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Trello alternatives: when the board needs sprints, sub-tasks and reports

Zohaib KhalidPrices checked between 24 September 2026 and 2 October 2026

Trello is the easiest board there is, and the moment a team wants sprints, sub-tasks, custom fields on every card or a report of what shipped, it is reaching for Power-Ups and a Premium plan billed per user. A Trello alternative should keep the board simple and add the structure underneath without a per-seat price. Below are the trackers that do, with published prices, and what Trello still does better.

See the shortlist

Why teams look past Trello

Usually pricing and packaging, not the product

Trello is kanban-board task manager from Atlassian for teams that want visual, lightweight project tracking. The reasons a team shops around are almost always about how it is sold.

Ten boards per workspace on Free; Standard and Premium are billed per user.
Sprints, sub-tasks and structured fields come through Power-Ups rather than the core.
Timeline, dashboard and table views are Premium.
A board knows nothing about the hours behind a card or who is on which client.

The shortlist

5 options, including Trello and Orbiz

Published prices from each vendor's page. Orbiz is one row, not the answer — the last column says when each one is the better pick.

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Trello and its alternatives compared on price, free tier and best fit
Product	Small-team price	Free tier	Why it is on the list
Orbiz CadenceProject tracking · one of ten tools on the platform	No per-user price. One flat fee per organisation for all ten tools and unlimited members, from $99 a month billed annually.	No free plan; a working organisation to evaluate before any commitment.	Keeps the board you drag cards on and adds sprints, custom fields and reports underneath, with nobody billed for a seat.
TrelloPer user per month; free tier; Enterprise annual only.	Standard: $5 per user a month billed annually, $6 monthly. Premium $10 / $12.50.	Free: up to 10 boards per workspace, unlimited Power-Ups, 250 automation runs a month, 10 MB per file.	The incumbent. Best for: Small teams that want a board and nothing else, with integrations bolted on.
monday.comPer seat per month, billed annually or monthly, sold by team size; AI credits included by plan; Enterprise by quote.	Basic: $9 per seat a month billed annually; Standard $12; Pro $19 (as shown for a 10-seat team). Monthly-billing figures are not in the page text.	Free: up to 2 seats, 3 boards, 3 docs and 200+ templates.	Still a board at heart, with timeline and Gantt views and no-code automations from Standard.
AsanaPer user per month; a free Personal tier for two users; AI requests metered beyond a monthly allowance; Enterprise by quote.	Starter: $10.99 per user a month billed annually, $13.49 monthly. Advanced $24.99 / $30.49.	Personal: 2 users, unlimited tasks and projects, list, board and calendar views, 100 MB per file.	For a team whose board has turned into projects with deadlines, approvals and goals.
JiraPer user per month with a falling unit price as seats rise; annual billing in user tiers; four plans.	Standard: $9.05 per user a month billed monthly for up to 100 users; flat annual tiers from $900 a year for 1–10 users.	Free: up to 10 users, 2 GB storage, community support, limited automation runs.	If the board has become a software team’s sprint, and Marketplace add-ons matter more than simplicity.

Vendor prices are US list prices in USD as published on each vendor's own pricing page between 24 September 2026 and 2 October 2026, annual billing where the vendor offers it, without first-year promotions. Each product name links to that page. Vendors change prices; if a figure here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it. Orbiz prices are on the pricing page, one flat figure per organisation by headcount band.

Orbiz Cadence

What Cadence covers — and what Trello does that it does not

What Orbiz Cadence does for a team leaving Trello, and the two things Trello does that it does not. Keep both in view when you decide.

Included in Cadence

Kanban boards with the statuses you define, or scrum with sprints, chosen per project
Sub-tasks and custom fields on every issue, not through a Power-Up
Grabr screen captures attached straight to an issue
Reports of what shipped, and boards that update live for everyone watching

Everything Cadence does

Where Trello is ahead

A Power-Up marketplace with hundreds of third-party integrations on every plan
Enterprise governance with unlimited workspaces and organisation-wide permissions

If either of those is the reason you use Trello, keep it. The case for Orbiz is the platform around the tool, not a longer feature list.

FAQ

Questions about leaving Trello

Is Orbiz Cadence as simple as Trello?

A kanban project in Cadence is a board with the statuses you define and cards you drag, which is the Trello experience. The difference is what is underneath when you want it: sprints on a scrum project, sub-tasks, custom fields, comments with mentions and delivery reports, all included.

Does Cadence have Power-Ups or integrations?

No marketplace. Cadence integrates with the rest of Orbiz — projects mirror Trackline, hours come from AMS, people from HRMS — rather than with third-party apps, and with AI assistants: through Orbiz MCP, Claude or ChatGPT can create, update and close Cadence issues as you. A team that depends on a specific Power-Up should keep Trello for that board.

Can non-technical teams use Cadence?

Yes. Operations, design and support teams get boards too, and inviting them costs nothing because Orbiz has no per-seat price. Each project chooses kanban or scrum, so a marketing board can flow continuously while engineering runs sprints.

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Leaving Trello? Price the whole stack instead.

Tell us your team size and the tools you pay for today. You get one flat figure that covers all nine Orbiz tools, and a working organisation to try.