What's the best OKR software for startups?
At five people a spreadsheet works. At fifteen it breaks. In between, there's usually a free tool.
You set three objectives for the quarter. They live in a spreadsheet or a Notion page. Week one, everyone updates their numbers. Week four, nobody does. That's the most common way startup OKRs fail, and OKR software (objectives and key results) exists to stop it: it reminds each owner to check in and shows the whole team where things stand.
The short answer. Perdoo is the best pick for most startups: free for up to 5 users, then €6.40 per user per month. Tability is best for check-ins that stick, from $6 per user. If your team already lives in ClickUp or Notion, start there: your goals cost nothing extra. Mooncamp is the simplest pure OKR tool from five people. Weekdone is fully free for three.
HR suites like Lattice ($4,000 a year minimum) and Leapsome aren't ranked: their minimums and modules target bigger teams. For a 20 to 500-person company, see our OKR software ranking.
The ranking is editorial: a sponsored spot is always labeled on its card, and no affiliate link changes a score.
Best OKR software by startup stage
OKRs, KPIs and strategy free for 5
Best for check-ins that actually happenAutomatic nudges, from $6 a user
Best if your team already lives in ClickUpGoals included from Core at $9
Simplest pure OKR tool5-seat minimum at €7 each
Best for starting with no new toolTwo linked databases and go
Best fully free plan for 3Every feature for up to 3 users
6 OKR tools for startups compared
The ranking targets a startup of 3 to 50 people running its first OKRs or leaving a spreadsheet. Every price comes from the vendor's own pricing page. Tability, ClickUp and Notion bill in dollars; Perdoo and Mooncamp only list euros.
| Best for | What sets it apart | Free plan | Team size | Visit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perdoo | Best free plan for a founding team | Full free plan for 5, strategy included | 4.5/5 | Free for 5, then €6.40/user/mo | ✓ | 3 to 50 people | Visit → |
| 2 | Tability | Best for check-ins that actually happen | Check-in reminders | 4.3/5 | $6/user/mo yearly | — | 3 to 100 people | Visit → |
| 3 | ClickUp | Best if your team already lives in ClickUp | Goals linked to tasks | 4.2/5 | Goals from Core, $9/user/mo | ✓ | Teams already on ClickUp | Visit → |
| 4 | Mooncamp | Simplest pure OKR tool | Pure OKRs, nothing else | 4.2/5 | €7/user/mo, 5 minimum | — | 5 to 50 people | Visit → |
| 5 | Notion | Best for starting with no new tool | No new tool | 4.0/5 | Free, Plus $10/member/mo | ✓ | 2 to 10 people | Visit → |
| 6 | Weekdone | Best fully free plan for 3 | Built-in weekly report | 3.9/5 | Free for 3, then calculator | ✓ | 2 to 3 founders | Visit → |
Weekdone doesn't list its paid price, so we ranked it on its free plan. ClickUp and Notion scores come from their full reviews.
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How we compared and scored
This page is for a founder or first ops hire. Your team is somewhere between 3 and 50 people, runway is counted in months, and you can't spend six weeks rolling out a tool.
We read each vendor's official pricing, plan by plan, to see what the free tier really includes and what the tool costs at 10 and then 25 people. Then we went through user reviews and founder write-ups, starting with the negative ones. The pattern is the same everywhere: startup OKRs die from skipped check-ins, rarely from missing features. So check-ins and adoption carry a lot of weight.
ClickUp and Notion aren't OKR tools. They're here because many startups already pay for them, and their scores match our full reviews.
- OKR cycle and alignmentObjectives, measurable key results, links between team and company goals.30%
- Check-ins and adoptionReminders, confidence levels, a two-minute update.25%
- Real priceFree tier, seat minimums, currency, cost at 10 and 25 people.20%
- Reporting and integrationsSlack, Teams, dashboards, links to your data.15%
- Ease of setupTime to run a first quarter without a consultant.10%
The ranking is editorial: a sponsored spot is always labeled on its card, and no affiliate link changes a score.
