Best project management tools
Per-seat pricing dominates this category, so the entry price is a floor that scales with your team. Every figure below was read from the vendor's own pricing page on the date beside it. The ordering is cheapest entry price first — a basis you can check rather than a ranking you have to trust.
What “best” means on this page
“Best” is not a mood — it is whichever axis you actually care about, measured. Our record can say which tool is cheapest to start, whose free plan is real, who bills local currency and whose prices just moved; it cannot say which tool fits your work, which is what the full comparisons are for. Cheapest never means best — it means cheapest. Each verdict below names its axis, and every tool links to its own site so you can check us against the source. No vendor paid for any position.
Entry at £5.4/mo — the lowest published paid plan in this set. Cheap is a fact, not a verdict; the profile below says what you get for it.
site ↗pricing ↗The free plan runs to two seats — enough to actually run something, not just look.
site ↗pricing ↗Showed us different money in different countries on the same day — measured, not assumed. The profiles carry the figures.
A change only counts once a second clean read agrees. The change log →
Tool by tool
Evernotesite ↗pricing ↗
Paid plans start at £5.4/mo (Starter); no free plan is published. The ladder we hold runs 2 paid tiers, topping out at £12.9/mo (Advanced). It bills by country — entry $8.25/mo to a US reader and €6.65/mo in the eurozone, from our same-day reads. Its published prices moved on 2026-08-28 — the change log holds the rows.
monday.comsite ↗pricing ↗
Paid plans start at £7.8/mo (Basic); no free plan is published. The ladder we hold runs 3 paid tiers, topping out at £17/mo (Pro). It bills by country — entry $9/mo to a US reader and €12/mo in the eurozone, from our same-day reads. The free plan runs to two seats; every paid figure is per seat and multiplies by your team.
Notionsite ↗pricing ↗
Paid plans start at £8.5/mo (Plus); a free plan exists. The ladder we hold runs 2 paid tiers, topping out at £16.5/mo (Business). It bills by country — entry $10/mo to a US reader and €9.5/mo in the eurozone, from our same-day reads.
Side by side
| Tool | Paid from | Free plan | Currency | Read | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evernote | £5.4/mo | — | GBP | 2026-08-29 | page |
| monday.com | £7.8/mo | — | GBP | 2026-08-29 | page |
| Notion | £8.5/mo | Yes | GBP | 2026-08-29 | page |
How to choose in this category
- Nearly everything here is per seat — multiply by the team before comparing.
- Free tiers cap different things: seats on some tools, features on others. Check which.
- Billed-monthly rates sit above the advertised annual-billed figures.