An agency does not only need to track work. It needs to know what a client consumed, whether the retainer covered it, what to invoice, and whether the project made money. These two tools are built for agency work in genuinely different ways, and on the published prices they are not close.
NoxOrigin publishes this page and is not one of the two products compared. We have no stake in which one you choose, and nothing below is a NoxOrigin sales pitch. Last verified: 4 October 2026. We have not trialled either ClickUp or Teamwork.com, so every commercial and capability claim below is read from each vendor’s own published pages rather than from use. Both vendors publish in US dollars. We do not convert them, so no INR equivalence is asserted on this page.
Neither product. We did not run a ClickUp trial and we did not run a Teamwork.com trial, so we make no claim about how either feels to use, how either support team responds, or how reliably either performs for an agency with a heavy workload. We quote no review scores, ratings, or rankings for either product.
We read ClickUp’s pricing page and security page, and Teamwork.com’s pricing page and security page, all on 4 October 2026. One method caveat is worth stating because it affects the figures: the visible currency symbol on Teamwork.com’s pricing page is a loading placeholder in the static HTML, and the underlying price data carries US dollar values. We quote the yearly-billed figures Teamwork.com publishes, and we do not guess its monthly-billed figures because they are not in the page we read.
Both products charge per seat, so the number that matters is the per-user figure multiplied by the number of people who need an account. For a fifteen-person agency that multiplication is the decision.
| Plan | ClickUp | Teamwork.com |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free Forever at no charge, with unlimited free plan members, unlimited tasks, 60MB storage, two-factor authentication, collaborative docs, kanban boards, sprint management, calendar view, a basic custom field manager, in-app video recording, one form, and 24/7 support. | Free, limited to up to 5 projects, with task, list, board, Gantt and table views on projects, time logging, and organising work by client. |
| Entry paid | Unlimited at $7 per user per month billed yearly, or $10 billed monthly. | Basics at $9.99 per user per month billed yearly, with a 14-day free trial and no credit card required. |
| Mid tier | Business at $12 per user per month billed yearly, or $19 billed monthly. | Accelerate at $24.99 per user per month billed yearly. |
| Upper tiers | Enterprise on a custom quote, adding governance, unlimited custom roles, SAML SSO and SCIM, audit log, session management, an enterprise API, 250,000 automations per month, custom branding, data residency, live onboarding training, and a customer success manager. | Optimize and Enterprise are both sold through a conversation. Optimize adds quotes, 100,000 automations, CRM pipeline to projects, resource scheduling by role or skill, financial and multi-currency budgets, and profitability insights. Enterprise adds advanced security, single sign-on, a dedicated success manager, and priority support. |
| Annual discount | Up to 30% saved with yearly billing. | 29% saved on annual billing. |
| Paid add-ons | Separate AI plans are published on the same page at $9 per user per month for Brain AI and $28 for a larger AI suite, with AI Super Credits at $0.001 each or $10 per 10,000 credits. Live training and support is also published as a service including two hours of one-to-one expert time per month. | TeamworkAI is published as included in all paid plans for an introductory period, with usage-based AI credits to launch later. We publish no price for those credits because none is stated. |
Rows marked as unverified are rows we looked for and did not find on the pages we read. We would rather leave a cell empty than fill it with a reasonable guess.
| Dimension | ClickUp (source-verified) | Teamwork.com (source-verified) |
|---|---|---|
| Time tracking and billable time | Native time tracking is published on Unlimited, with Goals and Portfolio Management on the same tier. | Basics publishes tracking and reporting of billable time. Accelerate adds time budgets and retainers. |
| Client invoicing | Not found in the plan feature lists on the pricing page we read. Treat as unverified and confirm with ClickUp. | Accelerate publishes building client invoices from logged time. |
| Quoting | Not found in the plan feature lists on the pricing page we read. Confirm with ClickUp. | Optimize publishes creating quotes. |
| Retainers and budgets | Unlimited publishes Goals and Portfolio Management. We did not find a published retainer or budget feature for agencies. | Accelerate publishes time budgets and retainers. Optimize publishes financial and multi-currency budgets. |
| Profitability visibility | Business publishes portfolio workload management and reporting. No published revenue, cost, or profitability view for an agency. | Optimize publishes revenue, cost and profitability insights, plus AI forecasting of project profitability. |
| Resource scheduling | Resource management is published on Unlimited, and portfolio workload management on Business. | Accelerate publishes workload planning with live capacity. Optimize publishes scheduling resources by role or skill, and AI smart resourcing. |
| Client-facing access | Guests with permission control are published on Unlimited, so an external client can see a specific part of a workspace. | Organising work by client is a published Free-plan feature, with Gantt, table, list and board views. Client portal specifics should be confirmed with Teamwork. |
| Automations allowance | 5,000 automations per month on Business, 250,000 per month on Enterprise. | 20,000 automations on Accelerate, 100,000 on Optimize. |
