Meisterplan vs. Resource Management by Smartsheet

At a glance

Best for

Best for PMOs that balance capacity across many teams while those teams keep working in their own tools.

Enterprise

Best for

Best for professional services and agency teams already on Smartsheet that need capacity planning and utilization reporting.

Small and mid-sized
Enterprise

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Full Comparison

Criterion	Meisterplan	Resource Management by Smartsheet
Starting price	From $720 / month The smallest package is the Basic edition for 50 resources, at $720 per month or $7,200 per year. Users are free and unlimited, so only the people booked to projects count. Packages run up to 1,000 resources; above that the vendor quotes.	Price on request Smartsheet shows no figure for the add-on and asks for a demo request instead.
Free trial	30 days, no credit card required, with the functionality of the Pro Edition	Not stated
Users	Users are free and unlimited; licensing counts resources, where one full-time equivalent equals one resource	Not stated
API	Yes, REST API plus a separate reporting API and an MCP endpoint	Yes, a REST API against the Resource Management database
Hosting	Cloud	Not stated
Made in	Germany (itdesign, Tuebingen)	Not stated
Resource planning	Yes, capacity planning at portfolio level with a Team Planner histogram, role-based staffing by availability and what-if scenarios	Yes, matching people to projects by skills and availability, workload and capacity views, staffing forecasts and what-if scenario planning
Task planning	No, planning stops at the allocation of people to projects; task detail stays in the connected tools	At phase level: a project splits into phases with their own dates, budget and bill rates, work items and tasks sit under a phase in the worklist, and the schedule is an interactive timeline where phase and assignment bars are dragged to new dates. Phases carry no dependencies between them
Time tracking	No time entry of its own; actual time worked can be imported from Jira nightly and compared with planned allocations	Yes, optional, in half-day, hours-and-minutes or itemized modes, with expenses against the project budget and an approval step
Reporting and controlling	Yes, portfolio dashboards, financial planning and a reporting API for Power BI, Tableau and Looker Studio	Yes, pre-built utilization, time and fees, expense and budget reports
AI features	stated Yes	No
MCP-ready	stated Yes	No
Deployment	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Support	Email helpdesk, Phone	Email helpdesk, Community forum
Onboarding	more entries Documentation and knowledge base, Guided onboarding, Live online demos and webinars, Personal consulting	Documentation and knowledge base, Personal consulting
Company size	Enterprise	more entries Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
Integrations	more entries Jira, Asana, ClickUp, monday.com, Trello, Wrike, Todoist, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Planner, ServiceNow, Smartsheet, Salesforce, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Google Looker Studio, Microsoft Excel, Zapier	Smartsheet, Zapier, QuickBooks, Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple iCloud

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The short version

Key Differences

Starting price Meisterplan From $720 / month Resource Management by Smartsheet Price on request
Company size Meisterplan Enterprise Resource Management by Smartsheet Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
Support Meisterplan Email helpdesk, Phone Resource Management by Smartsheet Email helpdesk, Community forum
AI features Meisterplan Yes Resource Management by Smartsheet No
MCP-ready Meisterplan Yes Resource Management by Smartsheet No

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

Meisterplan

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
The smallest package covers 50 resources, so a small portfolio pays for capacity it does not book

Resource Management by Smartsheet

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

Plans

Pricing

Meisterplan

Basic Edition $720 Per month for 50 resources, the smallest package, or $7,200 per year. For organizations that focus purely on basic multi-team resource management.
Pro Edition $960 Per month for 50 resources, or $9,600 per year. Adds what is needed for professional capacity and portfolio management, including what-if scenarios, goals, portfolio Kanban and the integrations. The 30-day trial runs on this edition.
Premium Edition $38,620 Per year, starting at 150 resources. Everything in Pro plus enterprise features and services, such as sandbox systems and regular exchanges on PPM best practices.
Custom Not stated Quoted for more than 1,000 resources.

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Resource Management by Smartsheet

Add-on Not stated Sold as an add-on to the Smartsheet Business, Enterprise and Advanced Work Management plans.

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What users say

Review Scores · opens after launch

Meisterplan

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Resource Management by Smartsheet

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Where this comes from

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This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.