Alternatives to ClickUp
ClickUp alternatives: everything, and then a bill for the rest.
ClickUp's pitch is that it does everything.
ClickUp
Spodus- AI sold on top of the seat
- Per-user add-on
- Credits included per seat
- Automations
- Monthly execution allowance per tier
- Included, monthly run allowance
- Dashboards
- Trial below Business
- Every plan
- Whiteboards and sprints
- Included
- Not offered
What actually pushes people off ClickUp.
Not the features.
AI is a separate per-user add-on
Brain is priced per user on top of the seat, so the AI that carried the demo is a second per-head subscription rather than something your plan includes.
Automation executions are counted
Each tier carries a monthly execution allowance, and the allowance is the thing that runs out rather than the feature that fails.
The good parts are gated or on trial
Dashboards and timelines are trials below the business tier, and custom field management, permission granularity and guest controls all move with the plan.
What a Spodus seat is instead.
Narrower on purpose, and nothing sold on top of the seat.
Nothing stacked on the seat
There is no per-user add-on in Spodus, for AI or anything else.
Dashboards and automations on every plan
Dashboards are not a trial and automations are not a tier.
Five business products, not one enormous one
The pipeline, the invoice, the ticket queue, the employee record and the team chat are separate finished products that share one set of records.
What you would be giving up.
ClickUp does far more inside project management than Spodus does, and some of it we will never do.
Side by side.
| Spodus | ClickUp | |
|---|---|---|
| AI sold on top of the seat | Credits included per seat | Per-user add-on |
| Automations | Included, monthly run allowance | Monthly execution allowance per tier |
| Whiteboards and sprints | ||
| Time tracking and timesheets | Timer, timesheets, hours to invoice | |
| Dashboards | Every plan | Trial below Business |
| Purpose-built CRM | Build it yourself | |
| Invoicing, tax rates and recurring schedules | ||
| Help desk with SLAs and a portal |
ClickUp's pricing structure above was read from their own pricing page on 28 August 2026. Spodus is priced per seat, from a three-seat minimum; customers in the support portal are free.
Lists become objects, tasks become records.
A ClickUp list exports to CSV and lands as a Spodus custom object with your custom fields mapped across and statuses preserved.
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Questions, answered
Yes. Spodus AI answers from your own records and can act on them. Every plan includes monthly credits, and an admin can buy more if you run out. It always asks before it writes, so it is not an autonomous agent generating content unattended; if that is specifically what you were paying ClickUp extra for, check the workspace-agent list before you move.
Yes: a running timer, weekly timesheets with admin approval, billable and cost rates, and billable hours that become invoice lines. Spodus also reports utilisation and profit per project and per client. ClickUp's time tooling is still the deeper one, so compare the reports you rely on before you move.
Narrower, which usually reads as simpler. Five defined products with defined jobs rather than one surface that can be shaped into anything. Teams who wanted the shapelessness will miss it; teams who lost a month to configuring it usually do not.
Yes. Export lists to CSV and import them onto Spodus objects, mapping custom fields and statuses as you go. Assignees match on email address.