Hive vs Basecamp 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
- 1,000 AI credits / month
- 200MB storage
- Up to 10 workspace members
- Unlimited tasks
- Unlimited collaborative notes
- Work your way views
- Email in Hive
- Native chat messaging
Starter
- 3,000 AI credits / month
- Unlimited storage
- Up to 10 workspace members
- Up to 10 projects
- Gantt view
- Cloud storage integrations
- In-app calendar
- Zoom & Slack from Hive
- AI Assistant
Teams
Popular- 5,000 AI credits / month
- Unlimited workspace members
- Flexible add-ons (extra)
- Shareable forms
- Time tracking
- Portfolios
- Team sharing
- Custom fields, labels and statuses
Enterprise
- Custom AI credits
- Flexible add-ons included
- Enhanced security & permission controls
- Unlimited onboarding
- Dedicated Customer Success Manager
- Enterprise API
- Access to Professional Services
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
Hive vs Basecamp FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Hive starts lower at $5/mo, compared to $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. Hive uses per-seat pricing, while Basecamp goes with hybrid. That changes the math depending on your team size and usage.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Hive: Hive is playing the affordable challenger card against Asana and Monday.com, which regularly run $10–$25+ per seat at comparable tiers. At $5 for Starter, they're undercutting most mid-market PM tools and clearly targeting teams that find Asana's pricing hard to justify — this is a 'same job, lower bill' pitch. 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.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for Hive and Basecamp and let you know when something moves.