Todoist pricing runs across three plans: $0, $5 per user/month, and $8 per user/month. Those are the yearly-billing rates, which come out at $60 and $96 a year respectively. That is the whole answer, and you can check it yourself on the official Todoist pricing page.
The free plan is called Beginner now
If you are reading a comparison article written a while back, it will talk about "Todoist Free". That name is gone. The free tier is Beginner, and the paid tiers are Pro and Business. Same three-rung ladder, different labels.
This matters more than a naming footnote usually would, because half the advice you find about Todoist limits is pinned to the old vocabulary. If you go to the pricing page looking for a row called Free, you will not find it and you may conclude the free plan was removed. It wasn't.
The price grid
| Plan | Price | Billed yearly |
|---|---|---|
| Beginner | US$0 | — |
| Pro | US$5 per user/month | $60 |
| Business | US$8 per user/month, plus local tax | $96 |
Two things about that table that the table itself cannot show you.
The $5 and $8 are yearly-billing rates. The pricing page has a Monthly / Yearly toggle advertising 20% savings, and the figures above are what you see with the toggle on Yearly. Month-to-month costs more.
I am not going to tell you how much more. I did not capture the monthly numbers when I read the page, and a guessed price in a pricing article is worse than no price at all — you would budget against it. Flip the toggle on todoist.com/pricing and read the monthly figure off the page yourself. It takes four seconds and it will be current, which this article will not be forever.
"Plus local tax" appears on Business and not on Pro. That phrasing sits on the Business card specifically. If you are putting together a number for a finance conversation, $96 per user per year is the sticker, not the invoice. Find out what your jurisdiction adds before you quote a total to anyone.
Beginner: one person, five projects
Beginner is free and it is a real product, not a demo. Smart Quick Add, task reminders, due dates and times, priority levels, sub-tasks, recurring due dates, labels, list and board layouts, 90+ integrations. Plenty of people run their entire personal system on it and never pay.
The ceiling you hit first is 5 personal projects. After that: 3 filter views, 1 week of activity history, 5 MB file uploads, 5 people per personal project.
Decision rule: if you are one person and your life fits in five projects, stay on Beginner. Do not pay to fix a problem you do not have yet.
We wrote a separate piece on where exactly the free tier stops and what it feels like to hit each wall: is Todoist free?
Pro: one person who wants the calendar and the history
Pro is $5 per user/month, $60 billed yearly. The jump is 300 personal projects and 150 filter views, but project count is rarely why people upgrade — five projects is a low bar and if you were going to blow through it you already have.
What people actually upgrade for is the shape of the work: calendar layout, task duration, deadlines (distinct from due dates), custom reminders, and full reporting history instead of one week. Plus 100 MB uploads, 8 themes, Task Assist, unlimited Ramble voice capture, and auto backups.
Decision rule: Pro is worth it if you schedule your tasks against time rather than just listing them. If you want to see the week as a calendar and know that a task will eat 90 minutes, that is the feature you are buying. If you never look at a calendar view, $60 a year buys you filter views you will not build.
Business: a team, priced per seat
Business is $8 per user/month plus local tax, $96 billed yearly. You get a shared team workspace, up to 500 team projects, 250 people per team project, 1,000 team members and 1,000 guests, team folders, roles and permissions, shared templates, centralized billing, and granular team activity logs.
Here is the arithmetic nobody writes down. Business is priced per user, so it scales linearly with headcount:
- 5 people: $480/year
- 10 people: $960/year
- 25 people: $2,400/year
Plus local tax, on all of those.
Decision rule: you need Business when the unit of work stops being "my list" and becomes "our project" — when someone other than you has to see the task, own it, or be told they own it. Roles and permissions and centralized billing are administrative features. If you do not have an administrative problem, Pro on two separate accounts is cheaper and simpler.
One detail for anyone who has to get a tool past IT: Todoist states SOC2 Type II certification on the pricing page. That is often the entire security review.
If you are still deciding whether Todoist is the right tool at all rather than which tier to buy, we compared it against the field in Todoist alternatives and head to head in Todoist vs Vyneron.
How Vyneron prices the same thing
We build Vyneron, so read this section knowing that. It is here because the pricing model is structurally different, not because it is cheaper at every size.
Vyneron Free is $0 forever with unlimited tasks, notes, routines, Telegram and Slack capture. Solo is $6/mo or $59/yr, in the same neighbourhood as Todoist Pro.
The difference is at team size. Todoist Business is per seat. Vyneron Multi is priced by workspace bracket, for the whole workspace:
- 2–3 users: $12/mo or $119/yr
- 4–6 users: $20/mo or $199/yr
- 7–12 users: $35/mo or $349/yr
- 13–25 users: $60/mo or $599/yr
So a 13-person team on Todoist Business is $96 × 13 = $1,248/year plus local tax. The same team on Vyneron Multi is $599/year total, and stays $599 until the 26th person arrives, at which point it becomes an Enterprise conversation.
Those are the two numbers. Compare them against what you actually need — Todoist Business buys you 1,000 team members, granular activity logs and SOC2 Type II, and if any of those is a hard requirement, the price comparison is not the deciding one.
You can try Vyneron on the free plan without a card. If it does not fit, the article above about alternatives has six other tools in it.