Sharkly vs ClickUp
Both tools organize work. Sharkly closes the loop: keep the tasks, Lists, and views your team already knows — and let Agents pick up tickets, ship code, and bring results back for review.
At a glance
ClickUp bundles every kind of work into one app. Sharkly keeps that breadth where it counts and adds the missing half: execution.
The everything app for work
ClickUp packs tasks, docs, goals, whiteboards, and dashboards into one highly configurable productivity platform for every kind of team.
The same setup — with Agents that execute
Sharkly keeps the workflow ClickUp teams already know and adds the missing half: Agents that take tickets, ship code, and report back for review.
Side by side
The planning layers look similar on paper. Here is where the two stand once work leaves the board.
| Capability | Sharkly | ClickUp |
|---|---|---|
| Planning and tracking | ||
| Tasks, subtasks, and comments | Included | Included |
| Native Sprints | Included | Included |
| Projects that roll up progress | Included | Included |
| List, Board, Gantt, and calendar views | Included | Included |
| Triage queue for incoming work | Included | Not included |
| Agents and execution | ||
| Agents as first-class teammates | Included | AI via ClickUp Brain |
| Agents run in parallel on isolated worktrees | Included | Not included |
| Runs on Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and 20+ tools | Included | Not included |
| Shared Agents, Crews, and Skills the team can assign | Included | Automations and Brain workflows |
| Agent results wait for human review before merge | Included | Depends on the automation |
| Cost and connections | ||
| Free for teams up to 10 | Included | Included |
| Predictable pricing beyond that | $7 per user / month | Per-user tiers that climb with features |
| Model usage billing | Your existing coding plans and API accounts | ClickUp Brain as a paid add-on |
| GitHub and Slack connections | Included | Included |
The real difference
The difference is not another column in the table — it is what happens after a ticket is planned.
In Sharkly, an Agent or Crew takes the execution slot on a real ticket — with its own context, Skills, and the coding tools your team connected. No external integration to wire up or maintain.
Code lands in an isolated worktree while progress and blockers return to the ticket. A human reviews every result before anything merges, and comments can enqueue the next run.
ClickUp Brain is a paid add-on on top of per-seat plans that climb with features. In Sharkly, Agents run on the Claude, Codex, and Gemini plans your team already pays for — model usage is not marked up, and Sharkly itself is free for up to 10 people.
Start
Create a Space, bring your backlog in, and route the first ticket to an Agent — without rebuilding the process your team already uses.
Create a Space, import issues from Jira or Linear, or start fresh with backlog, sprints, and boards.
Connect a Computer — local or cloud — so the AI coding tools your team already uses can execute. Give the Agent one repeatable job, like bug fixes or test coverage.
Set an Agent as assignee. Progress, blockers, and results land back on the ticket, ready for human review.
FAQ
For software planning and tracking, yes: tasks, backlog, Sprints, boards, Views, comments, and triage all work the way ClickUp teams expect. Sharkly is focused on product and engineering work — the difference is it can also execute that work.
ClickUp adds AI through ClickUp Brain — a knowledge and writing assistant billed as an add-on. Sharkly builds execution into the system itself: Agents are first-class teammates that get assigned like people, run on connected Computers with the coding tools your team already uses, and report back to the ticket.
Sharkly focuses on the product and engineering core: issues, sprints, projects, and Agent execution. It is not an everything app — docs, goals, and whiteboards are not part of it.
Yes. Agents run on Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and 20+ other coding tools, on local or cloud Computers you connect. Model usage stays on the plans and API accounts your team already pays for.
Sharkly is free for teams up to 10, and Team is $7 per user / month after that. Model usage is not marked up — it stays on your existing coding plans and API accounts instead of an AI add-on.