Teamwork.com vs Worksection

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

Worksection

• Agencies and service teams that bill clients by the hour
• Teams of up to 5 that can work within two projects for free
• Teams that want task discussion and chat in one tool

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.

Worksection

• The Free plan is capped at 5 users, 2 projects and 1 GB, and leaves out the Gantt chart, reports and time tracking.
• The Gantt chart, time and cost tracking, guest access, 2FA and the API all start on Business, at $7.5 per seat / month billed annually.
• No desktop app is listed, and the help center says Worksection cannot be installed on your own server.
• The plan comparison marks several items as coming soon, including project templates, custom fields and the Zoom integration.

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.

Worksection

Task views

Project tasks can be shown as a table, a kanban board, a calendar or a Gantt chart, with two levels of subtasks, checklists, priorities and saved filter views.

Gantt chart and dependencies

Projects, tasks and subtasks each get a draggable time bar, tasks can be linked as dependencies, and a per-person view shows workload. Needs Business or Premium.

Time and cost tracking

A task timer, hourly rates and planned-versus-actual cost reports support hourly billing. These tools start on the Business plan.

Built-in messenger

Private, group and project chats sit beside task comments, with mentions, scheduled messages and file sharing. Chat is included on every plan.

Dashboards and reports

Each member gets a widget dashboard. Paid plans add project dashboards and reports by task, project and team member, with export to Excel and CSV.

Roles, guests and privacy

Teams and read-only users come with Basic. Guest access, departments, and private tasks and comments need Business or Premium.

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.

Worksection

• Free$0

  Up to 5 users, 2 projects and 1 GB of storage. Task lists, checklists, kanban boards, calendar view, chat and the mobile apps.

• Basic$3.75

  per seat / month, billed annually; $5 billed monthly

  Unlimited projects and 2 GB per seat. Adds teams, read-only access, advanced filters, project dashboards, reports, recurring tasks and Slack.

• Business$7.5

  per seat / month, billed annually; $10 billed monthly

  5 GB per seat. Adds the Gantt chart, time and cost tracking, guest access, private tasks, status-based automations, AI search, 2FA and the API.

• Premium$11.25

  per seat / month, billed annually; $15 billed monthly

  10 GB per seat. Adds Project Kanban, enforced 2FA, IP restrictions, external file storage on S3 or FTP, and on-premise backups.

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.

Worksection

• Annual discount

  25% off with annual billing

  The pricing page shows a 25% discount for paying annually: Basic is $3.75 per seat a month instead of $5, Business $7.5 instead of $10 and Premium $11.25 instead of $15.