Smartsheet is a genuinely excellent work-management platform — a flexible grid with forms, automations and dashboards that much of the construction industry already touches somewhere. What it isn't is a CPM scheduling engine. Ganttry is only that: constraints, float, per-task calendars, named baselines and data-date statusing, at $20/user/month with every feature on every seat.
Smartsheet Pro is $9 — but per Smartsheet's pricing grid, baselines start at Business ($19, 3-member minimum). At that tier the money is nearly identical; the engines aren't.
Smartsheet's critical path is a highlight on a Gantt view — no float columns, no constraint types, no data date. Ganttry runs a full forward/backward pass you can interrogate.
Ganttry imports Primavera P6 XER and MS Project XML — dependencies and calendars come through, and re-imports update in place. Smartsheet's own docs warn MS Project constraints are unsupported on import — and it can't open an XER at all.
Smartsheet's published tiers are honest and self-serve — no reseller maze here. The catch is which tier your scheduling features land in, and the resource-management add-on that isn't included in any of them. Prices below are billed-yearly rates as of July 2026.
Gantt view, dependencies with lag/lead and critical-path highlighting — a real bargain, but hard-capped at 10 members, no baselines per the pricing grid, no external Guests, automations capped at 250/month.
Adds baselines, Timeline view, unlimited automations and genuinely generous sharing: unlimited free Guests (external, can edit) and Contributors (view/comment). 3-member minimum — the real floor is $57/mo, and internal editors always need paid seats.
Talk-to-sales territory. And on every tier, full resource management is Resource Management by Smartsheet — a separately priced add-on; Business and above include only lighter workload tracking.
Compared against Smartsheet Business — the tier with baselines, and the one a scheduling team would actually buy. Green means it's included at the tool's quoted per-seat price.
We won't pretend there's a dramatic savings story here: a 5-person team pays $1,140/yr on Smartsheet Business and $1,000/yr on Ganttry. The question isn't the sticker — it's what the dollars buy. On Smartsheet that money buys a work-management platform with a Gantt view. On Ganttry it buys a CPM engine: float, constraints, five baselines, data-date statusing and DCMA checks, on every seat.
Ganttry annual plan ($200/user/yr) vs Business billed yearly ($19 × 12). Business carries a 3-member minimum, and full resource management is a quote-priced add-on on top — the real Smartsheet total tends to grow from here.
Export your Smartsheet project to Excel and drop it into Ganttry — the CSV/Excel importer has mapping presets, and re-imports update in place. If the schedule originally came from MS Project or P6, skip the middleman and import the XML or XER directly. Either way you keep talking to the Smartsheet world: Ganttry exports styled Excel, CSV, vector PDF and MS Project XML.
