monday.com
Source-verified price Work management: Free at US$0 free forever for up to two seats and up to three boards, then Basic US$9, Standard US$12 and Pro US$19 per seat per month shown in bundles of ten seats, with reduced totals on annual billing. A separate monday CRM list appears on the same page at three-seat bundles: Basic US$12 per seat per month against a struck-through US$18, Standard US$17 against US$25, and Pro US$28 against US$41. Service runs Standard US$31 and Pro US$45; dev runs Basic US$9, Standard US$12 and Pro US$20. Enterprise is sold through a sales conversation, and a line in the comparison table states that Ultimate is a new name for the Enterprise tier.
What it is genuinely good at
Being the closest answer to the question this page asks. It is not speculation that monday.com can do CRM, projects and money: the vendor publishes a distinct CRM product with its own price list, and that list references creating and sharing customizable quotes and invoices. For an agency that does not want to run three systems, that is a stronger answer than anything we offer, and we would be doing you a disservice to pretend otherwise. The board model is also genuinely good at making progress visible to a client, with unlimited free viewers and scoped guest access so a client reviewer does not cost a seat.
Real limitations
We could not resolve which tier gives you unlimited quotes and invoices against a line reading 20 per month, because the page flattened in a way that made the tier boundary ambiguous. Ask them before you buy. The seat blocks are the other real constraint: ten seats on the work list and three on the CRM list set a floor on your spend that a four-person agency pays whether it uses the seats or not. Multi-level permissions sit at the top tier. And a client profitability view, in the sense of quoted versus billed versus collected per client, was not stated on the page, so we do not claim it exists.
Who should skip it
Skip it if you are a small team, because the seat blocks set a minimum outlay that does not shrink as you do. Skip it if the per-client money view is the whole reason you are buying and you need it demonstrated rather than inferred. And skip it if you are price sensitive in rupees and uncomfortable with a USD billing entity, which is what every figure above is.
ClickUp
Source-verified price Free Forever at no charge with unlimited members, Unlimited at US$7 per user per month billed yearly or US$10 monthly, Business at US$12 yearly or US$19 monthly, and Enterprise through a sales conversation. AI is priced separately: Brain AI at US$9 per user per month, Everything AI at US$28, and AI Super Credits at US$10 per 10,000 credits.
What it is genuinely good at
Two things, and the first is decisive for many agencies. A free tier with unlimited members at no charge is not beaten by anything on this page, including our own paid plans, and for a fifteen-person delivery team that is a real budget line rather than a rounding error. The second is depth: this is a dedicated work-management product with far more task and project surface than NoxOrigin has, and we are not going to argue otherwise.
Real limitations
Nothing in the published plan features covers CRM, customer records, quoting, invoicing, GST or collections. Each of those is a product you own and integrate, and the link between a finished task and an issued invoice is a person remembering to copy a name and an amount. The guest rule deserves a read: the page states that guests on the free plan must be given full access with no permissions, which is a real constraint for a client-reviewer workflow. Automation is capped at 5,000 a month on Business and 250,000 on Enterprise, and AI is billed on top rather than included.
Who should skip it
Skip it if the commercial chain is the problem, because you will run two systems and one reconciliation step between them. And if you are on the free plan, read the guest rule before you invite a client into anything. If you are an internal team with no client billing at all, do not skip it, because a free unlimited-member work tool is simply the correct buy and we would be misleading you to pretend otherwise.
Asana
Source-verified price Personal at US$0 free forever for two users with unlimited tasks and projects, Starter at US$10.99 per user per month billed annually or US$13.49 billed monthly, and Advanced at US$24.99 annual or US$30.49 monthly. Enterprise and Enterprise+ are sold through a sales conversation. AI is bundled on Starter upward at five requests per user per month, with prepaid packs at US$0.50 per request and on-demand billing at US$5.99 per user per month annually plus US$0.60 per request monthly.
What it is genuinely good at
Being conventional, well documented and generous to your clients. The page states unlimited free guest seats, so a client who logs in to review work does not consume a paid seat, and that is underrated in this category. It is also the only product on this page that publishes a plain per-request AI price rather than an opaque credit bundle, which is something a finance team can actually budget.
Real limitations
Two users on the free tier, so an agency cannot start there, and the per-user ladder starts above several alternatives here. Nothing in the published plan features covers CRM, quoting, invoicing or GST, so the commercial chain is another system entirely. It is a work product, and there is no client record that the project, the invoice and the payment all hang from.
Who should skip it
Skip it if the money side is the problem. Skip it if you are a small price-sensitive team, because the per-user ladder is the second most expensive here. And skip it if you want one product rather than two, because this is unambiguously a half of the chain.
Zoho Projects
Check vendor pricing We reached and read the Zoho Projects pricing page on 4 October 2026. The plan structure was clear, with a free plan for up to five users limited to three projects and 5 GB of storage, and Premium, Enterprise and Ultimate tiers behind a 15-day free trial that needs no credit card. Storage is listed as 5 GB, 100 GB, 120 GB and on Ultimate 15 GB per user with a 150 GB organisational minimum. Enterprise adds ten read-only users, Ultimate a hundred, and Ultimate explicitly lists multi-user and multi-project timesheets alongside a Lite User add-on for users who only need to view modules and log time. This page therefore quotes no Zoho Projects price. Check vendor pricing directly.
What it is genuinely good at
Governance of a delivery organisation, and it is more disciplined than most. Portfolio dashboard, critical path and baseline, user hierarchy, multiple business calendars and a Power BI integration are all published on the higher tiers, and the timesheet position is real rather than implied. If your problem is running projects well, this product is ahead of NoxOrigin and there is no argument about that.
