Professional-services platform comparison

Allocyn and Productive

Compare Productive and Allocyn for project work, staffing, time, and costs.

Reviewed 4 September 2026

Pricing and trial

Compare billing and trial terms.

Per employee or contractor, with a three-seat minimum. Essential starts at $9 per user per month on annual billing or $10 on monthly billing; Professional starts at $24 or $25 respectively. On Productive's English pricing page, Ultimate requires contacting Productive; localized offers may differ.

✓A 14-day trial is available and a card can be omitted until the trial ends.
✓Prices exclude taxes, optional services, usage charges, and temporary promotions unless the vendor states otherwise.

Feature comparison

Compare key capabilities.

These highlights are not exhaustive. Availability depends on the plan and configuration; use the linked sources to check specific requirements.

Review area	Productive	Allocyn
Current published emphasis	Professional-services platform Connected budgeting and profitability Capacity planning and resource bookings Projects, time, expenses, reporting, and AI in a broad agency operating suite	Connected project and resource planning Projects, milestones, requirements, work, dependencies, and blockers Resource requests, roles, skills, allocations, and capacity Time, timesheets, project budgets, profitability views, and reports Roles, permissions, change history, and reviewable AI explanations
Confirm before purchase	Verify current package scope, limits, implementation needs, and pricing in the linked provider sources.	Verify current Allocyn package scope, limits, migration needs, and pricing in the live catalog and proposed order.

Buyer fit

Choose the fit for your team.

Consider Productive

Choose Productive when a broad agency or professional-services operating suite, including invoicing and deeper financial workflows, is the priority.

Consider Allocyn

Consider Allocyn when the central need is a focused connection between project delivery, resource and capacity planning, requests, time, budgets, reporting, and practical AI insight.

Decision criteria

Decide how far the agency operating workflow should extend.

Map one client engagement from initial budget through staffing, delivery, recorded time, expenses, profitability review, and invoicing. Productive deserves closer consideration when the same platform must support that broader agency operating sequence. Allocyn should be tested when the unresolved problem is the connection between delivery work, dated resource demand, capacity, actual effort, budgets, reports, and reviewable AI explanations.

Separate required transactions from useful context before comparing packages. Record whether invoicing belongs in the selected system, which commercial records must migrate, who may see rates and margins, and whether a companion finance system remains authoritative. Then calculate the recurring price for the actual employee and contractor population, including Productive's three-seat minimum and the Allocyn package needed for the intended planning controls.

Agency operating boundary

Follow a real engagement through budget, staffing, time, expense, profitability, and invoice responsibilities. Identify which steps must occur in one product and which may remain in an existing finance process.

People and permissions

Use the employees and contractors who would be included in billing. Test access to project, staffing, rate, margin, report, and client information with representative roles.

Migration and reporting

List the budgets, time history, expense records, client details, reports, and open work that must remain usable. Confirm supported imports, exports, and reconciliation ownership.

Evaluate with real work

Run one client engagement through both operating models.

Choose work with an approved budget, two staffing changes, recorded time, an expense, a forecast review, and a client reporting need. Ask delivery, resource, and commercial owners to complete their normal review without inventing missing data. Compare where each product keeps the decision history, what still requires another system, and whether the selected package includes the demonstrated workflow.

✓Use the same client, dates, people, and commercial assumptions.
✓Include one staffing conflict and one budget change.
✓Restrict rates and profitability to the intended reviewers.
✓Price the full employee and contractor population.
✓Record every external handoff that remains after the trial.

Official sources

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Productive pricing

Productive billing information

Independent guide

About this comparison

Allocyn is not affiliated with or endorsed by Productive. Product names and trademarks belong to their owners. Features and prices may change; confirm the selected plan and terms before buying.