Platform review · The OKR Software Benchmark
Range
Async team check-ins with lightweight goals
Verdict
Range is a team coordination tool built around async check-ins, meetings, and mood sharing, with a lightweight goals feature attached. Priced from free, with paid plans from $8 per user/month. It ranks #20 of 20 overall. Tested hands-on on September 13, 2026.
Choose Range if
You want a clean tool for async team check-ins, mood, and meetings, with lightweight goals attached — and you're not running a real OKR program.Skip Range if
You need actual OKRs — baselines, key results, progress charts, data connectors, or AI. Range's goal model can't express "from 40 to 60".Our score weights OKR-specific capability — third-party scores like G2's cover the whole product. How we rate
At a glance
| Price from | Free |
| Full-featured tier | $8 /user/mo |
| Free tier | Yes |
| Trial | 14 days |
| Documented connections (six assessed) | 3/6 |
| Native AI features | No |
| MCP server | Not verified |
| Public API | No |
| Overall rank | #20 of 20 |
| Hands-on test | September 13, 2026 |
If Range isn't right
| Alternative | Pick it instead if | Trade-off | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| TabilitySerious OKR tracking | You want real key results with baselines, charts, AI, and check-ins that stay connected to the goals. | No free tier — trial only | $6 |
| TeamflectFree tier, real OKRs | You want a generous free tier (10 users) with a proper OKR model, and you live in Microsoft Teams. | Built Teams-first — weaker outside Microsoft 365 | Free |
| MooncampSame clean feel, real OKRs | You want an interface this clean with an actual OKR model behind it. | No free tier and annual billing only | $8.1 |
Overall scores share published weights. Recorded evaluations are exploratory; see the protocol.
AI capabilities were reviewed separately from the unchanged platform-level ratings. Read the AI-category scores, sources, restrictions and gaps. Unknown capabilities are labeled Not verified.
Key integrations
Range has documented connections for Slack, Jira and Microsoft Teams among the six connections this benchmark assesses in depth.
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Where Range ranks
| Category | What it measures | Position |
|---|---|---|
| Best OKR software overall | features, reporting, ease of use | #20 of 20 |
Positions are computed from each category's published criteria weights — including the ones Range loses.
Hands-on findings
Evaluated by Sten Pittet, Co-founder and CEO, Tability. Evaluator employed by a competing vendor, Tability.
One exploratory session of roughly ten minutes on a Pro trial workspace, ended early once the goal model made the shared OKR scenario impractical. This is not a reliability, security, support-quality, or long-term adoption study, and Range's core check-in and meeting workflows were only briefly explored. Capabilities not found in the session may exist in other plans or workflows.
Shared fictional sales-pipeline scenario, Q3 2026. This session ended early — about ten minutes in — once the goal model made the OKR scenario impractical to complete. The tasks attempted and the limitations are recorded below.
Range makes a great first impression. The UI is genuinely clean — up there with Tability and Mooncamp, the best-designed tools I have tested — and finding the goals section took seconds. Then I tried to enter my OKRs, and the evaluation was effectively over in ten minutes.
The goal model can't say "from 40 to 60"
Range's goals don't follow the OKR model. A goal is a title, a hashtag, and an owner — no key results, and no metric at creation. Sub-goals stand in for key results, and the metric only appears when you share a status update, which is where I finally found a current value and a target. But every metric starts at zero: I wanted qualified demos to go from 40 to 60, and the closest Range can express is 0 to 60, or reframing the goal as "a 20 increase". There is no baseline. Dates are added manually after creation, there is no progress chart on a goal, and I found no way to comment on an update once it was shared.
What Range is actually for
None of this makes Range a bad product — it makes it a different product. The team pages are about mood trends, kudos, celebration flags, and meeting coordination. Check-ins are the center of gravity, and the 75+ integrations attach work items from your other tools to those check-ins rather than feeding goal metrics. If you want a lightweight weekly rhythm for a team — what everyone did, how everyone is feeling — Range looks well built for exactly that.
