Businessmap vs Favro (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Businessmap if

• Fits if you run several teams on Kanban and report to portfolio level
• Makes sense if you tie OKRs and KPIs to boards

Look elsewhere if

• Watch out: no price could be read, and Enterprise goes through sales
• Tight if you need automation or SSO: both are add-ons priced through sales
• Not for you if you want a free plan or an instant trial, since the trial starts after a form
• Skip it if you want a desktop or phone app, as none is mentioned

Pick Favro if

• Fits if you're a software team or game studio running Kanban or Scrumban
• Works for several teams that need to follow the same card from their own boards

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you work alone or want to stay free, as there's no single-user plan and no free one
• Pricey if your team sits between sizes, because seats come in buckets and a team of 3 pays for 5
• Tight if you pick Lite, with 5 collections, 25 automation actions, no guests and no API calls
• Watch out: timesheets, SSO and SCIM are Enterprise only, and more than 100 users is priced by quote
• Skip it if you work on Linux, as the desktop app is Mac and Windows only

Businessmap

• No price could be read. The pricing page is a seat calculator whose figures are not in the page text, and Enterprise is sold through sales.
• The page says license seats are the only required item; automation rules and SSO are optional add-ons priced through sales.
• The comparison table lists automation rules (up to 300 on Standard) and SSO as add-ons.
• Pages describe a browser product and mention no desktop or mobile apps.

Favro

• There is no free or single-user plan: seats are sold in buckets of 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100, so a team of 3 pays for 5.
• Lite stops at 5 collections and 25 automation actions and has no guest accounts, private collections or API calls.
• Timesheet reporting, SAML-based SSO and SCIM provisioning are Enterprise only, and pricing for more than 100 users is by quote.
• The desktop app is offered for Mac and Windows; no Linux version is listed.

Businessmap

Kanban boards and workflows

Unlimited Kanban boards with customizable workflows, work templates, dependency management and process policies.

Portfolio workspaces

Workspaces group projects so a PMO can see dependencies, capacity and resources across teams.

OKRs and KPIs

Objectives can be built, scaled across the organization and linked to the work that supports them.

Planning and timelines

A planning or Gantt view, timelines and project milestones sit beside the boards.

AI tools and MCP

The homepage says an MCP connection lets Claude or another LLM create work hierarchies and project plans from natural language.

Automation rules

If-this-then-that business rules react to cards being created, moved or blocked. The plan comparison lists up to 300 rules as an add-on on Standard.

Favro

Team and planning boards

Several boards can be laid out on one screen, so a team sees its backlog, sprint and other workflows together. Ready-made setups cover Kanban, Scrumban and roadmaps.

Cards shared across boards

A task, goal or user story can live on several boards at the same time, so different teams and managers follow the same card from their own boards.

Sheets and databases

Sheets add columns, calculations and hierarchies, which lets large pieces of work be broken down into smaller items.

Roadmaps and docs

Roadmaps from several teams can be combined into one company view, and docs and wiki pages are written in the same tool as the boards.

No-code automations

Automations assign reviewers, notify people or move cards when something changes. Plans include 25, 5,000 or 25,000 automation actions.

Developer integrations

Jira issues sync both ways with Favro cards, and GitHub and GitLab commits and merge requests attach to cards and can move them when code is merged.

Businessmap

Pricing could not be confirmed. See businessmap.io.

Favro

• Lite$5.10

  per user / month, billed annually ($6 billed monthly)

  5 collections, unlimited boards and backlogs, 25 automation actions and the mobile apps. No guest accounts, private collections or API calls.

• Standard$6.80

  per user / month, billed annually ($8 billed monthly)

  Unlimited collections and storage, apps and integrations, guest accounts, limited dashboards, 5,000 automation actions and 1,000 API calls an hour.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Dashboards and timesheet reporting, SAML-based SSO, SCIM provisioning, 25,000 automation actions and a 24-hour response time on weekdays.

Businessmap

• Annual discount

  Over 20% off on the annual plan

  The pricing page labels its annual plan as saving over 20% against month-by-month billing; no amounts are shown in the page text.

Favro

• Annual discount

  15% off with annual billing

  Billed annually, Lite is $5.10 per user / month against $6 monthly and Standard is $6.80 against $8. The pricing page marks annual prices with a -15% label.