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Which project management software do AI tools recommend for a small team?

We asked four AI tools five questions a buyer might ask about project management software for a small team, each one twice. Here are the products their answers named, and how many answers named each one.

Products the answers named

13 products were named in 2 or more answers. 4 of them were named by all four AI tools. 7 more were named in just one answer each.

Products named in 2 or more of the 40 answers, most named first; ties in A to Z order. Under each AI tool, the count is out of the answers we counted from that tool.

ProductAnswers naming itChatGPTClaudePerplexityGemini
Trello trello.com 33 of 40 8 of 10 9 of 10 8 of 10 8 of 10
Asana asana.com 29 of 40 9 of 10 9 of 10 5 of 10 6 of 10
ClickUp clickup.com 26 of 40 6 of 10 7 of 10 5 of 10 8 of 10
Basecamp 16 of 40 0 of 10 7 of 10 2 of 10 7 of 10
monday.com monday.com 16 of 40 1 of 10 8 of 10 0 of 10 7 of 10
Teamwork.com teamwork.com 9 of 40 2 of 10 3 of 10 2 of 10 2 of 10
Jira atlassian.com 6 of 40 0 of 10 2 of 10 0 of 10 4 of 10
Zoho Projects 6 of 40 0 of 10 5 of 10 0 of 10 1 of 10
Notion 5 of 40 0 of 10 2 of 10 0 of 10 3 of 10
Freedcamp freedcamp.com 4 of 40 0 of 10 2 of 10 0 of 10 2 of 10
Plaky plaky.com 3 of 40 0 of 10 3 of 10 0 of 10 0 of 10
Productive.io 2 of 40 0 of 10 0 of 10 0 of 10 2 of 10
Wrike wrike.com 2 of 40 0 of 10 2 of 10 0 of 10 0 of 10

A name here means only that AI tools named it. We have not checked these products, and we do not recommend any of them. We show names and counts only. We never repeat what the AI tools said about a product, because AI answers can be wrong.

7 more products were named in just one answer each. We do not list them: one answer is too little to go on.

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The questions, word for word

We wrote these five questions in a buyer's words, and none of them names a product. We asked them in English, exactly as written here.

  1. Which project management software would you recommend for a small team?
  2. My team of five keeps losing track of tasks in email. What project management tool should we use?
  3. Is there a project management tool with a good free plan for a small team?
  4. Which project management software is easy for a non-technical team to start using?
  5. What project management tool works well for a small agency managing client projects?

Directories, platforms, software and publications

The answers also named these. We do not count them as products.

  • Excel: 2 answers
  • Google Sheets: 2 answers

Sites the answers linked to

The websites the answers linked to most, with the number of answers that linked to each.

  • asana.com: 13 answers
  • clickup.com: 10 answers
  • ones.com: 10 answers
  • atlassian.com: 6 answers
  • businessconnect.lt: 6 answers
  • trello.com: 6 answers
  • project-management.com: 5 answers
  • rock.so: 5 answers
  • wrike.com: 4 answers
  • monday.com: 3 answers

How we asked

We asked OpenAI (gpt-6-luna), Anthropic (claude-haiku-5-5), Perplexity (perplexity/sonar) and Google Gemini (google/gemini-3.8-flash) through their official APIs, with web search on, as our paid audit does.

We reached Google Gemini through Perplexity's API, so it searched the web with Perplexity's search.

We asked each question twice on each AI tool on 31 October 2026, with the search location set to the United States: 40 answers in all.

To find the names, a separate AI model (Anthropic's claude-haiku-5-5) listed the products each answer named. Our code then counted them.

A product counts once per answer. Spellings of one name count as one (for example with and without "Inc"). Directories, platforms and the AI tools themselves are not counted as products, and neither is a product named only to warn against it.

An editor moved names that are other kinds of product to the list above.

AI answers change from day to day and from one ask to the next. This is one snapshot of 40 answers, not a ranking and not a review.

With this few answers, small gaps mean little: a product named in 4 answers and one named in 3 could swap places next time.

Research method version 1.0, built on our audit methodology version 1.8.

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