Basecamp vs Zenhub: which one fits your team?
One is the record of what shipped, the other the record of what was decided. Together they cover almost everything except the hours in between.
It turns on whether your bottleneck is tracking the build or capturing the thinking.
Pick Basecamp if
your work is client shaped and full of discussion, and you want fewer meetings and less chat. Where it stops: it deliberately will not tell you when the work happens.
Pick Zenhub if
your team runs agile entirely on GitHub Issues and wants the reporting to match. Where it stops: it is engineering shaped, and there is no calendar.
What it costs
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Basecamp is about $900 a year, Zenhub does not publish a per seat price we can put in this sum, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
Basecamp: Free for one project. $15 per user per month, or $299 a month flat for unlimited users. Zenhub: Paid per user, with a free tier for small teams. Check their current tiers.
Where they part company
Zenhub does more on 6 of them
- linking pull requests to the work
- dependencies and a timeline
- portfolio and agile reporting
- having a free plan
- showing who has room
- rules that fire on their own
Basecamp does more on 5 of them
- docs and a wiki inside
- being useful before you configure it
- two way calendar sync
- being the place the tasks actually live
- turning meetings into tasks
Side by side
| What it does | Basecamp | Zenhub | UnaTask |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time blocking on a calendar | No | No | Core |
| A plan for today and this week | No | No | Core |
| Two way calendar sync | Partly. A schedule per project, not a calendar you plan a week on. | No | Yes |
| It is the task manager itself | Yes | Partly. The issues live in GitHub. Zenhub is the layer that runs agile on them. | Core |
| Dependencies and a timeline | No. Left out on purpose. It is a philosophy, not an oversight. | Yes | Yes. Dependencies with a timeline that shows what is waiting on what. |
| See who has room | Partly | Yes | Core |
| Booking links | No | No | Yes |
| Meetings become tasks | Partly | No | Yes |
| Email and chat become tasks | Partly | Partly | Yes |
| Pull requests linked to work | No | Core | Yes |
| Docs and wiki inside | Yes. Message boards, docs and check ins per project. | No | Partly. Docs live on a project, they are not a wiki you would run a company from. |
| Portfolio or agile reporting | Partly | Core. Burndown, velocity and story points, which is the reason to buy it. | Partly. Team workload and project progress, not portfolios that roll up to a board. |
| Rules that fire on their own | Partly | Yes | Yes |
| AI that does the work, not just the scheduling | No | No | Yes. AI teammates you assign a task to. The work comes back on the task for review. |
| Useful before you configure it | Core | Partly | Core |
| A free plan | No | Yes | Yes |
What should not decide it
They answer the same on 5: time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today, booking links, turning email and chat into tasks and AI that does the work rather than the scheduling.
And where UnaTask sits
UnaTask is the hours in between, and it links back to the build so the plan and the code stay in step.
It does more than both of them on time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today, two way calendar sync, being the place the tasks actually live, showing who has room, booking links, turning meetings into tasks, turning email and chat into tasks and AI that does the work rather than the scheduling.
Common questions
Basecamp vs Zenhub: which should I pick?
Pick Basecamp if your work is client shaped and full of discussion, and you want fewer meetings and less chat. Pick Zenhub if your team runs agile entirely on GitHub Issues and wants the reporting to match.
What is the biggest difference between Basecamp and Zenhub?
The clearest gap is linking pull requests to the work, where Zenhub does more than Basecamp. Underneath that, Basecamp is a place to write things down together, with the work living inside the writing, and Zenhub is a system of record for software work, built around issues and cycles.
Is Basecamp or Zenhub cheaper?
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Basecamp is about $900 a year, Zenhub does not publish a per seat price we can put in this sum, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
What do Basecamp and Zenhub have in common?
They answer the same on 5 of our 16 axes, among them time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today and booking links. Those are the things that should not decide it for you.
Where does UnaTask fit against Basecamp and Zenhub?
UnaTask does more than both on time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today and two way calendar sync. It is free on your own and €10 per seat for a team, with every feature included. Where it does less: it is not an issue tracker with sprints and burndown, and it is not a documentation workspace.
Details checked 2 August 2026 and June 2026.