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 "name": "ClickUp",
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 "vendor_domain": "clickup.com",
 "category": "Operations & Workflow",
 "task": "Projects, planning & team workflow",
 "summary": "The 'everything app' for project and work management. Centralize your tasks, docs, sprints, and team communication in one hub.",
 "best_for": "teams that want one highly customizable app for tasks, docs, goals and reporting and will invest in setting it up",
 "skip_if": "you want something simple your team adopts in a day — ClickUp's depth becomes overwhelm for a light use case",
 "honest_knock": "The everything-app breadth is also the downside — it's feature-dense with a real learning curve, and teams can drown in options. Powerful and cheap per seat, but only if you'll actually configure and adopt it.",
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    "includes": "$10 billed monthly"
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    "price": "quoted",
    "includes": "AI is priced on top of any plan: Brain AI $9, Everything AI $28 per user/mo"
   }
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  "plans_source": "hand-curated from the vendor's pricing page",
  "notes": "(re-verified 2026-08-13, read on their own pricing page with both billing tabs open; every amount unchanged on 2026-09-30) A Free Forever plan with unlimited tasks but 60MB of storage; Unlimited $7 and Business $12 per user/month billed yearly, which are $10 and $19 billed monthly; Enterprise is quote-only. AI is priced on top of the plan: Brain AI $9 and Everything AI $28 per user/month. On 2026-09-30 the AI section also listed what the AI plans include: Brain AI adds 1,500 AI Super Credits per user a month and Everything AI 5,000, shared across the Workspace, with extra credits at $10 per 10,000.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-30",
  "source_url": "https://clickup.com/pricing"
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   "source_url": "https://clickup.com/pricing"
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 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Asana or Trello",
  "why": "simpler project tools"
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  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/clickup-review/",
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  "vendor_site": "https://clickup.com"
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  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://try.web.clickup.com/1fuixmntw4bz",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
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  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
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  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
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  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
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 "open_questions": [
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   "question_id": "clickup:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
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   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
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  {
   "question_id": "clickup:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
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   "what": "Hosted server at mcp.clickup.com/mcp covering tasks, docs, time tracking, workspace search and chat. Delete operations are deliberately not supported.",
   "plan": "All plans. Free: 50 calls a day; Unlimited and above: 300 a day on a rolling 24-hour window; with the Everything AI add-on you get the standard public API limits.",
   "status": "Public beta",
   "source": "https://developer.clickup.com/docs/connect-an-ai-assistant-to-clickups-mcp-server",
   "checked": "2026-07-28",
   "note": "The vendor's own MCP server, from our MCP research; it works with your own account at the vendor."
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   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
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