| Price from | $66.25/mo | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 3 | 1 |
| Spec score · Innovation software | 7.8 (#8) | 7.6 (#10) |
| Spec score · Idea Management Software | 7.8 (#16) | 7.6 (#20) |
| Headquarters | Stockholm, Sweden | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Integrations | Hives.co connects with Microsoft Teams and Google Workspace so people can contribute where they already work. | The integrations page names LinkedIn, Microsoft Teams, Slack, social sharing, Google Analytics, Power BI, Trello, YouTrack, Jira, and Azure Boards. |
| Purpose | Hives.co helps organisations collect, organise, and act on ideas, insights, and feedback, including employee suggestions and product innovation. | IdeaScale captures, evaluates, and helps organizations implement ideas in a centralized system. |
| Support | The Enterprise plan includes dedicated account management and a personal customer success manager; Enterprise customers can request SLA and custom security and compliance terms. | IdeaScale provides a Help Center with articles covering product areas including workspaces, campaigns, AI, whiteboard, reporting, and integrations. |
| Workflow | The platform gives ideas an owner, a stage, and a next step, and keeps contributors informed as ideas move toward a decision. | Concept selection features include workflow and idea routing, an idea portfolio, and linked ideas. |