Best for
Best for agencies that want scheduling, budgets and timesheets in one resource tool.
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
Resource Planning Comparison
Hub Planner vs. Resource Guru
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for teams that need fast, clear availability and to avoid double-booking.
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.
Full Comparison
| Criterion | Hub Planner | Resource Guru |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $7 / resource / month Billed annually, per scheduled resource. | lower value Grasshopper from $4.16 / person / month Billed annually; $5 billed monthly. Blackbelt $8 and Master $12 per person and month billed monthly, with two months free on annual plans. Equipment and rooms cost $2.50, $4 and $6 each per month. |
| Free trial | 14-day trial, no credit card | 30-day trial |
| Made in | Not stated | UK |
| Resource planning | Yes, drag-and-drop scheduling with skills and vacation management and approval workflows | Yes, real-time availability and booking calendar with clash management, for people, equipment and rooms |
| Task planning | Yes, a light project and task layer on top of the scheduling | Yes, Gantt charts with phases, tasks, dependencies and milestones, planned against the same schedule |
| Time tracking | Yes, timesheets | Yes, weekly timesheets with auto-suggested entries and an approval workflow on the Master plan |
| Reporting and controlling | Yes, utilization heatmaps and budgets | Yes, utilization and capacity reports, heatmap views, budget burn and forecast versus actuals, customizable and exportable from the Blackbelt plan |
| MCP-ready | No | stated Yes |
| Deployment | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based |
| Support | Email helpdesk | more entries Email helpdesk, Phone |
| Onboarding | Documentation and knowledge base, Guided onboarding | Documentation and knowledge base, Video tutorials |
| Company size | Small and mid-sized, Enterprise | Small and mid-sized, Enterprise |
| Integrations | Jira, Slack, Google Calendar, Zapier | more entries Google Calendar, Outlook, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, Asana |
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The short version
Key Differences
- Starting price Hub Planner From $7 / resource / month Resource Guru Grasshopper from $4.16 / person / month
- Free trial Hub Planner 14-day trial, no credit card Resource Guru 30-day trial
- Support Hub Planner Email helpdesk Resource Guru Email helpdesk, Phone
- MCP-ready Hub Planner No Resource Guru Yes
- Resource planning Hub Planner Yes, drag-and-drop scheduling with skills and vacation management and approval workflows Resource Guru Yes, real-time availability and booking calendar with clash management, for people, equipment and rooms
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The trade-offs
Strengths and Limitations
Hub Planner
Strengths
- Agency-focused scheduling with budgets and timesheets
- Utilization heatmaps
- Flexible
Limitations
- Less known than Float or Runn
- Forecasting lighter than Runn
Resource Guru
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
Plans
Pricing
Hub Planner
- Plug & Play $7 Per resource and month, billed annually. Resource scheduler, unlimited projects, reports and dashboard, support Monday to Friday.
- Premium $18 Per resource and month, billed annually. Adds timesheets and approvals, skills matching, 24/7 support and add-on extensions.
- Business Leader $54 Per resource and month, billed annually. Adds MFA, capacity finder, smart schedules, a dedicated support representative and a service level agreement.
Resource Guru
- Grasshopper $5 Per person and month billed monthly, $4.16 billed annually. Equipment and rooms $2.50 each. Scheduling, unlimited projects and clients, dashboards and calendar sync, without reports.
- Blackbelt $8 Per person and month billed monthly. Equipment and rooms $4 each. Adds timesheets, customizable reports, project dates and milestones, project rates and budgets and custom fields.
- Master $12 Per person and month billed monthly. Equipment and rooms $6 each. Adds approval workflow, SSO, unlimited activity history and phone support.
- Enterprise Not stated On request. Adds a dedicated customer success manager, setup and training, priority support, enterprise API and SLAs.
What users say
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Hub Planner
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- User interface
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- Onboarding
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Resource Guru
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- Value for money
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- Features
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Where this comes from
Where this comes from
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