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Software for scheduling people across projects and keeping an eye on capacity and utilization. Every tool below is measured against the same criteria, in the same order.

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  • EG Silverbucket

    AI featuresMCP-ready

    Price Quote-based

    Not rated yet

    Resource planning for project-driven firms, with timesheets, scenario planning and an MCP server on top.

    Strengths

    • Planning, tasks and timesheets sit in one system, so actual hours update allocations without an export or reconciliation
    • Tentative allocations model several unconfirmed projects at once and convert to confirmed in a single click
    • An MCP server over HTTP lets an AI client read and write projects, allocations, actuals and capacity
    • 30 day free trial with full access and no credit card

    Limitations

    • No published amounts, so the per-person price comes from sales
    • Parts of the AI assistant are dated to the second half of 2026, and the product pages do not agree on what is available now
    • The bill scales with the number of people planned, which suits a stable pool better than a fast-growing one
  • awork

    AI features

    Price From €5 / user / month

    Not rated yet

    A project management platform built for agencies and service teams: planning, scheduling, collaboration and time tracking in one place.

    Strengths

    • Purpose-built for agency workflows
    • Easy, enjoyable UI
    • German hosting, ISO 27001 and GDPR
    • Free external collaboration

    Limitations

    • No built-in invoicing/accounting (needs integrations)
    • Less suited to enterprise-wide or complex long-term planning
  • Price From $7 / resource / month

    Not rated yet

    Resource planning for agencies with scheduling, budgets, timesheets and heatmaps.

    Strengths

    • Agency-focused scheduling with budgets and timesheets
    • Utilization heatmaps
    • Flexible

    Limitations

    • Less known than Float or Runn
    • Forecasting lighter than Runn
  • MOCO

    AI featuresMCP-ready

    Price From €15 / user / month

    Not rated yet

    Swiss-made agency software for IT service providers, agencies and consultancies covering quoting, time tracking and invoicing.

    Strengths

    • Focused and easy to learn
    • Clean quote-to-invoice and time tracking
    • Responsive in-app chat support

    Limitations

    • Interface can feel complex for new users
    • Lighter on heavy enterprise depth
  • Planview AdaptiveWork

    AI features

    Price Quote-based

    Not rated yet

    Enterprise portfolio and work management, with capacity planning sitting on top of the project plan.

    Strengths

    • Portfolio intake, project plan, resource capacity, time and project financials sit in one system rather than in separate tools
    • Waterfall, agile and hybrid delivery are supported side by side, with Jira connected for teams that stay there
    • Documented REST API plus prebuilt connections to Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP, NetSuite and Oracle E-Business Suite

    Limitations

    • No published prices, so budgeting for it takes a sales conversation
    • No self-service trial; Planview lists one for its AgilePlace and ProjectPlace products but not for AdaptiveWork
  • Meisterplan

    AI featuresMCP-ready

    Not rated yet

    Portfolio-level resource and capacity planning that sits above the tools where teams do their work.

    Strengths

    • Users are free and unlimited; only the people booked to projects count towards the licence
    • What-if scenarios test hiring or shifting capacity before a plan is committed
    • Connectors for Jira, Asana, ClickUp, monday.com, Wrike, Azure DevOps and ServiceNow, plus a REST API

    Limitations

    • No task planning and no time entry of its own; both stay in the tools teams already use
    • No published prices, so every quote comes from sales
  • Scoro

    AI features

    Price From €15 / user / month

    Not rated yet

    A professional services automation (PSA) platform that unifies projects, resources and finances in one system.

    Strengths

    • Unifies projects, resources and finances in one PSA
    • Strong profitability and financial insights
    • Connects to the main accounting, calendar and automation tools

    Limitations

    • Higher price point
    • Depth can be complex for small teams
  • Wrike

    AI features

    Price Free; Team from ~$9.80 / user / month

    Not rated yet

    Project and resource management for complex cross-department and creative work.

