SmartSuite alternatives
At a 10-person team, SmartSuite costs $360 a month. 2 online databases cost less, from $120 (Smartsheet). The closest match, monday.com, covers 100% of what SmartSuite does. Each one shows how much of it it covers, capability by capability, next to the price.
What SmartSuite does
Core: Task & project tracking, List, board & calendar views, Relational tables & linked records (partly), Built-in automations.
Important: Custom fields and workflows, No-code automations, Forms that create records (partly), Formulas & computed fields (partly), Granular permissions, API & webhooks, Charts & reporting, Security & compliance.
Also has: Gantt and dependencies (partly), Agile sprints and backlogs (partly), Code repository integration (partly), Portfolios and reporting (partly), Workload & capacity planning (partly), Client and guest access (partly), Docs alongside work (partly), AI assistant and agents (partly), Integrations and API (partly), Native mobile apps (partly), SSO and compliance (partly), Free-form spreadsheet (partly), Internal app builder (partly), External portals on data (partly), External data sync & connectors (partly), AI features (partly), Native mobile apps.
Alternatives to SmartSuite at a 10-person team, best match first
- Smartsheet: $120/mo Row caps unverified; Business would be $240 (Pro plan: 10 Member seats at $12/member/mo (monthly billing).). It covers 96% of SmartSuite; missing or partial: Granular permissions (partly), Security & compliance (partly). Free plan: none. Last price hike: Apr 2024.
- Airtable: $240/mo Per user; monthly billing (annual is $20 and $45) (Team plan, 10 seats, monthly billing ($24/user)). It covers 96% of SmartSuite; missing or partial: Granular permissions (partly), Security & compliance (partly). Free plan: Free plan: unlimited bases, 1,000 records and 1GB of attachments per base, public forms..
Other kinds of products that cover part of SmartSuite
- monday.com (Project management): covers 100% of SmartSuite
- Coda (Docs & wikis): covers 82% of SmartSuite; missing or partial: Task & project tracking (partly), Granular permissions (partly), API & webhooks (partly), Charts & reporting (partly), Security & compliance (partly)
- Coefficient (Marketing reporting): covers 44% of SmartSuite; missing or partial: Task & project tracking, List, board & calendar views, Built-in automations (partly), Forms that create records, Granular permissions (partly)
Prices at every size
- SmartSuite: a 10-person team $360/mo, 1 user $180/mo, a 10-person team with 100,000 records no public price (Monthly billing; annual would be $320 for 10 seats)
- Smartsheet: a 10-person team $120/mo, 1 user $12/mo, a 10-person team with 100,000 records no public price (Row caps unverified; Business would be $240)
- Airtable: a 10-person team $240/mo, 1 user $24/mo, a 10-person team with 100,000 records $540/mo (Per user; monthly billing (annual is $20 and $45))
Total USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12) for the cheapest hosted plan that fits each scenario: 10 editors with a 20,000-record table, 1 user with a 10,000-record table, or 10 editors with a 100,000-record table. Free plans count as $0 only when their seat, record and storage limits cover the scenario; free self-hosted editions are not counted.
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