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Sahnga vs Trello
Boards everyone knows — seats, Power-Ups, and a separate bill to log in securely.
Trello prices checked July 2026, quoted at their best published rate — annual where they offer one. Sahnga: $5 a person, flat, monthly.
Sahnga vs Trello at a glance
| Sahnga | Trello | |
|---|---|---|
| Advertised entry price | Free for one maker, then $5 a person | Standard — $5/user/mo |
| Price with everything included | $5 a person — the same number, because there is no tier above it | Premium + Atlassian Guard Standard — $14/user/mo |
| Monthly bill for 10 people | $45 | $140 |
| SSO & SAML | On every plan when it lands — never an upcharge. We don't tax security and we never will. | Atlassian Guard, about +$4/user/mo — or Enterprise, 50-seat minimum |
| Guests & clients | Unlimited and free — only people who create or edit ever count | Single-board guests; on Free they count toward the 10-person cap |
| Automation & usage limits | No usage meters, anywhere. Nothing counts down. | 250 runs/mo Free, 1,000 on Standard; Premium is sold as unlimited, with an undocumented ceiling teams have hit |
| Free plan | One maker, unlimited viewers and guests, the whole feature set | 10 boards per Workspace, 10 collaborators (guests included), 250 automation runs/mo, 10MB files |
| How the bill scales | $5 × your makers, flat — no tiers, no minimums, no upsells, and nothing else in the formula. | Per seat too — through the tiers and add-ons above |
Competitor prices checked July 2026 and quoted at each vendor's best published rate — annual where a vendor offers one, and their cheapest number, not ours. Every figure links to the page it came from. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we'll fix it. The full 13-tool parity table lives on the pricing page.
What Trello gets right
Trello is still the friendliest board on the internet. Nobody has ever needed a manual to drag a card, and that is a genuine achievement most of this list can't claim.
The honest take
The board is lovely; the bill around it is Atlassian's. Free stops at 10 boards and 10 collaborators — and guests count against that 10 — while the views growing teams want (timeline, calendar, dashboard) sit on Premium and SSO is a separate subscription on top. The May 2025 redesign landed badly enough that The Register wondered aloud whether it was the worst in tech history, and Atlassian has been steering bigger Trello teams toward Jira ever since.
The bill, in plain words
Trello pricing in 2026, decoded
Free → Standard → Premium per user, then Enterprise annual-only with a 50-seat minimum. SSO is Atlassian Guard, billed separately.
Free gives you 10 boards per Workspace, 250 Butler automation runs a month and 10MB per file attachment.
The Free plan's 10-collaborator cap counts guests too — inviting a client uses one of your ten.
Standard is $5 a user on annual billing, $6 monthly, and lifts automation to 1,000 runs a month.
Timeline, Calendar and Dashboard views start at Premium — $10 a user annual, $12.50 monthly.
Enterprise is $17.50 a user, annual billing only, with a 50-seat minimum — a floor of roughly $10,500 a year even if only twelve people use it.
SSO isn't in the Trello price at all: it's Atlassian Guard at about $4 a user a month, or you buy Enterprise.
Competitor prices checked July 2026 and quoted at each vendor's best published rate — annual where a vendor offers one, and their cheapest number, not ours. Every figure links to the page it came from. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we'll fix it.
Run the numbers
What Trello costs as your team grows
5 people
$20/mo
$5 a person, first maker free
$70/mo on Trello Premium. That’s 3.5× our bill.
15 people
$70/mo
$5 a person, first maker free
$210/mo on Trello Premium. That’s 3× our bill.
65 people
$320/mo
$5 a person, first maker free
$910/mo on Trello Premium. That’s 2.8× our bill.
Sahnga's arithmetic never changes: $5 a month for every maker after the first — the same rate at 10 people, at 200, at 1,000, with no tier to climb and no Enterprise number to negotiate. Trello bills per seat the whole way up too — the difference is what the seat includes, and who never counts. Viewers, commenters, guests and clients are free on our side at any size.
The switch
Why teams switch from Trello to Sahnga
$5 a person — no Power-Up tax, no Guard subscription.
Timeline, dependencies, automations and the API are in every plan, from the first dollar and on Free.
Guests and clients are unlimited and free, so inviting one never costs a seat.
Moving your work off Trello
Sahnga imports a Trello JSON export in one pass — boards become projects, lists become statuses, cards keep their descriptions, checklists, labels, due dates and comments. Export from Trello's own board menu; nothing is locked and you can keep the Trello board open while you check the import.
Receipts: docs/research/competitive-landscape.md — Trello profile (2025 redesign backlash, Atlassian's Jira steer) · docs/research/feature-gating-map.md — automation and Power-Up gates
Questions
Sahnga vs Trello FAQ
Is there a flat-priced Trello alternative?+
Sahnga is flat where it counts — the seat, not the total: $5 for each person who creates or edits, one maker free, and that rate never climbs a tier at 10 people or 1,000. The total isn't one fixed number; it's your maker count times $5 and nothing else — no minimums, no rungs, no add-ons, and viewers, commenters, guests and clients never count. There are no tiers to climb: unmetered automations, timeline and dependencies, time tracking, full history, the API and one-click export are in every plan, including Free.
How much does Trello cost for a team of 10?+
Ten people on Sahnga is $45 a month — $5 each with the first maker free, and unlimited viewers, guests and clients on top at no charge. Matching that feature-for-feature on Trello means Premium plus Atlassian Guard Standard, which comes to about $140 a month for ten at their best published rate.
Does Sahnga import from Trello?+
Sahnga imports a Trello JSON export in one pass — boards become projects, lists become statuses, cards keep their descriptions, checklists, labels, due dates and comments. Export from Trello's own board menu; nothing is locked and you can keep the Trello board open while you check the import.
Does Trello charge extra for SSO?+
Effectively yes. SSO and user provisioning come from Atlassian Guard, a separate subscription at roughly $4 per user per month, or you move to Trello Enterprise at $17.50 a seat with a 50-seat minimum. When SAML and SSO land, they're on every plan — Free included — at no extra cost. We will never charge you for logging in securely.
Does Trello charge for guests?+
Not directly, but on the Free plan guests count against the 10-collaborator limit, so a few clients can push you onto a paid plan. Multi-board guests are an Enterprise feature. On Sahnga, viewers, commenters, guests and clients are unlimited and never count toward the bill.
Is Trello Free enough for a small team?+
For a couple of people on a handful of boards, honestly yes — that's why it's beloved. The wall shows up at 10 boards per Workspace, 10 collaborators including guests, 250 automation runs a month and 10MB attachments. Sahnga's free plan is one maker with unlimited viewers and guests, and it carries the full feature set rather than a trimmed one.
Bring your team over in an afternoon.
$5 a person, every feature on every plan, and a full export whenever you want it. Trello stays exportable too — you lose nothing by trying.