Editor Sebastiaan Smits ·
Published October 31, 2026 · Updated October 31, 2026
Buyers look past Planview when they want a price before a sales call, when a twelve-product estate makes the purchase hard to scope, or when the governance depth outweighs a smaller portfolio. Most move to Celoxis or Meisterplan for mid-sized PMOs, or to Triskell and Planisware when the need stays enterprise-wide.
Short answer: The closest replacements for Planview in our project portfolio management software ranking are Celoxis, Meisterplan and Epicflow. Choose Celoxis if you want a PMO tool with a visible per-user price and on-premise or EU hosting. We took the other 10 from the Best Project Portfolio Management Software in 2026 ranking too, and each is compared with Planview alone, noting where staying put is the better call.
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Planview.com has no pricing page (the /pricing/ address returns a not-found page). The site offers demos and a product trial instead. Budget has to be set after a sales call, which stalls a first comparison against tools that publish seat or resource prices.
The product menu lists Portfolios, AdaptiveWork, AgilePlace, IdeaPlace, PPM Pro, ProjectPlace, Daptiv, ChangePoint, ProjectAdvantage (formerly Sciforma) and more. Five named solutions sit above them, so a buyer must work out which product actually delivers the solution.
Planview describes its customers as 3,000+ enterprises and builds the pitch around funding decisions, strategy and AI alignment across large portfolios. A company running a few dozen projects may use a fraction of that, while still paying for the whole implementation.
Listed from best to weakest fit for people moving off Planview. The rightmost column shows where we rank each one out of 12.
| # | Alternative | Headquarters | Switch if | Our rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Celoxis | India | you want a PMO tool with a visible per-user price and on-premise or EU hosting | #1 |
| 2 |  Meisterplan | Germany | you want resource capacity and scenarios as the core, with unlimited free viewers | #2 |
| 3 |  Epicflow | Netherlands | shared teams are your bottleneck and you want delay priced in money | #4 |
| 4 |  Triskell | Spain | you still need strategy, OKRs and demand management but want a smaller vendor | #10 |
| 5 |  Planisware | France | your portfolio is R&D, IT or capital-heavy and you want a specialist line | #12 |
| 6 |  Smartsheet | United States | your teams already work in sheets and need portfolio roll-ups, not a full PPM suite | #7 |
| 7 |  monday.com | Israel | you want a flexible work platform for everyone and portfolio views only at the top | #8 |
| 8 |  Wrike | United States | you want request forms and Gantt for delivery teams, with portfolio planning as a quoted extra | #6 |
| 9 |  Zoho Projects | India | your budget is small and a portfolio dashboard over Gantt projects is enough | #5 |
| 10 |  Runn | New Zealand | your real problem is who is free next month, not portfolio funding | #3 |
| 11 |  Kantata | United States | you sell project time to clients and need utilization and margin in the same tool | #9 |
Priced per user in public tiers, from $10 for scheduling to $45 for billing and a client portal, billed annually. Intake, risk and costing begin at the $35 tier. Read-only and client users cost nothing. It runs hosted in a U.S. or EU data centre or on your own servers.
Switch from Planview if you want a PMO tool with a visible per-user price and on-premise or EU hosting.
The price follows the number of schedulable resources, and every login is free and unlimited. The product concentrates on capacity, what-if scenarios and goals, with Jira, Asana and Smartsheet integrations. Its maker, itdesign, states it is self-funded. It does not run task delivery for you.
Switch from Planview if you want resource capacity and scenarios as the core, with unlimited free viewers.
Growth costs €22.50 per user monthly on annual billing, for 20 to 50 users and up to 50 projects. Enterprise starts at €45 with a 50-user minimum and adds cost of delay, cash flow forecasts and what-if analysis. Pricing is stated outright, and a half-price start is tied to agreed delivery metrics.
Switch from Planview if shared teams are your bottleneck and you want delay priced in money.
Stays in the enterprise class with OKR cascading, balanced scorecards and demand planning, and is smaller than Planview, with a stated 60-plus staff. The site offers a free trial and a demo but gives no price. Expect a configuration project of similar shape.
Switch from Planview if you still need strategy, OKRs and demand management but want a smaller vendor.
A French vendor with named lines for turnkey PPM (Orchestra), IT portfolios (Horizon), product development (Nova) and capital planning (Valoris). The site leads with an AI layer called Prisma. No prices or trial appear, so the evaluation is demo-led, as it is at Planview.
