The Best ClickUp Alternative for Teams Who Want Less To Configure
A focused project management product at a flat monthly price with unlimited users. Delivery, time, cost, and invoicing in one place, and a self-hosted edition if you need to keep the data yourself.
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The short answer
ClickUp is a broad product and for a lot of teams that breadth is the point. Teams leave it for three reasons. The per user price still grows with the team, the surface area takes real work to configure and keep tidy, and there is no on-premise edition for anyone whose data cannot sit in someone else's cloud. Orangescrum is a flat price for unlimited users, covers projects, agile, time, cost, and invoicing without a setup project, and ships a self-hosted edition. If breadth and configurability are exactly what you want, stay on ClickUp.
When ClickUp is the better choice
We would rather you find this out here than three weeks into a trial.
- You want more ways to look at the same workClickUp ships more built-in views than we do, including mind maps and whiteboards. If your team wants to switch between many views of one dataset, that is a genuine advantage.
- You need a free plan that covers a whole teamClickUp's Free Forever plan allows unlimited tasks and unlimited members, with storage capped at 60MB. Our free cloud plan is one project and one user. For a team that cannot pay yet, theirs is clearly better.
- You want docs, whiteboards, and chat in the same productClickUp bundles those alongside tasks. We do not sell a chat product and are not planning one, so if consolidating conversation into the work tool is the goal, ClickUp does that and we do not.
- You build processes with forms and automation recipesClickUp's forms and no-code automations let a team assemble a workflow without help from anyone technical. We are a project management product, not a no-code builder.
Why teams move from ClickUp
One price, whatever the headcount
A flat monthly price for the whole team instead of a rate per person. The cost of adding someone is nothing, so nobody has to justify a seat.
Unlimited users on every plan
Clients, contractors, and stakeholders are inside the project rather than watching from the outside, and none of them changes what you pay.
Less to set up and keep tidy
A smaller, more opinionated product. Custom fields, statuses, and workflows are there when you want them, but the defaults are usable on day one.
Billing runs off the same data
Timesheets, budgets, billable rates, and invoices come from the tasks people actually logged, so you are not exporting time to bill it somewhere else.
Self-hosted is an option
ClickUp is sold as a hosted cloud service with no on-premise edition. Our Self-Hosted edition runs on your own servers, private cloud, or an air gapped network.
Migration is done for you
Our team maps Spaces, Folders, Lists, tasks, subtasks, custom fields, and users into Orangescrum, and validates it with you before cutover. There is no charge for it.
Orangescrum compared with ClickUp
| Orangescrum | ClickUp | |
|---|---|---|
| Price for a team of 25ClickUp Unlimited at its published monthly rate | $69 per month, flat | $250 per month at list |
| Users included | Unlimited on every plan | Charged per user |
| Free plan | 1 project, 1 user | Unlimited tasks and members, 60MB storage |
| Self-hosted editionClickUp is sold as a hosted cloud service | Yes | No |
| Free and open source edition | Yes | No |
| Number of built-in view types | Fewer | More |
| Kanban boards, list, and calendar | Yes | Yes |
| Gantt with dependencies and critical path | Yes | Yes |
| Sprint backlogs, story points, burndown, velocity | Yes | Sprint ClickApps with dashboard widgets |
| Time tracking and timesheets | Yes | Yes |
| Budget, cost, and invoicing | Yes | Billable time, no invoicing |
| Resource and workload management | Yes | Workload view on higher plans |
| Test case management | Yes | No |
What it costs as the team grows
ClickUp Unlimited at $10 per user per month on monthly billing, against Orangescrum Pro Unlimited at $69 per month for the whole team.
| Team size | ClickUp | Orangescrum | Difference per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 people | $100/mo | $69/mo | $372 less |
| 25 people | $250/mo | $69/mo | $2,172 less |
| 50 people | $500/mo | $69/mo | $5,172 less |
| 100 people | $1,000/mo | $69/mo | $11,172 less |
Figures use ClickUp's published monthly billing rate for its Unlimited plan and assume every person needs a seat. Annual billing is cheaper on most tools, including theirs. This compares list prices, not negotiated ones.
Moving off ClickUp
The hierarchy is the part that needs thought, so we do the mapping with you rather than hand you an importer. There is no charge for it.
- Tell us what you haveHow many Spaces and Lists, roughly how many tasks, which custom fields matter, and whether time entries and attachments need to come across.
- We map itSpaces, Folders, and Lists are mapped to Orangescrum projects, with tasks, subtasks, statuses, custom fields, and users lined up alongside. You see the mapping first.
- Trial runWe import into a sandbox so your team can check that the structure still makes sense to them.
- CutoverThe real import runs, we validate it with you, and your team starts working. Keep ClickUp read-only for as long as you want the safety net.
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