Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Basecamp
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Basecamp is a web-based project-management tool. Basecamp offers features standard to project management platforms, as well as mobile accessibility, unlimited users, and 3rd party integrations. Basecamp is priced by space requirements and concurrent projects.
$15
per month per user
Wrike
Score 8.2 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Wrike is a project management and collaboration software. This solution connects tasks, discussions, and emails to the user’s project plan. Wrike is optimized for agile workflows and aims to help resolve data silos, poor visibility into work status, and missed deadlines and project failures.
$9.80
per month per user
Pricing
BasecampWrike
Editions & Modules
Basecamp Business
$99
Per Month [Unlimited Users]
Basecamp Personal
Free
Limited Capabilities
Wrike Free
$0
per month per user
Wrike Team
$9.8
per month per user
Wrike Business
$24.8
per month per user
Wrike Enterprise
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per month per user
Pinnacle
Request a quote
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BasecampWrike
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsEvery premium plan begins with a 14-day trial period.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
BasecampWrike
Considered Both Products
Basecamp
Chose Basecamp
Wrike is nice, but not nearly as nice as Basecamp, although Wrike does have a free account to try it out. They also have non-profit discounts, which Basecamp doesn't have.
Chose Basecamp
Comparatively, Basecamp has been found to be the easiest to use and onboard new users. Additionally the cost model for our organisation is much lower on Basecamp compared to the competition.

Other products are more aligned with Agile practices but for most of our operational …
Chose Basecamp
Basecamp is perfect for small-time collaboration. It's suited for projects that need organization but not granular detail. When you need more than a simple little bit of help, you'll be looking at other solutions at that point. Very straight forward and to the point but that is …
Chose Basecamp
It is an easy tool to use, organize your activities so that you can complete your projects, and allows you to do what is necessary to achieve it, unify your work team, assign tasks, reminders in a simple way, makes you more productive, you manage to plan in such a way that your …
Chose Basecamp
Haven't tried any other software or platform other than Basecamp, but before the purchase process we reviewed other products and they seem very similar and the decision that got us to buy Basecamp was because of the price and the understanding of the web page related to the …
Chose Basecamp
If you are working with Basecamp, it means itis enough for both working with your projects and events and also it turns your organization to the most communicative and easily collaborative one. There are tons of awesome features such as groups, subgroups, threats, emails, …
Wrike
Chose Wrike
Wrike has more features in terms of live feedback and setting up auto-workflows vs. Basecamp. I would prefer monday.com to Wrike, but this is the tool my company already had.
Chose Wrike
Wrike is eons better than Advantage, and would be my preference over Basecamp as well. However, I did enjoy Salesforce in that it had many automations in place, was used as our CRM, and had the ability to make project trees - yet it did not have as much customization at the …
Chose Wrike
We now use Basecamp and wrike at the same time. Basecamp's chat function is better. Wrike's project management tool is much powerful.
Chose Wrike
Wrike blows Basecamp out of the water. It's very user-friendly and easy to find and manage your workload. It makes document management and the review process SO MUCH EASIER.
Chose Wrike
Basecamp was one of the original Work Management platforms, but Wrike is absolutely light years ahead of Basecamp nowadays.
Chose Wrike
So Wrike is a great blend of the functionality of Basecamp and Trello. Basecamp is a good time/date stamp on messaging internally and externally. Trello is a slick way to drag and drop tasks in a workflow and to check them off when they are complete. Both of the competitors …
Chose Wrike
We continue to use these products throughout our company; however, Smartsheet required a significant amount of time for onboarding and training a champion user, and Basecamp didn't provide the visibility or functionality that Wrike offered. We used Basecamp as a team for a …
Chose Wrike
Overall, it is very similar to Asana more so than Basecamp. The concept is really similar. The difference is I've been able to dive much deeper into Wrike and utilizing the task features where for Asana for me was much more for casual and personal use rather than corporate. But …
Chose Wrike
While the UI may not be the most modern Wrike's flexibility and ability to integrate with other tools sold us in the long run. The ability to plug in directly with Integrate and access Wrike's API allows us to have everything flow through a single point.