| Project views | Kanban boards and calendar view on the free plan, with unlimited Gantt charts, unlimited timeline views, activity views, mind mapping, and private whiteboards as tiers rise. | Task, list, board, Gantt and table views on projects from the free plan, with unlimited templates on Basics. |
| CRM and pipeline | ClickUp names HubSpot among its integrations. No native CRM record is published in the plan feature lists. | Optimize publishes turning a CRM pipeline into projects, with named connections to HubSpot, Salesforce, QuickBooks, and NetSuite. |
| Data hosting region | Data residency is an Enterprise feature. ClickUp names Ireland for Europe, Australia and Singapore for Asia Pacific, and the United States. | US and EU data hosting is published on Basics, and the security page states the servers are with Amazon Web Services and hosted within the US and the EU. No Asia region is published. |
| Indian accounting, GST, and UPI | No Indian accounting package, GST, or UPI capability appears on the pages we read. Integrations are named in general terms. | The accounting integrations named are HubSpot, QuickBooks, Salesforce, and NetSuite, all non-Indian. No GST or UPI capability appears on the pages we read. |
| Mobile and offline | Not described in the pricing material we read beyond in-app video recording. We make no claim about mobile or offline operation. | Not described in the pricing material we read. We make no claim about mobile or offline operation. |
| Security certifications | Publishes ISO/IEC 27001:2022, 27017:2015, 27018:2019, and 27701, and ISO/IEC 42001 for AI management systems. | Publishes hosting on Amazon Web Services within the US and the EU on its security page. We did not verify certification claims and make none here. |
| Support model | 24/7 support is published on the free plan, live onboarding training and a customer success manager on Enterprise, and a paid live training service including two hours of one-to-one expert time per month. | A 14-day free trial with no credit card required, a dedicated success manager and priority support on Enterprise, and expert technical and implementation support on Enterprise. |
Cost, and permission. ClickUp publishes a Free Forever plan with unlimited free plan members, which means a fifteen-person agency can run its entire task load at no cost indefinitely. That is not a trial and it is not a two-seat cap, and for an agency that is internal project coordination with no billing attached, nothing on the market beats it on price.
It is also strong on the views and automation side of work management: unlimited Gantt charts, unlimited timeline and activity views, mind mapping, private whiteboards, custom exporting, and a 5,000-automation monthly allowance on Business. The published per-user figures are low, with Unlimited at $7 per user per month billed yearly and Business at $12.
Free Forever at no charge with unlimited free plan members; Unlimited at $7 per user per month billed yearly or $10 monthly; Business at $12 yearly or $19 monthly; Enterprise on a custom quote; and up to 30% saved on yearly billing. Published add-ons include AI plans at $9 and $28 per user per month and AI Super Credits at $0.001 each, or $10 per 10,000 credits. We publish no INR figure because ClickUp publishes in US dollars, and your rupees depend on the billing entity and the exchange rate on the day.
The gap that matters for an agency is the money. We read ClickUp’s pricing page and did not find client invoicing, quoting, retainer handling, or a profitability view in any plan feature list. Native time tracking is there, and guests with permission control are there, but the chain from logged time to an invoice to a margin is not something we can point to in what ClickUp publishes. That may be available elsewhere in its product; we simply did not verify it, and we will not claim a product cannot do something we only failed to find.
The second limitation is regional. Data residency is an Enterprise feature, so an agency with a data-residency requirement is looking at a custom quote rather than a published per-user price. The third is that the published automation and AI allowances are metered, which is fine for a predictable agency and expensive for one that is not.
Skip it if your agency’s defining problem is billing clients accurately and profiting per project, because time tracking without an invoice and a margin is half the chain. Skip it if you need a data-residency commitment and the Enterprise quote is out of reach. And skip it if you need the vendor-branded client portal, because HubSpot branding removal sits at the upper tiers rather than the entry ones.
ClickUp is the right buy when the agency is large, the per-seat number matters, and the work is coordination rather than billing: internal project work, cross-team dependencies, and a lot of views. It is also right when you want a free plan for an unlimited number of people as the baseline and are happy to add paid tiers as the need appears.
It is the wrong choice when the agency bills per client and needs retainers, quotes, and profitability by project, and nobody wants to build that in the accounting system by hand. It is also the wrong choice when a client requires data residency and you need it at a published price rather than a negotiated one.
Agency economics. Teamwork.com is the only one of these two vendors whose published tiers describe the path from work delivered to money received. Accelerate builds client invoices from logged time and manages time budgets and retainers. Optimize adds creating quotes, turning a CRM pipeline into projects, financial and multi-currency budgets, and revenue, cost and profitability insights. That is the shape an agency actually needs, and it is unusual to see it stated plainly on a pricing page.
