# PingCode review (2026): is the free plan enough? > R&D management suite for products, projects, tests and wikis Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. PingCode is a collaboration and DevOps platform for research and development teams. It is sold as modules for product ideas (Ship), projects, test management (Testhub), wiki, analytics and team collaboration, and the project module covers Scrum, Kanban, waterfall and hybrid methods. The price list on the site is for mainland China only. - **Category:** Project Management - **Made by:** PingCode - **Website:** https://pingcode.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want one global price, as the yuan prices apply only to mainland China. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, PingCode has a free plan, and paid plans start at ￥99 per user / year for Teams, mainland China price. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Free forever for up to 25 users on the cloud: all modules, with usage limits. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | ￥0 | Free forever for up to 25 users. Cloud only. | | Business: Teams | ￥99 per user / year, 10 users minimum | The team collaboration module. Mainland China price; volume steps above 100 users are quoted. | | Business: Ship | ￥299 per user / year, 10 users minimum | Product and idea management with customer feedback, prioritization and release management. | | Business: Testhub | ￥299 per user / year, 10 users minimum | Test plans, test cases, bug management and automatic test reports. | | Business: Wiki | ￥399 per user / year, 10 users minimum | Documents, whiteboards and tables with multi-person editing and document security control. | | Business: Project | ￥499 per user / year, 10 users minimum | Scrum, Kanban, waterfall and hybrid project management with portfolios and resources. | Read from https://pingcode.com/en/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with PingCode before buying. ## Key features - **Product and idea management:** Ship collects customer feedback, ranks and schedules ideas and links them to delivery and release or version management. - **Project management:** Supports Scrum, Kanban, waterfall and hybrid development models, with portfolios, resources and CI/CD integration. - **Test management:** Testhub handles test plans, test cases and bug tracking, linked to ideas and tasks, and generates test reports automatically. - **Wiki:** Docs, whiteboards and tables with multi-person editing, document security control and links into the R&D process. - **Analytics and automation:** Efficiency measurement, team goals and process automation, plus directory services and third-party integrations. - **Cloud or private deployment:** Business plans run on the cloud, while the Enterprise edition is listed as private deployment only. ## Good for - R&D and software teams that want ideas, projects and tests in one suite - Teams of up to 25 that fit the free cloud plan - Companies in mainland China buying by the module ## Worth knowing - The page says its prices apply only to mainland China; other regions must contact sales, so these yuan figures are not a global list price. - Business plans are priced per module, per user per year, with a minimum purchase of 10 users; Insight, Flow and Access are further modules at ￥299, ￥299 and ￥99. - Prices above 100 users are quoted by sales, and Enterprise (private deployment) has no listed price. - The free plan covers 25 users and is cloud only. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. PingCode splits R&D work into modules for product, projects, tests and a wiki, with a free plan for up to 25 users. The yuan prices on the page apply only to mainland China, and the rest of the world has to ask sales. - **Value for money: C.** Prices are per module, per user, per year in yuan, from ￥99 for Teams, and the page says they apply to mainland China only. Elsewhere you ask sales. - **Free plan and trial: B.** Free forever for up to 25 users on the cloud, with all modules and usage limits. - **Features: C.** Product and idea management, projects, test management, wiki and automation. Each is a separately priced module. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You pick and configure modules before it is useful. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web app, cloud or private deployment, with no integrations listed on the pages read. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from PingCode's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among project management tools - PingCode's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 38 of the 149 other project management tools we grade, and level with 31. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 101 of 149) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 1). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/project-management ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace PingCode you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 80 of the 149 other project management tools grade higher. - You could make: Issue tracking, kanban boards, Gantt & timelines and wiki: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: Sharing with other people, which means accounts and invitations. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Issue tracking, Kanban boards, Gantt & timelines, Wiki, Workflow automation, AI features ## Alternatives - [ONES](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ones): Project and wiki management for software teams, cloud or on-prem. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ones-vs-pingcode) - [Jira](https://toolgpa.com/tools/jira): Issue and project tracking for software and business teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/jira-vs-pingcode) - [Yodiz](https://toolgpa.com/tools/yodiz): Agile planning and issue tracking with a free plan for 3 users. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pingcode-vs-yodiz) - [IBM Targetprocess](https://toolgpa.com/tools/targetprocess): Strategic portfolio management that links plans to spend. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pingcode-vs-targetprocess) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://pingcode.com/en/pricing - https://pingcode.com/pricing - https://pingcode.com/en Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/pingcode Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).