Teamhood dropped its free plan: what small teams use instead

Teamhood no longer offers a free plan to new customers. By October 2026, its four-plan range had been replaced by one paid plan at €11 or $12 per user per month billed yearly, with a minimum of three users. The old Personal plan was free for up to 10 users. The new plan offers the first month free; after that, every seat is paid.

Teamhood says Classic customers keep their plan, price and workspace. New teams choosing an alternative can compare Trello, MeisterTask and Zoho Projects for a free plan, or Breeze for a lower paid price.

Disclosure: Breeze publishes this page and is one of the four options below. It has no free plan; its comparison includes where it does less than Teamhood.

Contents

• How did Teamhood pricing change?
• What will your team pay?
• Must Classic customers move?
• What did Personal include?
• Which alternatives fit small teams?
• How can you leave Teamhood?

How did Teamhood pricing change?

Teamhood went from four plans to one. The old plans are still published on its Classic plans page; the current pricing page shows a single plan and answers "Is there a free plan?" with a plain no.

The new plan bundles everything the old Business plan had and more: list, board, Gantt and schedule views, capacity and allocation planning, timesheets, formula fields, dependencies that reschedule, automation rules, roles and per-view permissions, the REST API and an MCP server for AI assistants. Enterprise, with single sign-on and on-premise hosting, is a separate custom quote.

Teamhood has not dated the change. The one-plan page was in place by early October 2026, and the price on it more than doubled during that month, from €5 to €11 per user billed yearly.

What will your team pay?

The minimum bill covers three licenses: €33 or $36 per month billed yearly, or €42 or $48 billed monthly. Teamhood publishes examples for 5, 15 and 40 people. The smaller-team totals below use the same rates: €11 or $12 per user per month billed yearly, €14 or $16 billed monthly. Prices exclude VAT.

A freelancer or a two-person studio still pays for three seats. Teamhood's FAQ also says every active member and every open invite holds a license, whatever their role, guests included. A team of five that brings in two clients to comment on tasks is paying for seven.

Deactivated members do not hold a license, so you can swap people without buying more. Yearly billing has a separate trade-off: Teamhood does not refund the rest of the paid year if you cancel.

Must Classic customers move?

No. Teamhood's pricing FAQ is direct about it: if you use Teamhood Classic, your plan, price and workspace stay as they are. A free Personal workspace with up to 10 people is still a free Personal workspace today.

What Teamhood does not say is how long Classic plans will stay available, or whether a Classic workspace can keep adding people on the old terms indefinitely. Three things are worth watching if you rely on the free plan:

• The Classic page itself: while it is published, the old plans are still a live product. If it disappears, ask Teamhood what happens to your workspace.
• Your user count: Personal covers up to 10 users, so an eleventh person always meant a paid plan. Neither pricing page says whether a Classic workspace can still move up to Classic Team at €9 or would go to the new plan at €11, so ask Teamhood before you hire.
• Any word from Teamhood: nothing on either pricing page announces a change to Classic plans, and neither page says how one would be announced. Keep an eye on email from Teamhood and on your billing settings.

Staying put is a reasonable choice. Moving tools has a real cost in setup time and retraining, and an announcement that does not affect your workspace is not a reason to pay it.

What did Personal include?

Classic Personal included up to 10 users, unlimited projects and workspaces, Kanban, Gantt and list views, subtasks and dependencies, Teamhood AI, Slack and Teams integrations, and 100 MB of storage. Time tracking, workload views, reports and custom fields started on Team.

That combination, a board and a Gantt chart with dependencies for ten people at no cost, is the part that is hard to match. Most free plans give you boards for a team or a timeline for paying customers, not both. Choose based on which part of Teamhood your team needs:

• Keep it free, lose something: a free board tool for the daily work, and accept a lighter or separate timeline.
• Pay less than Teamhood: a paid plan below €11 per seat that keeps boards and adds time tracking.
• Pay Teamhood: if capacity planning across shared people is the reason you chose it, the new plan includes it, and few tools in this price range do that well.

Which alternatives fit small teams?

Trello, MeisterTask and Zoho Projects have free plans. Breeze has a lower paid price per seat than Teamhood. All four suit small teams that use visual boards, but their free limits and scheduling features differ. Prices are from each vendor's pricing page; review summaries come from Capterra and G2.

Trello

Choose Trello for a team of up to ten whose work is a flow of cards through stages, with no need for a schedule view or tracked hours.

• Pricing: Free for up to 10 collaborators and 10 boards per workspace. Standard is $5 per user per month billed yearly or $6 monthly. Premium, which adds the Timeline, Calendar and Table views, is $10 billed yearly or $12.50 monthly.
• Rating: 4.5/5 on Capterra from 23,619 reviews, 4.4/5 on G2 from 14,064.

Trello's free plan covers the same ten people as Classic Personal, and a board, a list per stage and a card per task is set up in minutes. What it does not cover for free is the time dimension: the Timeline view needs Premium, and there are no task dependencies without add-ons.

Where Trello may not fit: anyone who used Teamhood's Gantt view or dependencies. Paying for Premium to get a timeline brings Trello to $10 per seat, close to Teamhood's own price.

