Board vs Solver
Board
board.com
Solver
solverglobal.comSide by side
| Figure | Board | Solver |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 8 | 6 |
| Spec score · Financial Planning & Analysis Software | 8.0 (#18) | 6.8 (#79) |
| Spec score · Financial Forecasting Software | 8.0 (#15) | 6.2 (#70) |
| Spec score · Financial Consolidation Software | 7.9 (#7) | 6.2 (#28) |
| Spec score · Management Reporting Software | 8.0 (#7) | 6.3 (#32) |
| Spec score · Scenario Planning Software | 8.0 (#22) | 6.9 (#77) |
| Spec score · Corporate Performance Management Software | 7.9 (#10) | 6.2 (#29) |
| Spec score · Budgeting Software | 7.9 (#12) | 6.2 (#35) |
| Spec score · Budgeting apps | 7.5 (#22) | 6.8 (#34) |
| Budgeting | Yes | Yes |
| Financial consolidation | Yes | Yes |
| Forecasting | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 1994 | 1996 |
| Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Chiasso, Switzerland | Calabasas, California, United States |
| Scenario modeling | Yes | Yes |
| Variance analysis | Yes | Yes |
| Workforce planning | Human resources solutions include HR workforce planning. | Yes |
Plans
Board
- Board add-ins & integrationsPriced on request
- FinancePriced on request
- HRPriced on request
- Predictive analyticsPriced on request
- Premium SupportPriced on request
- RetailPriced on request
- SalesPriced on request
- Supply chainPriced on request
Solver
- Standard UserPrice not published
- Standard UserPriced on request
- Contributor UserPrice not published
- Contributor UserPriced on request
- Viewer UserPrice not published
- Viewer UserPriced on request
In their own words
Board
Board is an enterprise planning platform that connects data, processes, and teams for financial and operational planning. Its listed functions include budgeting, forecasting, reporting, consolidation, supply planning, and workforce planning. Teams can model scenarios and trade-offs, plan for events, and compare forecasts with actuals. The platform also offers governed agentic AI with human oversight, governance, and accountability. Collaboration can extend beyond the enterprise. Additional components include an Office Add-In, SAP connector, parallel engines, and broadcasting package. Deployment options are cloud and on-premise, and the site supports recent versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. Support resources include product support, training, Board Community, and a premium support plan. Plans include Finance, Supply chain, Retail, Sales, HR, and predictive analytics, with customized quotes based on specific needs; no prices are listed. The supplied pages state no free plan or free tier, and do not state a trial or refund policy. Board lists headquarters in Boston and Chiasso and a founding year of 1994.
Solver
Solver is a web-based financial planning and analysis platform from Solver, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Calabasas, California. Its listed capabilities include budgeting, forecasting, scenario modeling, variance analysis, workforce planning, financial consolidation and forecast-versus-actuals analysis. These functions support preparing plans, modeling alternatives and reviewing financial results. Solver defines three user plans. Standard User includes full functionality, report building and running, data entry, security management, Solver Academy and Solver Copilot. Contributor User can enter budgets and forecasts and view published reports. Viewer User can view published reports and use the ad-hoc report writer. The roles separate users who manage security and build reports from those who contribute planning data or mainly review published reports. Solver lists no prices for these plans; pricing is available on request. The product is listed for web use, with budgeting, forecasting, scenario modeling, variance analysis, workforce planning and consolidation all marked as available capabilities.