--- title: "Three of five agile tools are free for a team of ten; Asana costs US$110 a month" summary: "Free-tier limits and the first paid tier for a ten-person Scrum team on Jira, Trello, ClickUp, monday dev and Asana, from the vendors' pricing pages, September 2026." url: https://www.thetechbag.com/blog/5-must-have-project-management-tools-agile format: Note desk: "SaaS & business software" published: 2025-02-26 facts_checked: 2026-09-30 author: TechBag (The TechBag Journal) tags: ["project management","agile","Scrum","Jira","Trello","ClickUp","monday dev","Asana","pricing","DPDP","GST"] cover: https://www.thetechbag.com/blog/covers/5-must-have-project-management-tools-agile.png --- # Three of five agile tools are free for a team of ten; Asana costs US$110 a month *Free-tier limits and the first paid tier for a ten-person Scrum team on Jira, Trello, ClickUp, monday dev and Asana, from the vendors' pricing pages, September 2026.* Note · SaaS & business software · By TechBag · Published 2025-02-26 · Facts checked 2026-09-30 · Canonical: https://www.thetechbag.com/blog/5-must-have-project-management-tools-agile A ten-person Scrum team can run its board for nothing on three of the five tools worth considering. Jira’s Free plan covers ten users, Trello’s Free plan covers ten collaborators per Workspace, and ClickUp’s Free Forever plan has no member cap and lists sprints as included on every tier.[1] [2] [5] The other two stop short: monday dev’s Free plan ends at two seats and Asana’s Personal plan at two users, so ten people pay US$90 a month on monday dev Basic (US$9 a seat) or US$109.90 on Asana Starter (US$10.99 a user), both billed annually.[3] [4] The 2023 version of this piece listed Jira, Trello, Asana, Basecamp and Hyve and said each was “a fantastic choice”. That is not a buying decision. The decision is which tool a small agile team should pay for, at what seat count the free tier runs out, and what the first paid tier actually adds. We dropped Basecamp and Hyve, because in September 2026 we could not verify that either publishes sprint or backlog tooling at a list price, and added monday dev and ClickUp, which do. ## What ten people pay, tool by tool On list price, the first paid tier for ten people runs from US$50 a month on Trello Standard to US$109.90 on Asana Starter.[2] [4] Jira Standard is US$7.91 a user, so US$79.10 for ten; Premium, which adds Advanced Plans, is US$14.54.[1] ClickUp’s Core plan is US$9 a user billed yearly (its “regular price” is US$12), and monday dev Basic is US$9 a seat with a three-seat minimum.[3] [5] Every figure here is the vendor’s own page, annual billing, before tax; monthly billing is dearer where the vendor prints it (Trello US$6, Asana US$13.49).[2] [4] **Figure: Three of the five cost nothing at ten users; the paid tiers run US$50 to US$110 a month** *First paid tier, ten users, USD list per month, annual billing, September 2026* Trello Standard free tier covers 10 US$50 Jira Standard free tier covers 10 US$79.1 ClickUp Core free tier covers 10 US$90 monday dev Basic free tier: 2 seats US$90 Asana Starter free tier: 2 users US$110 | | Value (US$) | | --- | --- | | Trello Standard | 50 | | Jira Standard | 79.1 | | ClickUp Core | 90 | | monday dev Basic | 90 | | Asana Starter | 110 | Source: Atlassian (Jira, Trello), monday.com, Asana and ClickUp pricing pages; Jira via a 2026 third-party capture of Atlassian's page · as of 30 September 2026 · Jira Free (10 users), Trello Free (10 collaborators) and ClickUp Free Forever (no member cap) cover this team at US$0 ## Where the free tiers end, and what the next tier buys The free plans are not trials, but each has a wall. Jira’s is the eleventh user. Trello’s is the eleventh board in a Workspace, and its Free and Standard plans have no timeline, calendar or dashboard view; those arrive at Premium, US$10 a user.[2] ClickUp includes sprints on every plan, but its timeline and workload views are marked “Trial” until Business at US$17 a user.[5] monday’s Timeline and Gantt views and 250 automation actions a month start at Standard (US$12 a seat on work management); Asana’s Starter has Timeline and Gantt, and Goals, portfolios and workload wait for Advanced at US$24.99.