Chose Wrike
It is easier to search and find the correct project and you can create versions of files and images. You can see the changes you requested from version 1 to version N. The view to the project is a folder with task inside.
Chose Wrike
Slack is nice but more for chats and messages I found rather than workflow. Wrike was more well known and my company valued it more based on satisfaction and popularity.
Chose Wrike
Gant charts, the power and rich functionality. Pricing was I bit high though.
Chose Wrike
Except Todoist, which is more geared toward a personal to do list (rather than team project management), every other similar product I've used is better than Wrike in every way. They're all more user friendly and intuitive and easier to visualize project progress.
Chose Wrike
Wrike is competitive by offering a wide range of integrations with other popular tools and apps, allowing you to sync data, collaborate in familiar settings, and maximize efficiency. Its integration with apps like
Chose Wrike
Table vision and right panels with tasks and subtasks facillitates the perspective of the whole project.

Using subtasks in different projects without duplicating the conversations.
Chose Wrike
More functionalities and flexibility
Chose Wrike
Trello in my opinion is the easiest for me because everything is columnized. I want the ability to see the full scope of a project on 1 single page. I have to go to different pages for different tasks and all pages look similar. For me it's a UI problem. Dummy it up a bit.
Chose Wrike
Wrike just has so many more features as well as a more modern UI. It also has a very responsive support team that quickly implements suggestions if they find them useful.
Chose Wrike
Wrike is a much more robust software, providing a more productive day, more accountability, and more efficiency
Chose Wrike
Wrike better integrates timeline, file-sharing, and resource management than its competitors. Some project management tools only offer some of these features, but Wrike offers multiple views for different working styles, and dashboards to track things at a higher level. Being …
Chose Wrike
Wrike is extremely robust. It takes all the best features and combines them into one collaboration system. It isn't as pretty or funny or fun as some of the other products I have used to track work, but it literally does it all.
Chose Wrike
We use Paychex Flex for PTO, holiday pay, bereavement, and time off requests. We also use other programs for travel expenses, flights, car rentals, and per diem, such as Emburse Tallie. Wrike is very user-friendly in comparison to other programs I have used.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
BasecampWrike
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Basecamp
4.2
118 Ratings
57% below category average
Wrike
7.8
664 Ratings
4% above category average
Task Management5.3117 Ratings8.5659 Ratings
Resource Management4.198 Ratings7.7551 Ratings
Gantt Charts3.040 Ratings7.8463 Ratings
Scheduling4.193 Ratings7.8575 Ratings
Workflow Automation3.168 Ratings7.7558 Ratings
Team Collaboration4.7117 Ratings8.6658 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology4.049 Ratings7.7330 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology3.545 Ratings8.0293 Ratings
Document Management4.2109 Ratings7.2553 Ratings
Email integration4.396 Ratings7.2506 Ratings
Mobile Access4.595 Ratings7.5475 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking3.444 Ratings7.9293 Ratings
Change request and Case Management3.655 Ratings7.723 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management7.139 Ratings7.7220 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
Basecamp
7.8
40 Ratings
5% above category average
Wrike
7.8
224 Ratings
5% above category average
Quotes/estimates8.329 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Invoicing6.925 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Project & financial reporting8.034 Ratings8.1221 Ratings
Integration with accounting software7.927 Ratings7.6128 Ratings
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User Ratings
BasecampWrike
Likelihood to Recommend
6.5
(144 ratings)
8.4
(698 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(26 ratings)
8.3
(94 ratings)
Usability
7.8
(15 ratings)
8.4
(55 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(5 ratings)
9.0
(18 ratings)
Performance
7.3
(4 ratings)
7.9
(15 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(28 ratings)
9.0
(84 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.5
(5 ratings)
Online Training
5.0
(1 ratings)
7.7
(11 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.7
(4 ratings)
9.1
(31 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
6.4
(10 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
7.5
(4 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(6 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(11 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(4 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(7 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
6.9
(7 ratings)
User Testimonials
BasecampWrike
Likelihood to Recommend
37 Signals
Basecamp is a wonderful tool for teams of varying degrees of technical knowledge, teams managing lots of different types of "agifall" and waterfall projects, and teams that are remotely distributed. It's probably less useful for more strictly agile-focused development teams, compared to other more flexible software applications like Jira and Asana.
