ClickUp Brain costs between $9 and $28 per seat per month, depending on whether you choose the Brain AI or Everything AI plan. To break even, a user costing $75/hour needs to save between 6 and 24 minutes of work each month.
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ClickUp Brain pricing starts at $9 per seat per month for the entry-level Brain AI plan. The recommended Everything AI plan is priced at $28 per seat per month. Organizations can reduce these costs by up to 20% by opting for yearly billing.
For a department of 100 users, the monthly investment ranges from $900 to $2,800. These figures represent the additional cost above standard ClickUp platform fees to enable integrated AI functionality across the workspace.
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brain AI — Brain AI | $9 | per seat / month | Save up to 20% with yearly toggle. |
| Brain AI — Everything AI | $28 | per seat / month | Recommended plan. Save up to 20% with yearly toggle. |
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| Plan | 10 users / mo | 25 users / mo | 50 users / mo | 100 users / mo | 250 users / mo | 100 users / year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brain AI — Brain AI | $90 | $225 | $450 | $900 | $2,250 | $10,800 |
| Brain AI — Everything AI | $280 | $700 | $1,400 | $2,800 | $7,000 | $33,600 |
| Plan | Price / seat / month | Hours to break even at $50/h | Hours to break even at $75/h | Hours to break even at $100/h |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brain AI — Brain AI | $9 | 0.2 h | 0.1 h | 0.1 h |
| Brain AI — Everything AI | $28 | 0.6 h | 0.4 h | 0.3 h |
Break-even hours = seat price ÷ loaded hourly cost. Each seat pays for itself once it saves that much verified time per month.
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The financial justification for ClickUp Brain rests on the loaded hourly cost of your team. On the $9 Brain AI plan, an employee costing $50 per hour only needs to save 12 minutes per month to cover the seat price. If that same employee uses the $28 Everything AI plan, the break-even point is 0.6 hours, or roughly 36 minutes of saved time per month.
Budgeting for larger teams requires looking at the monthly and annual commitment. A 250-user deployment on the Everything AI plan costs $7,000 per month. For a 100-user team planning for the long term, the annual cost for the Everything AI tier is $33,600, assuming the 20% yearly discount is applied.
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To verify if this spend is paying back, operations leaders should measure actual time saved against these break-even benchmarks rather than relying on qualitative feedback. By using NetLift to track the reduction in manual task duration, you can calculate the net return based on the specific loaded costs of your users. The objective is to ensure that the $9 to $28 monthly investment consistently recovers more in labor value than it costs to maintain the license.
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Paige Gilmore is the founder of NetLift, the AI Value Management platform that helps organisations measure the cost, savings and return of AI adoption.
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