Microsoft Project is where most construction schedulers learned the craft — and Ganttry speaks its language, imports its files and keeps its habits. The difference is what happens after the schedule is built: one shared live schedule for the whole crew at $20/user/month, instead of a $30 desktop license for the scheduler and PDFs for everyone else.
Baselines, critical path and lead/lag dependencies start at Plan 3 ($30, annual commitment). The $10 Planner tier has only basic links.
Work on one shared schedule. See who is there, review save conflicts, and open saved revisions. Project's full engine lives in a Windows desktop app and travels by .mpp attachment.
Bring schedules in as MS Project XML, re-import monthly updates in place, and export XML back whenever an owner insists on Project.
Microsoft folded Project into the Planner brand. As of July 2026 there are two subscription tiers you can buy, plus the old desktop licenses — and the retirements keep coming: Plan 5 left sale in May 2026, Project Online shuts down September 30, 2026.
Boards, timelines and basic dependencies — but no baselines, no critical path, no desktop app. It's a task tool, not a CPM scheduler.
The tier with the Project desktop app, baselines, critical path and lead/lag dependencies. Annual commitment — and $10 a month more than Ganttry, per license.
Standard $679.99, Professional $1,129.99 — one Windows PC each, no co-editing, and the next version is another purchase.
Compared against Plan 3 — the tier you'd actually buy for CPM work. Green means included at the quoted per-license price; amber means included but delivered only in the Windows desktop app, or partial; gray means not available.
Plan 3 pricing forces a choice: pay for everyone at $360/user/year, or pay for one scheduler and let the field work from stale printouts. Ganttry's answer is that the foreman checking the week's work costs the same $20 as the scheduler — so everyone gets the live schedule.
Ganttry annual plan ($200/user/yr) vs Plan 3 at $30 × 12. Microsoft's $30 list price assumes an annual commitment.
Export your schedule from Project as XML, drop it into Ganttry, and your tasks, logic and calendars come with it. Monthly updates re-import in place without touching your notes and colors — and when someone upstream insists on Project, export XML they can open natively.
