Teamwork.com alternatives for agencies in 2026

Choose Productive, Scoro or Paymo when you need a Teamwork.com alternative for agency budgets, timesheets and invoicing. Choose Breeze, Basecamp, ClickUp or monday.com when your main needs are projects, tasks, client access and billable hours. The first group replaces the agency features in Accelerate or Optimize; the second offers lower-cost project tools.

Start with the features you use. Teamwork.com Basics is $9.99 per user per month billed yearly with a three-seat minimum. Budgets, timesheets and invoices start on Accelerate at $24.99 with a five-seat minimum.

Disclosure: Breeze publishes this comparison and is one of the tools below. Breeze is a simpler project tool than Teamwork.com: it tracks time against project budgets but does not create invoices, approve timesheets or schedule people by skill. If those are the reasons you use Teamwork, look at Productive or Scoro first. Compare the two tools’ workflow differences for more detail.

How are these alternatives compared?

The comparison groups tools by the work they replace and shows costs for ten people:

• Agency operations: budgets, timesheets, resourcing and billing in one place, for teams on Teamwork's Accelerate or Optimize plans.
• Client project work: projects, tasks, client access and billable hours, for teams that would be fine on Teamwork's Basics plan.
• Cost for ten people: worked out from each vendor's own pricing page, including seat minimums.

Review process: Plans, prices and limits come from vendor pricing pages and help centres. Each entry summarises G2 and Capterra reviews and links to both sources.

Contents

• Why do agencies leave Teamwork.com?
• Which part of Teamwork do you need to replace?
• What does each option cost a 10-person agency?
• Which tools can replace Teamwork.com?
• Which alternative to Teamwork fits your agency?
• How to switch without losing a billing month
• Common questions about Teamwork.com alternatives

Why do agencies leave Teamwork.com?

Plan costs, setup effort and mobile limitations are the main reasons to consider switching. Reviewers rate Teamwork.com well (4.5 out of 5 on Capterra, 4.4 on G2) and praise how it ties time, budgets and client work together. The reasons to leave show up in the details:

• The Basics to Accelerate jump. Timesheets, time budgets, retainers and invoices built from logged time all start on Accelerate. For ten people that is $249.90 a month billed yearly instead of $99.90 on Basics, and the step from Accelerate to Optimize is a sales call. You can read the details in the Teamwork.com plan breakdown.
• Seat floors. Basics needs at least three paid users and Accelerate at least five. A two-person studio pays for seats nobody uses, and the Free plan stops at five users and five projects with no client users at all.
• Setup and learning curve. The most common complaint in reviews is that there is a lot packed in, so setup takes longer than expected and new people need onboarding. One G2 reviewer put it plainly: it only works if everyone follows the same statuses, tags and templates.
• A weaker mobile app. Several reviewers say the mobile app trails the desktop version, which matters for account managers who live on their phones.
• AI credits from November 10, 2026. Seat prices do not change, but credit-based AI features now draw on a monthly allowance at $0.01 a credit: 1,000 on Basics, 2,500 on Accelerate and 7,500 on Optimize, according to Teamwork's help centre. Agencies that record a lot of client meetings may need top-ups.

Which part of Teamwork do you need to replace?

Replace the features your agency used in the last month. Invoicing, budgets and resource planning narrow the shortlist more than project boards do.

• Projects, tasks and boards: every tool on this list does this, so do not let it drive the choice. Gantt charts are not universal: Basecamp has none, and Paymo adds them on Pro.
• Client users in projects: Teamwork gives unlimited client users from Basics up. Breeze and Productive also let clients in free. Basecamp counts every client against its user cap, except on Pro Unlimited.
• Billable time: Breeze, Paymo, Productive and Scoro all mark hours as billable, and ClickUp and Basecamp Pro Plus track time too. The question is what happens to the hours next.
• Invoices built from tracked time: only Paymo, Productive and Scoro do this inside the tool. Everyone else exports time to your accounting software.
• Time budgets and retainers: Productive is the closest match. Breeze tracks a project budget in hours and a rate, which covers a fixed-fee project but not a monthly retainer that resets.
• Scheduling people by role or skill: this is Optimize territory in Teamwork. Productive, Scoro and Paymo Pro have resource planning; the simpler tools do not.

If your ticks stop at billable time, you are in the second group, and a cheaper project tool plus your existing invoicing will do. If they reach invoices and budgets, stay with the first three tools below.

What does each option cost a 10-person agency?

For ten people, Teamwork.com Basics costs $99.90 per month billed yearly and Accelerate costs $249.90. Compare those monthly equivalents with the alternatives below, then check seat minimums and the features included.

