Alternatives to Teamwork.com
Teamwork alternatives: the client work is on the tier above.
People look for Teamwork alternatives because of the tiers.
Teamwork.com
Spodus- Seat minimum
- 3 on the first paid plan, 5 on the next
- None on Free (up to 3), 5 on paid plans
- Billing from tracked time, retainers and profitability
- Second and third paid tiers
- Included
- AI credits metered
- Usage-based, announced for 2026
- Monthly credits per seat, top-ups if you run out
- Gantt charts and dependencies
- Included
- Not offered
What actually pushes people off Teamwork.
Three mechanics, all on their pricing page, none of them the product.
Seats have a floor
The free plan stops at five people.
Teamwork task management is on every plan. The billing is not.
Time tracking and Gantt charts are on every plan, the free one included.
The CRM is a connector, and the AI becomes a meter
There is no Teamwork CRM product any more.
What a Spodus seat is instead.
One flat floor, not one per tier, and the CRM already in it.
One flat floor, no per-tier climb
Every paid plan starts at a three-seat floor — not three seats on one tier and five on the next — and Free takes up to three people.
The CRM is not an integration
Contacts, companies, deals and pipelines are one of the five products, on every plan.
Tasks, boards and invoices on the record
Boards, tables and calendars work over tasks, subtasks and any custom object, with dashboards and automations on every plan.
What you would be giving up.
Teamwork.com is a better project tool than Spodus, and the gap is widest in planning.
Side by side.
| Spodus | Teamwork.com | |
|---|---|---|
| Seat minimum | None on Free (up to 3), 5 on paid plans | 3 on the first paid plan, 5 on the next |
| Gantt charts and dependencies | ||
| Billing from tracked time, retainers and profitability | Included | Second and third paid tiers |
| Time tracking and timesheets | Timer, timesheets, hours to invoice | |
| Resource scheduling and workload | Second paid tier and above | |
| Purpose-built CRM | HubSpot or Salesforce connector, by tier | |
| Invoicing, tax rates and recurring schedules | Full invoicing on the second paid tier | |
| Help desk with SLAs and a portal | Teamwork Desk, separate product | |
| HR, time off and org chart | ||
| AI credits metered | Monthly credits per seat, top-ups if you run out | Usage-based, announced for 2026 |
Teamwork.com's pricing structure above was read from their own pricing page on 11 September 2026. Spodus is priced per seat, from a three-seat minimum; customers in the support portal are free.
Projects and tasks come over. Hours do not.
Export projects and tasks from Teamwork to CSV or Excel and import them onto a Spodus object, with statuses kept.
Thinking about the rest of the stack?
The same honest read on the other tools teams try to leave.
Two ways
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Start fresh today, or bring the clients, deals and history you already have.
Start fresh
Free for up to three people.
You get every product: CRM, invoicing, support, team, chat and Spodus AI, which asks before it changes anything. Upgrade when your team grows.
Start for freeBring your data
Bring your data from the tool you use now.
Your deals arrive with their stages, owners and dates. Connect your work email, and each client's emails land on their record. On a paid plan, we'll move it all for you, free.
Try it before you cancel anything.
Start today, or bring your own data to a demo and see it there.
Questions, answered
Partly. Tasks, subtasks, boards, tables, calendars, dashboards and automations are here, on every plan, over the same client record as the deal and the invoice. A Gantt chart with dependencies, milestones and workload planning are not. Billing from tracked hours, retainers and profit per project are. If the project side of Teamwork is task lists, boards and time billing, Spodus covers it. If it is the Gantt, it does not.
Productive and Teamwork both bill from tracked time and report profitability, with Productive built for agency finance and Teamwork built around project delivery. Spodus bills from tracked time too, with retainers and profit per project, and adds the CRM, support and HR on the same client record. What it lacks is Gantt charts and resource planning. If those decide it, choose between Productive and Teamwork.
On paid plans, three seats — not three on one tier and five on the next. Free takes up to three people. Past that floor, seats are bought one at a time at the same rate. Nothing about headcount decides your plan beyond the floor: the plans differ by records, storage, automation allowance, workspaces and the admin and team controls a larger company needs.
Yes, by CSV or Excel, project by project. Tasks land on a Spodus object with statuses and assignees mapped, and clients land as companies and contacts with duplicate detection. Time entries have nowhere to land, so the hours start again here.