Projects is the project management application of Zoho Corporation's business software suite. It offers Gantt charts with dependencies and planned-versus-actual tracking, Kanban boards, timesheets for billable and non-billable hours, issue tracking, document management, resource management and budget tracking, and it can generate invoices from timesheets through Zoho Invoice. The company says more than 4.5 million projects have been run on the product and shows logos including Airbus, The Home Depot and Legrand.

The Free plan covers up to five users and three projects with 5 GB of storage. Premium adds unlimited projects, 100 GB of storage, project templates, custom views and statuses, task blueprints, budgets and earned-value management, timesheets, recurring tasks and Zia AI features. Enterprise adds custom modules and roles, SSO, a portfolio dashboard, critical path and baselines, a sandbox and a Power BI integration, and Ultimate raises limits further.

Zoho prices Projects in regional currencies set by the visitor's location; the figures were not rendered in the version of the pricing page retrieved for this review, so no prices are quoted here. All paid plans have a 15-day trial without a card. The free plan is described inconsistently on the pricing page, which lists three projects but says a downgrade leaves two.

Linear is an issue tracking and project planning tool for software product teams, founded in 2019 by Karri Saarinen, Jori Lallo and Tuomas Artman. Its team is distributed across North America and Europe, it is backed by investors including Accel and Sequoia, and it describes itself as the tool of choice for more than 50,000 companies, naming OpenAI, Coinbase and Ramp among them.

Linear organises work into teams and issues, with triage for incoming requests and releases for shipping. Its plans include an agent platform with the Linear Agent, MCP access and an API and webhooks even on Free. Business adds private teams and guests, Triage Intelligence, Code Intelligence, Linear Insights analytics, Linear Asks request intake, Zendesk and Intercom integrations, issue SLAs and release pipelines.

Linear's workflow is deliberately opinionated, which reduces configuration but suits non-engineering teams less well than general work management tools. The Free plan is limited to 250 issues and two teams, and SAML, SCIM and audit logs require Enterprise, which is billed annually only.

Notion is a connected workspace from Notion Labs that combines documents, wikis and databases. Project management in Notion is built from databases with subtasks, dependencies, custom properties and filtering, which the Free plan already supports, and those databases sit inside ordinary pages alongside text.

The Plus plan adds charts, custom forms and database automations, and Business adds granular database permissions, private teamspaces, premium connections such as GitHub and Asana, and the Notion Agent, AI Meeting Notes and Enterprise Search features. Enterprise adds advanced security controls, audit logs and zero data retention with LLM providers. Custom Agents are free to try and then cost US$10 per 1,000 Notion credits a month.

Notion's strength for project work is that plans, specifications and meeting notes live alongside the tasks. It lacks the dedicated workload, resource and portfolio features of the work management suites in this list, and on the Free plan block usage is limited once a workspace has two or more members. Its pricing page lists Plus at US$10 and Business at US$20 per member per month and states that yearly billing saves up to 20%, without stating which billing period the displayed figures refer to.