Smartsheet
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveSpreadsheet-shaped work platform for project and portfolio management, with AI columns and formula help.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Paid
- Paid options from
- $9/seat/mo
- Billing
- Per seat, monthly
Pro is $9 per member/month billed yearly ($12 monthly) for 1-10 members with unlimited free contributors; Business is $19 billed yearly ($24 monthly) for 3+ members and adds unlimited free guests. Enterprise and Advanced Work Management are quoted; Pro is offered to new customers only, and a free trial is available.
Use tool ↗About Smartsheet
Smartsheet runs projects out of a grid that behaves like a spreadsheet but carries dependencies, automations, forms, dashboards and portfolio rollups behind it. The AI layer is additive rather than the point: a conversational assistant, AI columns that summarise or classify data down a column, natural-language formula generation, text summarising and translation, and an AI dashboard builder. From the Business tier up you can expose sheets to outside models through MCP-enabled integrations with Claude, Gemini, Copilot and ChatGPT. It is sold per member per month by Smartsheet Inc. of Bellevue, Washington, founded in 2005 and taken private by Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners.
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing page: Pro $9 per member/month billed yearly ($12 monthly), 1-10 members with unlimited contributors, new customers only; Business $19 yearly ($24 monthly), 3+ members, unlimited guests, external AI tool connections; Enterprise custom (15 October 2026)smartsheet.com ↗
- Pricing page lists connectors for Anthropic's Claude, Google Gemini Enterprise and Microsoft Copilot under 'Connect to external AI tools' (15 October 2026)smartsheet.com ↗
Is Smartsheet legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Apr 15, 2001 (25 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar MarkMonitor Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Dec 28, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2005The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- Smartsheet Inc., United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Smartsheet
The choice for teams whose planning already lives in spreadsheets and who need governance on top — portfolio rollups, approvals, resource views. The AI features are competent additions to that, not a reason to switch. Per-member pricing plus free contributors works well for small core teams with many occasional participants, and badly the other way round.
Pros
- Grid interface that project managers can adopt without retraining
- Unlimited free contributors on every plan, with free guests added from Business up
- Conversational AI features built into the sheets on all paid plans
- Connections to external AI tools such as Claude, Gemini and Copilot on Business and above
Cons
- No free plan; entry is $9 per member/month on annual commitment
- Pro caps at 10 members and is restricted to new customers
- Advanced Work Management and Enterprise are quote-only, so real cost is opaque
- The pricing page renders prices by locale, which makes comparison shopping awkward
Best for
- Project and portfolio management in organisations that think in spreadsheets
- Small editing teams with many occasional contributors, who are free on every plan
- Connecting existing sheets to Claude, Gemini or Copilot through its external AI connections
Not for
- Small teams wanting a free permanent tier — there isn't one
- Anyone expecting a modern doc-and-database hybrid like Notion or Airtable
Watch out: Smartsheet went private under Blackstone and Vista Equity — worth factoring into a long-term platform bet.
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