Switch from Planview if your portfolio is R&D, IT or capital-heavy and you want a specialist line.
Grid-based work with published seat prices: Pro $9 and Business $19 per member monthly on yearly billing. Portfolios and Scenario Planning need Enterprise, which has a 10-member minimum and a quote. Contributors are free. Portfolio logic is lighter than a purpose-built suite.
Switch from Planview if your teams already work in sheets and need portfolio roll-ups, not a full PPM suite.
Board-based and sold per seat, free for two seats and €12 or €19 for Standard and Pro at ten seats on annual billing. Portfolio and resource management appear in the Enterprise plan, priced by quote. Strong on flexible workflows, thinner on funding governance.
Switch from Planview if you want a flexible work platform for everyone and portfolio views only at the top.
Free, Team at $10 and Business at $25 per user monthly on annual billing. Advanced resource and capacity planning, budgeting and BI reporting sit on Pinnacle, which is quoted. Pricing applies to purchases from January 21, 2026, and add-ons are charged separately.
Switch from Planview if you want request forms and Gantt for delivery teams, with portfolio planning as a quoted extra.
A free tier for up to five users and three projects. Critical path, baselines and the portfolio dashboard begin on Enterprise, and Ultimate adds 100 read-only users. It is a dashboard over projects, with no demand intake or scenario modeling on the pages we read.
Switch from Planview if your budget is small and a portfolio dashboard over Gantt projects is enough.
Priced per resource seat: Lite $7 and Standard $11 monthly, with a 20-seat minimum and a 30-day trial. It covers scheduling, capacity charts, budgets and rate cards. SSO via SAML and unlimited custom fields need the quoted Advanced plan. No funding gates.
Switch from Planview if your real problem is who is free next month, not portfolio funding.
A professional services automation product that joins resourcing, financials and delivery for billable work, with a Salesforce edition. Pricing is quote-only and tailored to company size. It fits consultancies and agencies better than an internal PMO deciding which projects to fund.
Switch from Planview if you sell project time to clients and need utilization and margin in the same tool.
Stay with Planview when the portfolio is large enough that funding committees, capital and operating budgets, scenario planning and decision gates are daily work, and when the company already runs the products you have. It also holds up when the PMO needs Agile, hybrid and waterfall teams under one planning model. A smaller tool will lack some of that depth.
Planview customers may run Portfolios, AdaptiveWork, PPM Pro or another product, each with its own data model. Before choosing a target, list which product and which modules you use, since requests, scenarios and budgets may not have a direct equivalent.
The pages we read do not state Planview export formats. Ask in writing for your data in a documented format. Scenarios, funding history and decision-gate records are the parts most likely to need rebuilding by hand in the new tool.
No. Planview.com has no pricing page, and the product pages we read list demos and trials. The category entry for this tool says quote only. Ask for a written quote that names the product and modules before comparing.
It depends on how you bought it. Planview lists Portfolios, AdaptiveWork, AgilePlace, PPM Pro, ProjectPlace, ChangePoint, ProjectAdvantage (formerly Sciforma) and others. Check your contract or your login page, which names the product.
Yes, but check the unit. Celoxis, Wrike and Smartsheet price per user or member, Meisterplan and Runn per resource, and Epicflow per user. Count planners and schedulable people separately, since the totals differ.
Yes. Celoxis lists $10 to $45 per standard user monthly, billed annually, with a 5-user minimum, and Epicflow lists €22.50 to €45 per user. Meisterplan, Triskell and Planisware leave the figure to a quote or trial.
Mostly as a concept, not as data. Meisterplan, Triskell, Epicflow Enterprise and Smartsheet Enterprise all list what-if or scenario features, but you rebuild the scenarios there. Test one real decision in a trial before committing.
Celoxis states that the same product runs hosted in a U.S. or EU data centre or on your own infrastructure. For the other tools we did not read hosting terms, so confirm regions and self-hosting with the vendor.
Each number and claim about Planview and its competitors was taken from the vendors' own websites on October 31, 2026; expect them to drift as those sites are edited.
Sebastiaan Smits, Founder, wrote, edited and fact-checked this page.
Founder of The Interregnum and of 2 Steps Ahead, an AI search visibility agency. Editorially responsible for every page here; research and drafting are AI-assisted. Last reviewed October 31, 2026.
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