Perdoo
Most startups ask one question first: can we start without a credit card? With Perdoo, yes. The Free plan covers 5 users and it isn't a crippled demo. You get OKRs, KPIs tracked over time, a strategy map that ties the mission to each objective, meeting views, mobile apps, and Slack and Teams integrations.
Five seats usually covers the founders plus your first head of product. That's two or three full quarters before you pay anything. When you open it to the whole team, Premium is €6.40 per user per month, so about €768 a year for 10 people. Perdoo only lists euro prices, so expect a currency conversion on a US card.
- Strategy map: every objective hangs off a visible company priority
- OKRs and KPIs on one screen, handy when MRR already lives in another tool
- View-only licenses at €1.50 a month on Supreme for people who read but never update
- ✓The most complete free plan here, at 5 users
- ✓Euro prices shown up front: €6.40 per person on Premium
- ✓Quarterly billing available, which helps when runway is counted in months
- ✗More concepts to learn (strategy, KPIs, initiatives) than a minimalist tool
- ✗No startup discount on the pricing page
- ✗Euro pricing only
The default pick if you want a dedicated OKR tool. Start on Free with five people, and only upgrade when team leads need to write their own objectives.
Tability
OKRs rarely die because of the framework. They die on the Monday nobody updates their numbers, and then the next one. Tability is built around that failure. It nudges each owner, asks for progress and a confidence level, then rolls everything up into a summary for the team.
There's no free plan, but the trial runs 14 days with no card and there's no seat minimum. One detail that matters at a startup: every paid user comes with 2 read-only seats. Your investor or advisor who only wants to look costs you nothing.
- Automatic check-in reminders with a confidence score on each key result
- 2 free read-only seats per paid user
- US, EU or Australia hosting on Enterprise
- ✓No seat minimum, so 3 people pay for 3
- ✓Short learning curve, built for tracking rather than planning
- ✓At $6 it's one of the cheapest dedicated tools
- ✗No forever-free plan
- ✗The pricing page shows two different grids, so confirm the amount at checkout
- ✗Reviews mention slow support replies
Pick Tability if your OKRs are written but keep dying from lack of follow-up. It does fewer things than Perdoo and keeps them alive longer.
ClickUp
ClickUp isn't OKR software. It's a project management tool with a goals module, Goals. For a startup that's a real point in its favor: if your team already runs its work there, objectives sit next to the tasks, with no new subscription.
Each goal gets targets: a number, a dollar amount, true or false, or a set of tasks to finish. When a linked task closes, progress moves on its own. Goals is only a trial on the free plan; it's included from Core at $9 per user per month billed yearly.
- Targets linked to tasks, so progress moves when work ships
- Goals grouped by folder, team or quarter
- No extra tool to roll out
- ✓Zero extra cost if you already pay for Core or Business
- ✓Goals sit right next to sprints and tasks
- ✓Scored 4.2 out of 5 in our full ClickUp review
- ✗No guided OKR ritual: no check-in reminders or confidence score
- ✗Aligning team goals to company goals is manual
- ✗Paying for ClickUp only to get Goals makes no sense
If your team opens ClickUp every morning, start with Goals. Move to a dedicated tool when team objectives have to roll up cleanly into company ones.
OKR tool pricing shifts often. Get the changes that matter to a startup
Mooncamp
Mooncamp does one thing: OKRs. No performance reviews, no engagement surveys, no projects. If you don't want a sprawling HR suite, that's a relief. The company is German and bills in euros.
It starts at €7 per user per month on annual billing. Watch the 5-user minimum: with three people you still pay for five, which is €420 a year. Professional, at €10, adds the goal tree, custom dashboards, and OKR rules enforced for everyone.
- Goal tree on Professional: see who contributes to what at a glance
- OKR rules (number of objectives, format) applied team-wide
- Pure OKR scope, nothing to switch off
- ✓Very few concepts to learn
- ✓Clear pricing
- ✓Nothing extra to configure
- ✗5-seat minimum, even at 3 people
- ✗Annual billing only, in euros
- ✗No native mobile app and limited dashboards, per reviews
A good pick from five people up if you want plain OKRs. Below that, Perdoo Free does more at no cost.
