What Is ClickUp Brain? Features, Pricing, and Security Explained

ClickUp Brain is the AI built into ClickUp, now called Brain². It answers questions from your tasks, docs, and chat, builds artifacts such as slide decks and dashboards, and runs Super Agents that carry out work on their own. On ClickUp's current plans, Brain² comes with every plan: as a trial on Free and Core, and in full from the Business plan at $17 per user per month, with a monthly pool of AI credits for agents and other automatic features.

This guide covers what each plan includes, how AI credits work, what Brain² does, the Brain MAX apps, security, and how Brain compares with the AI in Asana, monday.com, and Notion. For ClickUp as a whole, see our full ClickUp review.

How much does ClickUp Brain cost?

On the plans ClickUp sells today, Brain is part of the plan, so there is no Brain add-on to buy. The plan sets how much Brain² you get and how many AI credits each paid seat adds to the workspace.

The plan sets the ceiling: full Brain² starts on Business, and Core teams get an extended trial. Within a plan, credit use is what moves the bill. A Brain chat does not use credits, while Super Agents, AI fields, image generation, and artifacts do. Credits are pooled across the workspace, reset on the first of each month, and do not roll over. Extra credits cost $10 per 10,000.

If your workspace is on an older plan

ClickUp is moving existing workspaces to the new plans gradually. Until a workspace is upgraded, it keeps its plan, features, and price, and Brain comes as trial usage or through a Brain AI or Everything AI add-on the workspace already bought. When an upgrade changes the price, the change starts at renewal, and no earlier than January 2027. The ClickUp pricing guide works out plan costs for teams of 10, 25, and 50.

What does ClickUp Brain² do?

Brain² works from what your workspace already holds: tasks, docs, chat, wikis, and the connected apps each person has permission to see.

Answers from your workspace

Ask Brain a question in a task, a doc, or chat and it answers from the work you can access, with the sources it used. It also keeps a memory of your role, who you work with, and your preferences, so context carries from one conversation to the next.

Artifacts

Describe a slide deck, a dashboard, a tracker, or a simple app, and Brain builds it from your real work data as an artifact you can share. Generating an artifact uses AI credits.

Super Agents

Super Agents are agents with access to your workspace that run multi-step work on their own, started by a trigger or by a mention in a task or chat. Every Super Agent run uses AI credits, even when the agent only returns an answer. Admins can set a monthly credit limit for each person and a spend cap for each agent.

AI fields and automations

AI fields fill in task fields such as a summary or a priority, and AI automations, previously called Autopilot Agents, act when something changes in a list. Both use AI credits on every plan below Max, where they are unlimited.

Notetaker and Talk to Text

The AI Notetaker records meetings and writes the notes into ClickUp. It uses AI credits on Core and Business and is unlimited on Enterprise and Max. Talk to Text turns speech into text and is metered in words, from 10,000 words per user per month on Core to unlimited on Max.

What changed with Brain²?

The original ClickUp Brain answered questions and wrote inside tasks and docs, presented as an AI project manager, a knowledge manager, and a writer. Brain² keeps that work and adds artifacts, Super Agents, persistent memory, deep research, connections to outside MCP servers, and a choice of model.

Brain uses ClickUp's recommended default model unless you pick a ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini model. You can switch at the start of a chat or partway through, and your workspace context carries across. A Super Agent can run on a chosen model or on an Auto setting.

What is ClickUp Brain MAX?

Brain MAX is Brain in a dedicated app for desktop, mobile, and the Chrome browser. It searches across ClickUp and connected apps and brings Talk to Text into the other tools you work in. ClickUp includes Brain MAX on the Business, Enterprise, and Max plans, with a trial on Free and Core. Unlimited Talk to Text comes only with Max.

Is ClickUp Brain secure?

ClickUp says it does not train AI on workspace data, and that it has zero data retention agreements with the model providers it uses, so they keep nothing from your workspace after processing. Brain works through in-context learning: it answers from the prompt and the workspace content it is given, and no model is retrained on that content.

