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Vendor Pricing Guide · Updated September 19, 2026

Trello Pricing 2026: The Complete Breakdown

Trello's per-seat pricing looks refreshingly simple — Free, $5, $10, $17.50 — until you hit Enterprise's mandatory 50-seat minimum, which turns a per-user number into a real five-figure entry ticket regardless of how many people you actually need to license.

$0Free, forever
$5Standard, per user/mo
$10Premium, per user/mo
trello.comSource, verified

The quick answer

Trello has four tiers, all billed per user: Free ($0, up to 10 boards per workspace), Standard ($5/user/month annual, $6 monthly), Premium ($10/user/month annual, $12.50 monthly), and Enterprise ($17.50/user/month, annual only, with a mandatory 50-seat minimum — effectively $10,500/year to start).

Annual billing saves roughly 17-20% versus monthly across Standard and Premium. Enterprise doesn't offer a monthly option at all, and its per-seat rate decreases at higher seat counts through volume discounts.

Every Trello plan, broken down

Free
$0
  • Up to 10 boards per workspace
  • Unlimited cards, unlimited Power-Ups
  • 10 collaborators per workspace
Best for: individuals and very small teams
Premium
$10/user/mo ($12.50 monthly)
  • Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard, Map views
  • Unlimited automation runs
  • AI content generation
Best for: teams needing more than kanban-style views
Enterprise
$17.50/user/mo, 50-seat min
  • Unlimited workspaces, SSO, SCIM
  • Organization-wide permissions
  • Multi-board guests
Best for: large organizations — entry cost is ~$10,500/year

Pricing confirmed against Trello's official pricing page and Atlassian licensing documentation. Enterprise's 50-seat minimum is a real, published requirement — a company needing Enterprise-level controls for fewer than 50 people still pays for 50 seats.

$10,500
That's the effective minimum annual cost of Trello Enterprise, driven entirely by its 50-seat minimum at $17.50/user/month — even if your organization only needs enterprise-grade SSO and permissions for 15 people, you're billed for 50.

The costs that show up after you sign up

Trello and Atlassian publish all of this clearly — it's easy to miss when comparing just the four per-seat headline numbers.

Enterprise has a mandatory 50-seat minimum

Regardless of actual headcount needing Enterprise features, the plan requires licensing at least 50 seats — a real barrier for mid-size teams that need SSO or org-wide permissions but not 50 users.

SSO below Enterprise requires a separate Atlassian Access purchase

Standard and Premium don't include native SSO — teams needing it outside Enterprise must add Atlassian Access as a separate subscription.

Power-Ups often need their own subscriptions

Many third-party Power-Ups (calendar syncs, time tracking, advanced reporting integrations) carry their own separate pricing beyond your Trello plan.

Guests added to multiple boards convert to full paid seats

A guest added to just one board is typically free, but adding that same person to a second board converts them to a billable seat on your plan.

"It is billed annually at $17.50 per user/month ($210 per user/year) and carries a 50-seat minimum, so the entry ticket is effectively $10,500 per year."
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Tell us your team size and how you're using Trello today, and we'll help you figure out if you're on the right plan — or paying for seats you don't need.

The Bigger Picture

Trello is one line item. The real problem is usually bigger.

If you landed on this page trying to figure out what Trello actually costs your team, there's a good chance Trello isn't the only tool where that question is hard to answer. This is where ProcurementVMS comes in — we help growing companies get visibility into exactly this kind of software spend before it becomes an expensive surprise.

A guest quietly became a billable seat

Someone added as a free single-board guest gets added to a second board months later, converting to a paid seat nobody budgeted for.

Regular seat-count audits against your vendor management records catch this kind of quiet reclassification before it compounds across a growing team.

The Enterprise seat minimum wasn't factored into the decision

A 20-person team evaluating Enterprise for SSO discovers late in the process that they're actually pricing out 50 seats, not 20.

A total-cost comparison during vendor evaluation — not just the per-seat headline number — surfaces minimums like this before a decision is made, not after.

Power-Up subscriptions live outside the main Trello bill

Individual teams add paid Power-Ups over time, and those charges never get compared against the core Trello subscription they're layered onto.

Spend analysis by vendor rolls up every Trello-related charge, Power-Ups included, into one number.

Atlassian Access gets added without anyone comparing it to Enterprise

A team adds Atlassian Access for SSO on Standard or Premium without ever running the math on whether Enterprise's bundled SSO would be more or less expensive at their seat count.

A documented total-cost-of-ownership comparison at renewal time forces exactly this kind of comparison before defaulting to the status quo.

What actually fixes this

None of the problems above are about Trello specifically — they're what happens to any recurring software cost once more than one person in the company has a reason to touch it. The fix isn't a smarter spreadsheet. It's a system built specifically to answer three questions on demand: what are we paying for, who owns it, and when does it renew.

  • Vendor-level spend visibility — every software cost rolled up by vendor, not buried in a general ledger category
  • Automatic renewal tracking — a real alert before the auto-renewal window closes, not a Post-it note
  • Clear ownership — one accountable person per vendor relationship, so "should we keep this" is someone's actual job
  • Consolidated procurement — one path for requesting and approving a new software seat, so duplicate purchases stop happening by accident
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Think you're overpaying across your software stack?

Tell us what's actually bothering you about your current vendor spend, and we'll point you toward what's worked for teams in a similar spot.

Our Recommendation

The best tools for fixing the spend visibility problem, not just the Trello bill

If what you actually need is to stop finding out about software costs after the fact — across Trello and everything else your teams have quietly signed up for — these are the two platforms we'd point a growing company toward first.

#1 Pick: Zapro AI

AI-native vendor onboarding and spend tracking built for lean teams. It's well-suited to catching seat-count gotchas like Trello's Enterprise minimum or quiet guest-to-seat conversions before they show up as a budget surprise. See Zapro AI →

Also Consider: Precoro

A well-reviewed (4.7/5 on G2), budget-friendly procure-to-pay platform with transparent starting pricing from $499/month — useful for tracking per-seat SaaS costs like Trello's alongside broader company purchasing. See Precoro on G2 →

Neither of these replaces Trello — they replace the guesswork around what you're paying Trello, and every other vendor, and when.

FAQ

Common questions about Trello pricing

Trello Standard is $5/user/month on annual billing ($6 monthly). Premium is $10/user/month annual ($12.50 monthly). Enterprise is $17.50/user/month, billed annually only, with a mandatory 50-seat minimum.

Because Enterprise requires a minimum of 50 seats at $17.50/user/month, the effective entry cost is $10,500 per year — regardless of whether your organization actually needs 50 licensed users.

No. Native SSO is only included on Enterprise. Standard and Premium customers who need SSO must purchase Atlassian Access as a separate add-on subscription.

The most common way is guests quietly converting to billable seats after being added to a second board, or Power-Up subscriptions accumulating separately from the core plan. A vendor spend tracker that captures seat counts and add-ons is the most reliable way to catch this.

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Sources & editorial disclosure

Pricing and plan details were cross-checked against Trello's official pricing page and Atlassian licensing documentation as of September 2026. ProcurementVMS is not affiliated with Trello and does not accept payment for placement in this guide. Software pricing changes frequently and without notice — always confirm current figures directly with Trello before budgeting or signing a contract.