Its project views are also solid from the bottom: task, list, board, Gantt and table views on projects are available on the free plan, with unlimited templates on Basics.
Free with up to 5 projects. Basics at $9.99 per user per month billed yearly, with a 14-day free trial and no credit card required. Accelerate at $24.99 per user per month billed yearly. Optimize and Enterprise are both sold through a conversation, so we publish no figure for them. Annual billing saves 29%. The TeamworkAI inclusion is published as introductory with usage-based credits to launch later, and no price is stated for those credits, so we state none.
We stopped at the yearly-billed figures because those are what Teamwork.com publishes in the page we read. Its monthly-billing prices were not present in that page, and a method note worth knowing: the currency symbol you see on that page is a loading placeholder in the static page, and the underlying data carries US dollar values. We publish no INR figure, and no INR equivalence is asserted anywhere on this page.
The price. Accelerate at $24.99 per user per month billed yearly is roughly double ClickUp’s mid tier, and for a fifteen-person agency that difference is not a rounding error. Multiply it by the number of people who need a seat rather than by the number of directors.
The second limitation is region, and it is the one we would flag hardest for an Indian agency. Teamwork.com publishes US and EU data hosting, and its security page confirms the servers are within the US and the EU. No Asia region is published, so a client with a data-residency requirement is not served by the published architecture. The third is that the upper two tiers are quote-only, so the capabilities an agency most wants, quotes and profitability, sit behind a sales conversation.
Skip it if seat count is the dominant cost and the agency is large, because the per-user figure is the highest of the two. Skip it if a client requires data held in Asia. And skip it if you only need project tracking and tasks, because you would be paying an agency-economics price for a coordination job.
Teamwork.com is the right buy when the agency bills by time or on retainer, when the team is small enough that the per-user figure is affordable, and when profitability by project is a question the owner expects to answer without asking an accountant. It is also right when multi-currency budgets matter because clients pay in more than one currency.
It is the wrong choice when the seat count is large enough for the per-user price to dominate, when the agency is a large one already standardised on a broader platform, or when data residency in Asia is a client requirement. It is also the wrong choice if you need GST-compliant invoicing, because neither the quoting nor the invoicing on that page is described as Indian tax compliant and neither is UPI collection.
Nobody is billing for this work, so a free plan is the correct and cheaper answer, and ClickUp’s unlimited free members make that decision easy. A paid seat model including ours does not beat zero for internal project work.
Six seats at Teamwork’s mid tier is affordable, and the retainer and client-invoice features are the reason the price is worth paying. This is the clearest case on the page for Teamwork.com.
Seat count punishes headcount. Compare the published per-user figures against the actual number of people who need a project seat, and remember that guests and read-only access are published differently by each vendor. Verify the guest model with the vendor rather than assuming.
ClickUp publishes an Asia Pacific option through Singapore or Australia, but as an Enterprise feature. Teamwork.com publishes US and EU hosting only. Start that conversation with both vendors, and with the client, before you shortlist either.
Neither product publishes Indian tax invoicing or UPI collection, and Teamwork.com’s named accounting connections are all non-Indian. Whatever project tool you choose, the invoice has to live in a system that handles Indian compliance. Read where dedicated billing software fits.
It is a fair question whether a project tool plus an accounting package is the right structure at all, and the honest answer depends on how much re-keying your process causes. See the cost of running tools separately.
From each vendor's own published pricing on 4 October 2026. ClickUp: Free Forever at no charge with unlimited free plan members, Unlimited at $7 per user per month billed yearly or $10 billed monthly, Business at $12 yearly or $19 monthly, and Enterprise on a custom quote, with up to 30% saved on yearly billing. Teamwork.com: Free with up to 5 projects, Basics at $9.99 per user per month billed yearly, Accelerate at $24.99 per user per month billed yearly, and Optimize and Enterprise sold through a conversation, with 29% saved on annual billing. Both publish in US dollars and we do not convert them to rupees.
On the published figures, ClickUp. Fifteen people on ClickUp Business billed annually is a materially smaller number than fifteen on Teamwork Accelerate billed annually, because ClickUp's mid tier is $12 per user per month and Teamwork's mid tier is $24.99. We are not going to do the arithmetic into rupees, because the exchange rate your billing entity gets and any GST on the invoice would change the answer and both are yours to determine. What we will say is that the gap between these two mid tiers is wide enough that it should drive a trial on ClickUp first.
