Best AI Project Management Software (2026): Top 9 Compared

Motion describes itself as an AI-powered work platform and lists AI projects, AI tasks, an AI calendar, an AI meeting notetaker, AI docs, AI reports and AI workflows among its modules. Its central idea is automatic planning: the AI task planner creates and prioritises tasks, then places them on each person's calendar around meetings and deadlines, and the AI project manager generates projects and manages statuses.

Pricing is split between individual and team plans, and each has two tiers. Pro AI includes AI chat, AI projects and tasks, AI calendar and meetings, AI docs and notes, the task planner and a writing assistant, with unlimited storage and desktop and mobile apps. Business AI adds team capacity planning, advanced dashboards and reports, timeline and Gantt charts, time tracking, permissions and access control, central billing and priority support.

AI usage is metered in credits. Pro AI includes 7,500 credits per seat per month and Business AI 15,000, and the pricing page lists additional credits at 25 cents and 19 cents per 100 credits for the two tiers. Team seats cost less than individual seats on the same tier, and annual billing is presented as a 33 percent saving. Motion offers a free trial rather than a free plan. Buyers who need portfolio management or complex dependencies should confirm that the Business AI feature set covers them before committing.

ClickUp combines tasks, docs, whiteboards, chat, dashboards and goals in one workspace, and its pricing page presents AI as a separate layer that can be added to any base plan. The base tiers run from Free Forever through Unlimited and Business to a quoted Enterprise plan. Unlimited adds unlimited storage, integrations, Gantt charts, custom fields, time tracking and resource management. Business adds advanced dashboards, timeline views, mind maps, sprint reporting, portfolio workload management and Google single sign-on. Enterprise adds SAML single sign-on, SCIM, audit logs, data residency and a customer success manager.

AI is sold in two paid tiers. Brain AI includes unlimited use of the Brain assistant and the Brain agent, unlimited AI chat and writing with access to Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini, enterprise search and 1,500 AI Super Credits per user per month. Everything AI adds unlimited ambient answers, an AI notetaker, image generation, AI fields, AI automations and dashboards, AI assign and prioritise, and three times the Super Agent usage, with 5,000 credits per user.

Credits are pooled across the workspace and fund Super Agents, AI fields, automations and image generation. ClickUp also lists certified agents built and tested by its own team. Buyers should model the combined base and AI price per seat, since the AI tiers can cost more than the base plan.

Asana now presents itself as agentic work management. Its pricing page groups AI into two parts: AI Teammates and Asana Dash, which handle requests such as drafting, prioritising and analysing work, and AI Studio, a no-code builder for AI-powered workflows. Both are included on Starter, Advanced and Enterprise plans rather than sold as a separate AI tier.

Starter adds timeline and Gantt views, reporting dashboards, unlimited automations, forms, custom templates, custom fields and unlimited free guests to the free plan. Advanced adds portfolios, goals, resource management within a portfolio, approvals and proofing, form branching, time tracking and connectors to Salesforce, Tableau and Power BI. Enterprise adds SAML, SCIM, organisation-wide resource management, capacity planning, service accounts and view-only licences. Enterprise+ adds SIEM integration, data residency and audit logs.

The AI allowance is 5 requests per user per month, capped at 50 per account on Starter and Advanced and 250 on Enterprise. AI Studio credits are counted per billing account: 50,000 a month on Starter, 75,000 on Advanced and 200,000 on Enterprise. Extra requests can be bought as prepaid packs at USD 0.50 each or on demand at USD 0.60, and administrative tasks in Asana Dash, such as prioritising the day, do not consume requests. Teams planning heavy AI use should estimate request volume before comparing seat prices.

Wrike is a long-established work management platform that now describes its top tier as powering human and AI-led enterprise workflows. Its AI is split into two layers. AI Essentials, included from the Team plan, covers AI content creation and editing, comment summaries, board AI, mobile inbox prioritisation and natural-language creation of automation rules. AI Elite features, available from the Business plan, provide actions for AI agents and Wrike Copilot, an assistant that answers questions and summarises work inside projects.

The number of AI Elite actions grows by tier. Business includes a starter pack for experimentation, Pinnacle three times as many actions and Apex ten times as many, for end-to-end workflow automation. Wrike states that customers who exceed the limit are not invoiced automatically; the vendor opens a discussion about the right package instead. A separate add-on increases the action allowance.

Beyond AI, Business adds templates and standard integrations, and Pinnacle adds advanced resource and capacity planning, budgeting with bill and cost rates, and advanced reporting and BI. Apex adds unlimited whiteboards, Wrike Integrate and two-way Wrike Sync. Wrike recommends professional services onboarding for all new teams and requires a guided deployment for teams of 20 or more, which buyers should include in the first-year cost.

Taskade began as a collaborative task and outline tool and now positions itself as an AI workspace where a prompt can produce apps, agents and automated workflows. Projects remain the memory layer of the product: agents read project data, files and connected sources, and automations act on them.

Paid plans include unlimited AI agents, unlimited workspaces and unlimited AI automations. Agents can be trained on uploaded PDFs, documents, spreadsheets and web content, given custom tools and commands, and set to run in the background around the clock. Automations support branching, looping and filters and can run hourly, daily, weekly or monthly across more than 100 integrations. Pro includes 100 GB of shared storage and live web hosting for generated apps, and Business adds custom domains, white-label branding, SAML single sign-on and API access.

