Sunsama vs Wrike: which one fits your team?
This is the classic mismatch: the platform is bought by whoever needs the reporting, the planner is bought by whoever has to do the work. Both purchases are rational and they solve nothing for each other.
It turns on who the tool is for. If the answer is both, one of these is going to be resented.
Pick Sunsama if
the morning ritual is the thing that keeps you honest, and you plan on your own. Where it stops: it is single player, and it pulls tasks in rather than holding them.
Pick Wrike if
you run an agency or a PMO and you need proofing on creative assets or formal resourcing. Where it stops: it is heavier than most work requires, and it plans in dates.
What it costs
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Sunsama is about $1200 a year, Wrike is about $600 a year, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT. Between the two of them Wrike is $600 a year cheaper at that size.
Sunsama: Around $20 per month billed annually, up to $25 monthly. No free plan. Wrike: Free plan. $10 Team and $25 Business per user per month.
Where they part company
Wrike does more on 10 of them
- showing who has room
- portfolio and agile reporting
- rules that fire on their own
- being the place the tasks actually live
- dependencies and a timeline
- having a free plan
- turning meetings into tasks
- linking pull requests to the work
- docs and a wiki inside
- AI that does the work rather than the scheduling
Sunsama does more on 4 of them
- time blocking on a calendar
- being useful before you configure it
- having a plan for today
- two way calendar sync
Side by side
| What it does | Sunsama | Wrike | UnaTask |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time blocking on a calendar | Core | No | Core |
| A plan for today and this week | Core | Partly | Core |
| Two way calendar sync | Yes | Partly | Yes |
| It is the task manager itself | Partly. Tasks are mostly pulled in from the tools you already run. | Core | Core |
| Dependencies and a timeline | No | Yes | Yes. Dependencies with a timeline that shows what is waiting on what. |
| See who has room | No. Built for individuals. There is no shared team picture. | Core. Formal resource management with time tracking, which is more than we do. | Core |
| Booking links | No | No | Yes |
| Meetings become tasks | No | Partly | Yes |
| Email and chat become tasks | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Pull requests linked to work | No | Partly | Yes |
| Docs and wiki inside | No | Partly | Partly. Docs live on a project, they are not a wiki you would run a company from. |
| Portfolio or agile reporting | No | Core | Partly. Team workload and project progress, not portfolios that roll up to a board. |
| Rules that fire on their own | No | Core | Yes |
| AI that does the work, not just the scheduling | No | Partly | Yes. AI teammates you assign a task to. The work comes back on the task for review. |
| Useful before you configure it | Core | No. Intake, approvals and resourcing are worth configuring and take configuring. | Core |
| A free plan | No | Yes | Yes |
What should not decide it
They answer the same on 2: booking links and turning email and chat into tasks.
And where UnaTask sits
UnaTask is bought by the people doing the work and still shows a team lead who has room this week. That is the whole gap it is aimed at.
It does more than both of them on booking links, turning meetings into tasks, linking pull requests to the work and AI that does the work rather than the scheduling.
Common questions
Sunsama vs Wrike: which should I pick?
Pick Sunsama if the morning ritual is the thing that keeps you honest, and you plan on your own. Pick Wrike if you run an agency or a PMO and you need proofing on creative assets or formal resourcing.
What is the biggest difference between Sunsama and Wrike?
The clearest gap is time blocking on a calendar, where Sunsama does more than Wrike. Underneath that, Sunsama is a place to decide, on purpose, what today actually contains, and Wrike is a configurable platform several departments can shape to their own process.
Is Sunsama or Wrike cheaper?
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Sunsama is about $1200 a year, Wrike is about $600 a year, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT. Between the two of them Wrike is $600 a year cheaper at that size.
What do Sunsama and Wrike have in common?
They answer the same on 2 of our 16 axes: booking links and turning email and chat into tasks. Those are the things that should not decide it for you.
Where does UnaTask fit against Sunsama and Wrike?
UnaTask does more than both on booking links, turning meetings into tasks and linking pull requests to the work. 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 June 2026 and 2 August 2026.