Partly. ClickUp publishes a Free Forever plan with unlimited free plan members, unlimited tasks, collaborative docs, kanban boards, sprint management, calendar view, two-factor authentication, 60MB of storage, one form, and 24/7 support. That is a genuinely free plan for an unlimited number of people, which is unusual and hard to argue with. Teamwork publishes a Free plan limited to up to 5 projects, with task, list, board, Gantt and table views, time logging, and organising work by client. Both offer a trial at the higher tiers: Teamwork publishes a 14-day free trial on Basics with no credit card required.
Teamwork.com publishes more of that shape. Its Accelerate tier lists building client invoices from logged time and managing time budgets and retainers, and its Optimize tier adds creating quotes, turning a CRM pipeline into projects, scheduling resources by role or skill, and revenue, cost and profitability insights. ClickUp's published plans include native time tracking, goals and portfolio management, and resource management, but we did not find client invoicing, quoting, or profitability features in the plan feature lists on its pricing page. Verify that yourself rather than taking our word for the absence.
Neither publishes an India region, and the two situations are different. ClickUp states that Enterprise plan customers can host their core workspace data in its US, European, or Asia Pacific data centres at no additional cost, and its security page names Ireland for Europe, Australia and Singapore for Asia Pacific, and the United States. So an Asia Pacific option exists for ClickUp, but it is an Enterprise feature. Teamwork.com lists US and EU data hosting on its Basics plan, and its security page states that its servers are with Amazon Web Services and hosted within the US and the EU. No Asia region is published for Teamwork.
Nothing on the pricing pages we read for either product describes GST invoicing, GSTIN handling, Indian tax splits, Indian statutory compliance, or UPI payment collection. The accounting integrations Teamwork publishes are HubSpot, QuickBooks, Salesforce, and NetSuite, all non-Indian products, and ClickUp lists integrations in general terms without naming an Indian accounting package. If your agency raises compliant Indian invoices, that invoice has to live in a system that handles it, and you should confirm the whole chain before you sign.
Last verified: 4 October 2026. Both ClickUp and Teamwork.com publish in US dollars. We do not convert them, so no INR equivalence is asserted anywhere on this page.
Free Forever at no charge with unlimited free plan members, 60MB storage, unlimited tasks, two-factor authentication, collaborative docs, kanban boards, sprint management, calendar view, a basic custom field manager, in-app video recording, 24/7 support, and one form. Unlimited at $7 per user per month billed yearly and $10 billed monthly. Business at $12 and $19. Enterprise on a custom quote, and up to 30% saved on yearly billing.
Open the sourceUnlimited adds unlimited spaces, folders and forms, Gantt charts, integrations, storage, custom fields, native time tracking, goals and portfolio management, guests with permission control, resource management, and chat and email in the product. Business adds unlimited dashboards, message history, activity and timeline views, webhooks and automation integrations, 5,000 automations per month, mind mapping, private whiteboards, custom exporting, sprint points and reporting, portfolio workload management, Google SSO, SMS two-factor authentication, and unlimited proofing. Enterprise adds enterprise permissions and governance, unlimited custom roles, SAML SSO and SCIM provisioning, audit log, session management, an enterprise API, 250,000 automations per month, custom branding, data residency, live onboarding training, and a customer success manager.
Open the sourceClickUp states that Enterprise plan customers can host their core workspace data in its US, European, or Asia Pacific data centres at no additional cost, naming Ireland for Europe, Australia and Singapore for Asia Pacific, and the United States, and it lists ISO/IEC 27001:2022, 27017:2015, 27018:2019, and 27701 certifications with ISO/IEC 42001 for AI management systems.
Open the sourceFree with up to 5 projects, task, list, board, Gantt and table views, time logging, and organising work by client. Basics at $9.99 per user per month billed yearly, including billable time tracking and US and EU data hosting. Accelerate at $24.99 per user per month billed yearly, adding smart forms, 20,000 automations, workload planning and live capacity, time budgets and retainers, building client invoices from logged time, and HubSpot and QuickBooks connections. Optimize and Enterprise are sold through a conversation. Annual billing saves 29% and there is a 14-day free trial.
Open the sourceOptimize adds creating quotes, 100,000 automations, turning a CRM pipeline into projects, scheduling resources by role or skill, financial and multi-currency budgets, and revenue, cost and profitability insights, plus Salesforce and NetSuite connections. Enterprise adds advanced security, single sign-on, a dedicated success manager, and priority support. The security page states that Teamwork.com servers are with Amazon Web Services and hosted within the US and the EU.
Open the sourceThe visible currency symbol on Teamwork.com's pricing page is a client-side loading placeholder in the static HTML; the underlying price data carries US dollar values, for example a data value of $9.99. Teamwork.com's monthly-billing prices are not present in the static page, so we quote only the yearly-billed figures it publishes. Confirm anything further with the vendor.
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