ClickUp is one app for tasks, docs, goals and chat, made for any kind of team rather than for agencies. For internal work that is often enough. Client work adds three questions each month: how many hours went into this project, did it make money, and has the client paid?
Know what you would give up: a Free Forever plan, docs, goals and chat in one app, automations and an AI add-on. PLYNTUM has no free plan, and its AI analyses are planned. If you mostly need tasks and your invoicing works, moving may not be worth it.
"},{"heading":"How to choose: four questions for your team","html":"Working in Georgian? PLYNTUM’s interface is in Georgian and English, while Asana’s 14 display languages do not include Georgian. For the rest, the table shows what we found.
"},{"heading":"Seven ClickUp alternatives, one by one","html":"Prices are from each vendor’s own pages, checked 25 September 2026 (ClickUp, Asana, Teamwork.com, Productive, Paymo and Harvest on 24 October 2026), before tax and billed annually unless stated; the table above has the cost for 10 people. The list is not ranked, and PLYNTUM, our own product, comes after it.
monday.com is a general work platform whose Work Management product runs projects and tasks on boards you shape yourself. You can start free on up to 2 seats or try Pro for 14 days.
The limitation: its Work Management plans do not list invoices, expenses or receivables, and time tracking is a Pro and Enterprise column. Pro, at $19 a seat, costs more than ClickUp Business (checked 25 September 2026). PLYNTUM vs monday.com · monday.com alternatives
Who it suits: teams that want a general work tool like ClickUp, just not ClickUp.
Asana has a free Personal plan for up to 2 users, and its Advanced plan, $24.99 per user a month billed annually, adds time tracking (checked 24 October 2026). Guests are unlimited and free, which suits client work.
The limitation is the cost of control: timesheet approvals need the Timesheets & Budgets add-on, a per-user licence on top of Advanced’s $249.90 a month for 10 users, with no published price (checked 24 October 2026). Invoicing, expenses and leave are not on its pricing page, and there is no client portal. PLYNTUM vs Asana
Who it suits: teams with structured projects, clients as guests and billing elsewhere.
Teamwork.com is professional services software built around client projects, with resources and financials beside the tasks. Up to 5 users can use it free, and the trial lasts 14 days.
The limitation, coming from ClickUp, is price: Accelerate is $24.99 per user a month billed annually, about one and a half times ClickUp Business at $17 (checked 24 October 2026). PLYNTUM vs Teamwork.com
Who it suits: agencies that accept per-user pricing for a tool built for client work.
Productive covers resources, projects and finances for agencies and consultancies, and has a sales pipeline today, so a won deal becomes a project in the same system. It has a 14-day trial and a 3-seat minimum.
The limitation is cost: Professional is $25 per user a month billed annually, about one and a half times ClickUp Business at $17 (both checked 24 October 2026). It pays off if you use the pipeline and finances too. PLYNTUM vs Productive · Productive alternatives
Who it suits: agencies that want sales, delivery and finance in one place.
Scoro combines projects, resourcing and finances for consultancies, agencies and engineering firms. It is strongest on the commercial side of the work: quoting, a sales CRM, resource planning, quoted-versus-actual and work-in-progress reports.
The limitation is an unclear price. App combinations cost €15–€52 per user a month, minimum 5 users, with an unlabelled billing cycle and onboarding and add-ons extra (checked 25 September 2026). The range in the table is an estimate, not a quote. PLYNTUM vs Scoro
Who it suits: firms that quote every job and want the CRM beside the work.
Paymo is work management with time tracking and invoicing for small teams and freelancers. It is free for one user, with a 15-day trial.
The limitation is the price basis. Plus is $15.90 per user at the standard monthly price, introductory offers aside, so 10 users cost $159, a little less than ClickUp Business billed annually at $170 (both checked 24 October 2026). PLYNTUM vs Paymo
Who it suits: freelancers and small teams wanting tasks, time and invoices in one app.
Harvest tracks time and turns it into invoices; resource planning is sold separately as Forecast. Its reputation rests on time tracking that teams keep up, years in the market and many integrations; the trial lasts 30 days.
It sits beside ClickUp, so you pay for two tools. Ten people on ClickUp Business ($170 a month) plus Harvest Teams at $9 a seat ($90) cost $260 a month billed annually, before any usage fees or Forecast at $5 a person (checked 24 October 2026; Forecast 25 September 2026). PLYNTUM vs Harvest
Who it suits: teams that keep ClickUp and fix only time tracking and invoicing.
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"},{"heading":"Where PLYNTUM fits, and where it does not","html":"PLYNTUM is business management software for service companies: projects and tasks, clients, people, time, invoices, expenses and receivables in one workspace. The difference from ClickUp is what happens to an hour. It is logged against a task that belongs to a project and a client; every logged hour counts in project cost, and from Core a manager approves the timesheet, which locks the week. Project profitability is logged hours plus direct expenses against the project value.
Invoices and receivables are on every plan; recurring invoices and a scoped client portal start with Core. See time tracking, finance and projects and tasks.
PLYNTUM is priced per workspace: Launch $55 for 5 members, Core $150 for 10, Scale $450 for 25, each 20% less billed annually (pricing). For 10 people billed annually, PLYNTUM Core costs $120 a month and ClickUp Business $170 (checked 24 October 2026). Which is cheaper depends on team size: PLYNTUM costs less at 3 to 5 people ($44 against $51–$85), at 8 to 10 ($120 against $136–$170) and at 22 to 25 ($360 against $374–$425). At other sizes ClickUp Business costs less: 15 people are $255, against $360 for PLYNTUM Scale. ClickUp Core, at $9 a user, and the free plan cost less than PLYNTUM at almost every size.
PLYNTUM saves most when it also replaces a second tool: against ClickUp Business plus Harvest ($260 for 10 people), Core is $140 a month less. Where ClickUp alone costs less, the gain is less copying between systems, not a smaller bill.
During the trial, check each ClickUp automation your team relies on.
"},{"heading":"When staying with ClickUp is the better call","html":"There is no one-click importer from ClickUp into PLYNTUM, so plan the move as a short project.
Test on one real project first: Launch’s 7-day trial covers 5 members, and timesheet approval and recurring invoices start with Core. Need help planning it? Get in touch.
"},{"heading":"Sources","html":"Every price was checked on the vendor’s own pricing page on the date shown next to it. If something has changed, tell us at info@plyntum.com and we will correct it.