    Strengths

    • Best-in-class native resource and capacity planning
    • Strong proofing for creative teams
    • Robust for complex workflows

    Limitations

    • Business tier is expensive
    • Interface has a learning curve
  • Price From $2 / member / month

    Not rated yet

    Lightweight resource scheduling, time tracking and leave management for creative and technical teams.

    Strengths

    • Combines scheduling, time tracking and leave management
    • Light-member seats for contributors who only need to be booked
    • Low entry price

    Limitations

    • No native invoicing
    • No permanent free plan, only a trial
  • Resource Guru

    MCP-ready

    Price Grasshopper from $4.16 / person / month

    Not rated yet

    Simple, fast resource scheduling that prevents double-booking, with utilization heatmaps.

    Strengths

    • Simple and fast
    • Strong clash prevention
    • Heatmaps and non-human resource management
    • Affordable
    • Read-only MCP server, so an AI assistant can query the schedule without write access

    Limitations

    • No invoicing, only project rates and budgets
    • Reports, timesheets, project dates and budgets need the Blackbelt plan or higher
    • Phone support only on the Master plan
  • Kantata

    AI featuresMCP-ready

    Price Quote-based

    Not rated yet

    Professional services automation with resource management, project financials and business intelligence.

    Strengths

    • Deep resource management and forecasting
    • Built-in project financials, billing and business intelligence
    • Salesforce-native enterprise edition available

    Limitations

    • No public pricing, quote only
    • No free trial, demo only
    • Enterprise focus, heavier than a lightweight scheduler
  • Price From 20 Euro / licence / month

    Not rated yet

    A web-based project management and ERP platform for service providers, covering the full lifecycle from quotation to billing.

    Strengths

    • End-to-end project management plus ERP in one
    • Method-independent, supports all common PM standards
    • Strong controlling and real-time transparency
    • Scales to enterprise/multi-project
    • On-premise option
    • German security and hosting

    Limitations

    • Powerful means complex, steep learning curve
    • The exact licence price per user depends on the chosen range of functions, so it is quoted individually
    • The mobile app covers attendance, expenses and contacts only, not the full client
  • Asana

    AI features

    Price Free; Starter from ~$10.99 / user / month

    Not rated yet

    Work management platform for structured projects, workflows and cross-team goals.

    Strengths

    • Clean, structured project workflows
    • Strong goals and portfolio management
    • Good free tier for small teams

    Limitations

    • Native time tracking is weak, needs integrations
    • Advanced tier is pricey
  • Celoxis

    AI features

    Price From $10 / user / month

    Not rated yet

    Project portfolio management with resource allocation by availability, demand and skill.

    Strengths

    • One of the few tools in this category that can be installed on your own servers instead of taken as a hosted service
    • Team-member and timesheet-only users cost less than a full seat on the higher tiers, so read-only and time-entry access does not carry full price
    • Resourcing accounts for locations, shifts, holidays and exceptions rather than assuming one shared working week

    Limitations

    • Every plan requires at least five full-access users, so the smallest teams cannot buy in
    • The on-premise price is not published and comes from a quote
    • List prices are prepaid annually; the page prices no monthly-billed option
  • Mosaic

    AI features

    Price From ~$9.99 / user / month

    Not rated yet

    AI-powered resource management with workload heatmaps and headcount scenario modeling.

    Strengths

    • AI forecasting
    • Clear workload heatmaps
    • Headcount scenario modeling

    Limitations

    • Overlaps with project management tools
    • Exact tier pricing varies by features
  • Price Quote-based

    Not rated yet

    Purpose-built resource forecasting and capacity planning, with what-if modelling at its centre.

    Strengths

    • What-If modelling resequences the whole portfolio by priority and availability, showing the effect of new work or a departure before it is committed
    • Timesheets sit in the same platform as the plan, so planned and actual time are compared without a second system
    • REST API included for all users at no extra cost, plus prebuilt connections to Workday, ServiceNow, Jira and Microsoft Project
    • Available on-premises as well as in the cloud, which few tools in this category still offer

    Limitations

    • No task planning; it is a planning layer that expects project plans to come from elsewhere
    • No published prices, so every quote comes from sales
    • Aimed at enterprise PMOs, and the forecasting machinery is more than a small team needs
  • monday.com

    AI features

    Price Free; Basic from ~$9 / seat / month

    Not rated yet

    Visual work platform for building and automating team workflows with minimal setup.