Scoro is not in the table because it now sells apps in combinations, from $17 per user per month for time tracking and invoicing up to $57 for the full set, with a five-user minimum. Its pricing page shows one figure per combination and says yearly billing takes 13 to 17% off.

Two things the table hides. Teamwork's Accelerate price only makes sense next to Productive Professional or Paymo Pro, because those are the plans that do the same finance work; comparing it with Breeze or ClickUp compares different jobs. And Basecamp's flat price counts clients against the cap, so a 10-person agency that invites 5 clients to projects is already past Pro and at the limit of Pro Plus; a sixth client means Pro Unlimited.

Which tools can replace Teamwork.com?

The first three replace Teamwork's agency features. The next four replace its project features at a lower price.

• Productive for agency operations
• Scoro for sales and billing
• Paymo for small agencies
• Breeze for client projects
• Basecamp for client communication
• ClickUp for flexible workflows
• monday.com for visual boards

Productive

• Pricing: Essential is $10 per user per month billed yearly or $12 monthly. Professional is $25 billed yearly or $29 monthly, and Ultimate is priced after a demo. Every plan needs at least 3 seats. Clients are free; contractors who track time pay the same as staff. 14-day free trial.
• Rating: 4.6/5 on Capterra from 109 reviews, 4.6/5 on G2 from 76 reviews.

Choose Productive (productive.io) when you need to replace Teamwork.com Accelerate's agency operations features. Budgets, resource planning, project and task management, time tracking, expenses and reporting are all on the entry Essential plan, which is the main difference from Teamwork, where budgets and workload planning wait until Accelerate. Professional adds rate cards, billable time approvals, recurring budgets and invoicing integrations.

For ten people, Essential costs about what Teamwork Basics does and covers much of what Accelerate does. Productive still requires services, budgets and rates to be configured, and reviewers say onboarding takes days to weeks.

Not a fit: Two-person studios paying the three-seat minimum, agencies that bill a fixed fee and already invoice from accounting software, and teams that left Teamwork because the setup was too much. Productive is no lighter.

What reviewers say about Productive

Most reviewers describe it as the one system that replaced their separate time, planning and budgeting tools, and several say it finally showed which clients make money. Support gets unusually warm praise. The common complaints are a slow onboarding because of how much it covers, and reporting that gets fiddly when you combine data. Both listings are small next to Teamwork's.

Sources: Capterra, G2

Scoro

• Pricing: Sold as combinations of apps, from $17 per user per month (time tracking and invoicing) to $57 (every app). Projects and resourcing together are $29, and so is estimate-to-invoice. Minimum 5 users. Yearly billing takes 13 to 17% off. 14-day free trial, no card required.
• Rating: 4.5/5 on Capterra from 263 reviews, 4.5/5 on G2 from 503 reviews.

Choose Scoro when you want sales, project delivery and invoicing in one system. Its eight apps cover tasks, projects, time, resourcing, a sales pipeline, estimates, bills and expenses, and invoicing, and you buy only the ones you need. An agency that wants a quote to turn into a project, the project into tracked time and the time into an invoice, without a separate CRM, gets that whole chain here.

The modular pricing is useful if you only need part of it. A team that just wants time and invoicing pays $17 a seat; a team that wants every app pays $57, more than twice Teamwork Accelerate. With five seats as the floor, the smallest bill is $85 a month for the cheapest combination.

Not a fit: Agencies under five people, teams whose main problem with Teamwork was complexity, and anyone who mainly wants good task management. Reviewers call the task side the weaker part of Scoro.

What reviewers say about Scoro

Reviewers like having quotes, projects, time and invoices connected, and value the company-level dashboards and the shared calendar for seeing who is free. The most frequent complaint is that it feels overwhelming at first. Some call it expensive for smaller teams, and a few find creating tasks clunky compared with a dedicated project tool.

Sources: Capterra, G2

Paymo

• Pricing: Free for one user with 1 client and 2 projects. Plus is $10.90 per user per month billed yearly or $15.90 monthly; Pro is $16.90 or $23.90. Solo is one user only. Invoicing is on every plan, including Free. No seat minimum. 15-day free trial.
• Rating: 4.7/5 on Capterra from 686 reviews, 4.6/5 on G2 from 594 reviews.

Choose Paymo for a smaller agency that needs time tracking and client invoicing together. Plus adds timesheet reports, project templates, project profitability, proofing, recurring invoices and estimates; Pro adds Gantt charts with dependencies, team scheduling and workload, and timesheet approvals. That is most of what a small agency uses on Teamwork Accelerate, at $109 a month for ten people billed yearly.

