WorkBoard reports goals at scale.
Vindaris connects them to the work.
WorkBoard built the enterprise OKR category and absorbed Quantive in 2025, which makes it the largest pure goal-tracking product on the market. It is also still a reporting layer. Vindaris reads progress from the tasks your team already ships, and publishes its pricing.
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Last reviewed July 2026
WorkBoard is built for goal reporting. The work still lives somewhere else.
WorkBoard does one thing very well. It gives a large organization a structured way to define OKRs, cascade them through the org chart, and report on them in a format an executive team will accept. The enterprise wrapper around that is genuinely strong: SSO, permission models, audit trails, the controls procurement asks about before anything else.
The limitation sits underneath all of it. Teams define objectives in WorkBoard, then do the actual work in Jira, Asana, Planner, Salesforce, or a spreadsheet. Bridging the two is a check-in, a weekly update, or a connector that moves a number without the context behind it. Leadership gets a reliable view of what people reported. It does not get a view of whether the work below those objectives is moving.
WorkBoard does not publish its pricing. Custom quotes, annual contracts, and a procurement cycle stand between a mid-market team and a product conversation. Vindaris publishes its plans, is free to start, and requires no minimum contract. See pricing details.
Enterprise goal reporting vs. work-connected execution.
WorkBoard and Vindaris both store objectives and both produce a leadership view. What differs is where the status comes from. In WorkBoard a person supplies it. In Vindaris it is derived from the work already happening in your existing tools.
- OKR-first. The whole product assumes the OKR methodology.
- Progress arrives through manual check-ins or thin metric connectors.
- No native work layer. Tasks and projects stay in external tools.
- Pricing is quoted through an enterprise sales cycle, never published.
- Risk surfaces when someone lowers a confidence rating, which is usually late.
- Published pricing, so evaluation starts with the product rather than procurement.
- A native work layer, so an objective can name the tasks behind its number.
- Risk detected from task movement rather than from a confidence rating.
- Weight suited to a few hundred people, not a few hundred thousand.
- Any framework, without the OKR office required to run it.
WorkBoard models the cascade. It does not model the work.
WorkBoard's model is built for scale: objectives, key results, alignment across a deep org chart, business reviews on top. It handles a Fortune 500 hierarchy better than anything else in the category. What it does not hold is any representation of delivery.
| Object | WorkBoard | Vindaris |
|---|---|---|
| Central object | The objective, cascaded through the org chart | The task, and the edges up to the goal |
| Alignment source | The reporting line | Which work feeds which goal |
| Progress source | Check-ins, plus connectors that move a metric value | Task state in Jira, Asana, Planner, HubSpot |
| Behind a key-result number | Nothing the system can show you | The projects, tasks, owners and capacity |
| Risk signal | A lowered confidence rating | Pace and focus measured against plan |
A metric connector is not a work layer, and the difference matters when a number goes the wrong way. A connector can tell you the value dropped. It cannot tell you that three of the fourteen tasks feeding it were reassigned last month and one has not moved since. That information exists in the delivery tool; WorkBoard has no object to hold it.
WorkBoard assumes goals are the primary object and work happens elsewhere. Vindaris assumes goals and work are two views of one system, and that separating them is why most strategy execution quietly fails. The practical consequence is that a WorkBoard objective marked at 70 percent cannot be traced to the tasks that produced the number, while a Vindaris goal always can.
From WorkBoard without the procurement cycle.
The objectives export cleanly. The larger change is that the next evaluation does not need a quote to start.
WorkBoard exports the OKR set with owners, targets, current values and the alignment tree, and its API covers the same ground for a scripted move. The hierarchy imports intact.
WorkBoard's alignment follows the reporting line. Vindaris derives alignment from the work, so the tree does not need recreating. Import the goals and let the structure form from what is actually feeding them.
Connect Jira, Asana, Planner, HubSpot or Google. This is the layer the metric connectors were approximating, and the point where a key result gains the ability to explain itself.
