Ganttic vs Float comparison: where the two pull apart
What a mixed fleet costs
Headline per-seat prices look reasonable until you add anything that is not a person.
Take a building services contractor with 50 staff and 20 service vans. On Float Pro, five of those vans fit the included placeholder allowance and the other fifteen become paid seats, so you are billing 65 seats at $12. That is $780 a month, or $9,360 a year. The same pool in Ganttic sits in PRO 150 at $149 a month, or $1,490 a year.
Starter at $7 would cost less, but it has no time tracking and no SSO, which are usually the reasons a team looked at Float in the first place.
The gap follows from the architecture. Ganttic prices capacity, so a van costs what a van is worth to plan with rather than what a salaried engineer costs. We wrote more on how these models shape behavior in resource-based versus user-based pricing.
There is a quieter version of the same problem. When equipment is expensive to add, teams leave it off the schedule and track it somewhere else. The plan looks clean and stays wrong, because the constraint that actually delays jobs was never on it.
Custom data and filtering: where Ganttic’s depth shows
You can attach unlimited Custom Data Fields across nine field types to resources, tasks, and projects, then filter the planner by any of them. Certifications and their expiry dates. License classes. Service intervals. Depot locations. Lifting capacity.
For a capacity planning question like which certified operators and rated machines are both free in the northern region next week, that filter is the entire job. Describing a van properly takes different fields than describing a designer, which is only possible when assets are real resources rather than seats borrowed from your headcount.
None of it is mandatory. Plenty of accounts run with no custom data at all, as a plain drag-and-drop board. The depth is there when the work needs it.
Every feature on every paid plan
Ganttic does not tier its functionality. Custom Data Fields, reports, utilization tracking, the API, and SSO across Google, Microsoft Entra ID, OneLogin, or any SAML 2.0 provider are included wherever you land. Your plan size sets your capacity and nothing else. Published packages run to 1,500 resources, with custom quotes above that, and accounts of 10 resources or fewer stay free.
Float splits its features across Starter and Pro. Time tracking, estimates versus actuals, saved views, the 180-day audit log, and SSO all sit on Pro, and there is no free tier. Ganttic has no built-in time tracking; teams that need it connect a dedicated tool through the API.
The scheduling call stays with your planners
The constraints that decide a real schedule are often unwritten. One operator is better on night shifts. A client will not accept a particular crew lead. A machine needs a half-day buffer after a long haul.
Ganttic surfaces the conflicts, the gaps, and the utilization numbers clearly, then leaves the decision to whoever knows those details.
Float takes the other route, with AI-assisted staffing suggestions and an MCP integration. If you want software proposing assignments, that is the difference.
Support
Ganttic includes unlimited support on every plan and free support demos during and after your trial, with a person on the other end rather than a bot. Teams moving off a shared spreadsheet usually need a session or two to get their resource structure right, and we would rather give those away than watch an implementation stall.
Float offers AI chat with human support on weekdays. Priority support and personalized onboarding come with Enterprise.
The best fit depends on what you need
If every resource you schedule is a person and your main job is reconciling logged hours against estimates, Float covers that loop and Ganttic does not.
For the companies we talk to, the decision turns elsewhere.
Equipment that carries real weight in the plan is the clearest case for Ganttic. A van, a crane, and a project manager are the same kind of object at the same price, on every plan including the free one. Nothing gets left off the timeline because adding it would cost a seat.
Then there is detail on the assets themselves. Unlimited custom fields across nine types mean a machine carries its service history, its rated capacity, and its depot, and your schedule can be filtered by any of it. For construction, engineering, and field service work, that detail is the planning problem.
And there is scope that keeps moving. Run Ganttic as a plain drag-and-drop board in week one, then grow it into a full resource management database as your needs sharpen. Every feature is on every paid plan. Your price changes when your capacity changes, and not before.
Want to find out more about how Ganttic stands out among the other resource planners? Take a read:
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FAQ
Three things separate them. First, what you can schedule: Ganttic plans staff, vehicles, machinery, rooms, and equipment as one kind of resource at one price, while Float’s resource types are employee, contractor, and placeholder, so anything on the schedule takes a person seat. Second, pricing: Ganttic charges for the size of your resource pool with unlimited free users, and Float charges per scheduled person, so the bill grows with every asset you add. Third, access: Ganttic includes every feature on every paid plan and stays free for 10 resources or fewer, while Float splits time tracking, saved views, and SSO onto its Pro plan and has no free tier.
Exactly the same as people. A van and a project manager each count as one resource, and there is no separate module, add-on, or second rate card for assets. This applies on every plan, including the free one, so you can put your full fleet on the timeline without a pricing decision attached to it.
Yes. You can create unlimited Data Fields across nine field types and attach them to resources, tasks, and projects, then filter the planner by any combination of them. Teams use them for certifications and expiry dates, license classes, service intervals, depot locations, and rated capacity. You can also skip all of it and run Ganttic as a plain drag-and-drop board.
Accounts with 10 resources or fewer can use Ganttic for free, permanently, with every feature except API access and unlimited free users throughout. Above that, PRO plans start at $25 a month for 20 resources, and the 14-day trial unlocks everything with no credit card.