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nPlan vs SmartPM

Two schedule-intelligence tools that sit on top of existing CPM schedules. nPlan is AI-first, forecasting from a large historical schedule dataset; SmartPM describes automated schedule analytics and does not market itself as AI. Vendor-published facts only.

DESK RESEARCH, NOT TESTED. Compiled from vendors' public websites (accessed nPlan Oct 14, 2026; SmartPM Oct 15, 2026). Vendor claims are not verified by Means & Methods Lab. No scores or rankings.

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nPlan vs SmartPM: vendor-published facts side by side
Sheet rownPlanSmartPM
CategoryScheduling & riskSchedule analytics & project controls
AI role (our label)AI-firstNot AI-first
What it doesAI for project controls trained on a dataset the vendor says contains 750,000+ historical schedules (over $2Tn of construction spend). Four use cases: Plan (generate schedules from scope documents, check schedule integrity), Assure (activity-level uncertainty forecasts), De-risk (flag risky activities and check them against your risk register), and Deliver (project and portfolio summaries). Products: Portfolio, Insights, Schedule Studio, and Schedule Integrity Checker; vendor says Schedule Studio connects to Claude and ChatGPT and exports XER. Works with existing schedules. Sectors listed include highways, rail, and heavy infrastructure.Project controls and schedule analytics platform that connects to existing CPM scheduling software and runs what the vendor calls Automated Project Controls: schedule quality checks, progress against baselines, delay and compression metrics, and windows analysis (a customer quote says this went from weeks to minutes or hours; customer claim, not verified). Company, executive, and project dashboards plus a web-based Gantt. Procore integration is mentioned in a customer quote. The homepage does not describe the product as AI, so we tag it Not AI-first.
Who it's forProject owners and contractors' project controls teams.General contractors, owners, and developers in commercial construction (vendor wording).
Pricing (as publicly stated)Not publicly listed (no public pricing page found).Annual plans with unlimited users. Essentials $12K per year for up to 50 projects (automated schedule health checks, revision compare, core analytics). Controls $25K per year with 5 Controls slots (adds full project analytics, interactive Gantt, what-if scenarios and time impact analysis, portfolio insights). Pricing page offers a 60-day risk-free trial. (Pricing checked Oct 15, 2026.)
Test statusNot tested. No scores.Not tested. No scores.
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Facts last checked: nPlan Oct 14, 2026; SmartPM Oct 15, 2026. Prices change; check the vendor page before relying on them.

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