Taskade pricing: plans, real costs, and how the AI credits work

Read from Taskade's public pricing in July 2026: the free plan is $0 and covers one user with a one-time allowance of starter credits. Starter is roughly $6 per member per month billed yearly, or about $8 month to month, and includes 3 users. Pro is roughly $16 billed yearly, about $20 monthly, and includes 10 users. Business is roughly $40 billed yearly, about $50 monthly, and lifts the seat cap to unlimited users. Enterprise is custom and starts with a sales conversation.

Two things make Taskade cheaper than most tools with AI in them. The seat count is generous, so Pro at $16 covering ten people is a per-head cost almost nothing else in this category matches. And the annual discount is real, roughly 20 percent, so paying yearly is the difference between the two columns above. If your evaluation is mostly about per-seat price across a whole team, Taskade wins that line handily. The number that is not on the headline is the credit meter, and that is the one worth reading closely.

This is the part that decides your real bill. Taskade meters every AI action in credits: building an app, running an agent, firing an automation, chatting, generating an image. The monthly allowance scales with the tier, roughly 10,000 on Starter, 50,000 on Pro and 150,000 on Business, and it resets on your billing date. Higher tiers (Max and Enterprise) exist for teams whose automations run constantly and need a far larger pool.

Credits are spent by exactly the actions you would want to repeat, and the cost of a single action depends on the model and the complexity of the task. A heavy automation or a frontier-model agent burns credits faster than a quick chat. For occasional use the allowances are comfortable; for a team that leans on agents and automations all day, the meter is the thing that pushes you up a tier, not the seat count. Model your real usage before you sign, because the plan that looks cheap on seats can be the wrong plan on credits.

The arithmetic worth doing before the trial ends, at the billed-yearly rates:

• 3 people on Starter: about $18 a month, roughly $216 a year.
• 10 people on Pro: about $160 a month, roughly $1,920 a year.
• A whole team on Business: about $40 per active builder per month, unlimited seats, so the number is set by how many people actually build rather than by headcount.

The tier you land on is usually decided by two forcing features rather than by seats. The first is the user cap: the moment you have more than three people who need to build, Starter is done and Pro is the floor. The second is credits: an automation-heavy team runs the meter dry on a lower tier and moves up for the pool, not the seats. Budget for the tier that survives a busy month, not the one that fit the demo.

There is a genuinely free plan, and its real limit is not a locked feature but the numbers: one user and a one-time pot of starter credits rather than a monthly refill. That is enough to try the AI and see whether the workspace fits how you work. It is not enough to run a team on, and it was never meant to be; it is a trial in everything but name.

On brainstorming specifically, be honest about what an AI workspace does. Ask an outliner's AI for ideas and you get a list, and a list fans out from whatever the first item said: ten bullets, one direction. That is autocomplete with numbering, not a brainstorm. Taskade is excellent at what happens after a decision (the winner becomes a project, the project becomes tasks with owners and agents) but it has no step that forces genuinely different ideas or converges them to a pick. That gap is the whole point of the Taskade alternative comparison.

Brainstormer is priced for the outcome rather than the workspace: Solo is $16 a month, Pro is $39, and Team is $99 for five seats, with unlimited brainstorms and no credits to ration. That last clause is the real contrast with a credit-metered tool. You never stop exploring because a counter is ticking, and iteration is the entire point of ideation.

What you get is the work, not the container. Type the challenge and the wall fills with two dozen genuinely different directions in about thirty seconds, each tagged with the angle it came from. Flip the whole wall through SCAMPER or Six Thinking Hats with one click, no prompt to write. Then press converge: affinity clustering names the themes, every idea is scored on impact against effort, and one winner comes out with its reasoning written down. Export it and paste it into Taskade to turn it into tasks.

Teams that want one AI workspace for projects, agents and automations should keep Taskade; it is genuinely good at that and Brainstormer does not try to be. But if the Taskade line item exists because someone needs ideas and a decision, the honest comparison is the Taskade alternative page, and the wider field is in our best brainstorming software roundup.