ClickUp holds SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2, and SOC 3 reports, ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, and 27701 certifications, and ISO 42001 for AI management systems. For regulated health data, ClickUp signs a business associate agreement on the Enterprise and Max plans.

Check how those commitments apply to your setup before rollout. The retention commitments do not cover two optional models, Seedance and ElevenLabs, which admins can switch off. AI processing for a workspace hosted in the EU still goes to model providers in the US.

Agents need the most care. An agent answers from the knowledge it was configured with, so a person can see information in an agent's reply that they could not open directly. In one customer workspace L5 works in, the security team held back the Notetaker's email connection while it reviewed what the tool could read.

How does ClickUp Brain compare?

Asana, monday.com, and Notion have each built agents into their work tools. For a buyer, the useful differences are how the AI is paid for and whether you can choose the model.

All four meter heavier AI use, and each vendor's credits measure different work, so the reliable comparison is a trial with your own workflows. For how ClickUp's AI compares with Atlassian's Rovo in Jira, see ClickUp vs Jira.

What should teams plan for?

Brain answers from your workspace, so its answers are only as current as the tasks and docs it reads. A workspace with stale tasks and duplicate docs gets answers built on them.

Credit use needs a budget. In one customer workspace L5 works in, an onboarding agent working through subtasks used far more credits in a single month than the team expected. Nothing stopped working, and the team restructured the agent. ClickUp's help center notes that one workflow can run several credit-consuming actions, so setting a spend cap on each agent before launch is the safer default.

The plan decides how much Brain² a team gets. Full Brain² starts on Business, so a Core workspace can test it on the extended trial before deciding whether the upgrade pays for itself.

ClickUp Brain questions

What is ClickUp Brain² used for?

Teams use Brain² to get answers from their own tasks, docs, and chat, to build artifacts such as slide decks and dashboards, and to run Super Agents and AI fields that handle recurring work inside ClickUp.

How is Brain² different from the original ClickUp Brain?

Brain² adds artifacts, Super Agents, persistent memory, deep research, MCP connections, and a choice of ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini models to the original question-answering and writing features.

What is ClickUp Brain MAX?

Brain MAX is Brain in a dedicated app for desktop, mobile, and Chrome, with search across connected apps and Talk to Text. It is included on Business, Enterprise, and Max, with a trial on Free and Core.

How much does ClickUp Brain cost?

On ClickUp's current plans, Brain² is included with the plan. Free and Core get a trial, and Business at $17 per user per month, billed annually, and above include it in full, with 1,500 to 10,000 AI credits per seat each month. Extra credits cost $10 per 10,000.

Does ClickUp Brain support multiple AI models like Claude and GPT?

Yes. Brain uses ClickUp's recommended default model unless you choose a ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini model, and you can switch partway through a conversation.

Is ClickUp Brain secure, and does it train on my data?

ClickUp says it does not train AI on workspace data and has zero data retention agreements with its model providers. It holds SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001, among other certifications.

How does ClickUp Brain compare to Asana AI, monday AI, or Notion AI?

All four include agents and meter heavier AI use. ClickUp includes Brain² in every plan with AI credits per seat and a choice of models. Asana picks the model and meters AI Teammates by AI requests, monday.com sells a shared credit pool with seats, and Notion includes AI on Business and Enterprise with Standard and Select credits.

Do I need ClickUp Brain on every plan?

Brain² comes with every plan on ClickUp's current pricing, so there is nothing extra to buy. Free and Core get a trial, and Business and above include it in full.

Running Brain² after rollout

Brain² gets more useful as agents take on recurring work, and that is also when credit use and agent permissions need an owner. L5 operates ClickUp after go-live: it sets a spend cap on each agent, restructures the agents that run long, and keeps the tasks and docs Brain reads current in every Drive.

To size the plan and the first agents for your workspace, start a conversation with L5 below.