Epicflow vs Retain
Epicflow
epicflow.com
Retain
retaininternational.comSide by side
| Figure | Epicflow | Retain |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | €22.50/mo | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 5 | 1 |
| Spec score · Resource Management Software | 8.4 (#4) | 7.5 (#17) |
| Integrations | The company lists ready-made integrations with Microsoft Project, Jira, and Oracle Primavera, and says it can build custom integrations with project, resource, or HRM systems. | The maker lists integrations including Microsoft 365, Workday, Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, Bamboo HR, CCH and Aderant, and describes API and middleware support. |
| Intended customers | The company says its solution meets the needs of mid-sized and large-scale companies with 200+ employees. | Retain describes its platform as built for professional services organisations, including audit, tax, advisory, consulting, IT services and engineering firms. |
| Purpose | Epicflow is an AI-driven multi-project resource and portfolio management solution for planning and controlling work across projects. | Retain is an enterprise resource management platform for professional services organisations delivering complex projects. |
| Resource planning | Capacity planning forecasts resource demand and output, analyzes workload, and helps prevent bottlenecks. | The platform connects resource planning, skills intelligence, scheduling and operational reporting across departments. |
Plans
Epicflow
- Growth — annual billing€22.50 a month
- Growth — monthly billing€25 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
- Growth (annual billing)€22.50 a month
- Growth (monthly)€25 a month
In their own words
Epicflow
Epicflow is a multi-project resource and portfolio management solution for planning and controlling work across projects. Its Pipeline gives an overview of projects and milestones and helps teams assess feasibility and deadlines. Capacity planning forecasts resource demand and output, analyzes workload, and helps prevent bottlenecks; what-if simulations let users consider project changes. The listed capabilities include task dependencies, a Gantt view, resource management, time tracking, and AI priority recommendations. Ready-made integrations are listed for Microsoft Project, Jira, and Oracle Primavera, with custom integrations available for project, resource, or HRM systems. Epicflow says its DataGuard cloud service can analyze project information while company data stays on premises. Its security page states GDPR compliance, ISO 27001-certified data centres, and penetration testing to British MOD standards. Growth costs €22.50 per user per month, billed annually, or €25.00 per user per month, billed monthly; both options cover 20 to 50 users, up to 50 projects, and a maximum of 250 tasks. A 30-day trial is available, with unlimited users and a weekly 30-minute support call. Enterprise pricing is on request and its listed capacity starts at 50 users, with unlimited projects and 2000+ tasks.
Retain
Retain has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.