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Wrike
My organization used Google Sheets to work with subbies, but we've since switched to Wrike. It is user friendly, has formulas and customizable fields. Wrike has been a lifesaver because instead of sharing Google Sheets with external customers and typically they messing up - deleting formulas, users can simply fill out a request form without logging into Wrike . All details are displayed in a table view, making management much easier.
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Pros
37 Signals
  • Task management - It is very easy to add, organize and discuss tasks within Basecamp's interface.
  • The "Campfire" function is great for communicating when you just have a quick question for someone on the team.
  • Notifications - Basecamp lets you decide how often and about what you'd like to be notified. The ability to respond to messages in Basecamp directly via email saves a lot of time.
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Wrike
  • Wrike has been consistent in emailing any updates or changes to each person involved in each task.
  • Wrike has a simple to navigate website, with quick access to each task.
  • Wrike keeps all data files located at the top of the task for quick reference, which makes it easier for each team member to find.
  • Wrike adds date tags as well as any edited or deleted notes where we are able to cross-reference any major changes that may have been made.
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Cons
37 Signals
  • High Learning Curve. It's true that it can be easy to use, but to use well and effectively takes some time to learn. It's recommended to have an agreed-upon system in your team of what tools to use and when.
  • Notification Overload. If people aren't careful they could send a notification to everyone when only a couple people were meant to be prompted. And since emails are sent by default, you could have your mailbox overloaded with unnecessary updates. This is where it takes a bit of training in your team to have an agreed-upon system.
  • Lack of organization with Archived Projects. I will often need to reference an archived project to make a new one, but there is only a list of archived projects in alphabetical order, with no way to organize by archive date, or even search.
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Wrike
  • The email notifications that are automatically sent from Wrike when something is done are easy for users to miss or ignore.
  • Reporting can be limited. You have to create workarounds for collecting/storing the name of the person submitting the form in instances where they do not have their own Wrike license.
  • A more user-friendly interface, especially for those less familiar with project management software, would enhance overall accessibility.
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Likelihood to Renew
37 Signals
When I bring new people onto a project, it's immediately obvious how to use Basecamp. I don't have to worry about teaching them the features or walking them through it, it's just incredibly user-friendly. For this reason, I'll continue to renew my subscription even as new people are brought onto production jobs or the client changes.
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Wrike
I wish that Wrike had more drag and drop functionality that would be connected to assignee and also I wish that the finish date of a task would update to the date where you checked completed. It does not do that. Also finishing a task doesn't move the start date of the next task it "protects your time in that way", but our management team wants us to quickly see what we have down the pipeline rather than having to scroll down the list of upcoming tasks.
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Usability
37 Signals
Basecamp is a little tricky to learn. I've used it for quite a while but I feel like there's still so much I don't know. It took me a while to learn but having used it in college definitely helped me integrate it into my work career.
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Wrike
Wrike is def NOT rocket science, but it does take some of our users a good while to learn to navigate around and about all the zillions of features and things they can set up to make their work life smoother.
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Reliability and Availability
37 Signals
I've never experienced downtime while using Basecamp, or been unable to access it when I needed it. That's not to say they've never had downtime, but I've been lucky enough not to encounter any, and I work odd hours, including late nights when maintenance is often undertaken.
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Wrike
Over two years of (almost) daily usage without outages. Don't remember any errors. I give it 9 only because some Wrike plugins (for online document edit) are based on NPAPI architecture. These types of plugins are being phased out in new browsers, and NPAPI plugins are disabled by default in recent versions of Chrome so you have to do some browser adjustments when you switch browsers or move to another computer.
