Spodus vs Trello
A pipeline is not a card on a board.
Trello applies one idea, the board, to everything.
Trello
Spodus- Starting price
- $5/user/mo, Standard, annual
- Quoted per seat — one rate at any size
- Calendar & table views
- Premium and above
- Every plan
- Records with real fields
- Cards with custom fields
- Included
- Purpose-built CRM
- Not offered
- Included
What sets us apart
Trello does one job. Spodus does five.
Everything you'd bolt onto Trello, and pay for separately, is already in one Spodus seat.
Trello
The boards tool
- $5 per user a month on Standard, $10 on Premium, both billed annually.
- Everything is a card, so a deal, an invoice and a ticket are the same object with different text.
- Calendar, timeline and table views start at Premium, not on Standard.
- Partner Power-Ups can carry their own subscription on top of the seat.
Spodus
The whole suite, one seat
- One rate per seat, billed annually, with a five-seat minimum and no packs.
- Records, not cards. A deal has a value and a stage; an invoice has a balance and a due date.
- Every view in every plan. Board, table and calendar are not a tier you climb to.
- Five products included, with nothing to bolt on and nothing extra to subscribe to.
What the bill is counted by
Cheap per seat, still per seat.
Trello Standard is $5 per user a month and Premium is $10, so ten people is $50 or $100 before any CRM, invoicing, help desk or inbox exists.
Trello figures are their own published prices as of August 2026.
A Spodus bill has one meter.
- Seats, and only seats: the people you give a login.
- Not contacts, not the customers in your portal, not payroll headcount.
- No packs, no bands. The eleventh person is one more seat.
- One rate covers all five products. A plan sets limits and controls, never which products you get.
The argument
Why teams switch.
Three arguments for moving off Trello, the row-by-row table behind them, and one argument against.
- 01
Objects that know what they are
An invoice with a balance, a deal with a close date, a ticket with an SLA timer. A card can be labelled any of those; it cannot behave like them.
- 02
No view sitting behind a tier
Trello puts calendar, timeline and table on Premium. Board, table and calendar are in every Spodus plan.
- 03
One subscription, not a stack of Power-Ups
The things you would add to Trello to approximate a business, and the partner Power-Ups you would pay for, are already products here.
Side by side.
Row by row, with Trello’s own published plans in the right-hand column.
| Spodus | Trello | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Quoted per seat — one rate at any size | $5/user/mo, Standard, annual |
| Board view | ||
| Calendar & table views | Every plan | Premium and above |
| Records with real fields | Cards with custom fields | |
| Purpose-built CRM | ||
| Invoicing & finance | ||
| HR & people | ||
| Help desk | ||
| Shared inbox |
Trello plans and pricing reflect publicly listed information as of August 2026. Spodus is priced per seat; customers in the support portal are free.
The honest part
Being fair about it.
Where Trello fits better: it is simpler, and that is a real feature.
Isn't Trello much cheaper?
Per seat, yes. As a total, usually not: Trello does not invoice anyone, answer a ticket or hold a pipeline, so the real comparison is Trello plus the three or four tools that do. Ten people on Standard is $50 a month before any of those.
Do I lose my boards?
No. Board view works on any Spodus record with stages, so deals, tasks, tickets and projects all open as boards. Export your Trello cards and import them onto the matching records.
Can I keep using Trello alongside it?
Yes. Plenty of teams keep a board for internal work and run customers, billing and support in Spodus. Nothing here requires you to delete anything.
Head to head
Compare Spodus with the rest of your stack.
The same side-by-side, for the other tools a Spodus seat replaces.
Trade Trello for the whole suite.
Start today, or bring your own data to a demo and see it there.
