Is ClickUp's Gantt chart free?

How many times can you use ClickUp's Gantt chart for free?

ClickUp allows 60 Gantt uses per Free Forever workspace. Its help article on view availability and limits lists the Gantt view at 60 uses on Free Forever and unlimited on every paid plan, including the older Unlimited plan that existing workspaces may still be on. The pricing page shows the same thing a different way: its comparison table marks Gantt Charts as "Trial" on Free and "Included" from Core up.

Three details in ClickUp's own wording matter more than the number itself.

• The count never resets. The pricing page says uses "are cumulative throughout a Workspace and they do not reset or count down". This is not 60 a month. It is 60 for the life of the workspace.
• The count is shared. Uses are counted per workspace, not per person. A team of five on the Free plan shares one pool of 60, not 60 each.
• ClickUp calls these uses a demonstration. Its pricing FAQ says uses are "intended as a demonstration of paid plan features". Treat it as a way to evaluate the paid feature.

What ClickUp does not publish is what counts as one Gantt use. The same help article spells out the counted actions for a few other views, but not for Gantt, so there is no way to know in advance how far 60 uses will stretch on a real project. One solo Free-plan user on Reddit said he reached the limit on his own timeline and was asked to pay about €9 a month to keep working in it.

What happens when the Gantt uses run out?

Your data stays, but you cannot add or edit information through the Gantt view. ClickUp's pricing help article says that when you hit a usage limit, data created with that feature is not affected, but you cannot edit or add new information using the feature until the workspace is upgraded. It also says plainly that feature usage limits do not reset.

In practice that means three things for a project plan:

• Tasks and dates survive. They are ordinary ClickUp tasks, so they are still in List and Board view, which have no use limit on Free.
• Gantt editing stops. Dragging a bar, stretching a task or linking two tasks on the timeline is the reason to have a Gantt view, and that is what stops.
• There is no waiting it out. A monthly allowance would refill. This one does not, so the only ways forward are paying or moving the timeline somewhere else.

ClickUp's FAQ adds that it lets you know when a limit is reached and offers a grace period to pick a plan. It does not say how long that grace period is, so do not plan a deadline around it.

Decide how you will maintain the timeline before it holds a project's dates and dependencies. Reaching the limit halfway through leaves you choosing between an upgrade and a move while the work continues.

What does it cost to remove ClickUp's Gantt limit?

Core is the cheapest plan with unlimited Gantt use: $9 per user per month billed yearly, or $12 billed monthly. ClickUp charges for owners, admins and members, so every person who works inside the workspace is a paid seat, not just the person who builds the chart.

Business is $17 per user per month billed yearly, or $25 monthly. It is in the table because two Gantt features people often expect from a paid plan start there, not at Core: baselines, which save the original dates so you can see how far the plan has moved, and exporting the Gantt chart as a PDF.

Guests change the sums a little. On Core, a workspace with one member includes five permission-controlled guest seats, and each extra member adds two more. A client who only needs to look at the plan can be a guest rather than a paid member, up to that allowance.

Workspaces created before ClickUp's current plans may still be on the older Unlimited plan, which also has unlimited Gantt use. ClickUp says new workspaces start on the new plans and existing ones are being moved over gradually, so check the billing page of your own workspace before comparing numbers.

Does Core give you everything a Gantt chart needs?

For most schedules, yes. ClickUp's guide to creating a Gantt view covers dependencies drawn by dragging between tasks, an option to reschedule the following tasks when you move one, milestones shown as diamonds, and day, week, month, quarter and year scales. The week scale greys out non-working days, and with the Skip Non-Working Days ClickApp turned on, scheduling avoids them too.

The gaps on Core are the ones that matter when someone outside the team asks about the plan:

• No baselines. Comparing today's dates with the dates you agreed at kickoff needs Business.
• No Gantt PDF. Sending the chart to a client or a funder as a PDF needs Business. On Core you would screenshot it.
• Timeline and Workload views are trials. The pricing table marks both as a trial on Core, and unlimited from Business.

Choose Core for unlimited Gantt editing. Choose Business when baselines or Gantt PDF export are part of the job.

When is paying for ClickUp still the right call?

Pay for ClickUp when the Gantt chart is one view of work your team already manages there. The $9 a seat covers a workspace where tasks, docs, chat and the timeline use the same records, with Gantt included.

• Your team already lives in ClickUp. Everyone updates their tasks there every day, so the dates on the chart are current without anyone retyping them. A separate Gantt tool would be one more place to keep in sync.
• The plan and the work are the same list. If the tasks on the timeline are the tasks people tick off, keeping them in one tool is worth more than saving a few dollars a seat.
• You need several views of one project. Board for the daily work, Gantt for the plan, Calendar for deadlines: that is what ClickUp is built for.

A separate Gantt tool makes more sense when ClickUp would only hold the timeline. If nobody else uses ClickUp, paying per seat for a whole work platform to get one view is the expensive way to make a Gantt chart. For a broader look at what else is free, the comparison of free chart tools compares the free plans side by side, and the same limit question comes up with Asana, covered under Asana timeline options.

What if all you need is the Gantt chart?

Use a tool where the Gantt chart is the product, so there is no counter on it. Ganttile is free with no limit on charts, tasks or edits. It has dependencies, milestones, phases shown as summary bars, critical path and automatic scheduling (both off until you turn them on in Settings), and Hide weekends, which makes durations count working days. Finished plans export as PDF, PNG, an Excel task table or Microsoft Project XML.

Consider this sample project. A freelancer is planning a twelve-week website build for one client: discovery, design, build, content, testing and launch, about 30 tasks with a launch milestone. They open the editable project schedule, rename the tasks, link the ones that wait on each other and turn on Hide weekends. When the client is a week late with content, they move one bar and the dependent tasks follow. Every Friday the client gets a PDF.

Be clear about what that setup leaves out, because some of it is what ClickUp's paid plans add:

• No task assignments. Put the person or role at the front of the task name instead.
• No baselines. Note the original end dates of the main phases at kickoff and track delays by hand at each review.
• No share link. Teammates you invite through Ganttile's linked Breeze account can view and edit the chart for free. Everyone else gets the PDF or image.
• No task board, docs or chat. It is a Gantt chart, not a work platform. If the team's daily work needs a home too, that is where ClickUp, or something like it, earns its fee.

Moving a timeline across from ClickUp means re-entering the task names and dates. For one project of a few dozen tasks, this is a short, one-off job. If you want to weigh other browser-based options first, the comparison of browser-based chart tools compares their free tiers.

Short answers about ClickUp's free Gantt chart

Does ClickUp's 60-use Gantt limit reset each month?

No. ClickUp says feature usage limits are cumulative across the workspace and do not reset or count down. Sixty uses is the total for the life of a Free Forever workspace, not a monthly allowance.

Is the Gantt limit per person or per workspace?

Per workspace. Everyone in a Free Forever workspace draws on the same 60 uses, so a team shares one counter. Core removes the limit for the whole workspace, and every member is then a paid seat.

Can you export a ClickUp Gantt chart to PDF on Core?

No. ClickUp's pricing table lists Gantt chart PDFs as not included on Free or Core. They start on Business, at $17 per user per month billed yearly or $25 monthly. Baselines in the Gantt view also start on Business.

Which option fits your project?

Ask one question first: will your team do its daily work in ClickUp? If yes, budget for Core from the start, $9 a seat billed yearly, and treat the 60 free uses as a test drive. If no, and the timeline is the only thing you need, build it in a free Gantt tool and keep the 60 uses for trying ClickUp later.