Consider Runn
Choose Runn when a dedicated strategic resource-planning product is the main requirement.
Dedicated resource planning comparison
Allocyn and Runn
Compare Runn and Allocyn for project work, staffing, time, and costs.
Reviewed 4 September 2026
Compare billing and trial terms.
Per managed resource rather than per login user. Plans start at 20 resource seats: Lite is $7 per resource per month, Standard is $11, and Advanced is custom priced.
- ✓A 30-day Standard 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 | Runn | 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 resourcing should connect directly with project execution, resource requests, time, budgets, and reporting.
Test strategic resource planning against connected execution.
Use a planning horizon that contains confirmed assignments, tentative demand, leave, skill requirements, and at least one capacity shortfall. Runn should be examined for the depth of its dedicated resource, utilization, placeholder, and scenario workflow. Allocyn should be examined for how the same staffing evidence remains connected to project work, requests, actual time, budget context, and management reporting.
Runn charges for managed resources rather than login users, so model the people who appear in the plan, including anyone represented only for scheduling purposes. Compare that total and the 20-resource starting point with the Allocyn active-member definition and required package. Also identify who maintains project execution, which history must be imported, and how planned-versus-actual evidence will be reconciled.
Planning horizon
Load representative roles, skills, placeholders, assignments, leave, and forecast demand across a period long enough to expose a real constraint.
Execution connection
Trace a staffing change into project work, time, budget, and reporting. Record whether that connection is native, integrated, exported, or maintained manually.
Managed-resource count
Count every person represented in the schedule and apply the relevant Runn tier. Compare the same operating population and permissions in Allocyn.
Resolve one future capacity gap in each product.
Select a real role shortage involving several projects and a tentative item of work. Build a baseline, test a changed start date or assignment, and preserve the reason for the preferred scenario. Ask the resource owner and project owner to verify capacity, skills, planned-versus-actual context, and the resulting delivery decision before reviewing package limits and exports.
- ✓Include placeholders and confirmed people.
- ✓Use dated demand rather than a single utilization total.
- ✓Compare scenario history and approval responsibility.
- ✓Verify how actual time and budgets enter the review.
- ✓Price all managed resources in the intended horizon.
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