The OKR Software Benchmark · 2026.Q3
The best OKR software for 1,000 employees in 2026
Real annual costs at 1,000 seats, computed from verified vendor pricing
Updated September 8, 2026 · 18 platforms priced · All company sizes · How we verify
At 1,000 employees, OKR software is a six-figure decision — or a five-figure one, depending on a choice most buyers never realize they are making. Almost nobody licenses 1,000 full seats, the tools worth shortlisting discount at volume, and the quote-only enterprise platforms that look affordable in contract databases run an estimated $15-30 per user — their observed contracts just cover far fewer seats than the headcount suggests. This page puts all of it side by side.
What every platform costs at 1,000 seats
Annual cost computed at 1,000 paid seats from each vendor's verified pricing — list rates, minimums, and free-tier ceilings included. Vendors that sell only by quote are shown at labeled third-party per-seat estimates, with observed contract data in the notes. All figures are list-price ceilings — vendors that negotiate volume discounts land below them.
| Platform | Annual cost | Per seat/mo | SAML + SCIM | Basis | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1,238-1,548 | $0.1-0.13 | Yes | Listedno enterprise plan | Flat monthly fees rather than per-seat pricing. No enterprise contract tier. | |
| $8,000-9,600 | $0.67-0.8 | Not documented | Listed | Atlassian Marketplace app billed for the whole Jira instance, not just OKR users. Annual billing is 10x the monthly rate (2 months free). | |
| $72,000-120,000before volume discounts | $6-10 | Yes | Listed | Basic $6 and Premium $10 per user/month on annual billing, no seat or spend minimums. Every paid seat includes 2 free read-only seats, and volume discounts apply beyond 100 seats — list totals at larger sizes are ceilings. | |
| $78,000-84,000 | $6.5-7 | Not documented | Estimated | USD figures are third-party conversions of INR list pricing, US-facing tiers are quote-only. Enterprise (500+) is custom. | |
| $84,000-132,000 | $7-11 | Not documented | Listed | Microsoft Teams-native. Free for up to 10 users with no time limit, then Essential $7 and Professional $11 per user/month on annual billing. | |
| $96,000-108,000 | $8-9 | SAML only | Listed | Performance $8 and Performance + Talent Intelligence $9 per user/month. The vendor recommends the product for organizations over 500 employees, and implementation is a separate one-time cost. Full pricing breakdown | |
| $96,000-156,000 | $8-13 | Yes | Listed | Goals & OKRs module $8/seat/month, Foundations bundle $13. Annual billing only with a $4,000 annual minimum agreement. Full pricing breakdown | |
| $96,000-312,000 | $8-26 | SAML only | Listed | $8/employee/month covers the Performance Management module with goals and OKRs, $26 is every module combined. Annual billing, demo-led sales. | |
| $97,200-139,200 | $8.1-12 | Yes | Listed | EUR list prices (EUR 7-10/user/month, annual billing only) converted at ~1.16 USD/EUR. Minimum 5 paid users, Enterprise requires 100+ users. | |
| $108,000-180,000 | $9-15 | Yes | Estimated | Pricing is no longer public — per-seat estimates run $9-15/user/month, anchored on the formerly published $7-9 Growth plan. Third-party transaction data suggests typical annual contracts of $10k-17k, which sets the floor shown here. | |
| $111,600-139,200 | $9.3-12 | Yes | Listed | EUR list prices (EUR 8-10/user/month, annual billing) converted at ~1.16 USD/EUR. Free up to 5 users, minimum 5 paid licenses after that. Full pricing breakdown | |
| $132,000-192,000 | $11-16 | Yes | Listed | Perform tier ($11) is the cheapest plan with OKRs, Total Platform is $16. Annual billing only, add-ons priced separately. | |
| $132,000-360,000 | $11-30 | Yes | Estimated | Quote-based modular pricing. Third-party sources put typical all-in cost at $11-20/user/month, with full multi-module stacks reaching $30+. Minimum 1-year contract. Full pricing breakdown | |
| $180,000-360,000 | $15-30 | Yes | Estimated | No public pricing, enterprise-only sales motion — per-seat estimates run $15-30/user/month. Vendr procurement data shows observed contracts of $28,205-$206,502/year (median $60,100) for the seat counts those customers licensed, and the lowest observed contract sets the floor shown here. | |
| $211,200-264,000 | $18-22 | Yes | Listed | Business at $22/user/month, ~$17.60 effective on annual billing (20% discount). Free plan exists with limited monthly AI credits. | |
| $228,000-348,000 | $19-29 | SAML only | Estimated | Paid tiers are contact-sales. Third-party estimates put per-seat cost at $19-29/user/month depending on volume, with a typical ~$25,000/year outlay reported for a 50-user team. Full pricing breakdown | |
| Quote only | — | SAML only | Quote at this size | Larger tiers are quote-based through Atlassian, with per-seat rates that decline at volume. Sold via the Atlassian Strategy Collection, where the 1-50 user tier is $77,400/year. Requires Jira Cloud Premium underneath. Annual contracts only. Full pricing breakdown | |
| Quote only | — | SAML only | Quote at this sizeno enterprise plan | Contact sales at 500+. Sold as fixed user packages with a declining per-seat scale, from $9/user/month at 7-15 users down to ~$3.10 at 850. Annual billing saves 20%. |
Listed = the vendor's own published price. Estimated = third-party estimate where the vendor publishes nothing. Quote = sales-led with observed contract data where available. Each vendor's price carries a last-verified date on the pricing comparison, sourced from the vendor's own pricing page.
