The OKR Software Benchmark · 2026.Q3
The best OKR software for 25 employees in 2026
Real annual costs at 25 seats, computed from verified vendor pricing
Updated September 8, 2026 · 18 platforms priced · All company sizes · How we verify
Twenty-five people is where goal alignment stops being automatic. You now have teams, not just a team, and the founder can no longer keep everyone's priorities in their head. It is also the size where the free tiers you relied on run out — every major free plan in this market caps at 10 seats or fewer, so this is usually the first real OKR software purchase.
What every platform costs at 25 seats
Annual cost computed at 25 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 | Basis | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $470-588 | $1.57-1.96 | Listed | Flat monthly fees rather than per-seat pricing. No enterprise contract tier. | |
| $540-648 | $1.8-2.16 | Listed | Atlassian Marketplace app billed for the whole Jira instance, not just OKR users. Annual billing is 10x the monthly rate (2 months free). | |
| $930-2,700 | $3.1-9 | Listed | 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%. | |
| $1,800-3,000 | $6-10 | 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. | |
| $1,950-2,100 | $6.5-7 | Estimated | USD figures are third-party conversions of INR list pricing, US-facing tiers are quote-only. Enterprise (500+) is custom. | |
| $2,100-3,300 | $7-11 | 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. | |
| $2,400-2,700 | $8-9 | 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 | |
| $2,400-7,800 | $8-26 | Listed | $8/employee/month covers the Performance Management module with goals and OKRs, $26 is every module combined. Annual billing, demo-led sales. | |
| $2,430-3,480 | $8.1-12 | 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. | |
| $2,790-3,480 | $9.3-12 | 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 | |
| $3,300-4,800 | $11-16 | Listed | Perform tier ($11) is the cheapest plan with OKRs, Total Platform is $16. Annual billing only, add-ons priced separately. | |
| $3,300-9,000 | $11-30 | 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 | |
| $4,000minimum applied | $13 | Listed | Goals & OKRs module $8/seat/month, Foundations bundle $13. Annual billing only with a $4,000 annual minimum agreement. Full pricing breakdown | |
| $5,280-6,600 | $18-22 | Listed | Business at $22/user/month, ~$17.60 effective on annual billing (20% discount). Free plan exists with limited monthly AI credits. | |
| $5,700-8,700 | $19-29 | 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 | |
| $10,000minimum applied | $33 | 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. | |
| $28,205minimum applied | $94 | 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. | |
| $77,400 | $258 | Estimated | 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 |
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 25 employees
No minimums, no platform prerequisite, and the strongest check-in-to-reporting loop in this price range at $6-10 per user each month. The AI goal-writing assistant earns its keep at this size, where nobody has written OKRs before and the blank page is the biggest risk.
If you started on Perdoo's free plan at 5 users, upgrading in place beats migrating. EUR 8-10 per user with a strategy-map view that helps a newly-multi-team company see how goals connect.
Customizable, pleasant, and priced in the same band (EUR 7-10 per user, minimum 5 paid users). Pick it if your team cares about tailoring views and fields more than about built-in AI or deep reporting.
What changes at 25 employees
The free lunch ends here. Teamflect's free plan stops at 10 users, Perdoo's at 5, Weekdone's at 3. At 25 seats every option is a paid option, which makes this the size where per-seat price differences start to compound into real money.
Minimums start to distort the rankings. Lattice's $4,000 annual minimum means a 25-person team pays an effective $13+ per seat for an $8 module. Meanwhile flat-fee and Jira-bundled tools (okrstool, Oboard) get cheaper per head with every hire — worth understanding before you commit.
But here's what actually matters: at 25 people you are building the operating rhythm you will scale with. The pattern is consistent — teams that pick a tool for its weekly check-in habit still run OKRs a year later, teams that pick for feature checklists quietly stop after one quarter.
Seats versus headcount
Most 25-person companies still license everyone, and should. If budget is tight, note that some tools sell cheaper read-only access — Tability includes 2 free read-only seats with every paid seat, and Perdoo sells view-only licenses separately.
Frequently asked questions
How much does OKR software cost for 25 employees?
Across the 18 platforms with computable pricing at 25 seats, listed annual prices run from $470 to $7,800 per year, with a median around $2,400. Third-party estimates for vendors without public pricing reach $77,400. Every figure is computed from pricing verified against the vendor’s own pricing page.
What is the cheapest OKR software for 25 employees?
The cheapest paid option is OKRs Tool at $470-588 per year. Tability, the lowest-priced full-featured dedicated OKR platform, comes to $1,800-3,000 per year at full seats.
Is Lattice worth it for a 25-person company?
Only if HR is driving the purchase and you want performance reviews in the same system. Lattice's $4,000 annual minimum means a 25-person team pays well above its published $8/seat rate for the OKR module alone — dedicated OKR tools at this size cost roughly half that with no minimum.
When does a growing team outgrow spreadsheet OKRs?
Usually between 15 and 30 people — the point where more than one team needs to see everyone else's progress. The symptom is that your spreadsheet grew tabs, the tabs grew owners, and nobody trusts any of them to be current. Dedicated tooling at this size costs $2,000-3,500 a year, which is less than the cost of one quarterly planning meeting run on stale data.
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 25 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 startups.
Other company sizes: 10 employees · 50 employees · the full cost-by-size table