Which software should you use to <em>run a project portfolio</em>, and on which plan?

Celoxis is the only dedicated PPM in this ranking that publishes its prices, and that's one reason for its score, the highest in this ranking. You know your bill before you talk to sales: $10 per full user on Core, up to $45 on Business, billed yearly. Monthly billing is available, and nonprofits get a discount.

More importantly, portfolios aren't locked in the top tier. Portfolio views, roll-up dashboards, resource capacity and workload are on every plan. Resource conflict detection arrives on Essentials, expense and project cost tracking on Professional, along with intake requests and risk management. Strategic portfolio, which ties projects to goals, is on Business and Enterprise.

The catch is the minimum: 5 full users. A team with two project managers still starts at $50 a month on Core. The workaround: Celoxis sells cheaper roles. From Essentials, team members who update their own work cost $18 to $29, timesheet-only users $12 to $14, and each plan includes read-only users (2, 5, 10 or 15 depending on plan). Only buy full seats for actual project managers.

Planview Portfolios (formerly Enterprise One) is the enterprise benchmark. Its Rank view orders investments by weighted criteria you define. Scenario analysis shows how a decision shifts priorities, staffing and timelines. Capacity planning sets resource targets over time and shows where you're short. An AI assistant, Planview Anvi, generates scenarios for you.

Planview has also bought several vendors in the space: Clarizen (now AdaptiveWork), Innotas (PPM Pro) and, in 2025, Sciforma, whose Vantage product is now called ProjectAdvantage. If you were shortlisting Sciforma, you're now talking to Planview.

Customers praise the what-if scenarios, the central portfolio view and resource management. They complain about a dated, spreadsheet-like interface, too many clicks, hard HR system integration, slowdowns as the database grows, and a high price. It's too heavy for project managers who log in once a month: budget for training and an admin.

Triskell is a Madrid-based vendor with an interface in English, French, German and Spanish. It handles strategic portfolios, projects, agile work and IT portfolios in one tool, and supports every delivery method: Waterfall, Agile, Phase-Gate and SAFe.

For decision-making, it offers what-if scenarios, OKRs and a balanced scorecard to tie projects to strategy, capacity planning against demand, and lean budgets with cost management. The vendor states ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certification and lists customers such as Eramet, Sodexo, Adisseo and Système U.

The limit: no public price, like every enterprise PPM. It's also less known in North America than Planview or Clarity, which matters when leadership wants a familiar name. Customer reviews are among the best in the category.

Planisware is a French vendor headquartered in Paris with two products. Orchestra is pitched as a turnkey PPM for PMOs: you start with processes already configured. Enterprise targets large organizations: budgets, forecasts, schedules, resources and actuals, at scale.

Both cover what you expect from a PPM: initiative scoring and prioritization, resource availability and skills, scenario modeling. Valoris adds capital expenditure (CAPEX) management, useful when projects are also judged on capitalized spend.

The limit is the same as other enterprise suites: no public price, a demo before any number, and a rollout project to plan for. If your only question is which project to start next quarter, it's more than you need.

monday.com is the tool your teams adopt fastest: color-coded boards, statuses you read at a glance, templates for every function. That matters in portfolio management, because a PPM is only accurate if project managers keep it updated.

The problem is the plan. Portfolio management and resource management are Enterprise only, on a quote. Basic, Standard and Pro ($9 to $19 per seat) don't have them: there you manage projects, not a portfolio. Monthly billing gets no discount, and there's a 3-seat minimum.

Even on Enterprise, portfolio specialists raise the same points: no native model to score and rank projects, a "plan of plans" view that's hard to build, and limited capacity insight across the whole portfolio. You'll end up building scoring with columns and formulas.

Asana is the only major work management tool that opens portfolios below its quote-only tier. On Advanced, at $24.99 per user per month billed yearly, you get portfolios, goals linked to projects, and resource management inside a portfolio. For a 20-person team that's $499.80 a month, a number you can work out on your own.

Two features sit higher. Organization-wide capacity planning is Enterprise. Budgets need the Timesheets and Budgets add-on, which has no published price: ask before you sign if you track costs.

On Asana's official forum, customers reported that the portfolio Workload view didn't keep up when Asana raised the maximum number of projects per portfolio to 500. Others are asking for API access to workload and capacity data so they can use it elsewhere. If your portfolio is very large, check both during the trial.

Smartsheet looks like a spreadsheet, which is why finance teams and PMOs that lived in Excel adopt it. Business already gives you workload tracking and Timeline, at $19 per member per month billed yearly.

Portfolios come later. Portfolios and Scenario Planning are on Enterprise, quote only, from 10 members. Control Center, which rolls out standardized projects in bulk and consolidates them, is part of Advanced Work Management, also quote only, alongside Dynamic View and Data Shuttle. Resource Management is a separate add-on with no published price.

Field feedback is mostly about the bill. On the official community, one customer describes going from under $1,000 to over $2,500 after a licensing change. Another finds Control Center's cost hard to justify to leadership. Get every add-on priced before you choose a plan.

Clarity, formerly CA PPM and now part of Broadcom, covers portfolios, capacity, scenarios and financials. It targets companies with 50+ employees, and in practice large organizations that judge their portfolio on budget as much as delivery.

Its strength is financial depth. Its weakness is the cost of running it. Customers describe heavy administration, integration partners often required, regressions after some updates, and executive reports that need to be built for you. You're not just buying a license, you're buying a project.

No price is published. Ask for a quote that separates license, implementation and ongoing administration, or you'll be comparing numbers that don't match.

Microsoft Planner is now Microsoft's front door for project management, all the more since Project Online shut down in 2026. Planner Premium brings portfolios, baselines, dependencies and Gantt charts.

It lacks the core of an enterprise PPM: no enterprise resource management (the resource pool from Project Server and Project Online) and no project financials. If you managed capacity in Project Online, Planner won't pick it up.

Pricing: Plan 1 is $10, Plan 3 $30, Plan 5 $55 per user per month billed yearly, and Plan 5 is reaching end of sale. Check what your Microsoft agreement already includes before buying new seats.

Wrike is one of the most complete work management tools: spaces, folders, Gantt, dependencies, request forms that spin up projects, automations. As a portfolio foundation, it's solid.

But the features that turn it into a decision tool sit at the top. Advanced resource and capacity planning, by role and over time, and budgets start at Pinnacle, quote only. Team ($10) and Business ($25) don't have them. And Wrike's pricing page names no portfolio module as such.

Its 3.4 in our full review mostly comes from a steep learning curve and support. One tip: seats are sold in bundles and viewers are free. Count your real contributors before you ask for a Pinnacle quote.