Best for
Best for PMOs that balance capacity across many teams while those teams keep working in their own tools.
- Enterprise
Resource Planning Comparison
Meisterplan vs. Tempus Resource
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for enterprise PMOs forecasting capacity across a portfolio whose project plans already live in several different tools.
- Enterprise
Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.
Full Comparison
| Criterion | Meisterplan | Tempus Resource |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Quote-based ProSymmetry states that pricing is tailored to planning needs, team size and implementation goals; no price list is published. |
| Free trial | 30 days, no credit card required, with the functionality of the Pro Edition | 30-day free trial, covering Tempus Resource, Tempus Portfolio or both |
| 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 included for all users at no additional cost |
| Hosting | Cloud | Cloud or on-premises |
| Made in | Germany (itdesign, Tuebingen) | United States (ProSymmetry, Beachwood, Ohio) |
| Resource planning | Yes, capacity planning at portfolio level with a Team Planner histogram, role-based staffing by availability and what-if scenarios | Yes, capacity and demand planning from a central resource catalogue with custom attributes, heat maps for over- and under-allocation by role, department or skill, forecasting six to thirty-six months out, and What-If resequencing of the portfolio |
| Task planning | No, planning stops at the allocation of people to projects; task detail stays in the connected tools | No task planning of its own; project plans come from connected tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira and Smartsheet |
| Time tracking | No time entry of its own; actual time worked can be imported from Jira nightly and compared with planned allocations | Yes, timesheets are part of the platform, so planned time can be compared against actual time spent |
| Reporting and controlling | Yes, portfolio dashboards, financial planning and a reporting API for Power BI, Tableau and Looker Studio | Yes, standard reporting plus the Insight+ module for dynamic dashboards, and audit logging that records the before and after of every change |
| AI features | stated Yes | No |
| MCP-ready | stated Yes | No |
| Deployment | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based | more entries Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise |
| Support | Email helpdesk, Phone | Phone, Email helpdesk |
| Onboarding | more entries Documentation and knowledge base, Guided onboarding, Live online demos and webinars, Personal consulting | Guided onboarding |
| Company size | Enterprise | 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 | Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP, Oracle, ServiceNow, Jira, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Excel, Smartsheet, Salesforce, PeopleSoft, Wolters Kluwer |
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The short version
Key Differences
- Starting price Meisterplan From $720 / month Tempus Resource Quote-based
- Free trial Meisterplan 30 days, no credit card required, with the functionality of the Pro Edition Tempus Resource 30-day free trial, covering Tempus Resource, Tempus Portfolio or both
- Deployment Meisterplan Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based Tempus Resource Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise
- Hosting Meisterplan Cloud Tempus Resource Cloud or on-premises
- Support Meisterplan Email helpdesk, Phone Tempus Resource Phone, Email helpdesk
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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
Tempus Resource
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
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.
Tempus Resource
- Quote-based Not stated ProSymmetry prices per quote, tailored to planning needs, team size and implementation goals.
What users say
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Meisterplan
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Tempus Resource
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