Notion
Plenty of startups run their first OKRs in Notion, and it's a sensible call. Two linked databases do the job: one for objectives, one for key results. A rollup averages the key results under each objective. You can set it up from a template in an hour, and everyone already knows where it lives.
The ceiling comes fast. A rollup can't read another rollup, so pushing team progress up to a company objective needs a formula workaround. And nothing reminds anyone to update their numbers.
- Free OKR templates you can adapt in an hour
- Goals, docs and meeting notes in one place
- Zero onboarding
- ✓$0 extra if you're already on Notion
- ✓Fully flexible: six-week cycles, scoring out of 1 or in percent
- ✓Scored 4.0 out of 5 in our full Notion review
- ✗No update reminders and no native progress history
- ✗Two-level roll-ups need a formula
- ✗When the database breaks, you're the one fixing it
The right starting point before your Series A. Keep it while fewer than ten people update OKRs, then move to Perdoo or Tability.
Weekdone
Weekdone pairs OKRs with a three-part weekly report: what you did, what you plan, what's blocking you. For two or three founders, that ritual can be worth more than the OKRs themselves, because it forces the Monday conversation.
The free plan covers 3 users with every feature. Beyond that, pricing depends on team size and only shows up in the vendor's calculator, so run your numbers before committing. Yearly billing is 20% cheaper than monthly.
- Weekly 'done, planned, blocked' report tied to OKRs
- Every feature on the free plan for 3
- Team TV view for the office wall
- ✓Fully free for a founding team
- ✓The weekly ritual is built in
- ✓20% off on yearly billing
- ✗Paid price not shown on the pricing page
- ✗Reviews call the interface slow and confusing at first
- ✗Free stops at 3, versus 5 at Perdoo
Ideal for two or three founders who mainly want a weekly rhythm. From the fourth person, compare its quote with Perdoo Premium.
What OKR software costs at 10 and 25 people
Here's the yearly cost on the first plan that covers the whole team, at official list prices, before tax. Two numbers decide everything at a startup: how many people are free, and the seat minimum.
At 10 people
Tability Basic: $720 a year. Perdoo Premium: €768. Mooncamp Essential: €840. ClickUp Core: $1,080, but that also covers project management. Notion Plus: $1,200, already paid if your team uses it. Weekdone: quoted by its calculator.
At 25 people
Tability Basic: $1,800. Perdoo Premium: €1,920. Mooncamp Essential: €2,100. ClickUp Core: $2,700. Notion Plus: $3,000. At this size the dedicated tools sit within a few hundred a year of each other, so choose on adoption, not price.
The minimum trap
Mooncamp bills 5 seats minimum. At three people, you pay €420 a year with two empty seats. Tability has no minimum and gives 2 read-only seats per paid user.
Pay only for writers
Only goal owners need a full license. At Perdoo, the 5 free seats often cover founders and team leads; on Supreme a viewer costs €1.50 a month instead of €8.
- Count the people who actually update OKRs, not total headcount
- Check the currency: euro pricing on a US card adds conversion fees
- Look at the seat minimum before the trial, not after
- Ask for quarterly billing if runway is tight (Perdoo offers it)
Run startup OKRs that survive past week six
No tool fixes a broken method. These five steps come from founders and OKR practitioners, and they apply whatever software you pick.
Before product-market fit, one objective
Pre-Series AWhile you're still finding what customers want, your plan changes every two weeks. Detailed OKRs freeze what should move. Set one company objective, two or three key results that measure learning (customer interviews, activation rate, 30-day retention), and a six-week cycle instead of a quarter.
- Cycle
- 6 weeks
- Objectives
- 1 company-wide
No individual OKRs before 20 people
At ten people, everyone already does three jobs. Per-person OKRs add paperwork and clarify nothing. Set company objectives, then team ones once you have two teams. Individual goals come with middle managers, usually after 20 to 30 people.
