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Ganttry vs Buildertrend

Buildertrend is an all-in-one platform for running a building business — sales and CRM, estimates, invoicing, a client portal — and its Schedule tool is part of it: a Gantt view with linked tasks, a critical path and a baseline. Ganttry does one job: the CPM schedule, the crews and the plan across your projects, at $20/user/month with every feature on every license.

What this page rests on: Buildertrend offers demos, not trials, so this comparison is from Buildertrend's published documentation, September 2026 — its help center and product pages, each claim sourced and dated. We haven't used Buildertrend hands-on.

HOW IT'S PRICED

$20 vs a quote

Buildertrend prices each business by custom quote — by builder type, annual revenue and needs — with unlimited users and projects. Ganttry's price is on the website: $20 per user per month, every feature included.

THE SCHEDULING

Both link tasks

Buildertrend's Schedule links tasks with lag and lead, shows the critical path and compares against a baseline. So does Ganttry. The difference is what surrounds the schedule — a whole building business, or crews and projects planned together.

WHO SEES THE PLAN

Portals vs crew links

Buildertrend shares the schedule with subs and clients through its portals. Ganttry sends crews a link that needs no sign-in, and they keep seeing the last published plan while you rework the next one.

What Buildertrend costs

Buildertrend doesn't publish prices. It quotes each business by builder type, annual revenue and needs, and every plan includes every feature, unlimited users and unlimited projects. You answer a few questions about your business, then Buildertrend's team goes over your quote on a call.

Buildertrend

Custom quote billed annually or quarterly

Every feature from day one, with unlimited users and projects. No price on the website and no free trial — Buildertrend offers personalized demos instead, and the quote comes from its team.

PUBLISHED

Ganttry

$20 /user/mo, billed monthly ($200/user/yr on annual)

Every feature on every license — the scheduler, Crew planning, the Master plan and the field app. A 14-day trial and card checkout; cancel anytime.

From Buildertrend's published documentation, September 2026: its pricing page (buildertrend.com/pricing), pricing guide and FAQ. Buildertrend publishes no price figures.

Feature for feature

Compared against Buildertrend's Schedule tool as its help center documents it. Buildertrend includes every feature in every plan, so there is no tier to pick.

FEATURE

GANTTRY

BUILDERTREND

Dependency logic with lag & lead

Ganttry: FS, SS, FF, SF, typed like 12FS+3d; Buildertrend documents FS and SS links, with lag and lead

Included

Critical path, float & constraints

Ganttry: CPM forward/backward pass, four constraint types, negative float in red; Buildertrend: a critical-path toggle in its Gantt view that greys the tasks with float

Included

Critical path view

Named baselines & variance

Ganttry: five named baselines with variance columns; Buildertrend: a baseline of the original timeline, with expected vs. actual dates and slips

Included

Baseline vs. actual

Per-task working calendars

Ganttry: 6-day paving crews, 4×10 weeks, winter shutdowns, holiday rules; Buildertrend: a work week per job, plus workday exceptions

Included

Work week per job

Monthly statusing with a data date

Ganttry: actuals in one dialog, retained logic, out-of-sequence flags; Buildertrend: percent complete per item, or items marked complete as they end

Included

Percent complete per item

Master plan across projects

Several projects on one time axis, by project or by resource — double-bookings flagged across them

Included

All jobs on one calendar

Crew planning

A company roster of people and equipment by trade, and each day's crew needed against the crew you have

Included

Assignee conflict alerts

Several companies, one sign-in

Switch between the companies you work for; partners run their clients' companies

Included

Subs switch builders

Draft & Publish to crews

Keep editing in Draft while crews see the last published plan; publish when it's ready

Included

Hidden until shared

Company project templates

Templates by project type, so a new project can start from your company's standard

Included

Field progress updates from phones

Crews status their own tasks from an installable app — same license price

Included

Mobile app

Sales, estimates, invoicing & client portal

Buildertrend runs the whole building business; Ganttry only schedules

Included

Users on one contract

Buildertrend includes unlimited users and projects; Ganttry licenses each person who signs in, and a crew link needs no sign-in

Per user; crew links free

Unlimited

Published, self-serve pricing & trial

Price on the website, card checkout, 14-day trial, cancel anytime

Included

Quote; no trial

From Buildertrend's published documentation, September 2026: its help center articles and product pages. Where Buildertrend is the stronger tool, the table says so; a row its documentation doesn't settle either way is left off.

Where Buildertrend still wins

•It runs the whole business. Sales and CRM, estimates, bids, purchase orders, invoices and payments live beside the schedule, and schedule items tie into change orders, invoices and the job-costing budget. Ganttry only schedules.

•Clients in the loop. Invite clients to follow the schedule in Buildertrend's client portal — every detail, or a phase-level overview.

•Unlimited users and projects. One contract covers your whole team, and subs and vendors are invited to free accounts. Ganttry licenses each person who signs in.

•Subs confirm their dates. Send a sub a confirmation request and they confirm or decline the task; assignees can be notified of date changes by text, email or push.

•Works without Wi-Fi. Buildertrend's mobile app keeps the schedule updated and accessible in the field with no connection. Ganttry's app needs a signal.

•Calendar sync. Schedule items sync to Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar.

Where Ganttry pulls ahead

✓A price you can read. $20/user/month on the website, a 14-day trial and card checkout — no quote and no demo call first.

✓The whole CPM engine. Four constraint types, negative float, and monthly statusing against a real data date, on top of the linked tasks, lag, lead, critical path, float and baselines both tools have.

✓Crews keep the published plan. Rework the schedule in Draft while crews still see the version you last published. Buildertrend's Offline mode hides the schedule from trades until you share it.

✓The plan across projects, by resource. Both tools show every job's schedule in one view and warn when someone is double-booked; Ganttry's Master plan also lays several projects out by resource on one time axis.

✓Crews planned by trade. Roster & equipment keeps the company's people and machines by trade, and Crew planning shows each day's crew needed against the crew you have.

Start fresh, or from a P6 or MS Project file

Ganttry imports Primavera P6 XER and MS Project XML — the logic, lags and calendars come through — and re-imports monthly updates in place. It exports MS Project XML, PDF, Excel and CSV. It has no Buildertrend integration — if your business runs on Buildertrend, Ganttry is a separate tool for the schedule and the crews.

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Sources — from Buildertrend's published documentation, September 2026: Buildertrend's pricing page, pricing guide and FAQ (buildertrend.com); the Schedule, Advanced Schedule, Schedule on Mobile, Navigating Project Management, project-management settings and FAQs, subcontractor FAQs and glossary articles in its help center (buildertrend.com/help-article); its Schedule product page (buildertrend.com/project-management/schedule). Buildertrend, Microsoft Project, Outlook, Oracle, Primavera, Google Calendar and Apple are trademarks of their respective owners. Ganttry is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.