# Planview review (2026): is it worth it?

> Enterprise portfolio management and connected work platform

Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Planview sells a platform of enterprise products for strategic portfolio management, project portfolio management, software delivery, product development and professional services automation. Its project portfolio management offering covers portfolio planning and prioritization, resource capacity planning, dashboards and dependency tracking. It is sold to large organizations through its sales team.

- **Category:** Project Management
- **Made by:** Planview
- **Website:** https://www.planview.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want to see a price first: the site has no pricing page.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026

## Pricing

Planview's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site.


## Key features

- **Portfolio planning and prioritization:** Rank portfolios against priorities and drivers, compare them with financial and resource targets, and model trade-offs.
- **Resource capacity planning:** Check committed plans against available capacity and staffing, and reallocate funding and resources as priorities change.
- **Dependency management:** Visualize dependencies across programs, projects, work and applications.
- **Dashboards and analytics:** Dashboards track KPIs across strategy, programs, projects, resources and work.
- **Product family:** The product list includes AgilePlace, Portfolios, ProjectPlace, PPM Pro, Daptiv, AdaptiveWork, ChangePoint and Enterprise Architecture.
- **AI features:** The vendor describes AI-driven insights, risk detection and scenario planning in its project portfolio management offering.

## Good for

- Large organizations running portfolio management across many programs
- PMOs that tie funding and resource capacity to strategy
- Companies that want a single vendor for portfolio, delivery and services work

## Worth knowing

- No prices are published; the site has no pricing page, and plans are sold through the sales team.
- Planview is a family of separate products, so which one a buyer needs depends on the job.
- The company page says it serves more than 3,000 customers, which signals an enterprise focus, not a small-team tool.
- The site offers demos and free trials through a demos page, but the trial terms were not stated on the pages read.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Planview is a family of enterprise portfolio, resource and delivery products that the company sells through its sales team. No prices are published, the trial terms are not stated, and which product you need depends on the job. A small team has no reason to start here.

- **Value for money: C.** No price is published and plans are sold through sales, so it sits in the middle until a quote says otherwise.
- **Free plan and trial: D.** The site offers demos and free trials, but the pages read do not state the length or whether a card is needed. No free plan.
- **Features: C.** Portfolio planning, resource capacity, dependencies and dashboards. It is a family of separate products, so no single one covers the whole job.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Sold to enterprises through a sales process, so expect set-up work.
- **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only on the listing, with no integrations or API named on the pages read.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Planview's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among project management tools

- Planview's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 3 of the 111 other project management tools we grade, and level with 2.
- It stands best on value for money (C, above 27 of 111) and worst on free plan and trial (D, above 7).

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/project-management

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** The plain part of Planview you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 106 of the 111 other project management tools grade higher.

- You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well.
- You could not: Connections that pull numbers from dozens of other services.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

**Tags:** Reports, Dashboards, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Meisterplan](https://toolgpa.com/tools/meisterplan): Portfolio and resource capacity planning for PMOs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/meisterplan-vs-planview)
- [Kantata](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kantata): Professional services automation for resourcing, projects and billing. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kantata-vs-planview)
- [Celoxis](https://toolgpa.com/tools/celoxis): Project and portfolio management with per-seat plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/celoxis-vs-planview)
- [Smartsheet](https://toolgpa.com/tools/smartsheet): Spreadsheet-style project and work management for teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/planview-vs-smartsheet)
- [Microsoft Project](https://toolgpa.com/tools/microsoft-project): Desktop project scheduling for Windows with Gantt charts. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/microsoft-project-vs-planview)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026:

- https://www.planview.com/
- https://www.planview.com/products-solutions/solutions/project-portfolio-management/
- https://www.planview.com/about-us/

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