ClickUp will give you more ways to look at a task than anyone. The question this page answers is where the conversation lives — because on their side chat arrived as another module, and on ours the work grows out of it.
Capability by capability
Every line about ClickUp was read on its own pages on 24 September 2026. Where we are still building something, the table says so.
| ClickUp |  |
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|---|---|---|
| Conversation | ||
| Chat on the free plan | Trial access only, with 30 days of message history | The chat is the product’s spine, with 6 months of history on Free |
| Chat on a paid plan | Unlimited messages and history from Unlimited up | Unlimited history from Workspace up, with threads, voice notes, transcription and translation |
| Guests | On Free a guest must be given full access with no permissions; permission-controlled guests start at Unlimited | One per user on Free, two on Workspace, three on Business OS, each in one named channel with one project on Boards |
| From talk to work | ||
| Views on the work | List, board, calendar and more; Gantt from Unlimited up, trial only on Free | Kanban, list, table and Gantt on Boards; 2 boards on Free |
| Collaboration whiteboards | 3 whiteboards on Free, 10 on Unlimited | — we do not have them |
| Repeatable processes | Automation rules: 5 active and 100 runs on Free, 500 and 1,000 on Unlimited, rules uncapped and 5,000 runs a month on Business | Workflow templates from Workspace: steps, configurable deadlines, a person or department answering for each stage, conditions that branch the path |
| People and focus | ||
| Your day on one screen | Dashboards are trial-only on Free and Unlimited; the full version starts at Business | A dashboard on every plan, built on the Eisenhower matrix, plus the work about to reach you when the person ahead finishes |
| Time tracking | Native time tracking from Unlimited up | — planned for a higher plan than the three sold today |
| Culture, clients, tickets | ||
| Feedback, kudos, eNPS, pulse surveys | Not in the product | Feedback Friday, kudos and surveys from Free; pulse surveys and eNPS from Workspace |
| Clients and tickets | Built by hand out of lists, custom fields and templates — there is no separate CRM or help desk | CRM, ticketing and email are in development, joining Business OS rather than arriving as a separate product |
| Where it runs | ||
| Whose law the company answers to | An American company | A Polish company on European infrastructure at OVHcloud, on every plan |
Sources: ClickUp pricing · ClickUp: user roles and limits. Checked against ClickUp’s own pages on 24 September 2026.
Giving the point away
Three of them, and none is a throwaway. If these are what your team runs on, ClickUp is the right answer and we would rather you knew now.
List, board, calendar, Gantt, mind maps, whiteboards. If your team argues about how to look at the same work, ClickUp settles it and we do not try to compete there.
500 active rules on Unlimited, and on Business the rules stop being counted at all — 5,000 runs a month. Our workflow templates carry a process; they are not an automation engine, and we would rather say so.
Unlimited custom fields from Unlimited up, with forms feeding them. A team that models its own data in the tool will hit our limits before it hits theirs.
Where the difference shows
In ClickUp chat arrived beside the tasks and stays trial-only on the free plan, with 30 days of history. In taos the conversation is where the work starts, which is why a message becomes a task and the task’s comments come back to the channel.
A reminder, an event in a calendar — yours or somebody else’s — or a task on Boards in the project you pick, on every plan. Not a separate object you go and create somewhere else and then link back.
Switch between client organisations without logging out, with every notification from every module in one list, whatever your role in each. An agency with eight clients does not keep eight tabs open.
Feedback Friday, kudos and surveys from the free plan; pulse surveys and eNPS from Workspace. ClickUp has no answer here at all — it is a work-management tool, and this is not the work.
One channel and one project on Boards, from the free plan up. On ClickUp’s free plan a guest has to be handed full access with no permissions at all.
A Polish company on European infrastructure at OVHcloud, on every plan — not a setting you find in a higher tier of a company registered somewhere else.