Our picks for 1,000 employees
The leanest way to run OKRs at 1,000 employees — enterprise identity and hosting requirements are covered, published pricing makes the ceiling visible upfront, volume discounts beyond 100 seats pull real quotes below it, and free read-only seats mean you license the few hundred people who write goals rather than the full thousand. No implementation army required.
If you want a vendor to run the rollout — facilitation, training, and a results-management operating cadence — WorkBoard is the established enterprise play, now consolidated with Quantive. Quote-only, with observed contracts from $28k to over $200k, so negotiate against the median.
Enterprise-grade goal management with published list pricing and deep HRIS integration. A rational pick when the OKR program reports into HR and 500+ is the vendor's own stated sweet spot.
What changes at 1,000 employees
Negotiated pricing undercuts list math on every side at this size. Per-seat tools discount at volume, enterprise platforms price each deal individually, and the observed contracts that make quote-only vendors look affordable cover a few hundred licensed owners, not a thousand employees. The honest comparison is your realistic goal-owner count priced through each vendor's actual motion — not list rate times 1,000.
Consolidation risk is now part of the evaluation. This market has seen real turbulence — Quantive was acquired by WorkBoard in 2025, and Microsoft retired Viva Goals entirely. At a 1,000-person deployment, migrating goal history and retraining the company because your vendor disappeared is a genuine cost. Check the shutdowns tracker before shortlisting.
Governance features earn their keep — audit logs, access restrictions, data residency, and admin controls move from checkbox to requirement. So does the API, because at this size OKR data feeds business reviews, BI dashboards, and planning tools rather than living in one app.
Seats versus headcount
Almost nobody licenses 1,000 full seats. Mature OKR programs at this size typically license 300-500 goal owners and contributors, with read-only visibility for everyone else. The list-price figures on this page assume all 1,000 seats precisely so you can see the ceiling — your negotiated reality should land well under it.
Frequently asked questions
How much does OKR software cost for 1,000 employees?
Across the 16 platforms with computable pricing at 1,000 seats, listed annual prices run from $8,000 to $312,000 per year, with a median around $96,000. Third-party estimates for vendors without public pricing reach $360,000. Every figure is computed from pricing verified against the vendor’s own pricing page.
What is the cheapest OKR software for 1,000 employees?
The cheapest paid option is Oboard at $8,000-9,600 per year. Tability, the lowest-priced full-featured dedicated OKR platform, comes to $72,000-120,000 per year at full seats at list price — volume discounts apply beyond 100 seats.
What is a realistic budget for OKR software at 1,000 employees?
Plan around your true seat count, not headcount. At 300-500 active goal owners, per-seat tools with published pricing land at $22k-60k a year before volume discounts. Quote-only enterprise platforms run an estimated $15-30 per user each month — their observed contracts cluster around a $60k median, services included, for the seat counts those customers licensed. If a proposal is far outside those bands, ask what specifically you are paying for.
Enterprise OKR platform or a leaner per-seat tool at this size — how do we decide?
Decide how much of the change management you want to buy versus run yourself. Enterprise platforms bundle facilitation and rollout services into the contract. Leaner tools assume an internal program owner and cost a fraction as much. Companies with a functioning operating cadence usually do better with the lean option — the services mostly replace a program owner they already have.
Recent changes to this page
- Sep 8, 2026 — Cost-model corrections on the new team-size pages, same day as launch. Quote-only vendors are now seat-scaled from labeled per-seat estimates instead of showing flat observed-contract ranges at every size — the flat ranges made WorkBoard and Profit.co look like the cheapest options at 1,000+ seats, when the observed totals simply reflect the smaller seat counts those customers licensed. WorkBoard now computes at est. $15-30/user/month (ITQlick range, floored at the $28,205 lowest observed Vendr contract) and Profit.co at est. $9-15/user/month (anchored on its formerly published Growth plan, floored at the $10k typical-contract low). Observed contract data stays visible in the notes as the negotiation anchor. Separately, Tability's record now states that volume discounts apply beyond 100 seats (rates negotiated, not published) — its computed figures above 100 seats are flagged as list-price ceilings on every cost page.
- Sep 8, 2026 — New cost-by-company-size section: a hub at /cost plus 9 team-size pages (10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 1,000, 2,500, and 5,000+ employees) that compute every active platform's annual cost at that seat count from the verified pricing data. Each vendor's pricing structure is now encoded as a computable model (per-seat rates, volume tiers, flat fees, free-tier ceilings, annual minimums) in a new cost-models file that reuses the same sources and last-verified dates as the platform records. Quote-only vendors (WorkBoard, Profit.co) are never seat-scaled — their observed procurement contract ranges are shown instead, labeled as such, and Jira Align and Oboard figures beyond their corroborated tiers now show as quote-based rather than extrapolated. Vendors without an enterprise plan stay visible in the tables at 500+ seats but are excluded from cheapest-option stats there. The 5,000+ page mirrors the existing enterprise verdict: WorkBoard first, Tability the leaner runner-up. No prices, ratings, or verification dates changed.
The bottom line: Tability is our pick for 1,000 employees, with the costs above computed from verified pricing rather than vendor marketing. For the capability-weighted view of this segment, see best okr software for enterprise.
Other company sizes: 500 employees · 2,500 employees · the full cost-by-size table