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 project for the whole crew at $20/user/month, instead of a $30 Plan 3 license for each person who needs Project's full scheduler.
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 project. See who is there, review save conflicts, and open saved revisions. Project's full engine lives in a Windows desktop app that saves .mpp files.
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 September 2026 there are two subscription tiers you can buy, plus the old desktop licenses — and the retirements keep coming: Plan 5 is no longer sold, Project Online shut down on 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; the license never expires, but only Plan 3 always gets the latest version.
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 is $360/user/year. Microsoft 365 users can edit tasks in a Planner plan a licensed user created, but Timeline needs Plan 1 and baselines, critical path and the Assignments view need Plan 3. The desktop app, where the full engine lives, is separate from Planner, and publishing its schedule to the team needs Project Server. Ganttry's answer is that the foreman checking the week's work costs the same $20 as the scheduler — so everyone gets the live project.
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.
