Teamwork.com pricing: plans, seat minimums and the November AI credits

Teamwork.com's paid plans start at $9.99 per user per month billed yearly for Basics and $24.99 for Accelerate, with minimums of three and five seats. Billed monthly, they cost $13.99 and $29.99. Optimize and Enterprise are quoted by sales, and the Free plan stops at five users.

From November 10, 2026, some Teamwork AI features will use monthly credits. Plan prices stay the same, and Basics, Accelerate and Optimize get monthly allowances worth $10, $25 and $75 at $0.01 a credit. A ten-person agency on Accelerate pays $2,998.80 a year for seats either way. Whether it pays more depends on how often the team records meetings, runs agents and uses Ask AI.

Disclosure: We make Breeze, which competes with Teamwork.com for client project work and is compared below.

Contents

• Plan prices per user
• Seat minimums and free users
• What Accelerate unlocks
• AI credits from November 10
• How far the allowance goes
• A ten-person agency's year
• When a simpler tool is enough
• What switching costs you
• Picking a plan

How much does Teamwork.com cost per user?

Basics is $9.99 and Accelerate $24.99 per user per month on yearly billing. Monthly billing costs $13.99 and $29.99. The Teamwork.com pricing page labels its annual toggle "Save 29%", which is the Basics discount; on Accelerate the saving is about 17%.

The plan names have changed. Basics replaced Deliver, Accelerate replaced Grow and Optimize replaced Scale. Teamwork keeps a separate feature list for accounts still on the older plans, so a price or limit quoted for Grow is not necessarily true of Accelerate.

Free is a working plan rather than a trial: five users, five projects, list, board, table and Gantt views, time logging and 100 automations a month. It has no client users and no AI credit allowance. Basics and Accelerate also come with a 14-day trial that needs no card.

Is there a minimum number of seats?

Yes. Basics starts at three paid seats and Accelerate at five. A two-person studio on Basics pays for three, $359.64 a year. A three-person team that needs Accelerate pays for five, $1,499.40 a year, which works out at $499.80 per person actually using it.

Only staff take a paid seat. Teamwork's license types make client users and collaborators free on paid plans. A client user gets the same project-level permissions as staff, without admin rights, and can join up to five active projects. A collaborator can complete their own tasks and comment, but cannot add tasks or log time.

The billing terms matter if your headcount moves. Monthly subscriptions can be cancelled at any time and run to the end of the paid month. Annual subscriptions are prepaid for the full term. You can upgrade or add seats at any time, while downgrades and seat removals take effect at the next billing cycle or renewal, so a yearly plan bought for ten people stays a ten-seat bill until it renews.

Why do agencies end up on Accelerate?

Because that is where the money side of client work starts. Basics tracks billable and non-billable time against tasks, but timesheets, time budgets, billable rates, invoices and workload planning all begin on Accelerate. The deeper finance and resourcing features sit on Optimize, which has no published price.

For a services team, that table is the real price decision. An agency that bills by the hour and wants timesheets and budget burn in the project tool is choosing Accelerate, not Basics, which moves the seat price from $9.99 to $24.99. An agency that also wants to book people weeks ahead or see margin per client is asking for an Optimize quote.

Accelerate also adds HubSpot, QuickBooks and Xero connections, intake forms with conditional logic, critical path on the Gantt chart and 20,000 automation actions a month, against 5,000 on Basics.

When do Teamwork.com AI credits start, and what do they cost?

On November 10, 2026. From that date, AI that does a job for you draws on a monthly credit allowance, while AI that helps inside a feature stays free. Until then, Teamwork AI is included in every paid plan for an introductory period, and nothing used before the switch is charged.

The credits announcement and the credits overview set out the terms:

• Price: $0.01 a credit, charged in your subscription's currency. Plan prices do not change.
• Allowance: 1,000 credits a month on Basics, 2,500 on Accelerate and 7,500 on Optimize, shared by the whole account. Adding seats does not raise it; moving up a plan does, immediately.
• Annual plans: credits still arrive monthly on your billing date, and unused allowance credits do not roll over.
• Top-ups: also $0.01 a credit, prepaid, valid for six months and used after the monthly allowance. Packs start at one month's allowance for your plan, $10 on Basics, $25 on Accelerate and $75 on Optimize, and rise in $10 steps with no volume discount.
• Running out: only the credit-based features pause, including scheduled agent runs, until the allowance refreshes or someone buys a top-up. Admins and billing contacts get alerts at 85% and 100%.
• Who spends credits: only fully licensed users. Client users and collaborators cannot use AI, so they never touch the balance.

The split between free and metered AI is the part to read closely. Comment and task summaries, the task and project wizards, AI expenses, the formula assistant, workload summaries, smart assign, profitability forecasting and MCP connections to your own assistant never use credits, though which of them you get still depends on the plan. Ask AI, the AI teammates and agents, the meeting notetaker, AI steps in workflows, AI time logging and the allocation assistant all draw on the allowance.

The controls are thinner than some teams will expect at launch. There is no spending limit and no per-person cap, so one heavy user can use the whole account's allowance. Admins can switch AI off for the site and turn scheduled runs off one at a time. A run you cancel or retry still uses credits.

Other vendors meter AI in different ways. monday.com's credit bundles are sold alongside seats, and Atlassian's Rovo allowance scales with each user. The wider AI tools comparison sets the pricing models side by side.

How far does a 2,500-credit allowance go?