    Strengths

    • Very visual and easy for non-technical teams
    • Strong automations
    • Flexible across use cases

    Limitations

    • Costs climb with automations and seats
    • Free plan limited to 2 seats
  • Retain

    AI features

    Price Quote-based

    Not rated yet

    Resource planning and scheduling for professional services firms, as a cloud platform or on your own servers.

    Strengths

    • Available both as a hosted cloud platform and as an on-premise installation
    • Timesheets are part of the product, so planned and actual hours sit in the same system
    • Integrations cover practice management, HR, CRM and finance systems, with middleware support and secure APIs

    Limitations

    • No published prices, so every quote comes from sales
    • No task-level planning; work is tracked as bookings against jobs
    • Shaped around audit, tax, advisory and consulting work, which narrows the fit outside professional services
  • Dayshape

    AI features

    Price Quote-based

    Not rated yet

    AI scheduling for professional services firms, built around who is suitable rather than who is free.

    Strengths

    • Suitability scoring by skills, availability, location and experience, weighed across the portfolio rather than project by project
    • Resource plans and budgets are built in the same step, so financial overruns show up as the schedule changes
    • Audit trails and assignment restrictions that enforce independence, supporting ISQM1 and QC1000

    Limitations

    • No task planning and no time entry of its own; both have to come from the systems it connects to
    • No published prices, so every quote comes from sales
    • Aimed squarely at professional services firms, and the audit and independence features carry little weight outside them
  • Float

    Price Starter from ~$7 / scheduled person / month

    Not rated yet

    Resource planning and scheduling that visualizes team capacity across projects.

    Strengths

    • Intuitive drag-and-drop scheduling
    • Capacity forecasting and utilization
    • Built-in time tracking and budgets

    Limitations

    • Scheduling-first, lighter financials than a full PSA
    • No native invoicing
  • Troi

    AI features

    Price From €19 / user / month

    Not rated yet

    An ERP for project-based service companies and agencies that unifies costing, time tracking, resource planning, controlling and accounting in one platform.

    Strengths

    • Covers costing, time tracking, resource planning and accounting in one system
    • Hosted in the EU (Austria), ISO/IEC 27001 certified and GDPR-compliant
    • Trial covers all features for 20 days

    Limitations

    • Interface is available in German and English only
  • Price Free for up to 10 resources

    Not rated yet

    Visual resource planning for people, equipment and vehicles on a shared Gantt chart.

    Strengths

    • Schedules any resource type, not just people
    • Resource-based pricing with unlimited users
    • Free for organizations with up to 10 resources

    Limitations

    • Scheduling-first, lighter on financials than a full PSA
  • Price Price on request

    Not rated yet

    Smartsheet's resource management product for scheduling people, planning capacity and tracking time and expenses against project budgets.

    Strengths

    • Capacity planning, staffing forecasts and what-if scenarios in one place
    • Time tracking is optional, so capacity planning does not require timesheets
    • Pre-built utilization, time and fees, expense and budget reports
    • REST API plus Zapier, a QuickBooks time-entry export and calendar subscriptions
    • Syncs planning data natively with Smartsheet

    Limitations

    • Sold as an add-on to the Business and Enterprise plans rather than included
    • No price shown for it on the Smartsheet pricing page
    • Calendar subscriptions are a one-way sync only
  • Saviom

    Not rated yet

    Enterprise resource management for multi-skilled workforces, hosted on a server of the customer's choosing.

    Strengths

    • Runs on the customer's own server or a cloud server of their choice
    • Time is booked against project, task and allocation, with configurable approvals
    • Real-time or batch data exchange with ERP, HR, PPM and project planning systems

    Limitations

    • No published prices; a ballpark figure comes from sales on request
    • Implementation takes 2 to 6 weeks depending on the number of licences
    • Not offered as a SaaS subscription
  • Forecast

    AI features

    Price Quote-based

    Not rated yet

    AI-driven platform combining project management, resource planning and financials for services teams.