- Levels
- Company, then team
A key result measures an outcome, not a task
"Launch the new pricing page" is a task. "Lift trial-to-paid conversion from 4% to 7%" is a key result. If you can tick the box without the number moving, rewrite it. It's the mistake we see most in startup spreadsheets, long before tool choice matters.
Block 15 minutes on Monday
Most importantEach owner updates their number and says whether they're confident, yes or no. Fifteen minutes, no more. If that meeting holds for three months in a spreadsheet or Notion, the team is ready for a tool. If it doesn't, no software will hold it for you (Tability and Weekdone help, but they don't work miracles).
- Length
- 15 minutes
- Cadence
- Weekly
Switch tools when the spreadsheet breaks
Three signals say it's time: more than five people update numbers, two teams need to align goals, or you spend over an hour prepping the board update. At that point Perdoo Free or a 14-day Tability trial costs nothing to try. Then pipe your numbers in automatically, for example with the Perdoo and Zapier integration.
- Signal
- More than 5 people updating
Tools we didn't rank for startups
Most "OKR software for startups" lists still recommend tools that no longer fit, or no longer exist on their own.
Lattice and Leapsome: HR suites, not OKR tools
Too earlyBoth tie goals to performance reviews and engagement. Useful at 100 people with an HR team, heavy at 15. Lattice has a $4,000 yearly minimum. If you're there, our performance review software ranking fits better.
- Lattice
- $4,000 a year minimum
Viva Goals and Quantive: don't pick them now
Closed or absorbedMicrosoft shut Viva Goals down at the end of 2025 with no replacement. Quantive, formerly Gtmhub, was bought by WorkBoard and isn't sold on its own anymore. Several startup lists still put them near the top.
Asana: goals sit on the Advanced plan
Asana's goals connect nicely to projects, but they need Advanced, at $24.99 per user per month billed yearly. For 10 people that's close to $3,000 a year. If you're still choosing a project tool, see our project management software for startups.
- Advanced
- $24.99 per user per month
Where to go from here
These pages pick up where this one stops as your startup grows.
Your questions about startup OKRs
Is there free OKR software for startups?
Yes. Perdoo is free for up to 5 users with OKRs, KPIs and a strategy map, and Weekdone is free for up to 3 with every feature. Tip: only give licenses to people who update numbers. Everyone else can follow along in the Monday recap.
Do OKRs make sense for a team under 10?
Yes, if you keep them light: one company objective, two or three key results, a six-week cycle. What doesn't work at that size is individual OKRs and three-level cascades. Before product-market fit, measure what you learn rather than what you ship.
Do I need a dedicated tool, or is Notion enough?
Notion is enough while fewer than ten people update numbers. The limit is technical: a Notion rollup can't read another rollup, so rolling team goals into company goals needs a formula. And Notion nudges no one. When the Monday check-in gets skipped twice in a row, switch to a tool that sends reminders.
How many OKRs should a startup set per quarter?
One to three company objectives, each with two to four key results. The most common mistake early teams make is setting too many, because everything feels urgent. If an objective has no named owner, cut it.
What's the difference between OKRs and KPIs in these tools?
A KPI is tracked continuously, like MRR or churn. An OKR sets a change to reach within a period. Perdoo handles both on one screen, which saves a separate dashboard. A KPI that slips often becomes next quarter's key result.
What replaces Viva Goals for a small team?
Perdoo Free if you're five people or fewer, Tability if you want the regular nudges you had in Teams. Viva Goals closed at the end of 2025, and Microsoft offered Excel and API exports before shutdown. If you kept that export, it's your starting point for the first quarter in the new tool.
Can OKRs pull real numbers without manual entry?
Yes, through integrations. Perdoo connects to Zapier and Weekdone to Make, so a number from your CRM or analytics updates a key result on its own. Start with one automated key result, the one nobody remembers to update. Example: the Weekdone and Make integration.