Pricing is per workspace rather than per seat. Pro includes 10 users, Business and Max include unlimited users, and the differences between tiers are credit allowances, branding and administrative features. Credits fund app generation, agents and AI automations; the pricing page states that running apps and non-AI automations do not consume credits. Teams that mainly need Gantt charts, dependencies and resource planning should check that Taskade's project views meet those needs, since its recent product direction centres on AI app building.

Dart describes itself as a workplace for the agent era. Its homepage shows people and AI agents working from the same plan: users can create agents in Dart with a defined role and context, or connect agents they already use, including Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Devin, Manus and Grok. Each agent can take tasks, return results to the task and hand off to people when their judgment is needed.

Dart's model for larger pieces of work uses a lead agent that turns a goal into a plan and coordinates specialist agents for research, building, design and analysis. People set direction, watch progress and step in where needed. Access to models from several providers is included.

AI features begin on the free Personal plan, which lists AI agents, AI task execution, AI reporting, AI property filling, AI subtask generation, duplicate task detection and ChatGPT and Claude integrations, for up to four teammates. Premium removes the teammate limit and adds AI chat, AI roadmap planning, AI brainstorming, admin and guest roles, custom statuses and properties, forms, and Slack, Discord and GitHub integrations. Business adds SAML single sign-on and SCIM, public views, charts and analytics, granular access management, customisable dashboards, a dedicated success manager and priority support. Buyers should confirm the monthly-billed price, since the displayed figures carry a yearly discount label.

Hive has sold project management software for about ten years and now describes itself as an AI workspace that plans, assigns, follows up and reports. Its assistant, Buzz, works from a chat prompt: the homepage shows it enabling forms, automation, proofing and approvals to set up a campaign launch system, analysing a PDF proof against advertising rules, and organising an email inbox. A meeting assistant called Sidekick suggests talking points during calls, and Hive lists AI summaries of work data and AI steps inside automated workflows.

Beyond AI, Hive combines tasks, collaborative notes, native chat, email inside Hive and several project views. Starter adds unlimited storage, Gantt view, cloud storage integrations and in-app calendar, Zoom and Slack. Teams removes the member limit and adds shareable forms, time tracking, portfolios, team sharing and custom fields, labels and statuses. Enterprise adds security and permission controls, unlimited onboarding, a dedicated customer success manager, an enterprise API and professional services.

Several capabilities are sold as add-ons at USD 5 each: proofing and approvals, timesheets, team resourcing, advanced dashboards, single sign-on and external users, with CRM and finance modules also listed. AI credits scale by plan, from 1,000 a month on Free to 5,000 on Teams and custom amounts on Enterprise. Buyers should add the add-ons they need to the per-user price before comparing Hive with others.

Nifty describes itself as one source of truth for people and AI agents. Its homepage shows two routes for AI. Orbit, Nifty's built-in AI, plans projects, prioritises tasks, drafts updates and writes docs. Separately, Nifty connects to external assistants, including Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and Copilot, and to any MCP client, so users can create projects, tasks and docs from an AI chat while the data stays in Nifty.

The core product covers roadmaps with milestones that roll up progress, tasks in Kanban, list, timeline, calendar and swimlane views, project discussions with one-click video calls, docs with Google Docs sync, forms that route intake into tasks, and live reporting across projects and teams.

Pricing is unusual in the category. Nifty charges a flat monthly price for the team rather than per seat: Pro covers up to 20 members and 100 active projects, Business up to 50 members with unlimited projects, and Unlimited has no member limit. Teams of six or fewer can choose per-member plans instead. Pro adds time tracking, custom fields, budget tracking, workflow automations, file proofing and cross-project overviews. Business adds goals, team workloads, custom roles, automatic check-ins, Microsoft single sign-on, an open API and a custom domain. Unlimited adds native forms, custom SAML, white labelling and IP restrictions. Buyers should confirm which AI capabilities, if any, are limited by plan.

Plane positions itself as project and knowledge management for teams and agents. Its homepage states that the product was built around AI rather than retrofitted, and describes Plane AI as reading across every project, cycle, doc and thread in a workspace. Users can ask Plane AI for the status of a cycle or the blockers on a project, and agents can be assigned work items to triage, draft and act using workspace context.

The workspace combines Work, the project product with initiatives, projects, epics and cycles; a Wiki for documentation linked to the work that created it; and Plane AI. A customer support product called Desk is announced as coming soon. Plane is available in the cloud, self-hosted and air-gapped, and its customer list includes government bodies alongside commercial teams.

The free plan covers projects and work items, cycles and modules, five layouts with unlimited views, work item intake, estimates and project pages for up to 12 users. Pro adds 500 AI credits per seat each month, work item types, a workspace wiki, time tracking, templates, dashboards, initiatives, teamspaces and integrations. Business doubles the AI credits, with per-agent limits and usage reports, and adds project templates, recurring work items, intake by email and forms, customer records linked to work items and advanced dashboard widgets. Enterprise Grid adds private and managed deployments, granular access control, multiple workflows with approvals and LDAP support.