A Trello alternative, hosted in Europe
Trello: Kanban boards of lists and cards, the simplest to learn, refocused on personal productivity since 2025. Artavolo is where your team and your AI agents work on the same tables, with no record limit, in our cloud in Germany or on your own server. Here is how they compare, with sources, and where Trello is ahead.
| Artavolo | Trello | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8 a person a month (Standard), VAT included, the same on your own server | $5: Standard, per person a month billed yearly; Premium $10. |
| A team of 10, a year | $720 (Standard billed yearly, VAT included) | $600 a year (Standard, 10 people), before tax |
| Records | No limit, on every plan, the free one included | 5,000 open cards per board |
| Free plan | No limit on people or records, 2GB of files | Up to 10 collaborators per workspace, 10 boards |
| Where your data lives | OVHcloud in Germany, or your own server | United States; Trello is not on Atlassian's data residency list |
| Run it yourself | Yes, with the same plans and prices; the Community edition is free | No |
| Getting your data out | Any table as Airtable-format CSV or JSON, the API, and full backups | Each board as JSON on every plan (the last 1,000 actions); CSV and whole-workspace exports on Premium |
| AI agents | Each with its own access; their changes can wait for a person to accept them, and everything one did can be undone | See Trello’s own AI features |
| Where Trello is ahead | The simplest tool to start with, and mature phone apps. | |
| Power-Ups, a large marketplace of add-ons. | ||
| On price for a small team: $5 a person on Standard, against $8 including VAT here ($6 billed yearly). |
Trello’s figures as published on its own pages in November 2026: Trello pricing, Exporting data from Trello, Trello limits, Atlassian data residency. Prices change: check theirs for today’s. Artavolo’s prices are on the pricing page.
What people moving from Trello tell us about
- Free workspaces are capped at 10 collaborators and turn view-only above it.
- The July 2025 redesign moved Trello towards personal task management.
- Reporting, dependencies and Gantt need other tools.
Tables for people and AI agents
- No record limit on any plan, and the same price in our cloud in Germany or on your own server.
- Grid, kanban, calendar, gallery, timeline, forms and dashboards, and interfaces for people who should see one page and nothing else.
- AI chat that changes records as the person asking, and AI agents whose changes wait for review.
- An append-only audit log of every change, a 30-day trash, and an export of any table at any time.
- Airtable’s API at the same paths, Zapier, Make and n8n apps, and webhooks.
From Trello in an afternoon
Export from Trello (JSON, one file per board (every plan)), and bring the files in: what comes over is shown before anything is made, and a report says what came over and what to rebuild.
- Every card, a table per board, in the board's order
- Lists as a single select (a kanban view gives you the board back), labels with their colours
- Descriptions as rich text, members, start and due dates, done
- Checklists, comments, custom fields, archived cards, each card's link and the time it was made