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Performance
37 Signals
No answers on this topic
Wrike
Wrike tasks loads fine, but I hate clicking files and wait for a bit of time since it is powerpoint or word, Wrike assumes I want to open those on Wrike. My suggestion is to link it to office 365 so we do not need Wrike based decoder for PPTX and DOCX
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Support Rating
37 Signals
For the many reasons I've given, Basecamp is a very strong program. There are a few features I can imagine that might make it even better, but I don't have a basis for comparison to be able to say that there is definitely a better one out there. I've noticed that Basecamp has evolved a bit from the time I started using it until now, so that makes me think that the producer of this program values it and believes in continuous improvement. If you could use the features offered by Basecamp, I would think you could use it with confidence.
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Wrike
Support is very quickly and they want to solve problems actively. When I need additional info I can use community forum, when I've an issue I can use support form to get help. The support is of excellent quality from the first level, to grow when you talk to the engineers it becomes even more important
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In-Person Training
37 Signals
No answers on this topic
Wrike
We had staff in person provide some training
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Online Training
37 Signals
No answers on this topic
Wrike
I love the Wrike training options. Wrike Discover has tons of courses, learning plans, certifications, etc. This is an area where Wrike definitely shines! I wish these resources were more in your face for new people, because it seems like a lot of coworkers didn't know all of this training was available to them.
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Implementation Rating
37 Signals
Decide the process before implementation - i.e. when it's due 8/9 does that mean 8am, noon, 5pm, 11:59pm? Check your to-do list frequently Set-up templates - just not with the dates (they can be funky)
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Wrike
There are a lot of bells and whistles in Wrike, and not all of it is easy or intuitive to understand once it's plopped in your lap. It's easier when there are a few choice people who understand Wrike as a platform and articulate it in such a way where it makes it easy to pass it along to others in the group
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Alternatives Considered
37 Signals
Pretty good, but [Basecamp] has its drawbacks. Honestly I find the interface non-intuitive and sometimes have trouble figuring out how to change the status of a task. Perhaps it has something to do with the way it was originally set up by the admin, but I'm not sure. I liked Jira's drag and drop obvious functionality, but the project management side of the software was lacking. Smartsheet has excellent project management functionality, but the task management isn't as good.
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Wrike
I have not used other products except Microsoft Teams channels with file sharing and standard sharing from Adobe, text and email messaging, and Zoom/gotomeeting sharing. This is the first product that I have used that had the functionality and platform where the sharing is simplistic. It is better than standard sharing through email or other simple forms because everything stays together.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
37 Signals
No answers on this topic
Wrike
company purchase
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Scalability
37 Signals
No answers on this topic
Wrike
The sky is the limit for what can be done in Wrike. We started with 1 use case and within 5 months we migrated several key business practices over to Wrike because they were easier to manage. Use cases so far: process improvement, management review, corrective actions, maintenance requests, month-end financial closing, and document management. As we grow, it's easy to imagine putting even more into Wrike where it becomes a cornerstone for how we do business
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Professional Services
37 Signals
No answers on this topic
Wrike
not sure
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Return on Investment
37 Signals
  • It has saved me time when having to get the same message out to multiple restaurants
  • It has helped us make smarter operational decisions because we can all collaborate on an answer in a shorter amount of time (instead of calling a meeting!!!)
  • The calendar function allows us to plot out our marketing agenda for the month and add/change it together as needed. The chef will post his recipe, the managers will cost it out, the social media manager will post pictures on it, and ultimately we will get that information out on an info sheet to the staff by printing the page.
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Wrike
  • Adding versions of a document streamlines our editing process, preventing us from reviewing outdated versions of a document. This feature saves time, especially when working with external contributors who may not know Wrike well.
  • Blueprints save time because we do not have to manually enter all the details when scheduling a recurring project.
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