Onplana vs Projectplace
As of 3 November 2026 Planview does not publish a Projectplace price: its pricing page offers a single all-inclusive plan, a "Contact us for pricing" button and a 30-day trial, with no permanently free tier. Onplana publishes every tier, starting at a free plan that includes Gantt with critical path.
Projectplace is a collaboration-first work management tool with a deliberately simple commercial model: one plan, everything included. Onplana is a scheduling-first PMO platform with published pricing, a permanently free tier, and a native Microsoft Project migration path. If your work is team collaboration around documents and boards, Projectplace's single plan is a clean answer. If you are moving a real schedule off Microsoft Project and need critical path, baselines and .mpp fidelity, that is what Onplana is built for.
Feature-by-feature comparison
17 dimensions. Where they are at parity we say so, and where Planview's documentation is silent we say that instead of guessing.
| Feature | Projectplace Collaborative work management | Onplana AI-native PM with .mpp |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | Not published. One plan, "Contact us for pricing" | Every self-serve plan published: Free, $12, $20 and $29 per seat a month |
| Permanently free plan | 30-day trial only, no free tier | ✓ Free plan, no expiry, no card |
| Trial of a paid plan | 30-day trial of the one plan, no card | Some Free workspaces are offered a 14-day trial of a paid plan in the app, with no card |
| Microsoft Project on the integrations page | Not listed (Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, Power BI are) | Native .mpp, .mpx, MSPDI XML, XER, Excel and CSV import |
| Desktop app that opens a .mpp | Mobile apps only (iOS, Android) | Onplana Schedule: free Windows and Mac app, opens, edits, reschedules |
| Phone and tablet apps | ✓ iOS and Android apps | Onplana Tasks on iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets; Onplana Schedule from the Microsoft Store, the Mac App Store, the App Store and Google Play. All free. |
| Tasks shorter than a day | Not documented on the product page | Onplana Schedule plans to the minute (type 2h or 90m); the web app schedules in whole working days |
| Critical path on the Gantt | Gantt charts offered; critical path not documented on the product page | ✓ Native, on every plan including Free |
| Saved baselines | Not documented on the product page | ✓ Multiple baselines with Gantt overlay and variance |
| Stage-gate governance | Risk and issue management; no stage-gate pipeline documented | 12-stage proposal pipeline, multi-reviewer gates and an audit trail, on the Enterprise plan and up |
| Gantt charts | ✓ Online Gantt charts | ✓ Gantt with drag-reschedule |
| Kanban boards | ✓ Kanban boards | ✓ Kanban boards |
| Whiteboards | ✓ Included in the single plan | ✓ Excalidraw-based, Professional and above |
| Document review and version control | ✓ Review workflows, version control, access rights | ✓ Document folders with versioning and per-resource sharing |
| Time tracking | ✓ Time tracking | ✓ Timesheets with approvals and rate cards |
| Teams and Slack integration | ✓ Both | ✓ Both |
| One all-inclusive plan | ✓ Everything in one tier, no feature puzzle | Tiered, so some capabilities sit above Free |
| Result | Collaboration-first, one plan | Wins 8/17 on differentiated criteria |
The migration path, before you commit to anything
A .mpp opened directly, dependencies intact
Planview's Projectplace integrations page does not list Microsoft Project. This is the same file uploaded as .mpp, with dependency types, custom fields and baselines mapped before anything is committed (a new project takes the file's working calendar too), and you can run it on your own file without creating an account.
When Projectplace fits
- •Your work is collaboration around documents and boards rather than a critical-path schedule.
- •You want one plan with everything in it and no tier to reason about.
- •Document review workflows, version control and access rights are a core requirement.
- •You are already a Planview customer and want products from one vendor.
When Onplana fits
- •You have
.mppfiles to move and want them read natively. - •You need critical path, all four dependency types with lag, and saved baselines.
- •You want to see the price before you talk to anyone, and size a rollout yourself.
- •You want to start free and keep a free tier, rather than start a 30-day clock.
- •You want stage-gate governance with multi-reviewer gates and an audit trail.
Frequently asked questions
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Where these claims come from
Every Projectplace statement on this page was read from Planview's own pages on 3 November 2026. On that date the Projectplace integrations page listed 16 integrations, including Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft Power BI, and did not list Microsoft Project. When the comparison was first written, on 25 September 2026, Planview documented a Microsoft Project Add-In, but for Planview Enterprise One, which is a different product. Where their documentation is silent on a capability we have written that it is silent, which is not the same as saying the capability is absent.
Onplana plan names and prices on this page are the published tiers at onplana.com/pricing.
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