Hugogen Projects vs Trello

Trello is a great board. Hugogen Projects keeps the Kanban board you love and adds List, Calendar, and Gantt views, sprints, subtasks, and AI agents — all on the free plan.

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Pricing and feature data last verified 2026-06-24.

Pick Hugogen Projects if

  • Your team has outgrown one board per project and needs lists, sprints, and dependencies in the same workspace.
  • You want AI agents on every task included on the free plan, not as a Premium upsell.
  • Your tasks should sit next to the docs, designs, and video they're tracking — same project, every artifact.

Stick with Trello if

  • Your team's PM ritual is one board, one team, end of story.
  • You're already paying for Atlassian (Jira, Confluence) and Trello's tight integration with those products is non-negotiable.
  • Power-Ups and Butler automations on a single board are doing real work and you don't want to rebuild them.

Side-by-side, feature by feature

Every row links to a live capability in Hugogen Projects.Trello values pulled from their product pages and pricing tiers.

Views

  • Board view (Kanban)

    Hugogen
    Yes
    Trello
    Yes

    Trello's core surface

  • List view

    Hugogen
    Yes

    Inline-editable, sprint-grouped

    Trello
    Premium plan

    Table view on Premium and up

  • Calendar view

    Hugogen
    Yes

    On Free plan, drag to reschedule

    Trello
    Premium plan

  • Gantt / Timeline view

    Hugogen
    Yes

    Day-to-year zoom, dependency arrows

    Trello
    Premium plan

    Timeline view, no dependency arrows

Workflow

  • Sprints with planning page

    Hugogen
    Yes

    Dedicated planning view

    Trello
    No

    Workarounds via labels and lists

  • Subtasks

    Hugogen
    Yes

    Native with their own metadata

    Trello
    Checklists

    Not first-class subtasks

  • Task relations / dependencies

    Hugogen
    4 types

    Blocks, related, duplicates, clones

    Trello
    Power-Up

    Third-party dependency Power-Ups

  • Custom statuses per project

    Hugogen
    Yes

    Names, colors, terminal flag

    Trello
    Lists as statuses

    List name doubles as status

  • Multi-assignee per task

    Hugogen
    Yes
    Trello
    Yes

    Multiple members per card

AI

  • AI agents on every task

    Hugogen
    Yes

    Included on every plan

    Trello
    Premium plan

    AI-powered enhancements on Premium and up

  • AI image generation

    Hugogen
    Yes

    Hugogen Designer surface

    Trello
    No

  • AI in workspace chat (knows your projects)

    Hugogen
    Yes

    Same context as Docs + Design

    Trello
    No

Workspace

  • Boards per workspace on Free plan

    Hugogen
    Unlimited
    Trello
    10

  • Tasks live next to docs, designs, video

    Hugogen
    Yes
    Trello
    No

    Trello is board-only

  • Deep-linkable task URLs

    Hugogen
    Yes
    Trello
    Yes

Pricing model

  • AI on Free plan

    Hugogen
    Yes

    1.5k credits / mo

    Trello
    Quick capture only

    Full AI is Premium

  • Lowest paid tier with multiple views

    Hugogen
    $0 (Free)
    Trello
    $10 / user / mo

    Premium plan, annual

  • Effective cost for a 10-person team with multi-view + AI

    Hugogen
    $8 / month

    Pro covers up to 500 seats

    Trello
    $100 / month

    Premium annual, 10 seats

Pricing, side by side

List prices from the vendor pricing pages. Verified on the dates cited below each column.

Hugogen Projects

  • Free Forever

    Free

    For solopreneurs and new teams.

    • 10 seats max
    • 1,500 credits / month
    • 10 GB cloud storage
    • All four task views: List, Board, Calendar, Gantt
    • Per-project custom statuses
    • Multi-assignee, sprints, subtasks, relations

  • Pro

    $8 per month, billed monthly

    For growing teams moving fast.

    • Up to 500 seats
    • 9,000 credits / seat / month
    • 100 GB cloud storage
    • Everything in Free
    • Sales call analysis + meeting AI
    • Agentic Designer

  • Business

    $17 per seat / month

    For teams operating at scale.

    • Up to 500 seats
    • 25,000 credits / seat / month
    • 2 TB cloud storage
    • Everything in Pro
    • 300 brand kits
    • Priority support

  • Enterprise

    Custom

    For organizations with custom needs.

    • Custom seats with SCIM provisioning
    • Custom credit pool
    • Custom cloud storage
    • Unlimited brand kits
    • Full-length video generation

Source: hugogen.com/pricing. Verified 2026-06-24.

Trello

  • Free

    Free

    Capture your to-dos and get organized.

    • Unlimited cards
    • Up to 10 boards per Workspace
    • Inbox functionality
    • Unlimited Power-Ups per board
    • Two-factor authentication

  • Standard

    $5 per user / month, billed annually

    $6 if billed monthly. Unlimited boards.

    • Unlimited boards
    • AI-powered quick capture
    • Planner access
    • Card mirroring
    • Custom Fields
    • Unlimited storage (250 MB / file)

  • Premium

    $10 per user / month, billed annually

    $12.50 if billed monthly. AI + multiple views.

    • AI-powered enhancements
    • Multiple views: Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard, Map
    • Workspace-level templates
    • Admin and security features
    • Unlimited command runs
    • Collections feature

  • Enterprise

    $17.5 per user / month, billed annually

    Enterprise-grade security and controls.

    • Unlimited Workspaces
    • Organization-wide permissions
    • Multi-board guests
    • Power-Up administration
    • SSO and user provisioning
    • 24/7 Enterprise Admin support

Source: trello.com/pricing. Verified 2026-06-24.

What Trello does better

Hugogen Projects is the right call for most teams, not every team. These are the places Trello is still ahead.

  • Power-Up ecosystem

    On the roadmap

    Trello's Power-Up marketplace ships hundreds of board-level extensions (calendars, voting, time tracking, dependency overlays, Butler automations). Hugogen's integration surface is smaller and matures with the Q4 integrations launch. If your team relies on niche Power-Ups, Trello is still ahead on this axis.

  • Atlassian-suite integration

    Trello sits inside the Atlassian ecosystem — Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and the Atlassian Marketplace tooling all snap together. If your org standardised on Atlassian a long time ago, Trello inherits all of that integration. Hugogen Projects is standalone.

  • Single-board simplicity

    Trello's strongest pitch is one board, one purpose, zero setup. That clarity is real and valuable for small teams who don't need lists, sprints, or dependencies. Hugogen is broader — it ships four views, sprint planning, and an activity timeline by default. Some teams want the smaller surface.

  • Butler automation language

    On the roadmap

    Butler is Trello's native automation language, baked deep into the platform with command builders and triggers. Hugogen has Webhooks today; an automation builder with a similar surface area ships post-Q4 2026.

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