Trello Review: Pricing, Pros, Cons & Alternatives

Overview

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^[14].

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^[13].

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^[13].

Trello features

Unlimited cards on the Free plan
Unlimited Power-Ups per board
Custom fields and card mirroring on Standard
Timeline, Table, Dashboard and Map views on Premium
Inbox and quick capture from email, Slack and Teams
SSO via Atlassian Guard on Enterprise

Trello pricing

Free: 10 boards and 10 collaborators per workspace. Standard: US$5/user/month annually (US$6 monthly). Premium: US$10 annually (US$12.50 monthly). Enterprise: US$17.50/user/month (US$210/user/year), annual only. Free Premium trial available.