It suits a studio of three to fifteen people that wants one tool from timer to invoice and does not need a CRM. Reviewers mention coarse scheduling and limited customisation, so a larger team will reach the edges sooner than it would in Productive.

Not a fit: Agencies that need a CRM or sales pipeline, and teams that need fast support guarantees. Several recent G2 reviewers describe slow answers from support.

What reviewers say about Paymo

The theme across both sites is the timer: tracked time goes straight into an invoice, and several reviewers say that alone justifies the price. Freelancers and small agencies call it easy to learn and fairly priced. Complaints cluster around limited customisation, awkward exports, a mobile app that does less than the desktop, and, in recent G2 reviews, slow support. Many Capterra reviews are several years old.

Sources: Capterra, G2

Breeze

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

Choose Breeze when you need client projects, task ownership and billable time, with invoicing handled elsewhere. Each client project gets boards or task lists, every task has an owner, a due date, an estimate and the time logged against it, and the project budget is set in hours and an hourly rate so you can see how much of it is used. Time is tracked with a timer or typed in afterwards and marked billable or not. Teams get one plan with every feature, so there is no Basics to Accelerate decision to make later.

Clients join as client users at no charge and see only the projects they are invited to, never the tasks or comments you hide from them. Reports can be shared as public links for clients who will not log in, any project can become a template, and anyone can forward a client's email to a project to turn it into a task. See the built-in time tracking options.

Not a fit: Breeze does not create invoices, hold rate cards, approve timesheets, run retainers or schedule people by skill. Time exports to CSV or goes to FreshBooks, and billing happens in your accounting tool. There is no direct Teamwork.com importer, so tasks move across through a CSV import. An agency that relies on Accelerate's finance features should pick Productive or Paymo instead.

What reviewers say about Breeze

Reviewers mostly talk about how quickly a team, and its clients, pick it up, and about using the built-in time tracking daily, some of them to judge whether a client is profitable. The recurring requests are for deeper reporting and team-wide overviews, and a few say it feels limited for complex projects. Both samples are small.

Sources: Capterra, G2

Basecamp

• Pricing: One project free with up to 3 people. Freelancer is $29 a month for 3 projects and 5 users, Pro $79 for 8 projects and 10 users, Pro Plus $99 for 12 projects and 15 users, and Pro Unlimited $199 a month billed annually or $329 monthly for unlimited projects and users. Clients and guests count toward the user cap below Pro Unlimited. 30-day free trial.
• Rating: 4.4/5 on Capterra from 14,448 reviews, 4.1/5 on G2 from 5,488 reviews.

Basecamp replaces the client-communication side of Teamwork rather than the finance side. Each project has a message board, to-dos, card tables, a schedule, docs and files, and automatic check-ins, and clients find their way around quickly. For agencies that ran Teamwork mostly so clients had one place to comment and approve, it offers a straightforward place for those conversations.

Check the user and project caps before choosing a flat-price plan. Pro at $79 a month is cheap for ten people, but those ten include every client you invite, active projects are capped at 8, and time tracking only arrives on Pro Plus. An agency with many clients in its projects can reach Pro Unlimited quickly.

Not a fit: Agencies that need budgets, invoices, Gantt charts with dependencies or resource planning. Basecamp leaves all of them out on purpose.

What reviewers say about Basecamp

Reviewers like having messages, to-dos, files and schedules for a project in one calm place, and agencies say clients understand it without training. The main complaint is the flip side: no Gantt charts, dependencies, deep reporting or resource planning, so growing teams outgrow it. Search and notification noise also come up, and one detailed recent review objects to changes in the Basecamp 5 update.

Sources: Capterra, G2

ClickUp

• Pricing: New workspaces choose between Free, Core at $9 per user per month billed yearly or $12 monthly, Business at $17 or $25, and Enterprise on a quote. AI credits are bundled into each plan. Existing workspaces keep their older plans for now.
• Rating: 4.6/5 on Capterra from 4,631 reviews, 4.6/5 on G2 from 14,333 reviews.

Choose ClickUp when your agency wants more flexibility than Teamwork.com. Custom statuses and fields, many views per project, docs, dashboards, automations and time tracking sit in one workspace, so you can configure the workspace around your agency's process. Core costs ten people $90 a month billed yearly, below Teamwork Basics.

It does not invoice, and new workspaces now start on different plans from older ones, so check what your plan includes before you copy a setup from an older guide. The bigger cost is time: ClickUp needs someone who owns the setup, which is the same job Teamwork needed. Compare other flexible project tools if those limits matter.

Not a fit: Agencies that left Teamwork because it was too much to configure, and teams that want invoices next to the work.

