Best project management software (worth paying for?)

We asked 10 models: Which project management tools are actually worth paying for? Each named its own top 10.

Asked 4 ways: List request · Buyer asking for advice · Search query · Worth paying for?. Share of voice pools every wording.

Agreement between models
65%
Same model, run twice
85%
Different picks
14

When agreement between models is well below a model's agreement with itself, the split reflects real differences in taste rather than randomness.

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The consensus

Each cell is the position that model gave the pick; blank means it left the pick off. Click a row for each model's reasoning.

#PickScoreListed byClaude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra

Most divisive

Picks most models listed, at very different positions

Hot takes

Picks that appear on only one ballot

Every ballot

Hover a pick to find it on the other ballots. Marked picks appear on no other ballot.

Claude Haiku 5.5

  1. Asana
  2. monday.com
  3. Jira
  4. ClickUp
  5. Smartsheet
  6. Wrike
  7. Basecamp
  8. Trello
  9. Notion
  10. Microsoft Project

90% with consensus · 98% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

  1. Asana
  2. monday.com
  3. Jira
  4. Linear
  5. ClickUp
  6. Smartsheet
  7. Trello
  8. Basecamp
  9. Wrike
  10. Notion

93% with consensus · 88% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

  1. Linear
  2. Asana
  3. Jira
  4. monday.com
  5. ClickUp
  6. Notion
  7. Smartsheet
  8. Basecamp
  9. Wrike
  10. Airtable

70% with consensus · 94% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

  1. Asana
  2. monday.com
  3. Jira
  4. ClickUp
  5. Notion
  6. Smartsheet
  7. Basecamp
  8. Wrike
  9. Trello
  10. Microsoft Project

93% with consensus · 90% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

  1. Linear
  2. Notion
  3. Asana
  4. monday.com
  5. Jira
  6. ClickUp
  7. Basecamp
  8. Wrike
  9. Height
  10. Smartsheet

52% with consensus · 94% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

  1. Jira
  2. Linear
  3. Asana
  4. monday.com
  5. ClickUp
  6. Notion
  7. Shortcut
  8. Wrike
  9. Smartsheet
  10. Airtable

59% with consensus · 71% self-consistent

Kimi K3

  1. Asana
  2. monday.com
  3. Jira
  4. ClickUp
  5. Notion
  6. Linear
  7. Basecamp
  8. Smartsheet
  9. Wrike
  10. Trello

97% with consensus · 94% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

  1. Asana
  2. Jira
  3. monday.com
  4. ClickUp
  5. Notion
  6. Wrike
  7. Microsoft Project
  8. Smartsheet
  9. Basecamp
  10. Linear

84% with consensus · 66% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

  1. Linear
  2. Notion
  3. Asana
  4. monday.com
  5. Jira
  6. ClickUp
  7. Trello
  8. Smartsheet
  9. Basecamp
  10. Wrike

52% with consensus · 86% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

  1. Asana
  2. Notion
  3. ClickUp
  4. Linear
  5. monday.com
  6. Jira
  7. Trello
  8. Basecamp
  9. Airtable
  10. Smartsheet

73% with consensus · 65% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 43 (lightest) to 95 (darkest)

Claude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Haiku 5.5896094434990844364
GPT-6 Luna896988505790775372
Gemini 4 Argon606963817367628158
Qwen 3.8 Flash948863495395874869
DeepSeek V4 Pro435081496453479564
GLM-5.3495773536457606349
Kimi K3909067955357865273
MiniMax M3847762874760864767
Mistral Large 4435381489563524767
Nemotron 3 Ultra647258696449736767