Consider Resource Guru
Choose Resource Guru when straightforward scheduling of people and non-human resources is the priority.
Dedicated resource planning comparison
Allocyn and Resource Guru
Compare Resource Guru and Allocyn for project work, staffing, time, and costs.
Reviewed 4 September 2026
Compare billing and trial terms.
Per person added, plus chargeable non-human resources and placeholders above the allowance. Grasshopper starts at $5 per person per month annually or $6 monthly; Blackbelt is $8 or $9.60, and Master is $12 or $14.40.
- ✓A fully featured 30-day trial is available without a card.
- ✓Prices exclude taxes, optional services, usage charges, and temporary promotions unless the vendor states otherwise.
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 | Resource Guru | Allocyn |
|---|---|---|
| Current published emphasis | Dedicated resource planning
| Connected project and resource planning
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| 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. |
Choose the fit for your team.
Consider Allocyn
Consider Allocyn when the organization wants a broader project, capacity, time, financial, and AI workflow.
Decide whether the schedule must include rooms, equipment, or vehicles.
Inventory the resources that must be booked before comparing the products. Resource Guru warrants particular attention when rooms, vehicles, equipment, and people share the scheduling problem. Allocyn should be evaluated when the decision begins with project demand and people capacity, then continues through work, time, budgets, reports, and reviewable AI guidance.
Create a billing model that includes each person plus any chargeable non-human resource and placeholders beyond the selected allowance. Confirm whether timesheets, rates, budgets, or reporting require Blackbelt or Master, and compare that result with the Allocyn package required for the project-delivery workflow. Keep asset booking, resource requests, permissions, history, imports, and exports as explicit scope boundaries.
Resource inventory
List people separately from rooms, vehicles, equipment, and placeholders. Mark which items must prevent double booking and which are only planning references.
Package boundary
Identify every need for timesheets, rates, budgets, and reports, then verify the Resource Guru plan that supplies it.
Project context
Trace a booking conflict back to project demand, required skills, delivery dates, cost, and the responsible decision-maker.
Resolve a mixed people-and-equipment booking conflict.
Use a project that needs a qualified person and a constrained room, vehicle, or piece of equipment during the same period. Test availability, leave, dependencies, a moved booking, time capture, and the resulting budget or report. If non-human scheduling is outside the Allocyn need, record that difference directly instead of treating unlike scope as a missing feature.
- ✓Include one chargeable non-human resource.
- ✓Test a placeholder above the selected allowance.
- ✓Verify the tier needed for time and budget evidence.
- ✓Check how project demand explains each booking.
- ✓Price every person and additional resource represented.
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