Real limitations
The client is not the centre of the model. Quoting and invoicing arrive through connected Zoho Books and Zoho Invoice, so the agency-to-cash chain crosses products. And the most basic input to a decision, a price, is unavailable from the page, which is an unreasonable position to be in when several alternatives here publish theirs. Zoho also states that downgrading costs you features even though your data is kept, and that a downgrade to the free plan leaves two projects with limited features.
Who should skip it
Skip it if your bottleneck is getting paid rather than running projects. Also skip it if you will not proceed without a written number, because we could not get one.
Zoho Bigin
Source-verified price, read in USD The page rendered in US dollars with a selector for USD, INR, EUR and GBP, and we read only the dollar list. Free at US$0 for a single user, Express at US$7 per user per month billed yearly or US$9 monthly, Premier at US$12 or US$15, and Bigin 360 at US$18 or US$21. The page states that yearly billing saves up to 35 percent and offers a free trial on paid editions plus a 100 percent money-back guarantee.
What it is genuinely good at
Pipeline discipline for an agency that has none, and the Indian payment detail is the standout. The page lists collection through payment gateways including Razorpay and Paytm on Express, which is a concrete answer to how a client in India actually pays. Team pipelines, developer APIs and standard dashboards appear on the entry tier, and advanced automation with fifty actions and advanced field types on Premier.
Real limitations
It is a CRM, so projects, tasks and delivery are not its concern, and a pipeline stage is not a quotable document. The rupee price list is unverified here because we read the page in dollars, and for an Indian buyer that is the number that actually matters, so treat the cost as unknown until Zoho shows you the INR figure. The free tier is a single user, which is not an agency.
Who should skip it
Skip it if you need delivery tracking or invoicing, because you will buy a second product. And skip the comparison work if you will not accept a USD figure, because we cannot give you the rupee number and neither can this page.
Freshworks Freshdesk
Source-verified price Three paid tiers, all per agent per month billed annually: Growth at US$19, Pro at US$55 and Enterprise at US$89. Enterprise is a published figure rather than a contact-sales route, which is unusual. Growth includes the Freddy AI Agent with the first 500 sessions, Pro adds Freddy AI Copilot at US$29 per agent per month, and Enterprise includes all AI and helpdesk features. Additional sessions are US$49 per 100, day passes run US$2, US$7 and US$12 by tier, connector app tasks are US$80 per 5,000, and MCP actions are US$15 per 1,000. The page carries Freshworks’ own line Trusted by 74,000+ Businesses Worldwide, which is the vendor’s unverified marketing claim, not ours. A free entry point is advertised site-wide, but the page we read published no free tier card, so we quote no free figure.
What it is genuinely good at
Support and client-services operations, which NoxOrigin does not attempt at all. Multiple SLA policies, skill-based routing, round-robin and load-balanced assignment, business hours across global and multi-shift teams, external collaborators, role-based access and single sign-on are all published features. If your agency’s cost driver is a busy support inbox, this is a mature product and we would be the wrong thing to sell you.
Real limitations
It is a help desk. There is no CRM, no client profitability, no project-delivery model and no GST invoicing, and the per-agent pricing scales with your support headcount rather than your client count. The AI features are add-ons on top of the agent fee, so the real figure for a team that uses them is higher than the headline.
Who should skip it
Skip it if the money side is the problem. Skip it if your agency has no support desk to speak of, because you will pay per agent for a queue that does not exist. And if you are the kind of buyer who wants a small published entry price to start on, note that we could not read one here.
NoxOrigin
Our own product, our own numbers Our published platform plans are Starter at INR 800 a month for three users and one workspace, Growth at INR 1,600 for ten users, and Agency at INR 5,000 for twenty-five users across three workspaces, with annual totals and add-ons at INR 500 a month for five more team members and INR 750 a month for an additional workspace. NoxCRM, Nox-Billings and Nox-Tickets are scoped custom deployments and carry no platform price at all, so if you are pricing a rollout, do not price it off the table above.
What it is genuinely good at
Keeping the client and the money on one record. The client carries the opportunity, the project, the quote, the GST invoice, the payment and the outstanding balance, so quoted, billed, collected and outstanding value by client and project is a view rather than a report you assemble and maintain. That is the answer to the question an agency owner actually asks, and it is a question the other six entries are not primarily built to answer.
Real limitations
This is where a vendor page usually gets vague, so here are the specifics. NoxOrigin is not a project-management specialist and does not compete with ClickUp, Asana or Zoho Projects on task depth. There is no change-request record, no milestone record, no deliverable record, no contract editor and no e-signature — a scope change is a new quote against the same project, not a tracked object. There is no timesheet record and no payroll module, and several products on this page do sell time tracking, which is a point in their favour. NoxOrigin does not file GST returns, TDS or any other statutory return; it prepares invoices and reports, and an accounting package stays in the picture. Expense tracking is a Nox-Billings capability, and purchasing lives in a separate Commerce product. A retainer is not a distinct billing type. It is also a young product with a small number of live deployments, against vendors whose pages we read that have been in market for years.
Who should skip it
Skip it if what you want is a better task tool, because that is not a fight we should have. Skip it if scope control is contractual, because without change-request or deliverable records you will track it in a document. Skip it if statutory accounting and GST filing are the requirement, because we deliberately do not replace an accounting package — on that question Zoho Books and Busy are the better buy and we have written separate comparisons for both. Skip it if you need billable-hours timesheets or payroll. And skip it if you are one or two people, because none of this is worth paying for at that size.