What reviewers say about Trello

The recurring praise is that nobody needs training: drag a card, see the status, and a board replaces a round of status emails. The recurring complaint is the ceiling. Reviewers on both sites say Trello runs out of room on bigger projects, with no native dependencies, thin reporting without paid add-ons, and boards that get crowded past a few dozen cards.

Sources: Capterra, G2

MeisterTask

Choose MeisterTask for a polished board with recurring tasks and automations on Pro, if your team can wait until Business for a timeline.

• Pricing: Free with unlimited members and up to 3 projects. Pro is $7 per user per month billed yearly or $9 monthly. Business, which adds timeline views, team overview and subtasks, is $12.50 billed yearly or $16 monthly.
• Rating: 4.7/5 on Capterra from 1,157 reviews, 4.6/5 on G2 from 173.

MeisterTask's free plan has no cap on team members, which no other free plan here can say. The cap is on projects: three on Free, unlimited from Pro. Choose it when three ongoing boards cover the work. An agency with a board per client will need more.

Where MeisterTask may not fit: a team that needs the timeline view, because MeisterTask's Business plan costs more per seat than Teamhood's single plan.

What reviewers say about MeisterTask

Reviewers mostly describe how quickly a non-technical team picks it up, and they like the look of the boards and the way tasks can be watched and commented on. The common complaint is features moving behind paid tiers, with subtasks, external sharing and more projects needing an upgrade, and a few say every collaborator needs the paid plan. Many of the reviews on both sites date from 2021 to 2023.

Sources: Capterra, G2

Zoho Projects

Choose Zoho Projects for teams that used Teamhood for scheduled, dependency-driven projects and want timesheets without paying €11 a seat, especially if they already use other Zoho apps.

• Pricing: Free for up to 5 users and 3 projects. Premium is $4 per user per month billed yearly and adds unlimited projects, time logs and timesheets, budgets and recurring tasks. Enterprise is $9 per user per month billed yearly.
• Rating: 4.5/5 on Capterra from 872 reviews, 4.4/5 on G2 from 567.

Zoho Projects has the lowest starting paid price in this comparison for teams replacing Teamhood's paid features. Reviewers single out its Gantt charts, task dependencies and milestones, and Premium adds time logs and timesheets tied to tasks. At $4 per seat on Premium, ten people pay a third of what Teamhood now charges. The trade-off is a busier interface and longer setup than Teamhood.

Where Zoho Projects may not fit: a team whose priority is Teamhood's simple board. The free plan is also smaller, at five users rather than ten.

What reviewers say about Zoho Projects

Reviewers keep coming back to value: a full set of features, Gantt charts, dependencies and time logs for less than most competitors, with tight links to the rest of Zoho. The criticism is about the experience. Several call the interface dated or cluttered on larger projects, and setup is described as overwhelming without help.

Sources: Capterra, G2

Breeze

Choose Breeze for small teams and agencies that want boards, tracked time and client access for one flat price below Teamhood's.

• Pricing: $9 per user per month billed yearly, or $10 billed monthly, with every feature included. A Solo plan for one person is $14 a month. Client users are free. 14-day free trial, no free plan.
• Rating: 4.4/5 on Capterra from 45 reviews, 4.1/5 on G2 from 22.

Breeze is a board-first project tool with the parts Teamhood's paid plan adds on top of a board: swimlanes and work-in-progress limits, task dependencies, a team calendar that shows who has too much work, built-in time tracking with budgets, and roadmaps across projects. There is one plan, so the price does not climb when you need time tracking. Clients join free, which matters if your Teamhood bill was mostly guests.

Where Breeze may not fit: it has no free plan, so it does not replace Classic Personal at €0. Its workload view is a team calendar rather than Teamhood's capacity and allocation planning, and there is no on-premise hosting. If those are why you chose Teamhood, stay there.

What reviewers say about Breeze

Reviewers describe a light interface that people, clients included, pick up with little training, and built-in time tracking they use every day. The criticism is that it is not as deep as the bigger platforms for complex projects or heavy automation, and that reporting across teams is basic. Both review samples are small.

Sources: Capterra, G2

How can you leave Teamhood?

Start with one live project, then move open work once its structure works in the new tool. Teamhood's pricing FAQ says that if you stop paying, the organisation closes but nothing is deleted, and that your data is readable over its API. There is no shutdown deadline forcing a rushed move:

• Pick one live project: rebuild it in the new tool and run it there for two weeks before moving anything else.
• Recreate the structure, not every card: the stages, the custom fields you actually filter by and the recurring tasks. Closed work can stay in Teamhood or in an export.
• Move the open work: most tools take a CSV. Breeze, for example, can import existing projects from Trello, Asana, ClickUp, monday.com, Basecamp, Notion, Airtable, Todoist and CSV files.
• Count seats before you commit: include guests and clients, because they are where per-seat bills surprise people.

If the free plan was the only reason you used Teamhood, Trello or MeisterTask's free tiers are the shortest path. If you were going to pay anyway, compare Teamhood's new plan with the paid options above on what your team does every day, not on the feature list. A broader look at other visual board tools covers more board-first options if none of these four fits.

Written by Lucas

Lucas writes content at Breeze and specializes in project management, team collaboration, and practical workflow advice. He helps small teams and growing businesses plan projects, track progress, and keep work organized by sharing clear, actionable guides.