That depends mostly on meetings and scheduled agents. Teamwork's credit usage guide gives ranges rather than fixed prices, and these are the ones that move a budget:

• Meeting notetaker: about 80 to 120 credits per meeting hour.
• AI teammates: about 1 to 10 credits for a simple catch-up, 10 to 50 for a project health update, and 50 to 150 for a briefing across several clients. Scheduled runs charge every time they run.
• Ask AI: about 1 to 10 credits for a how-to question, 10 to 30 for an action such as creating tasks from a list, and 30 to 80 for a report that pulls data and runs calculations.
• Workflows and time logging: about 1 to 5 credits for a simple AI workflow run, 5 to 20 for a mid-sized one and more than 20 for a complex one. Standard workflow steps use none. Logging time through chat uses 1 to 5 per request.

Meetings use it fastest. At 100 credits an hour, the middle of the range, Accelerate's 2,500 credits cover 25 hours of recorded meetings a month with nothing left for anything else. On Basics, 1,000 credits would cover 10 hours.

Teamwork says it can change how many credits an action uses as the technology changes, and publishes any change before it applies. Treat the ranges as a planning figure and check the balance in your admin area after the first month.

How big is the bill for a ten-person agency?

On seats alone, $1,198.80 a year on Basics or $2,998.80 on Accelerate with yearly billing, and $1,678.80 or $3,598.80 with monthly billing. Credits only add to that once the team's AI work goes past its allowance.

Here is a sample month for that agency on Accelerate, using the middle of each of Teamwork's ranges. The workload is made up to show the arithmetic; it is not a real team's usage.

At the flat rate, 1,600 extra credits cost $16 a month, or $192 over a year. Top-ups come in packs, though, and the smallest Accelerate pack is $25 for 2,500 credits, valid for six months. Covering 19,200 extra credits a year takes eight packs, $200, so the year comes to $3,198.80 instead of $2,998.80.

That is a small rise, and meetings drive most of it. Double the recorded hours and the monthly overage goes from 1,600 to 4,100 credits. If the team's AI use is mostly summaries, wizards and smart assign, which stay free, the bill does not move at all.

Should a small agency pay for Accelerate at all?

Accelerate is worth considering if your agency needs its timesheets, budgeting, invoicing or other features unavailable on Basics. If you mostly need shared projects, client feedback in one place and logged hours, those extra features may not justify the additional $15 per seat on yearly billing.

That second group is where Breeze fits. Breeze is one plan at $9 per user per month billed yearly, or $10 billed monthly, with every feature included, and you pay only for the people on the team. Client users are free, as they are on Teamwork's paid plans. Time tracking, project budgets and time reports are all in that one plan, where Teamwork starts timesheets and time budgets at Accelerate.

Here is how a client project runs in Breeze, as an example. The account lead sets a project budget in hours and an hourly rate in the project settings. Designers start the timer from the task card, or type "4h" into the time box afterwards, and mark each entry billable or not. The client joins as a client user and comments on the task that holds the draft, instead of replying to an email chain. At month end, the time tracking report shows each project's hours against its budget, and the line turns red once a project runs over. The entries then go out as a CSV file or to FreshBooks for invoicing.

Breeze AI answers questions about that work, such as how much time a client's project used last month, and the Breeze MCP server lets Claude or ChatGPT read and update the same projects. Breeze sells no AI credits for either; an outside assistant is billed by its own maker.

What do you give up by leaving Teamwork.com?

Quite a lot, if the agency uses Accelerate or Optimize the way they are designed to be used. Teamwork is deeper than Breeze on budgets, profitability and resource planning, and no workaround in Breeze closes those gaps.

• Invoicing: Teamwork builds invoices from logged time from Accelerate up. Breeze has no invoices; it exports time or sends it to FreshBooks.
• Budgets and margin: Breeze tracks time against a project budget set in hours and a rate. It does not track costs or expenses against a budget, and it has no retainers and no profitability report by client.
• Resource planning: Breeze's team workload calendar shows who has which tasks by day, week or month, and its reports compare time worked with estimates. It has no placeholders for roles you have not staffed yet, no skills and no allocation of hours against each person's availability.
• Rates and approvals: Breeze sets one hourly rate per project. It has no role or client rate cards and no timesheet approval step.
• Client permissions: Teamwork's client users work in a project much like staff. Breeze client users comment, upload files and can be allowed to move tasks.
• Scope: Breeze is project management software, not a CRM, an ERP or a professional services suite. Teamwork's quotes, tentative projects from a CRM pipeline and Salesforce and NetSuite connections have no Breeze equivalent.

The move has its own cost as well. Breeze imports from Trello, Asana, ClickUp, monday.com, Basecamp, Notion, Airtable and Todoist, but has no direct Teamwork.com importer, so tasks come across through a CSV import and budgets and client access are set up again by hand. The Breeze and Teamwork comparison covers the wider feature differences.

Which Teamwork.com plan fits which kind of services team?

Match the plan to the finance work you want inside the tool, then add credits only if the team leans on meetings and agents.

• Free: up to five people trying Teamwork's structure, without clients in the projects.
• Basics: a team of three or more that wants projects, client users and billable time, and keeps budgets and invoicing somewhere else.
• Accelerate: an agency of five or more that wants timesheets, time budgets and basic invoices next to the work. Set aside something for top-ups if it records a lot of client meetings.
• Optimize: a firm that books people by skill, tracks cost and fixed-fee budgets and reports margin by client. Get the quote before comparing it with anything.
• A simpler tool: a team that mainly needs shared projects, client feedback and hours against a budget. That is where Breeze, or another single-plan tool, costs less than Basics or Accelerate.

For an agency like the sample above, the November change is a small line on the bill. The bigger number is the jump from Basics to Accelerate, so settle that first.

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.