The recurring confidence round that kept WorkBoard current has no input left to collect. Business reviews start from derived progress, and the OKR office role shrinks to designing goals rather than chasing status.
Quote-only enterprise pricing, or a published price you can start on today.
This is the sharpest difference between the two products and it is worth stating plainly. WorkBoard does not publish pricing, so a mid-market team cannot find out what it costs without entering a sales process.
| Plan | WorkBoard | Vindaris |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | No free tier. | Free forever. Up to 5 people, 2 integrations, all core features. |
| Entry paid plan | Not published. Quoted per organization. | Connect, EUR 10 per user per month. All integrations, unlimited sync. |
| Upper plan | Not published. Enterprise configurations negotiated. | Pro, EUR 20 per user per month. Unlimited users in one organization. |
| Published pricing | No. Evaluation begins with a sales conversation. | Yes, on the website. No quote required to evaluate. |
| Minimum commitment | Annual contract, typically with a seat floor. | None. No seat minimum, no annual term, no setup fee. |
Vindaris publishes everything: free forever for up to 5 people with 2 integrations, EUR 10 per user per month for Connect, EUR 20 for Pro. No seat minimum, no annual term, no setup fee. See full plan comparison.
The category as a whole is compared in the best strategy execution software guide, and the argument underneath it is set out in the strategy execution gap whitepaper.
Vindaris vs WorkBoard, feature by feature.
WorkBoard is the enterprise incumbent and the table below is not an argument that it is badly built at that scale. It is a comparison for teams below the scale it was designed for, where the weight and the sales cycle are costs rather than features.
| Feature | Vindaris | WorkBoard |
|---|---|---|
| How progress is measured | Read from task-level work and Slack context in the tools your team already uses. | Manual check-ins from goal owners, plus metric connectors that move numbers without context. |
| Goal frameworks supported | Framework-agnostic: OKR, KPI, EOS Rocks, OGSM, SMART, Balanced Scorecard, or hybrid. | OKR-first. KPIs, EOS Rocks and OGSM need workarounds. |
| Connection to real work | Native work layer with bidirectional sync to HubSpot, Planner, Google, Jira, Asana. | No native work layer. Tasks and projects stay in Jira, Asana, Planner or Salesforce. |
| Risk detection | Automatic execution-risk flags from task movement, focus and pace against plan. | Confidence ratings and RAG status entered by people, not derived from task movement. |
| Status reporting | Live views and AI risk summaries pushed to Slack, Teams, and email. | Enterprise dashboards and business-review exports built for the executive cadence. |
| Capacity and bandwidth | Built-in bandwidth and capacity planning. | Not covered. |
| Ownership model | Single-owner accountability enforced structurally. | Goal owner per objective, cascaded through the org chart. |
| Free plan | Free forever, including 2 integrations and up to 5 people. | No free tier. Pricing is quoted, not published. |
| Best fit | Mid-market teams that want execution status traced back to the tasks that produced it. | Fortune 500 programmes with a dedicated OKR office and a procurement-led buying cycle. |
How WorkBoard is reviewed, and where teams outgrow it.
WorkBoard is reviewed as the enterprise-grade OKR platform, and large organizations rate its rollout support highly. The limits appear once a goal is off track: the platform can report the number, but it cannot show which work produced it, because that work never enters the system.
- Strong enterprise controls: SSO, permissions, audit trails, admin depth.
- Structured cascade that holds up across thousands of employees.
- Business review exports that leadership teams present without reformatting.
- Hands-on rollout and coaching support during the first quarters.
- Pricing is not published, so evaluation starts with a sales cycle rather than a trial.
- Goal progress depends on check-ins, so it reflects what owners reported rather than what shipped.
- The work that moves an objective lives in tools WorkBoard does not read.
- Weight and cost are hard to justify below a few hundred employees.
At Fortune 500 scale with a dedicated OKR office, WorkBoard is a defensible choice. Below that, you are buying a cascade you do not need, at a price nobody will quote you, on top of a model that still cannot say what work is behind a number.
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Common questions, answered
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