# SmartSuite > No-code work platform built on linked tables, views and automations SmartSuite is a no-code work management platform in which teams build Solutions: sets of linked tables with their own views, automations, dashboards and permissions. It ships more than 200 templates for projects, IT service, risk and compliance and business operations. Plans are priced per seat with minimums, and read-only users, commenters and people filling in forms are not billed. - **Category:** Project Management - **Made by:** SmartSuite Holdings, Inc. (since 2021) - **Website:** https://www.smartsuite.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026 ## Pricing SmartSuite is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $15 per seat / month, billed annually ($20 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial of Professional, no credit card required and no automatic charge. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Team | $15 per seat / month, billed annually ($20 billed monthly) | Minimum 3 billable users. 5,000 records per Solution, 50 GB of storage, 25,000 automation runs and API calls a month, 1 year of history. | | Professional | $32 per seat / month, billed annually ($36 billed monthly) | Minimum 5 billable users. 100,000 records per Solution, 100 GB, 100,000 runs a month, folders, Gmail and Outlook, advanced permissions. | | Enterprise | Custom | 400,000 records per Solution, 500 GB and 500,000 runs a month, with SSO, SCIM, audit logs, DLP, EU data residency and a HIPAA BAA. | | Signature | Custom | Priced per solution rather than per user, for organizations rolling a solution such as GRC or ITSM out to hundreds or thousands of people. | Read from https://www.smartsuite.com/pricing on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with SmartSuite before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Lower per-seat rates on annual billing** (Annual discount): Billed annually, Team is $15 per seat a month instead of $20 and Professional is $32 instead of $36. Source: https://www.smartsuite.com/pricing ## Key features - **Solutions and linked tables:** Model work as tables of records with more than 40 field types and links between tables, grouped into Solutions that can start from 200+ templates. - **Grid, kanban, Gantt and other views:** Show the same records as a grid, kanban board, calendar, timeline, Gantt chart or map, and build dashboards from widgets. - **Automations:** Triggers, conditions and multi-step actions run routine work; plans allow 25,000, 100,000 or 500,000 automation runs and API calls a month. - **AI copilot and agents:** The Workflow Builder Copilot creates tables, fields and views from a written prompt, and AI agents can make choices and generate content inside workflows. - **Forms and collaboration:** Branded forms collect records from people who are not billed, and comments with @mentions, record following and notifications keep discussion on the record. - **Permissions and history:** Account, Solution and record permissions on every plan, field and view permissions from Professional, and change history kept 1, 2 or 3 years by plan. ## Good for - Teams that want Airtable-style tables with project views and automations - Risk, compliance and IT teams starting from ready-made templates - Organizations with many viewers and form submitters who should not need paid seats ## Worth knowing - There is no free plan; Team needs at least 3 billable users and Professional at least 5. - Team is capped at 5,000 records per Solution; at the limit you cannot add records until you upgrade. - Two-factor authentication starts on Professional, and SSO, SCIM, audit logs and HIPAA support are Enterprise only. - When the trial ends without a plan, the account is disabled, though its data is kept. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. SmartSuite is an Airtable-style kit: linked tables you shape into project trackers, IT desks or risk registers, shown as grids, boards, Gantt charts and dashboards, with automations doing the dull bits. Over 200 templates help you start. There's no free plan, though, and Team bills at least 3 seats at $15 each, even if it's just you. - **Value for money: C.** Team is $15 a seat a month billed yearly, $20 monthly, above this category's dear quarter but short of its dearest tenth. It bills at least 3 seats, so you pay for three even on your own. Viewers, commenters and people filling in forms are free, which softens it. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but a 14-day trial of Professional with no card and no automatic charge. If it ends without a plan, the account is switched off, though your data is kept. - **Features: B.** The whole job and more: 40+ field types in linked tables, grid, kanban, calendar, timeline, Gantt and map views, dashboards, multi-step automations, branded forms and an AI copilot that builds tables from a prompt. Team does cap a Solution at 5,000 records. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record, and this is a kit you build before you use: tables, links, views and automations. The 200+ templates and the copilot get you a first draft quickly. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, Salesforce, HubSpot, Gmail, Zapier and Make, and a REST API. No desktop app, which is what keeps it off an A. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from SmartSuite's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among project management tools - SmartSuite's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 20 of the 79 other project management tools we grade, and level with 21. - It stands best on features (B, above 27 of 79) and worst on ease of use (C, above 2). - Its paid plans start at $15 a month for each person, against a middle price of $8 for the category: 61 of the 74 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 26 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/project-management ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace SmartSuite 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: 38 of the 79 other project management tools grade higher. It costs $180 a year. - You could make: Kanban boards and Gantt & timelines: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: A builder that other people can use without writing code. - You could not: Databases with views, filters and links between them. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: Hooks into the device itself: widgets. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: roles and permissions. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira Cloud, Salesforce, HubSpot, Gmail, Zapier, Make **Tags:** Databases, Workflow automation, No-code, Kanban boards, Gantt & timelines, AI features, Public API ## Alternatives - [Airtable](https://toolgpa.com/tools/airtable): Relational database platform for building team workflows and apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/airtable-vs-smartsuite) - [monday.com](https://toolgpa.com/tools/monday): Board-based work management with automations and dashboards. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/monday-vs-smartsuite) - [Smartsheet](https://toolgpa.com/tools/smartsheet): Spreadsheet-style project and work management for teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/smartsheet-vs-smartsuite) - [ClickUp](https://toolgpa.com/tools/clickup): Work platform combining tasks, docs, chat and dashboards. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/clickup-vs-smartsuite) - [Fibery](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fibery): Build-your-own work platform on connected databases. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fibery-vs-smartsuite) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026: - https://www.smartsuite.com/pricing - https://www.smartsuite.com/platform - https://www.smartsuite.com/integrations - https://www.smartsuite.com/about-us Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/smartsuite Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).