[3] [4] Our view Our view: a team of ten doing real Scrum should start on Jira Free or ClickUp Free Forever and pay nothing until the eleventh person or the first stakeholder who wants a Gantt chart. Trello is a kanban board, not a sprint tool; monday dev and Asana are the right answer when the people reading the board are not the people doing the work. TechBag resells both Atlassian and monday.com; the [Jira page](https://www.thetechbag.com/atlassian/atlassian-jira) and [monday dev page](https://www.thetechbag.com/monday/monday-dev) hold the fuller comparison. ## Buying it in India None of the five prints a rupee price. Atlassian and monday.com bill in US dollars; TechBag’s intel pages record both, with 18% GST on the invoice when bought through an Indian reseller, and an IGST reverse-charge filing when bought direct on a foreign card.[6] [7] monday.com states no India data residency: its tenants sit in AWS regions in the United States and Europe, which matters once a board carries customer names.[7] A sprint board also holds employee names, assignments and performance history, which is personal data under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. The DPDP Rules were notified on 13 November 2025 and the security-safeguard and breach duties apply from 13 May 2027, so the vendor’s hosting region and sub-processor list belong in the purchase file now.[8] How we did this Figures as of 30 September 2026 Prices are list prices on each vendor’s public pricing page, annual billing, USD, before tax, read in September 2026: Trello, monday.com, Asana and ClickUp directly. Atlassian’s Jira page would not render for our fetcher, so the US$7.91 and US$14.54 figures come from a 2026 third-party capture of that page; TechBag’s own Jira page confirms the Free tier for up to ten users but records no per-user price. The ten-person figures are simple multiplication; monday’s three-seat minimum and Asana’s single-seat increments do not change them at ten. Basecamp and Hyve, on the 2023 list, were excluded because we could not verify their sprint tooling or a list price. No vendor was contacted. Spotted an error? Write to us; corrections are published at the foot of the piece. Sources 1. [Jira Cloud pricing (Free, Standard US$7.91, Premium US$14.54 per user per month), via resolution.de's 2026 capture of Atlassian's page](https://www.resolution.de/post/jira-pricing-plans/) — undated page Atlassian's own page could not be fetched. 2. [Trello pricing: Free (10 collaborators, 10 boards), Standard US$5, Premium US$10, Enterprise US$17.50](https://trello.com/pricing) — undated page 3. [monday.com pricing: work management Free (2 seats), Basic US$9, Standard US$12, Pro US$19; monday dev Basic US$9, Standard US$12, Pro US$20; plans start from 3 users](https://monday.com/pricing) — undated page 4. [Asana pricing: Personal (2 users), Starter US$10.99 (US$13.49 monthly), Advanced US$24.99](https://asana.com/pricing) — undated page 5. [ClickUp pricing: Free Forever, Core US$9 billed yearly, Business US$17; sprints included on every plan](https://clickup.com/pricing) — undated page 6. [TechBag, Atlassian Jira intel page (USD billing, GST, public tiers)](https://www.thetechbag.com/atlassian/atlassian-jira) — mid-2026 7. [TechBag, monday dev intel page (per seat, 3-seat minimum, USD billing, no India residency, AWS US/EU)](https://www.thetechbag.com/monday/monday-dev) — mid-2026 8. [MeitY, Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the DPDP Rules, 2025 (notified 13 November 2025; substantive duties from 13 May 2027)](https://www.meity.gov.in/data-protection-framework) — 13 November 2025 Related on TechBag: the [Trello page](https://www.thetechbag.com/atlassian/atlassian-trello) for the kanban-only case, and [the catalogue](https://www.thetechbag.com/browse-products) for every work-management product quoted in INR with GST. **Disclosure.** TechBag is a software reseller: it earns a margin when a reader buys through it, including from vendors named here. The analysis is TechBag’s own; no vendor paid for or saw this piece before publication. Facts are labelled reported, TechBag count or our view. Go deeper on TechBag - [Atlassian Jira intel page](https://www.thetechbag.com/atlassian/atlassian-jira) — the Free, Standard and Premium tiers and where the jumps sit - [monday dev intel page](https://www.thetechbag.com/monday/monday-dev) — per seat, three-seat minimum, USD billing, no India residency - [Developer tools guide](https://www.thetechbag.com/browse/devops/developer-tools) — where Jira sits beside source control and CI