Basecamp vs Wrike Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Free
- Run 1 project free forever
- 1 GB of storage
- Up to 20 users
Pro Unlimited
- Unlimited projects
- 5 terabytes storage space (10x Pro)
- Fixed price — no per-user charges
- Includes Admin Pro Pack upgrade
- Includes Timesheet upgrade
- Personal onboarding with our team
- Priority 24/7/365 customer support, your questions get answered first
- More payment options including credit card, check, ACH, or wire
- Extended 60-day free trial
Pro
- Unlimited projects
- 500 GB storage space
- Pay-per-user
- Optional upgrades sold separately
- Self-guided onboarding
- 24/7/365 customer support
- Pay by credit card
- 30-day free trial
Free
- Web, desktop, and mobile apps
- Project & task management
- Board view
- Table view
- Active task limitations apply
Team
- 2 to 15 users
- AI Essentials
- Shareable dashboard
- Interactive Gantt charts
- Custom fields and workflows
Business
- 5 to 200 users
- AI Elite features
- Templatize your work
- Standard integration
- Resource and capacity planning
- Workflow customizations
Pinnacle
Popular- AI Elite features
- Advanced resource and capacity planning
- Budgeting (track financials)
- Advanced reporting and BI
- Single sign-on SSO
- Advanced security and compliance
- Wrike Datahub (10K records)
Apex
- AI Elite features
- Unlimited Whiteboards
- Integrations and automations with Wrike Integrate
- Bi-directional integrations with third-party solutions with Wrike Sync
- Wrike Datahub (30M records)
Basecamp vs Wrike FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Wrike is the cheaper option, starting at $10/mo vs $15/mo for Basecamp.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Both offer free plans, so you can try each without paying. Start with whichever fits your workflow better and upgrade when you hit the limits.
- How do they charge?
- Different approach here. Basecamp uses hybrid pricing, while Wrike goes with per-seat. That changes the math depending on your team size and usage.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Basecamp: They're not competing on price at the low end — $15/user puts them in the same ballpark as Asana and Monday. The real play is Pro Unlimited at $299 flat, which is a direct shot at mid-size teams getting nickel-and-dimed by per-seat tools. They're positioning as the anti-Jira for teams tired of watching their PM bill scale with every new hire. Wrike: At $10-$25 for paid tiers, Wrike sits in the middle of the project management pack — more expensive than Asana's starter but competitive with Monday.com at similar feature depth. They're clearly targeting mid-market and enterprise, not trying to win on price against tools like ClickUp.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for Basecamp and Wrike and let you know when something moves.