Range is not the platform for teams that are serious about OKRs. I found no way to set a baseline, no progress charts, no data connectors, and no AI. Teams that want the weekly-rhythm experience with real goal tracking underneath should look at the OKR-native side of this benchmark — Tability pairs the check-in habit with actual key results, baselines, and charts, and Mooncamp offers a similarly clean interface with a real OKR model. Range earns a place for team coordination; for OKRs, look up the list.
Finding by finding
Goal model
Range's goals don't follow the OKR model — no key results, and no metric at creation.
- Creating a goal asks for a title, a hashtag tag, and an owner — nothing measurable.
- Sub-goals stand in for key results, and privacy is the only advanced setting at creation.
- The metric appears only when you share a status update, which is a counterintuitive place to define what a goal measures.
Metrics
Every metric starts at zero — we could not express "from 40 to 60".
- The metric editor takes a current value and a target, with no starting point, so our 40-to-60 key result became 0 of 60.
- The alternative is reframing the goal as "a 20 increase", which loses the baseline.
- Start and target dates are added manually after the goal exists.
Tracking
Updates record a value, a status, and a note — but there's no progress chart and no way to comment on an update.
- Our update took 48 of 60 with an At Risk status set manually and the scripted note.
- There is no progress chart on a goal, so trends are invisible.
- We found no way to comment on an update after sharing it — discussion is not threaded to the value.
What Range is for
Range is a team check-in and meetings tool with goals attached — and it looks well built for that.
- Team pages center on check-in insights, mood trends, kudos and celebration flags, and meeting load.
- Hashtags associate check-in work items with goals, and 75+ integrations attach items from tools like Slack, Jira, and ClickUp to check-ins.
- The interface is genuinely clean — comparable to the best-designed OKR tools in this benchmark.
AI & connectors
No AI surface and no goal data connectors were found in the session.
- We found nothing AI-related in the product or its settings during the session.
- We found no way to connect a goal metric to a data source — integrations attach work items to check-ins instead.
- MCP availability was not verified.
AI tasks recorded in this session
Summary task: blocked
Verification: Not performed: task blocked.
We found no AI surface in the Range trial for the two standard prompts.
Write task: blocked
Verification: Not performed: task blocked.
We found no AI surface in the Range trial for the two standard prompts.
Capabilities
OKR capabilities
- NoOKR Management
- YesGoal Tracking
- NoKPIs & Metrics
- YesRegular Check-ins
- Not verifiedTasks Support
- YesTeam Collaboration
Reporting
- YesReports & Analytics
- Not verifiedCustom Views
- Not verifiedTemplates
Integrations
- YesIntegrations
- YesSlack Integration
- YesMicrosoft Teams Integration
- NoData Connectors
- Not verifiedPublic API
AI capabilities
- NoGoal-setting AI
- NoGoal-tracking AI
- NoIn-product conversational assistant
- Not verifiedVendor-hosted MCP server
9 other recorded integration names (unreconciled): Monday, Zendesk, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Gitlab, Dropbox, HubSpot, Clickup, Trello. These are not verified native connections; omission does not establish absence.
Pricing
Free tier
$0
Full-featured
$8 /user/mo
Enterprise
Custom
Free plan for up to 12 users (3 goals, 2 sub-teams, limited history). Pro at $8/user/month with month-to-month billing and a 14-day Pro trial, no credit card. Enterprise is custom for 100+ users and adds SSO (Okta, OneLogin) and premium support. Education and non-profit discounts on request.
Compare Range head-to-head
Side-by-side comparisons against the field, feature by feature.
Ratings & FAQ
Benchmark editorial ratings
Scored 0–5 by this benchmark, OKR capabilities only — see how we rate.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Range cost?
Range has a free tier, with paid plans starting at $8 per user/month.
What teams is Range best for?
Range is best suited for small teams, remote teams teams, based on feature fit and our scoring model.
What are the top alternatives to Range?
Top alternatives include Tability, WorkBoard, Perdoo.
Last updated September 13, 2026 · release 2026.Q3
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