Onplana vs OnePlan

Through Project desktop. OnePlan's integrations page describes an Office add-in for Microsoft Project Desktop that connects your .mpp files to OnePlan, and its pricing page lists Microsoft Project Integration on the Enterprise plan. So the plan stays in Project desktop and OnePlan reads it from there. Onplana sits at the other end of that trade: you sign up, upload a .mpp, and the schedule is there, on every plan including Free, at the cost of not living inside your Microsoft 365 tools.

Some things are tool-bound and will be rebuilt wherever you land. Custom workflows are the clearest case: they have no portable form, so they are re-authored in OnePlan's workflows or in Onplana's stage-gate pipeline. Project site content and its permission inheritance is a SharePoint concern and usually stays in SharePoint. Timephased actuals and ActualCost are technically exportable but often stale, which is why Onplana rebuilds actuals from timesheets rather than importing a figure that may never have been reconciled. Resource plans and reports built in your old tool also need rebuilding. Knowing this list up front is worth more than any feature comparison, because it is where migration estimates actually go wrong.

The evaluation itself is not the slow part. Running a genuine parallel pilot on one real .mpp will tell you more in an afternoon than a feature matrix will. Both let you start without a card: Onplana's Free plan and OnePlan's free trial. What differs is what the start includes: Onplana's Free plan has the Gantt, critical path and .mpp import, while OnePlan's Microsoft Project integration and resource plan are on its Enterprise plan, priced on a quote, so that part of a pilot starts with a sales conversation. Start the one with the longer lead time earlier, and use the other to sanity-check it rather than waiting to run them in series.

Not automatically. OnePlan runs inside Teams, Azure DevOps and SharePoint and connects to Planner, Project desktop, Power BI and Power Apps, which is a real advantage when your teams already live there. Onplana integrates with M365 via standard SAML/OIDC SSO and Microsoft Graph for calendar/Teams integrations, different posture, less embedded, less Microsoft lock-in.

OnePlan lists workflow and automations on its Enterprise plan. Onplana ships a built-in 12-stage proposal pipeline (DRAFT → SUBMITTED → PROPOSAL_REVIEW → BUSINESS_CASE → ... → COMPLETED) with designated multi-reviewer gates and quorum logic. Both are real governance. OnePlan's is configured as workflows; Onplana's is more opinionated and faster to stand up.

OnePlan publishes its Basic plan at $10 a user a month billed yearly, from 5 users, and prices Enterprise on a quote, per its pricing page on 3 November 2026. Onplana publishes per-seat pricing across 4 self-serve plans (Free, $12, $20 and $29 per seat a month), what you see is what you pay. For PMOs that need budget approval before starting an evaluation, that matters; for PMOs comfortable with sales-led procurement, it's a non-issue.

With Onplana, yes, sign up free, import a real .mpp, run a parallel pilot. With OnePlan, the free trial gets you started, and the Enterprise features a schedule-heavy pilot needs (Microsoft Project integration, the resource plan) come with a quote. That's not a bug, sales-led platforms run that way for a reason, it's just a different cycle time.