What Todoist costs
Todoist has three plans and the free one is genuinely usable, which is why the limits matter more than the price. The caps are on projects rather than tasks, and one whole category of feature is absent from the free plan in a way that surprises people. Everything below is from Todoist’s own pricing FAQ, read on 2026-08-21.
The three plans
Beginner
Free. For individuals getting started.
Pro
$7 a month, or $60 a year. Includes a 7-day free trial.
Business
$10 per user a month, or $8 per user a month billed yearly. Includes a 14-day free trial, and each team is billed separately.
What each plan caps
The FAQ publishes the limits plan by plan. In order, Beginner then Pro then Business:
- Active personal projects: 5 on Beginner, 300 on Pro, 300 per member on Business
- Active team projects, including sub-projects: 5 on Beginner, 5 on Pro, 500 on Business
- Custom filter views: 3 on Beginner, 150 on Pro, 150 per member on Business
- Activity history: 7 days on Beginner, full history on Pro and Business
- File upload size: 5 MB on Beginner, 25 MB on Pro, 100 MB on Business
- Daily automatic backups: not on Beginner, included on Pro and Business
- Team members including guests: up to 1,000 on Business
The shape of the free plan follows from the first line. The cap is on projects rather than tasks, so a few large projects cost nothing however many tasks go inside them, while many small ones hit the ceiling quickly. Whether Beginner lasts you depends less on how much you have to do than on how finely you divide it.
The free plan has no custom reminders
Beginner includes automatic reminders only, for tasks that already carry a date and a time. Custom reminders, time-based reminders, location-based reminders and recurring reminders are all Pro and Business features, per the FAQ.
For a task manager, this is the limit people are most likely to hit without expecting it. Reminders read like part of what a to-do app is, rather than an upgrade, so the boundary lands somewhere most people would not think to look for one. It is documented in Todoist’s FAQ rather than hidden — the plan comparison names each reminder type and the plan it belongs to.
Beginner also does not include the calendar layout, task durations, time-blocking, deadlines, or Project Insights.
Todoist’s voice-capture feature, which its FAQ calls Ramble, is capped at 10 sessions a month on Beginner and is unlimited on the paid plans, with the FAQ noting that rate limits may still apply.
Where these figures come from
Todoist’s pricing page renders its prices in JavaScript, so a request that reads the page as text returns no figures at all. That is an observation about how the page is built, and nothing more is read into it here.
The numbers on this page come instead from Todoist’s own plans, pricing and billing FAQ, which publishes the full plan comparison as text — prices, caps and per-feature availability alike.
The FAQ records its own last-updated date, which read August 18, 2026 when this page was written.
What we couldn’t determine
- What the Pro Legacy plan costs. Todoist’s FAQ refers to it and links a feature comparison, but names no price for it
- What “rate limits may apply” means in practice for Ramble on paid plans, which the FAQ does not quantify
- What the free team included with Beginner and Pro allows, since the FAQ points to a separate Teams FAQ for those limits
- Whether the in-app subscription price on iOS matches the price on Todoist’s website, which App Store listings do not show
Where this came from and where else Todoist appears
Every figure on this page comes from Todoist’s plans, pricing and billing FAQ, read on 2026-08-21. Prices change, and plan contents change with them — check that page before relying on any figure here. Todoist’s App Store listing, read on 2026-08-21, is cited as the source of the App Store link on this page, not of any figure on it.
Todoist appears in one comparison on this site:
- Todoist vs. TickTick — two of the largest task managers, compared on what each free tier allows, paid pricing and billing options.