The OKR Software Benchmark · 2026.Q3
The best OKR software for 250 employees in 2026
Real annual costs at 250 seats, computed from verified vendor pricing
Updated September 8, 2026 · 18 platforms priced · All company sizes · How we verify
At 250 employees the OKR tooling decision picks up requirements that have nothing to do with OKRs — SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, a security questionnaire, and an IT team that will veto anything it has to manage manually. This is also where quote-only enterprise vendors enter the conversation, and where knowing the observed contract data keeps the negotiation honest.
What every platform costs at 250 seats
Annual cost computed at 250 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 | $0.41-0.52 | Yes | Listed | Flat monthly fees rather than per-seat pricing. No enterprise contract tier. | |
| $4,375-5,250 | $1.46-1.75 | 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). | |
| $9,300-27,000 | $3.1-9 | SAML only | 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%. | |
| $18,000-30,000before 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. | |
| $19,500-21,000 | $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. | |
| $21,000-33,000 | $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. | |
| $24,000-27,000 | $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 | |
| $24,000-39,000 | $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 | |
| $24,000-78,000 | $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. | |
| $24,300-34,800 | $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. | |
| $27,000-45,000 | $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. | |
| $27,900-34,800 | $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 | |
| $33,000-48,000 | $11-16 | Yes | Listed | Perform tier ($11) is the cheapest plan with OKRs, Total Platform is $16. Annual billing only, add-ons priced separately. | |
| $33,000-90,000 | $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 | |
| $45,000-90,000 | $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. | |
| $52,800-66,000 | $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. | |
| $57,000-87,000 | $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 |
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 250 employees
SAML SSO and SCIM provisioning are documented capabilities, the reporting handles multi-team roll-ups, and the per-seat price stays $6-10 with no enterprise repricing cliff. For a 250-person company that wants outcome tracking without an enterprise sales cycle, it is the shortest path — and the free read-only seats cover the company-wide visibility problem.
Mooncamp's Enterprise tier is built for 100+ users, and its flexible data model suits organizations that want OKRs shaped to their own vocabulary. EUR pricing keeps it in the affordable band, though SAML can be a paid add-on below the top tier.
At 250 seats Lattice's $4,000 minimum stops mattering and its HRIS integrations start doing real work. If goals must live next to performance reviews in a system HR already runs, it wins our HRIS category for a reason.
What changes at 250 employees
SAML SSO and SCIM stop being nice-to-haves. At 250 people, onboarding and offboarding by hand is a real security gap, and IT will require identity provider integration before approving the purchase. Check whether SSO is included or a paid add-on — several mid-market tools gate SAML behind their top tier, which quietly raises the real per-seat price.
Quote-only vendors become genuine options rather than absurdities. Profit.co and WorkBoard sell at this size through sales conversations, and observed contract data — not list prices — is the only way to compare them against per-seat tools. Walk in knowing the market median and the per-seat alternative's total, and the quote gets better.
Roll-up structure starts to matter more than check-in mechanics. With 10-20 teams, the question is whether the tool can mirror your org structure, cascade context down, and roll progress up without an analyst maintaining it. This is where thin tools plateau.
Seats versus headcount
Very few 250-person companies license all 250. The common pattern is seats for everyone who writes or owns goals — usually 100-180 people — plus read-only visibility for the rest. That distinction moves the annual bill by tens of thousands of dollars, so pin down each vendor's viewer policy before comparing quotes. Figures on this page assume the full 250 seats, so treat them as the ceiling.
Frequently asked questions
How much does OKR software cost for 250 employees?
Across the 17 platforms with computable pricing at 250 seats, listed annual prices run from $1,238 to $78,000 per year, with a median around $24,000. Third-party estimates for vendors without public pricing reach $90,000. Every figure is computed from pricing verified against the vendor’s own pricing page.
What is the cheapest OKR software for 250 employees?
The cheapest paid option is OKRs Tool at $1,238-1,548 per year. Tability, the lowest-priced full-featured dedicated OKR platform, comes to $18,000-30,000 per year at full seats at list price — volume discounts apply beyond 100 seats.
Do we need SAML SSO in our OKR software at 250 employees?
Yes, treat it as a hard requirement. At 250 people, manual account management is how offboarded employees keep access to company goal data. Confirm both SAML SSO and SCIM provisioning are available on the tier you are quoted — vendors that gate SSO behind a higher tier are effectively charging more per seat than their published price.
Should a 250-person company talk to quote-only OKR vendors?
Take the calls, but anchor on data. Quote-only OKR platforms run an estimated $15-30 per user each month — $45k-90k at 250 seats — and observed contracts run from around $28k to over $200k a year with a median near $60k. Per-seat tools with published pricing land at $18k-40k for the same 250 seats. The premium buys implementation services — decide if you need them.
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 250 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 mid-market.
Other company sizes: 100 employees · 500 employees · the full cost-by-size table