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Is Trello actually free?

Free Forever
How free74/100
Value7/10
How these scores work
Free Score (0–100) follows a fixed rubric: cards up front, auto-billing, hard time cutoffs, withheld core features, and paying with your data or attention all deduct points. 90–100 truly free · 70–89 free forever · 45–69 squeezed · 15–44 trial mechanics · under 15 fake or gone. Value (0–10) is editorial: real-world worth of the free offering measured against its paid equivalent. Full rubric on the methodology page.

Yes — Trello's free plan is a genuinely permanent tier with no card and no clock: unlimited cards, unlimited Power-Ups, and the drag-and-drop kanban that made the product famous. What it isn't is unlimited in people. Free Workspaces run on a rule of three tens — 10 boards, 10 collaborators, 10MB per file.

What it’s worth

Comparable project tools charge $5–10 per user per month for what a team of ten does here free. Trello's own Standard tier is $5 per user per month billed annually.

What you get free

  • Unlimited cards and lists, and unlimited Power-Ups per board
  • Up to 10 boards and 10 collaborators per Workspace
  • Unlimited storage, capped at 10MB per file
  • 250 Workspace automation command runs a month
  • Checklists, due dates, labels, activity log, mobile apps and 2FA

In practice: a household, a solo worker or a small team of up to ten runs free indefinitely. The eleventh person is where it ends.

Drawbacks

  • 10 collaborators per Workspace — pending invites and single-board guests count
  • Over the limit, existing boards go view-only and automations stop
  • 10 boards per Workspace, and 10MB per file
  • Owned by Atlassian — expect steady nudges toward its paid family

Also paywalled

  • Unlimited boards, and more than 10 people in a Workspace
  • Files above 10MB (Standard raises the ceiling to 250MB)
  • Automation beyond 250 command runs a month (Standard: 1,000)
  • Custom fields, advanced checklists, card mirroring and the Planner

What the free tier actually gives you

Card requiredNo
Free plan or trialFree plan
Their brandingNo
Export your workYes
Commercial useAllowed
Time limitNone

Same questions, same order, for every listing in Business — so you can compare them side by side. Deliberately no exact allowances: those change monthly, the shape of the limit doesn't.

Free facts

VerdictFree Forever
Card requiredNo
Auto-bills—
AccountRequired
Limits10 boards, 10 collaborators and 10MB per file — each per Workspace
The real costAn account, and a team of ten or fewer. Past ten collaborators the free Workspace stops being writable.

The catch

The collaborator cap is the one that bites, because it arrived late and it bites backwards. Free Workspaces were open-ended on people until 8 April 2024; Atlassian then capped them at 10. Go over and Trello doesn't just block the eleventh invite — by Atlassian's own wording the existing boards “become view-only” and automations stop running. Work you already had becomes read-only until you remove people or pay. Note also what counts toward the ten: Workspace members, guests on a single board, and invitations nobody has accepted yet.

The smart play

  • Count your collaborators before you plan around the free tier — ten includes guests and unaccepted invites
  • Deactivated members and people only on closed boards don't count toward the ten
  • One board per project, not per week — the 10-board cap rewards tidy structure
  • Archive finished boards instead of deleting; archived boards don't count against you
  • Separate Workspaces each get their own ten boards, though not a shared team

Common questions

Does Trello require a credit card?
No — Trello does not ask for a card to use the free version. Auto-billing: —.
What are the limits of Trello's free plan?
10 boards, 10 collaborators and 10MB per file — each per Workspace. The collaborator cap is the one that bites, because it arrived late and it bites backwards. Free Workspaces were open-ended on people until 8 April 2024; Atlassian then capped them at 10. Go over and Trello doesn't just block the eleventh invite — by Atlassian's own wording the existing boards “become view-only” and automations stop running. Work you already had becomes read-only until you remove people or pay. Note also what counts toward the ten: Workspace members, guests on a single board, and invitations nobody has accepted yet.
How do I use Trello without paying?
Count your collaborators before you plan around the free tier — ten includes guests and unaccepted invites Deactivated members and people only on closed boards don't count toward the ten One board per project, not per week — the 10-board cap rewards tidy structure Archive finished boards instead of deleting; archived boards don't count against you Separate Workspaces each get their own ten boards, though not a shared team
What does Trello really cost?
An account, and a team of ten or fewer. Past ten collaborators the free Workspace stops being writable.
Why is Trello free?
An account, and a team of ten or fewer. Past ten collaborators the free Workspace stops being writable. Comparable project tools charge $5–10 per user per month for what a team of ten does here free. Trello's own Standard tier is $5 per user per month billed annually.
Is Trello still free?
As of our August 2026 check, yes. Yes — Trello's free plan is a genuinely permanent tier with no card and no clock: unlimited cards, unlimited Power-Ups, and the drag-and-drop kanban that made the product famous. What it isn't is unlimited in people. Free Workspaces run on a rule of three tens — 10 boards, 10 collaborators, 10MB per file. Free tiers change without notice, which is why every page here carries the date it was checked.

More info — tap to expand

Where the fence actually sits
Three tens, all per Workspace: 10 boards, 10 collaborators, 10MB per file. Cards, lists and Power-Ups are genuinely unlimited, so the plan scales with how much work you track — not with how much you use it. It stops scaling with how many people do the tracking, which is the opposite of what this page said until we rechecked it in August 2026.
What happens at the eleventh person
This is the part worth knowing before you build on the free plan. Atlassian's support documentation states that a free Workspace over the limit has its boards “become view-only” and that automations set up on those boards “won't run”. You are not blocked from growing; you are blocked from editing what you already made. The way out is removing collaborators or upgrading. Counted toward the ten: Workspace members, board guests, and pending invitations. Not counted: deactivated accounts, and members who only appear on closed boards.
The Atlassian context
Trello sits inside Atlassian's suite, and the free tier partly exists to feed Jira and friends. Nothing sinister — but the collaborator cap is a reminder that the terms of a free tier belong to the company offering it, and can tighten years after you have built your workflow on them.

Checked: August 2026 · Verdict: Free Forever — a real permanent free plan. signup and fair limits — but no clock and no card.

Ratings elsewhereG2 4.4/5App Store 4.3/56.9KGoogle Play 3.8/5122KLive scores from the sources named — not ours. Store counts rounded.

What users actually say

G2 4.4/5 from business users · App Store 4.3/5 · Google Play 3.8/5.

What they praiseSimplicity is the compliment across every source: a board, lists, cards — learnable in a minute, and the free tier holds real teams for years.
What they complain aboutThe Android score carries app complaints — sync delays and a mobile experience reviewers find heavier than the web. On the free tier the grievances are the collaborator cap introduced in 2024, which caught existing Workspaces, the ten-board ceiling and the small attachment limit, alongside a sense that development attention moved to Atlassian's bigger products.

Still one of the more honest permanent free tiers — no card, no clock, no ads, and a product that works. Judge it on team size rather than features: under ten people it is excellent and costs nothing, and at eleven it stops being a free tool at all.

Our reading of the public review record — patterns, not quotes. Scores link to their sources above.

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