What reviewers say about ClickUp

The most praised thing is flexibility: teams build statuses, fields and views around their own process, and many say it replaced several tools at once. The most common complaints are the learning curve, a crowded interface and slowdowns on large workspaces, and each comes up again and again in recent Capterra reviews.

Sources: Capterra, G2

monday.com

• Pricing: Basic is $9 per seat per month billed yearly, Standard $12 and Pro $19, with 1,000, 2,000 and 3,000 AI credits a month. Seats are sold from 3 and then in blocks of 5, so a team of 6 buys 10. Yearly billing saves 18%.
• Rating: 4.6/5 on Capterra from 6,116 reviews, 4.7/5 on G2 from 17,221 reviews.

Choose monday.com when your agency needs more readable project boards. Its colour-coded boards show owners and status at a glance, account managers who are not project people pick it up quickly, and automations take repetitive follow-ups off the team. Standard for ten seats is $120 a month billed yearly.

Check seat blocks and time tracking before moving. Seat blocks mean a team of eleven pays for fifteen. And people who track client hours in monday describe time tracking as the weak spot compared with tools built around billable work, so plan where your hours will live before you move.

Not a fit: Agencies that bill from tracked time, very small teams caught by the three-seat minimum, and anyone moving away from Teamwork's tier ladder only to land on another one. Compare other visual project tools for the same trade-offs.

What reviewers say about monday.com

Reviewers keep coming back to how readable the boards are and how easy it is to get non-technical staff using them, plus the time saved by automations. Price is the biggest complaint: seat blocks and features held for higher tiers make it expensive as a team grows. Setting up complex automations and dashboards takes trial and error, and very large boards can slow down.

Sources: Capterra, G2

Which alternative to Teamwork fits your agency?

Choose by how you bill clients, then by team size. Agencies billing from timesheets need a different shortlist from teams tracking hours against fixed fees.

• You invoice from timesheets every month: Productive if you also want budgets and resourcing on the entry plan, Paymo if you are under about fifteen people and want the lowest price.
• You want quotes, pipeline and invoices in the same system: Scoro, as long as you have five or more people.
• You bill fixed fees and track hours to check scope: Breeze. Hours go against a project budget, clients come in free, and invoices stay in your accounting tool.
• You mostly needed a place for client conversations: Basecamp, priced by project and user caps rather than seats.
• You want to build your own system and have someone to own it: ClickUp.
• Your team and clients need boards anyone can read at a glance: monday.com, with time tracking planned separately.

Stay with Teamwork.com if Accelerate's budgets, retainers and invoices meet your needs and switching would not solve a specific problem. Teamwork does that combination well, and the AI credit change does not touch seat prices.

How to switch without losing a billing month

Close the billing month in Teamwork.com before starting time entries in the replacement. Test one client project first, retain billing records and set permissions before inviting clients.

• Switch at a month boundary. Close the month's timesheets and invoices in Teamwork, then start logging time in the new tool on the 1st, so no invoice draws from two systems.
• Move one live client first. Run a real project with its real client in the new tool for two weeks before moving the rest. Empty demo projects hide the problems.
• Export what you will need for disputes. Keep a full export of logged time, budgets and invoices from Teamwork, because historic hours rarely come across cleanly.
• Invite clients last. Set up their projects, permissions and templates first, so a client's first look is a tidy project and not a half-built one.

If you pay Teamwork yearly, line the switch up with your renewal date so you are not paying for two tools for months.

Common questions about Teamwork.com alternatives

What is the closest alternative to Teamwork.com?

For an agency that uses Teamwork.com for budgets, timesheets and invoices, Productive is the closest match, with Scoro next if you also want quotes and a sales pipeline in the same system. For an agency that mostly uses projects, tasks, client users and billable time, a simpler project tool such as Breeze, Basecamp or ClickUp covers the same ground for less.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Teamwork.com for a small agency?

Yes, if you do not need invoices or time budgets inside the project tool. Ten people on Teamwork.com Basics cost $99.90 a month billed yearly and $249.90 on Accelerate. Breeze is $90 for the same ten people billed yearly, ClickUp Core is $90, Basecamp Pro is $79 flat for up to 10 users, and Paymo Plus is $109 with invoicing included.

Do Teamwork.com AI credits make it more expensive?

Not on the seat price. From November 10, 2026, paid Teamwork.com plans include a monthly allowance of AI credits at $0.01 each: 1,000 on Basics, 2,500 on Accelerate and 7,500 on Optimize. Only the credit-based AI features, such as meeting notes, Ask AI and scheduled agents, draw on it, so the bill grows only if the team uses those heavily.