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Shifting away from emails and spreadsheets can be nerve-racking. But with an intuitive platform, you will wonder how you ever managed your work without it.
Before you choose a project management tool, let’s learn about how project management platform Wrike’s pricing works.
So, how does Wrike’s pricing work?
We’ll go over Wrike’s different pricing plans and show you monday.com’s pricing as a comparison — so you can make the best decision for your company’s future. But in short, Wrike’s pricing works based on 3 paid plans: Professional, Business, and Enterprise.
For basic project management, you can go with Wrike’s Professional plan, which is made for up to 15 team members and costs $9.80 per user per month. In comparison, you can get monday.com’s Basic plan for any amount of users for $8 per user per month.
Wrike for marketers and professional services offers specific deatures under their “Business” plan. But for the sake of our review, we’ll keep it to Wrike’s 3 main plans to understand how much Wrike costs.
1. Professional Plan
First up, let’s look at the cost for this plan: $9.80 per user/month for 5, 10, or 15 users.
When broken down into the raw numbers, you’ll be spending between $49-$147 per month, depending on your team’s size.
What do you get with the Wrike Professional plan?
- Collaboration with added rolls (collaborators), task and subtask management, and shareable dashboards
- Option to utilize a Gantt Chart for simple status updates and project feedback
- Increased storage, starting at 5GB
- Video uploads enabled, up to 15GB
This level is probably the bare minimum for remote teams that need a custom workflow.
But is it worth it?
Maybe.
The biggest weaknesses here are the lack of automation and the relatively small storage space.
You will likely need to pay for more than the 5GB storage (which you can use quickly in any project management software) if you want to save historical project data as your company grows.
2. Business Plan
Again, we’ll start with a look at costs: $24.80 per user/month between 5-200 users.
Broken down, that’s between $124-$4,960 per month depending on how many people you’ll have using the system.
What do you get with the Business plan?
Here’s a look at what’s included:
- The ability to brand your workspace
- Customizable workflows, fields, and analytics
- Ability to schedule upcoming tasks through a calendar view
- Integration with Salesforce
- 50GB of storage (base level)
Wrike also offers a number of add-ons for its Business Plan, such as Wrike Proof (for online markup and approval of documents) and Wrike Publish (for connecting a Digital Asset Management system). But these all come at an additional cost.
To be a software that scales with your business, flexibility is key. To scale meet business needs, customizations are not always enough. For example, if you rely on certain platforms that are less common, you may prefer to develop your own customizations and integrations.
Here at monday.com, we created a tool called monday apps that lets users do just that.
With this framework, you can build new user experiences and products on top of monday.com. As your business grows, you will need capabilities beyond customization.
With monday apps, you can build your own app and add custom interfaces to monday.com boards.
3. Enterprise Plan
Cost Not Listed.
What do you get with the Wrike Enterprise plan?
Here’s a look at what’s included:
- Single sign-on enabled
- Reporting that tracks individual user activity
- Customizable user roles and admin permissions
- Integration with business intelligence tools available
- 100GB of storage (base level)
But when picking the right project management software for you, make sure you’re only buying the plan that covers what you need, there’s no point paying extra for features you’ll never so much as touch.
Can you use Wrike for free?
If you’re small enough, you can get away with their free option.
Wrike offers a free plan capped at 5 users.
The free offering is kind of like having a digital bulletin board where you can add to-do lists. It’s usable for task management but not incredibly sophisticated.
Here’s a full breakdown of what’s included:
- Basic board access
- Simple file sharing
- Ability to view board/tasks as a spreadsheet
- Access to desktop and mobile versions
- 2GB of storage space
But as you might expect, there are limitations to using the free version. This means you might not have access to all the features you need.
Let’s take a look at the limitations in using Wrike for free:
- No reporting, KPI tracking, or analytics
- No collaborative work — the free version allows file sharing only
- Lack of time tracking and calendar integration
- Task lists and subtasks live behind a paywall
- Integration with automation and CRM is behind a paywall
For comparison, monday.com’s free 2-week trial gives you access to a complete project management experience — meaning all of its Work Operating System features. Since monday.com is built as a Work OS, it provides the flexibility to build and adapt to any workflow, project or process.
All things considered, you may be missing out on features that may be really important to you with Wrike’s free plan.
Tell me more about monday.com…
monday.com helps you build transparency and collaboration at all levels of your organization.
It goes far beyond simple project management software so you can use it for any process, workflow or project.
Engineers use monday.com to build plans, doctors run clinical trials on it, and more than 100,000 teams use monday.com to get more work done, faster and more efficiently.
It’s designed to be simple and flexible, with hundreds of free project management templates to get you up and running quickly. You’ll find monday.com promotes intuitive collaboration and task management on any project.
But how much does it cost?
How does monday.com pricing work?
monday.com uses a per-user pricing structure similar to Wrike.
The minimum team size (called seats) is 3, scaling all the way up to 200+ seats. Your ultimate costs will be determined by how many seats you need to manage your business, and what features you’re looking for. There’s also a discount for paying annually rather than monthly.
So let’s take a look at our pricing in more detail:
- Basic: Perfect for a small team looking to tackle simple tasks.
- Standard: Great for a single team to collaboratively manage, run, view, and improve their work.
- Pro: Ideal for multiple teams with more complex workflows who need to manage work across departments and projects.
- Enterprise: Designed for enterprise-level organizations tackling large, complex projects.
Check out our pricing page to play around with the different pricing options and find the perfect solution for your team and budget.
What’s a Work OS?
In case you’re wondering: a work operating system (Work OS) is a cloud-based software platform where teams build custom workflow apps. You can create that amazing tool you’ve always dreamed of for your work, like processes, projects, and workflows. As a Work OS platform, monday.com offers the following capabilities:
- Organization-wide use—monday.com can be helpful for teams of any size, and from any domain.
- Data visualization and analytics—all users with access to monday.com and with permissions to access a specific data source can create reports and visualizations within the platform! Our dashboards and reports can become a single source of information for data-driven decision-making, every single time.
- Permissions and governance—monday.com includes permission-setting features over who can view, update, and edit data. Teams can work in their own way while staying aligned with their organizational standards.
- Low-code/no-code app creation—using our new monday apps marketplace, users, partners, and builders have the freedom to quickly build apps on top of the monday.com platform! Read all about it here, we know you want to!
Get started with a Work OS to reap the benefits instantly
While Wrike can be a good fit for project management depending on your specific needs, ultimately we believe that monday.com is a true Work OS, allowing you to work across any industry or team.
With a monday.com subscription, you’ll have access to advanced integrations, sophisticated dashboards and analytics, and seamless transparency throughout your business.
And the best part? It’s made to grow with your business.
