Which project management software has a real Gantt chart?

GanttPRO does one thing: Gantt charts. It opens on the schedule, not on a task list or a Kanban board. If you think in weeks, hand-offs and delivery dates, that's a real comfort. You build the plan the way you'd sketch it on a whiteboard.

The pricing is what puts it first. Critical path, baselines, milestones, dependencies and export are included on every plan, Core at $7 per user per month billed yearly included. ClickUp wants Business at $17 for critical path. Asana wants Advanced. Smartsheet keeps baselines for Business at $19. A team of five on Core pays $35 a month. Advanced is $10, Business $17, and Enterprise is $25 with a 5-user minimum and yearly billing only. Monthly prices aren't shown on the page, so ask if you don't want a 12-month commitment.

The limits are plain. There's no free plan, and some reviewers find it pricey for a tiny team that could live with a general tool. Collaboration (comments, discussions, docs) is basic next to ClickUp or monday.com. The pricing page also doesn't list export formats: during your trial, check that the format your client expects actually comes out. Our tip: set the baseline the day the client signs off on the schedule, not a week later. That's the snapshot you'll use to explain every delay.

In ClickUp, Gantt is one view out of about fifteen. Your tasks exist once, and you see them as a list, a board, a calendar or a Gantt chart. That's the big win: the schedule stays current because the team works in the same tasks. Dependencies are available on Free, and ClickUp supports several types (waiting on another task's finish, or its start).

The pricing needs a careful read. On Free, the Gantt view is a trial: a limited, cumulative number of uses that never resets, and the pricing page doesn't even say how many. Gantt becomes unlimited on Core, $9 per user per month billed yearly, $12 monthly. But critical path and slack time (how long a task can slip without delaying the project) are only a trial on Core. They're included from Business, $17 yearly or $25 monthly. Gantt export to PDF is Business-only too. For five people who need a real schedule, budget $85 a month, not $45.

Users on ClickUp's feedback board don't hold back. The Gantt view gets slow on big projects; one user called it unusable most of the time before switching tools. Others find the layout harder to read than Smartsheet or monday.com, and you can't enter a dependency by row number like in a spreadsheet. Our tip: on Free, save your Gantt trial uses for a real project, not a demo. And if your projects run past a few hundred tasks, check how fast the view loads during the trial before moving the whole team in.

Wrike has one of the most serious Gantt charts among general PM tools. It's interactive from the Team plan at $10 per user per month: drag a bar, and dependent tasks follow. Critical path needs Business, and Wrike keeps Gantt snapshots (the new name for its old baselines) so you can compare today's schedule with the one you launched with. Add team workload and approvals, and you can run a portfolio.

Pricing comes in two steps. Team, at $10, takes 2 to 15 users. Business, at $25 per user, is billed yearly and sold in packs of 5 seats: a team of 12 pays for 15, so $375 a month. The free plan lets you explore the interface, but the pricing page doesn't list Gantt on it.

The trade-off is well known. Wrike takes the longest to learn on this list: dense interface, and a structure of spaces and folders to design before you invite anyone. Ticket support is rated slow on smaller plans. On Wrike's community, one user regrets not being able to track the original plan at subtask level, only at task level. Our tip: if you split work into lots of subtasks, roll key dates up to the task level before you take your snapshot, or the planned vs. actual gap stays hidden.

Smartsheet looks like a spreadsheet, on purpose. Each row is a task with date, duration and predecessor columns, and the Gantt draws itself to the right of the grid. If you've always built schedules in Excel, it's the most natural tool here: same habits, but dates recalculate when a task slips.

Gantt is there from Pro, $9 per member per month billed yearly ($12 monthly), for 1 to 10 members. Baselines only come with Business, $19 yearly ($24 monthly), with a 3-member minimum: $57 a month at the very least. Enterprise and Advanced Work Management are quote-based. Critical path shows up in red on the Gantt, with one catch many people miss: the sheet owner or an admin has to turn on dependencies in the project settings first. Without that, there's no recalculation and no critical path.

The limits come from the same model. Each sheet is a project, and linking projects means building reports or dashboards. Value drops fast once you need baselines, since everyone has to be on Business. Our tip: build one project template with the predecessor column, dependencies on and zero-duration milestones, then duplicate it for every new project. You'll stop redoing the same setup.

Asana built its name on clarity, and its Gantt follows suit. From Starter, you get Timeline, the Gantt view, dependencies and milestones. Personal, the free plan, has none of that. Critical path needs Advanced. For a team running launches, campaigns or product releases, Starter is often enough: you see who does what, when, and what's blocked.

Asana's own forum shows where it struggles on heavier projects. Project managers find the baseline comparison hard to use: no variance column, no filter for tasks running behind plan. Others report a critical path that doesn't always refresh, and is computed in a way that doesn't follow the classic method. It isn't a column you can filter either, and Gantt columns can't be edited. None of that matters for a six-week campaign. It does for an 18-month build.

Two tips from that forum. Link every critical task with dependencies: when one slips, the rest follow, and you see the effect on the end date without waiting on the critical path calculation. And add a custom "critical" field you check by hand, so you can filter those tasks in list view. Asana's public pricing page shows Starter and Advanced per user: compare it with GanttPRO seats for just your schedulers before moving the whole team to Advanced.

monday.com is the tool your coworkers will adopt fastest. The Gantt plugs into any board with a date column, and nobody needs training to read it. But pricing has three steps. Free and Basic ($9) have no Gantt and no Timeline. Gantt starts on Standard, $12 per seat per month billed yearly. Dynamic dependencies, the kind that push later tasks when one slips, need Pro at $19. With a 3-seat minimum, Gantt costs at least $36 a month, and Gantt with dependencies $57.

Critical path and baselines are advertised in the Gantt view, but the pricing page doesn't say which plan, and we couldn't find it in writing elsewhere from the vendor: ask for it in writing before you pay. The monday.com community also points to a concrete limit. Critical path stayed in beta for a long time, and it won't display for a single group when that group's items depend on items in other groups. Support confirmed it. Baselines, on the other hand, landed on the Gantt view and the Gantt dashboard widget.

Our tip from those threads: if your dependencies cross groups (one phase per group, say), show the critical path for the whole board, not group by group. And don't buy Standard thinking you'll schedule seriously. Without dynamic dependencies, you'll drag every bar by hand at the first delay.

TeamGantt isn't sold per seat but as a flat fee, and that changes the math. Base, at $59 a month ($589 a year), covers 1 manager, 10 collaborators, 5 projects and 150 tasks per project. Business, $120 a month ($1,140 a year), goes up to 500 tasks per project. Builder Edition, $199 a month ($1,908 a year), is built for construction, with 10 projects. The free Personal plan stops at 1 user, 1 project and 40 tasks: enough to judge the interface, not to run a real project.

The Gantt is simple drag-and-drop, with advanced dependencies on paid plans, lockable milestones and an actual vs. estimated view. Its rare strength: export to CSV, PDF and Microsoft Project. If your client or general contractor still lives in MS Project, few tools on this list help as much. Users rate it highly, especially for how fast teams pick it up.

The limits are clear. Some users miss a critical path indicator, and we couldn't confirm one on the pricing page, so don't count on it. Cost climbs once your team or project count outgrows the plan, and the Microsoft Teams integration is limited. Our tip: think in projects and tasks, not people. An agency running 4 projects of 120 tasks fits in Base. One running 8 needs a higher plan.