Basecamp vs Height: pricing, plans, and positioning compared

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Side-by-side comparison

	Basecamp Project Management	Height Project Management
Entry price	$15/mo	$8.5/mo
Annual discount	—	−18%
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Number of tiers	3	3
Positioning	Project management from 37signals (the company behind Ruby on Rails and Hey email). Positioned as the anti-Slack, anti-Asana alternative for teams that want fewer tools and less feature bloat. Distinctive for founders David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried's opinionated "work is not war" philosophy and their flat pricing: $299/mo flat for unlimited users on Pro Unlimited. Bootstrapped, profitable, cult-following in remote-first companies.	AI-native task manager positioned as the alternative to Linear for smaller product/eng teams that want autonomous task organization. Distinctive for its "Copilot" that auto-organizes tasks into projects and assigns owners — you don't manually triage. Priced free-$12/user/mo. Popular with early-stage startups and design-heavy teams. Facing existential pressure from Linear's aggressive AI features shipping in 2025-2026.
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