Sunsama vs Zenhub: which one fits your team?
One tells a person what their Tuesday is. The other tells a company what shipped. Engineers commonly run both and retype the same work into each.
It turns on which one you are willing to make the source of truth, because the retyping is the real cost.
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 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: Sunsama is about $1200 a year, Zenhub does not publish a per seat price we can put in this sum, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
Sunsama: Around $20 per month billed annually, up to $25 monthly. No free plan. 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
- portfolio and agile reporting
- dependencies and a timeline
- showing who has room
- rules that fire on their own
- having a free plan
Sunsama does more on 5 of them
- time blocking on a calendar
- having a plan for today
- two way calendar sync
- being useful before you configure it
- turning email and chat into tasks
Side by side
| What it does | Sunsama | Zenhub | UnaTask |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time blocking on a calendar | Core | No | Core |
| A plan for today and this week | Core | No | Core |
| Two way calendar sync | Yes | No | Yes |
| It is the task manager itself | Partly. Tasks are mostly pulled in from the tools you already run. | Partly. The issues live in GitHub. Zenhub is the layer that runs agile on them. | 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. | Yes | Core |
| Booking links | No | No | Yes |
| Meetings become tasks | No | No | Yes |
| Email and chat become tasks | Yes | Partly | Yes |
| Pull requests linked to work | No | Core | Yes |
| Docs and wiki inside | No | No | Partly. Docs live on a project, they are not a wiki you would run a company from. |
| Portfolio or agile reporting | No | 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 | No | 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: being the place the tasks actually live, booking links, turning meetings into tasks, docs and a wiki inside and AI that does the work rather than the scheduling.
And where UnaTask sits
UnaTask removes the retyping on the planning side: the task carries its pull request, and the hours to do it sit on the same calendar.
It does more than both of them on being the place the tasks actually live, showing who has room, booking links, turning meetings into tasks, docs and a wiki inside and AI that does the work rather than the scheduling.
Common questions
Sunsama vs Zenhub: which should I pick?
Pick Sunsama if the morning ritual is the thing that keeps you honest, and you plan on your own. Pick Zenhub if your team runs agile entirely on GitHub Issues and wants the reporting to match.
What is the biggest difference between Sunsama and Zenhub?
The clearest gap is time blocking on a calendar, where Sunsama does more than Zenhub. Underneath that, Sunsama is a place to decide, on purpose, what today actually contains, and Zenhub is a system of record for software work, built around issues and cycles.
Is Sunsama or Zenhub cheaper?
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Sunsama is about $1200 a year, Zenhub does not publish a per seat price we can put in this sum, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
What do Sunsama and Zenhub have in common?
They answer the same on 5 of our 16 axes, among them being the place the tasks actually live, booking links and turning meetings into tasks. Those are the things that should not decide it for you.
Where does UnaTask fit against Sunsama and Zenhub?
UnaTask does more than both on being the place the tasks actually live, showing who has room and booking links. 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.