Shortlists usually get built from feature lists, and feature lists rarely decide anything. These comparisons work differently: one requirement set, one 250-user scenario, one verification date, and the edition each capability actually ships in.
The percentage beside each product summarizes its requirement table; it is not the verdict. Read the table. Where a vendor does not publish a price, the pages say so rather than inventing one.
Planner and Project Plan 3 at $30 per user per month. Strong inside a Microsoft estate; the licence count is what decides it.
Requirement fit: PPM Express 95, Microsoft Planner 70A no-code work platform teams adopt quickly. Portfolio management, advanced analytics and governance sit in the Enterprise tier.
Requirement fit: PPM Express 95, monday.com 62Enterprise brings Portfolios, Scenario Planning and SAML SSO. Time tracking and the delivery-tool connectors are still priced separately.
Requirement fit: PPM Express 95, Smartsheet 65Genuinely good at request intake, approvals and proofing. Portfolio budgeting and advanced capacity planning require Pinnacle.
Requirement fit: PPM Express 95, Wrike 62A dedicated Portfolio Modeler for side-by-side investment scenarios. Professional runs $90,000 a year at 250 users.
Requirement fit: PPM Express 95, OnePlan 93The only product here with native business architecture and capability planning. Quoted, and consulting-led.
Requirement fit: PPM Express 95, NH360 84Barely a product decision if you already run ServiceNow. A platform decision if you do not.
Requirement fit: PPM Express 95, ServiceNow SPM 85The incumbent enterprise PPM platform, with cost accounting depth few match. Quoted, and an implementation programme rather than a project.
Requirement fit: PPM Express 95, Broadcom Clarity 88The closest functional match in this set. It meets seventeen of eighteen requirements, and the one it misses is per-seat cost.
Requirement fit: PPM Express 95, Planview AdaptiveWork 92Capable and openly priced at $45 per user per month, which makes 250 seats the highest published figure in this set.
Requirement fit: PPM Express 95, Celoxis 77Built for capital and regulated delivery: earned value, commitments and services margin. Quoted rather than published.
Requirement fit: PPM Express 95, Cora PPM 88
Portfolio reporting on top of Jira, without changing how teams work.
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Roll Azure DevOps delivery into a portfolio leadership can read.
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Bring Planner work into portfolio-level visibility.
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Last updated 20 August 2026
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