    Strengths

    • AI auto-scheduling
    • Combines project management, resourcing and financials
    • Good for professional-services automation

    Limitations

    • Quote-based pricing is less transparent
    • Heavier than a simple scheduler
  • Price From $5 / resource / month

    Not rated yet

    Modular resource scheduling billed per resource, with match scores that rank who fits the job.

    Strengths

    • Billed per resource rather than per user, and archived resources drop out of the count
    • Modules are bought individually, so a team that only needs the schedule does not pay for timesheets or financials
    • Requests are matched to people by skill and ranked with a match score, with gap reporting on requested against assigned

    Limitations

    • No task breakdown; it books people to projects rather than to tasks
    • Timesheets, financials, forecasting and single sign-on are all priced on top of the core module, so the entry price is not the running cost
    • Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar and n8n integrations are announced as coming rather than shipped
  • Epicflow

    AI features

    Price From €22.50 / person / month

    Not rated yet

    Multi-project resource management that reprioritises across the whole portfolio when one project slips.

    Strengths

    • Priorities are recalculated across the entire portfolio, so a slip in one project reorders the queue everywhere it competes for the same people
    • What-if simulation and a forward load graph let a resourcing decision be tested before it is made
    • DataGuard keeps company data on the customer's own premises, which matters in defence, government and healthcare

    Limitations

    • The Growth plan starts at 20 users and caps at 50 projects and 250 tasks, so small teams and large portfolios both fall outside it
    • Enterprise pricing is quoted rather than published
    • Integrations centre on heavyweight planning systems such as Microsoft Project, Primavera and SAP, and connector work is handled as part of implementation rather than through published API documentation
  • Birdview PSA

    AI features

    Price From $9 / user / month

    Not rated yet

    Professional services platform that keeps resource planning, delivery, time and billing in one place.

    Strengths

    • Planning, time, invoicing and margin sit in one platform
    • Skills-based staffing suggestions and hiring forecasts 60 to 90 days out
    • Twenty guest seats for client collaboration are included

    Limitations

    • Portfolio hierarchy and resource allocations require the quoted Enterprise plan
    • The published prices cover the project management plans only, not the professional services ones
  • Bridgit

    AI featuresMCP-ready

    Price Quote-based

    Not rated yet

    Workforce planning for construction contractors, built around projects, phases, roles and the people who fill them.

    Strengths

    • Built for one problem, so people records carry construction detail such as certifications, build types, sectors worked and client history
    • Forecasting runs against the project pipeline, so the staffing effect of a bid shows before it is won
    • An MCP server and a documented REST API open the data to outside AI clients and systems

    Limitations

    • No published prices, so every quote comes from sales
    • No time tracking and no task-level planning, so hours and task detail have to live elsewhere
    • The data model and the integrations are construction specific and carry little weight in other industries
  • Runn

    AI features

    Price Lite from $7 / resource seat / month

    Not rated yet

    Resource planning built around forecasting and what-if scenario modeling, tied to revenue.

    Strengths

    • Saved scenarios let an alternative plan be modelled without touching the live one
    • Rate cards and budgets tie staffing decisions to cost, revenue and margin
    • Wide integration list across HR systems, time trackers and automation tools
    • Clean interface

    Limitations

    • Forecast-first, day-to-day scheduling feels secondary
    • No free plan; billing is per resource seat, so people who are planned but never log in still cost a seat
    • Timesheets, integrations and the API need the Standard plan or higher
    • Custom dashboards, workstreams, SAML SSO and SmartMatch AI are Advanced only, and Advanced is quote-only
  • Price From €35 / user / month

    Not rated yet

    An all-in-one agency software combining CRM, quotes, project management, resource planning, time tracking, invoicing and controlling.

    Strengths

    • Centralises the whole agency process in one system
    • Replaces many separate tools
    • Responsive support
    • German hosting

    Limitations

    • Occasional slow load times reported
    • No built-in ticketing
    • Some customisation limits

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