Trello Review

Trello is the board most teams already know: cards in lists, dragged from To Do to Done. It also has a free plan, and a paid seat under $6 a user a month on annual billing.

Whether it is worth paying for depends less on the feature list than on how many boards, automations and people you run through one Workspace. This review holds Trello to what its own pricing page says in October 2026, then tests those limits against the work a small team actually does.

Toolradar data: of the 351 project management tools we track, 137 publish a paid price, and the median cheapest paid plan is $16 a month.

Trello's Standard tier sits well under that median, which makes it the cheapest place to start. For the wider category, see our best project management software ranking.

Trello is a kanban-style work tool built around boards, lists and cards. A card can carry a description, a checklist, due dates, members and attachments, and the same work can be viewed as a board, a table, a calendar or a timeline, depending on the plan.

Trello is an Atlassian product, a fact its pricing page states directly, and it sits in the same company as Jira and Confluence.

Trello sits at the simple end of work management. The free plan covers unlimited cards and the basic board.

Paid tiers add what a team tends to ask for once the board is in daily use: custom fields, advanced checklists, card mirroring across boards and the views that turn a board into a light project plan. The Trello tool page on Toolradar lists the same product for buyers comparing it with others.

Setup takes minutes. Sign up, create a Workspace, make a board and add lists such as Backlog, Doing and Done. The Workspace is the unit that matters for billing and limits: the free plan allows 10 boards per Workspace and up to 10 collaborators, and command runs, the monthly quota for Trello's automation rules, are counted per Workspace.

Attachments are capped at 10MB per file on Free, which is fine for documents and tight for design files. If your team needs somewhere to keep documents, a business cloud storage tool is the better home for large files.

Day to day, the work is dragging cards and reading the board.

The model shows its limits when you try to run a project on it. Dependencies, resource loads and budgets are not what a board does well, so teams that need them either pay for Premium views or add a second tool. Automations behave the same way.

A busy board with a few active rules can use a 250-run monthly quota quickly, so the free plan runs out sooner than most teams expect.

Trello lists four plans on its pricing page, verified in October 2026 in USD. Free is $0. Standard is $5 per user a month billed annually ($6 billed monthly). Premium is $10 per user a month billed annually ($12.50 billed monthly).

Enterprise starts at $17.50 per user a month billed annually. Enterprise is priced by a headcount calculator on that page, and larger organizations are routed to sales.

At 10 users on annual billing the arithmetic is short. Standard works out to $600 a year.

Premium works out to $1,200 a year. The Enterprise calculator's first band starts at $210 per user a year, or about $2,100 for 10 users, and a real quote can differ from that. Billed monthly, Standard for 10 users comes to $720 a year.

The other tools are priced from their own pages: Asana, monday.com, Notion and Wrike.

Methodology: we read each vendor's pricing page on 10 October 2026, took plan prices and limits as printed, and computed totals for a 10-person team on yearly billing.

Third-party guides disagree on some limits, so every number on this page comes from the vendor page, and Toolradar supplies only the category figure.

Trello fits a team of two to ten people whose work moves through a repeating pipeline: content calendars, hiring, a small product backlog or client onboarding. For that job, Standard gives unlimited boards, 250MB files and the advanced checklists most teams end up needing, and the total stays under $700 a year at 10 users on annual billing.

If your team needs timelines and workload views every day, pay for Premium or pick a project tool. Sales teams that track deals rather than tasks are better served by a CRM, and solo users who only want a to-do list might prefer a daily planner app.

Skip Trello if you need resource planning or budgets in one view.

The free plan suits one person or a pair running a few boards. If the real job is a shared wiki rather than a board, compare knowledge base software first.

Teams that want a visual timeline and a more structured project model usually end up on Asana or monday.com.

Teams that want documents and boards in one place look at Notion, and teams that want chat beside their work read our team chat ranking. For the ClickUp comparison, see our ClickUp review.