ClickUp vs Wrike
ClickUp scores 9.2 to Wrike's 8.7 among the AI work management tools we rate, and is the better pick for 1 of the 4 kinds of buyer below.
ClickUp wins, 9.2 to 8.7
Wrike includes its AI Essentials, unlimited content writing and editing, on every paid plan starting at Team for $10 a month; ClickUp only gets AI at all once you add Brain, a separate $9 a user add-on on top of any base plan. ClickUp still manages more ways to view work, 9 against Wrike's 6, and its Everything AI add-on can generate meeting notes, something Wrike does not offer.
Pick ClickUp if you want more views and AI meeting notes as an add-on.
Pick Wrike if you want unlimited writing AI included on the cheapest plan.
Best for
Who each one suits, decided on the criteria that matter to that buyer and the checked facts where the two differ.
- AI meeting notes: ClickUp yes, Wrike no
- Searches your other apps: ClickUp yes, Wrike no
- Ways to view work: 9 views against 6 views
- Ways to reach support: 4 support channels against 3 support channels
- AI on the cheapest paid plan: Limited against Add_on
How they score
Both are scored the same way, against the other AI work management tools we rate, from facts on each vendor's own pages. Wrike leads on 2 of 4 criteria.
Where they differ
Every point where the two vendors' published facts disagree, with a link to where each fact was read. "Not published" means the vendor does not say either way.
Published by only one of them
Where they match (11)
Pricing, plan by plan
Every plan each vendor publishes, monthly and yearly where both are offered.
ClickUp
Wrike
Pros and cons
From each tool's full review, written from the same checked facts.
ClickUp
- ClickUp's free plan includes unlimited tasks, unlimited free plan members and collaborative docs.
- Brain AI's chat lets you choose between Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini.
- ClickUp is SOC 2 Type 2 certified, GDPR compliant and HIPAA compliant.
- Read-only guests are unlimited and free on every paid plan.
- ClickUp Brain is not included on any base plan; it is a separate add-on costing $9 or $28 a user a month.
- The AI notetaker is only on the higher Everything AI add-on, not on Brain AI.
- Single sign-on with SAML is limited to the Enterprise plan.
Wrike
- AI Essentials, covering writing, form and rule generation and Board AI, is included free and unlimited under fair use on every paid plan starting at Team.
- Wrike offers a public REST API and its own MCP server for connecting AI assistants.
- Viewer-role guests, inside or outside your organisation, are free and unlimited.
- Wrike does not use customer data to improve AI models, its own or third parties'.
- Wrike Copilot and AI Agents are part of AI Elite, which only starts on the Business plan.
- Business plans and above are only available as annual subscriptions.
- The free plan is capped at 200 active tasks per account.
ClickUp vs Wrike: common questions
Which is better, ClickUp or Wrike?
ClickUp scores 9.2 and Wrike 8.7 out of 10 among the AI work management tools we rate. ClickUp is ahead on what it manages. Wrike is ahead on working with others and pricing.
Is ClickUp or Wrike cheaper?
ClickUp's cheapest paid plan is $10/mo (Unlimited) and Wrike's is $10/mo billed annually (Team). Compare what each plan includes below before going on price alone.
What can ClickUp do that Wrike cannot?
On the facts both vendors publish: aI meeting notes and searches your other apps.
