"Free plan" means something different at every vendor here. These are the ceilings each one publishes, read on 5 September 2026.
Free for a real team
Jira is free forever for up to ten users, with unlimited goals, projects, tasks and forms, backlog, list, board, timeline, calendar and summary views, 150 automation steps a month and 2 GB of storage.
Wrike allows unlimited users on its free plan, limited to essential task management.
Free for a small team
Teamwork.com covers five users, five projects, 100 automations and 100MB of storage.
Basecamp covers five users, one project and 1 GB of storage.
Trello allows ten boards per workspace and up to ten collaborators.
Free for one or two people
Asana Personal is capped at two users, with unlimited tasks and projects and a 100MB file size limit.
monday is capped at two seats, three boards and three documents.
Todoist Beginner covers five personal projects, three filter views and one week of activity history.
Notion limits blocks once a second member joins, and allows ten external guests.
Capped by content instead of people
Linear stops at 250 issues and two teams with a 10MB file limit.
ClickUp publishes no user cap but limits storage to 60MB with five spaces, one form, forty lists per space and limited automations.
Free because you host it
OpenProject Community and Redmine have no user, project or storage ceiling at all. The cost is a server, a database and someone to maintain both. OpenProject's paid editions start at a 25-user minimum, so the community edition is also the only route for a small self-hosting team.
How to read these
A two-seat free plan is a trial. A ten-user free plan is a working tool. A content cap, like Linear's 250 issues or Trello's ten boards, is a delayed trial: it works until the day it does not, usually without warning.
