awork vs Teamwork.com

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• Agencies that plan client projects around team capacity
• Teams that track time against project and retainer budgets
• Companies that want a GDPR-compliant tool hosted in Germany

Teamwork.com

• Agencies and consultancies that bill clients for tracked time
• Service businesses that plan team capacity and utilization
• Groups of up to 5 people who can start on the Free plan

awork

• There is no free plan: after the 14-day trial every internal team member needs a paid license.
• The workload view, absences and automations start at Standard, and private projects need Professional.
• Single sign-on and SCIM are limited to the Enterprise plans.
• awork AI is a separate subscription from $18 per user / month, and every active user in the workspace needs at least the Starter tier.

Teamwork.com

• Paid plans have seat minimums: 3 users on Basics and 5 on Accelerate.
• The Free plan stops at 5 users, 5 projects and 100 MB of file storage.
• Optimize and Enterprise have no published price, and single sign-on is limited to Enterprise or a separate add-on.
• The Windows and macOS desktop apps do not support offline use, according to Teamwork.com's support site.

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Boards, lists and timelines

Project tasks can be worked on a kanban board, in a classic list or on a visual timeline that shows timings and dependencies.

Capacity planning

The planner shows free hours per person from working hours, absences, regional public holidays and synced calendars. The workload view starts at Standard.

Time tracking and reports

Time is tracked inside the project workflow and compared with budgets, including retainer budgets. Global time reports are part of Professional.

awork Connect

Projects can be shared with clients, partners and freelancers at no charge. Each outside person gets a free workspace and a role that limits what they can see and do.

Automations and templates

Recurring workflows are set up without code: 1 automation per project on Standard and unlimited on Professional. Templates rise from 1 on Basic to 6 on Standard.

awork AI

A separate add-on with an AI chat, custom agents and a choice of language models that works from project context and respects access rights.

Teamwork.com

List, board, table and Gantt views

Projects can be worked as a task list, a kanban board, a table or a Gantt chart on every plan, including Free.

Time tracking and invoicing

Time is logged against tasks as billable or non-billable. Basics reports on billable time, and Accelerate builds client invoices from the time logged.

Workload and capacity planning

From Accelerate, managers plan team workloads and see live capacity. Optimize adds tentative projects and scheduling by role or skill.

Budgets and profitability

Accelerate handles time budgets and retainers. Optimize adds quotes, multi-currency financial budgets and revenue, cost and profitability insights.

Automations and intake forms

Automations are capped by plan: 100 on Free, 5,000 on Basics, 20,000 on Accelerate and 100,000 on Optimize. Intake forms for work requests start at Accelerate.

TeamworkAI

AI summaries, a project and task wizard and assistants such as Scout and Flo are included in paid plans for an introductory period, with usage-based AI credits to follow.

awork

• Basic$6

  per user / month, billed annually ($8 billed monthly)

  Recommended for 1 to 5 users. Unlimited projects, time tracking, a personal planner, desktop and mobile apps, 1 template and 1 custom field.

• Standard$12

  per user / month, billed annually ($16 billed monthly)

  Recommended for 2 to 20 users. Adds capacity planning with a workload view, team structure, absences, 6 templates and 1 automation per project.

• Professional$22

  per user / month, billed annually ($25 billed monthly)

  Recommended for 5 to 100 users. Adds private projects, unlimited custom fields and automations, global time reports, a custom subdomain and phone support.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Recommended for 100+ users. Adds single sign-on and SCIM, premium SLAs, data migration, customer success support and payment by invoice.

• awork AI Starter (add-on)$18

  per user / month, on top of an awork plan

  1,750 AI credits per user each month for AI chat and agents. Higher tiers run up to AI Max at $140 with 16,000 credits.

Teamwork.com

• Free$0

  Up to 5 users and 5 projects, 100 MB of storage, 100 automations, time logging, and list, board, table and Gantt views.

• Basics$9.99

  per user / month, billed yearly ($13.99 billed monthly)

  Minimum 3 users. 300 projects, 100 GB of storage, unlimited project templates, and billable time tracking and reporting.

• Accelerate$24.99

  per user / month, billed yearly ($29.99 billed monthly)

  Minimum 5 users. 600 projects, intake forms, 20,000 automations, workload and capacity planning, retainers, and invoices built from logged time.

• OptimizeCustom

  Unlimited projects, quotes, 100,000 automations, resource scheduling by role or skill, financial budgets and profitability reporting.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Everything in Optimize plus single sign-on, advanced security controls, a dedicated success manager and priority support.

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• Annual discount

  Lower per-user price with annual billing

  Basic is $6 per user / month billed annually against $8 billed monthly, Standard $12 against $16 and Professional $22 against $25. A 2-year term is also discounted.

• Nonprofit

  Discounted or free licenses for nonprofits

  awork offers discounted or free licenses to non-profit and social projects. An application form is required, and awork decides whether a project is eligible.

• Other savings

  Volume discounts from 50 users

  The pricing FAQ says quantity discounts are available from 50 users, with the price agreed on a call with the sales team.

Teamwork.com

• Annual discount

  Save about 29% with yearly billing

  The pricing page advertises a 29% saving for annual billing: Basics is $9.99 per user / month billed yearly against $13.99 billed monthly. On Accelerate the gap is $24.99 against $29.99.

• Startups

  Teamwork.com products free for one year

  Teamwork for Startups gives approved startups the Basics plan, or its equivalent, of each product free for one year. Eligibility depends on time in business, revenue and employee numbers.