ClickUp's pricing page leads with a Free Forever plan at $0 per user a month that includes unlimited tasks, unlimited members and guests, collaborative docs, kanban boards, sprint management, calendar view, time tracking and 60 MB of storage. Unlimited is $7 per user a month billed yearly, or $10 billed monthly, and unlocks unlimited spaces, folders and forms, unlimited Gantt charts and unlimited integrations. Business is $12 yearly or $19 monthly, and adds unlimited dashboards with advanced cards, unlimited activity and timeline views, webhooks and automation integrations, 5,000 automations a month, sprint points and reporting, portfolio and workload management, custom roles and SAML single sign-on with SCIM provisioning. Enterprise is quoted, and lists 250,000 automations a month, audit logs, session management, data residency and HIPAA availability. AI is priced on top: Brain AI at $9 per user a month and Everything AI at $28. The same page also shows a newer AI-inclusive lineup - Core at $9 and Business at $17 per user a month billed yearly, both with Brain² included, and Max at $100 - so the tier you are quoted depends on which packaging you are sold.
TL;DR
ClickUp packs tasks, docs, chat, whiteboards and goals into tiers priced at $7 and $12 per user a month billed yearly, with a genuinely usable free plan. Wrike charges $10 and $25 per user a month, also billed annually, and spends the difference on resource management, budgeting with billable rates and reporting built for larger operations. ClickUp is the cheaper way to centralise; Wrike is the more deliberate tool for running projects as a business.
Wrike's page lists prices valid for new purchases from 21 January 2026, billed annually per user. Essential is free for basic task management with web, desktop and mobile apps, board and table views. Team is $10 per user a month for 2 to 15 users, adding AI Essentials, shareable dashboards and interactive Gantt charts. Business is $25 per user a month for 5 to 200 users, adding an AI Elite starter pack, templates and standard integrations. Pinnacle and Apex are quoted on request; Pinnacle adds advanced resource and capacity planning, budgeting with billable hours and cost rates, and three times the AI Elite actions, while Apex extends that to ten times the AI Elite actions and unlimited whiteboards.
The gap is not just price. ClickUp's paid tiers are roughly 30% to 50% cheaper per user and bundle more surface area - docs, chat, whiteboards, goals, mind maps - so a small team that wants one tool for everything lands there naturally. Wrike's cheaper tiers are narrower, and its distinctive capability sits at the top: capacity planning, billable-rate budgeting and portfolio reporting are what its Business, Pinnacle and Apex customers are buying, alongside a per-user price that reflects a department rather than a side project. If your question is cost per user, ClickUp wins clearly. If your question is whether the tool can carry resource planning and financial tracking for 200 people, Wrike has the specific features and ClickUp makes you assemble them.
| Feature | ClickUp | Wrike |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Free Forever: unlimited tasks, unlimited members and guests | Essential: task management with board and table views |
| Entry paid plan | Unlimited at $7 per user/month billed yearly ($10 monthly) | Team at $10 per user/month, for 2 to 15 users |
| Mid plan | Business at $12 per user/month yearly ($19 monthly) | Business at $25 per user/month, for 5 to 200 users |
| Top self-serve tier | Enterprise, quoted, with 250,000 automations a month | Pinnacle and Apex, quoted on request |
| Automations | 1,000 a month on Core, 5,000 on Business, 250,000 on Enterprise | Included in the plan, with AI Elite action allowances by tier |
| Resource planning | Portfolio and workload management from Business | Advanced resource and capacity planning from Pinnacle |
| Budgeting | Not on the published tier list | Budget tracking with billable hours and cost rates on Pinnacle |
| AI pricing | Brain AI $9 and Everything AI $28 per user/month, or included in the Core and Business AI tiers | AI Essentials on Team, AI Elite starter pack on Business, larger allowances on Pinnacle and Apex |
| SSO and governance | SAML SSO and SCIM on Business, audit logs and data residency on Enterprise | Enterprise controls behind the quoted Pinnacle and Apex tiers |
Pick ClickUp if
For a small or mid-sized team that wants tasks, docs, chat, whiteboards, goals and dashboards in one subscription, ClickUp's $7 and $12 tiers are hard to argue with, and the free plan is real rather than a trial. Model the AI cost separately, since Brain AI at $9 per user a month can nearly double the seat price, and confirm which packaging you are being quoted given the two lineups on the page.
Pick Wrike if
Wrike justifies its $25 Business tier and its quoted Pinnacle and Apex tiers when you are running projects with billable hours, cost rates, capacity planning and portfolio reporting for a large department. That is a specific operational need, and if you have it, ClickUp's workload view is not a substitute. If you do not have it, the cheaper ClickUp tiers will feel like better value.
No user reviews or ratings were gathered for this comparison. All prices and limits come from clickup.com/pricing and wrike.com/pricing, including Wrike's note that its pricing applies to purchases from 21 January 2026.
Yes on the published tiers. ClickUp's Unlimited is $7 per user a month billed yearly and Business is $12, against Wrike's Team at $10 and Business at $25. ClickUp's free plan also allows unlimited members and guests, where Wrike's free Essential tier is limited to basic task management.
Its pricing page currently lists both the classic Free, Unlimited, Business and Enterprise lineup and an AI-inclusive Core, Business, Enterprise and Max set, with Core at $9 and Business at $17 per user a month billed yearly including Brain². Ask which packaging a quote refers to before comparing.
Partly. Team includes AI Essentials, Business adds an AI Elite starter pack, and Pinnacle and Apex increase the AI Elite action allowance to three and ten times that level. ClickUp instead sells AI as a $9 or $28 per user add-on unless you take one of the AI-inclusive tiers.
Wrike. Capacity planning, budgeting with billable hours and cost rates, and advanced resource features arrive at Pinnacle and Apex, which are quoted by sales. ClickUp offers portfolio and workload management from Business at $12 per user a month, which suits smaller teams but is not the same depth.
Wrike caps Team at 15 users and Business at 200. ClickUp does not publish seat caps on its paid tiers; the free plan allows unlimited members and guests, and paid plans charge per user.
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