Planforge vs PPM Express
Planforge
planforge.io
PPM Express
ppm.expressSide by side
| Figure | Planforge | PPM Express |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | €4,500/mo | $666.67/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 5 | 3 |
| Spec score · Project Portfolio Management - Enterprise Software | 9.0 (#1) | 7.6 (#12) |
| Spec score · Strategic Portfolio Management | 9.1 (#1) | 7.6 (#12) |
| Spec score · Project Portfolio Management - Midmarket Software | 9.1 (#1) | 7.8 (#10) |
| Spec score · Project Portfolio Management Software | 9.1 (#2) | 7.7 (#19) |
| Headquarters | Raaba-Grambach (Graz), Austria | Issaquah, Washington, United States |
| Integrations | Listed integrations include Jira, SAP, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Project, Slack, and a GraphQL API. | The product lists integrations including Azure DevOps, Jira, Microsoft Project, Planner, Project for the Web, Smartsheet, monday.com, Power Automate, Zapier, Power BI, and a public REST API. |
| Resource planning | It supports capacity planning, resource allocation and utilization views, and comparison of planning scenarios. | The Team Planner supports allocating people across multiple projects in hours or percent FTE and flags over-allocation. |
Plans
Planforge
- FreeFree
- FreeFree
- Lean€4,500 a month
- Professional€5,400 a month
- Enterprise€8,800 a month
In their own words
Planforge
Planforge provides hybrid project and portfolio management for traditional, agile, or combined project work. It covers planning, execution, monitoring, and status reporting across the project life cycle, with capacity planning, resource allocation, utilization views, and scenario comparisons. Other listed capabilities include project intake, portfolio prioritization, budget tracking, executive reporting, and cross-project dependencies. Integrations include Jira, SAP, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Project, Slack, and a GraphQL API; the Jira connector synchronizes issues in both directions for planning and reporting. The free cloud plan is free for up to 4 users, with no time limit and no credit card required. Paid Lean, Professional, and Enterprise plans are for 5 or more users and offer cloud or on-premises deployment. Their listed prices are €4,500 a month, €5,400 a month, and €8,800 a month, billed per user/month. Enterprise includes SSO. Planforge says its AWS cloud hosts European customer data in Frankfurt, Germany, and uses SSL/TLS and HTTPS for transmission.
PPM Express
PPM Express has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.