ClickUp's pricing page leads with a free plan and climbs slowly. Free Forever includes 60 MB of storage, unlimited tasks, unlimited members, five spaces, 40 lists per space, unlimited custom views, Kanban boards, sprint management, calendar view and one form. Unlimited is $7 per user a month billed yearly or $10 billed monthly, and lifts the caps: unlimited spaces, folders and forms, unlimited Gantt charts, unlimited integrations, unlimited storage, unlimited custom fields, native time tracking, goals and portfolio management. Business is $12 annually or $19 monthly, adding unlimited dashboards, 5,000 automations a month, sprint points and reporting, workload management, mind mapping, private whiteboards and Google SSO. Enterprise is quoted and carries SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, audit logs, HIPAA availability and data residency. AI is sold separately: Brain AI at $9 per user a month, Everything AI at $28.
TL;DR
ClickUp sells breadth at a low seat price: Unlimited is $7 per user a month billed annually and Business is $12, with storage, Gantt charts, integrations and chat all in the plan. Smartsheet sells a familiar grid with enterprise controls: Pro is $9 per member a month billed yearly and Business is $19, with unlimited free contributors and guests. If the team wants one tool to absorb docs, chat, goals and sprints, ClickUp is the cheaper answer; if the organisation already thinks in rows and needs governed portfolios, Smartsheet is the safer one.
Smartsheet prices by member and keeps contributors free. Pro is $12 per member a month billed monthly or $9 billed yearly, for 1 to 10 members with unlimited free contributors, and includes unlimited sheets, forms and reports, Gantt, table, board and calendar views, rich formulas, 250 automations a month and the conversational AI features the page lists as Smart Assist, Smart Columns and AI-powered dashboards. Business is $24 monthly or $19 yearly for 3 or more members, adds unlimited free guests, timeline view, workload tracking, admin capabilities, unlimited automations, MCP-enabled connections to external AI assistants and 1 TB of attachment storage. Enterprise is custom for 10 or more members and brings scenario planning, portfolios and SAML SSO.
The shape of the trade is breadth against governance. ClickUp gives you documents, chat, goals, sprints, whiteboards and email inside one workspace at a seat price that is hard to argue with, and the cost of that breadth is a product with many settings surfaces. Smartsheet gives you a grid that non-technical teams recognise instantly, plus the reporting, permissions and portfolio layer that programme offices ask for, and it charges for members rather than everyone who touches a sheet.
| Feature | ClickUp | Smartsheet |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Free Forever: 60 MB storage, unlimited tasks and members | Free trial on paid plans rather than a permanent free tier |
| Entry paid plan | Unlimited, $7 per user/month yearly, $10 monthly | Pro, $9 per member/month yearly, $12 monthly, 1-10 members |
| Mid tier | Business, $12 per user/month yearly, $19 monthly | Business, $19 per member/month yearly, $24 monthly |
| Top tier | Enterprise, quoted | Enterprise, custom, 10+ members |
| Billing unit | Every user | Members who edit; contributors and guests free |
| Automations | 5,000 actions a month on Business | 250 a month on Pro, unlimited on Business |
| Storage | Unlimited from Unlimited upward | Attachment storage scaled by plan, 1 TB on Business |
| Views | Unlimited custom views, Gantt, board, calendar, mind map | Gantt, table, board, calendar, dashboards and reports |
| Documents and chat | Docs, Chat and whiteboards inside the workspace | Sheets and reports; documents live elsewhere |
| SSO and governance | Google SSO on Business; SAML, SCIM and audit logs on Enterprise | SAML SSO and admin controls on Enterprise |
| AI pricing | Add-ons: Brain AI $9, Everything AI $28 per user/month | Conversational AI features included in the listed plans |
Pick ClickUp if
Choose ClickUp when documents, chat, sprints, goals and whiteboards should live in the same place as the tasks, and when the budget per seat needs to stay in single digits. Unlimited at $7 per user a month annually is the cheapest way to get unlimited storage, Gantt charts and integrations, and Business at $12 adds the automation volume and Google SSO that a growing team needs. Pay for Brain AI separately if you want it.
Pick Smartsheet if
Choose Smartsheet when the working habit is a grid and the requirement is governance: portfolios, scenario planning, SSO and reporting that survives audit. Pro at $9 per member a month on yearly billing is cheap for up to ten members, and because contributors are free, a wide read-only audience costs nothing. Business at $19 removes the member cap logic, adds unlimited automations and workload tracking.
We did not collect an independent review corpus for this pair, so nothing above is user sentiment. All prices come from the two vendors' own pricing pages, fetched on the date shown at the top of this page.
ClickUp, on annual billing: Unlimited at $7 per user a month is $70 a month for ten people, against Smartsheet Pro at $9 per member for up to ten members, or $90. Smartsheet's contributors are free though, so a team of ten editors plus twenty viewers still costs $90, while ClickUp bills each paying user.
Smartsheet runs free trials on its paid plans rather than a permanently free tier with the same shape as ClickUp's Free Forever plan. ClickUp's free plan includes unlimited tasks, unlimited members and 60 MB of storage, which is the more generous starting point.
Smartsheet allows 250 automation actions a month on Pro and moves to unlimited on Business. ClickUp includes 5,000 automations a month on Business, and the Enterprise tier lists 250,000. Both are generous once you are on the mid tier; Smartsheet's Pro ceiling is the one that bites first.
Portfolio management and advanced dashboards are included from ClickUp Business upward, so yes for most teams. Smartsheet's portfolios, scenario planning and enterprise reporting arrive with its Enterprise tier and are the reason regulated or programme-heavy organisations pick it.
Smartsheet lists conversational AI features such as Smart Assist, Smart Columns and AI-powered dashboards inside the plan price. ClickUp sells AI as add-ons: Brain AI at $9 per user a month and the Everything AI suite at $28, which is more than the seat itself on the lower tiers.
Smartsheet, because Pro includes unlimited free contributors who can view, comment, upload, respond to update requests and submit forms, and Business adds unlimited free guests who can edit. ClickUp charges per user, with guests limited and permission-gated by plan.
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