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Basecamp
Flat-fee project management, on purpose
Free trialProject ManagementSince 2004
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What Basecamp is
Message boards, to-dos, docs and chat with a deliberately small feature set and a flat unlimited-users price on the Pro plan.
What Basecamp has cost
We have read this pricing page 3 times since Aug 2026. Each figure below was pulled from the page itself, not from a summary of it.
- $15/moAug 2026 · Pro · 1 reading · source
The entry plan changed name here, from Pro to Freelancer. That is a different plan, so the two prices are not a rise or a cut.
$25/moAug 2026 – Sept 2026 · Freelancer · 2 readings · source
Gaps are ours, not the vendor's: where a capture was unreadable, or the price could not be tied to a plan at all, no reading was recorded rather than a guess. See every price change we can stand behind.
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Basecamp alternatives
Other tools in project management that cover similar ground. Full comparison.
Where Basecamp sits on price
Entry prices across Project Management, cheapest first.
12 of these 12 prices were read from the vendor's own pricing page. The median is taken across the 12 verified prices in Project Management. Showing the 10 cheapest.
Basecamp pricing questions
- How much does Basecamp cost?
- Basecamp starts at $25 a month on its Freelancer plan, billed monthly. That figure was read from basecamp.com's own pricing page on 21 September 2026.
- Does Basecamp have a free plan?
- No ongoing free plan. Basecamp offers a free trial, after which a paid plan is required.
- What is Basecamp used for?
- Message boards, to-dos, docs and chat with a deliberately small feature set and a flat unlimited-users price on the Pro plan. People mainly use it to manage projects, communicate with clients, assign tasks.
- What are the best alternatives to Basecamp?
- The closest alternatives in the same category are Notion, Linear, Asana, monday.com. Notion starts lower at $0 a month; Linear starts lower at $10 a month; Asana starts lower at $13.49 a month; monday.com starts lower at $9 a month. Notion, Linear, Asana and monday.com publish a free plan.