Feature-for-feature comparisons against the tools construction teams actually shortlist — published list prices where vendors publish them, clearly labelled reseller figures where they don't. Where a competitor is genuinely better, we say so.
The tool most schedules grew up in — now split across Planner tiers, with real CPM starting at Plan 3 and Project Online retiring September 2026.
The construction CPM standard — and a quote-only, Windows-desktop purchase that costs more per seat in year one than Ganttry costs in a decade and a half.
Eleco’s construction scheduler (formerly Asta) — a genuine CPM desktop with a construction pedigree, at desktop-era prices and annual-only billing.
The easy-Gantt favorite now courting builders — priced per project, and missing the scheduling engine underneath: no lag, no task calendars, no XER.
The flexible work-management grid many GCs already pay for — dependencies and baselines bolted onto a spreadsheet, without a CPM engine’s task calendars, constraints or float.
Read all five comparisons and the same pattern repeats — whatever the logo on the other column.
Dependency types with lag, task calendars, constraints, float and named baselines. The enterprise tools have them at enterprise prices; the lightweight tools mostly draw timelines. Ganttry ships the engine at $20.
Two of the biggest names here sell by quote — your price depends on a sales call, your revenue, or both. Ganttry is $20 per user, per month — $200 a year on annual. It's on the pricing page, not behind a demo.
Ganttry opens MS Project XML and Primavera P6 XER directly — dependencies, calendars and all — and exports XML back when an owner insists. Your current schedule is the starting point, not a casualty.
Procore is an all-in-one construction platform — RFIs, financials, field tools — priced by custom quote on your annual construction volume, typically five figures a year. If you need the whole platform, it’s a serious product. If you need scheduling, you’d be buying a lot of platform to get a scheduling module; Ganttry does one thing at a price you can read. (And yes, Ganttry imports the P6 and MS Project files your Procore projects already revolve around.)
Both are residential/small-GC management suites — CRM, estimates, invoicing — with calendar-style scheduling attached. Neither runs a critical-path engine with dependency logic, float and baselines, and neither imports MS Project or P6 files. If you’re choosing software to run the whole business, compare those suites to each other; if the schedule is the deliverable, that’s Ganttry’s job.
Free desktop clones are genuinely fine for a single scheduler making a one-off schedule. What "free" costs you is everything around the schedule: live multi-user collaboration, field updates from phones, revision history, support — and P6 XER import. Teams that try them usually come back for the collaboration.
Fair question. Every number is either a vendor-published price or a clearly labelled reseller/distributor figure, its source is named on each page, every page is date-stamped, and each one has a "where they win" section we didn’t have to write. If we got something wrong or a price moved, use the contact page and we’ll fix it.
14 days, every feature, your real schedule — import it in minutes.
