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Hive Pricing, Features, Reviews and Alternatives

Hive product overview

Price starts from

1.50

/user

Per month

What is Hive?

We help teams move faster. Hive is the world's first democratic project management platform. That means that our product is built by users, for users, via feedback on our Forum.

Key benefits of using Hive

  • Extensive project views: Gantt charts, Kanban board, Team view, Label view, Portfolio view, Calendar view

  • Request forms, action and project templates, and recurring actions automate your work and save time

  • Group messaging and file integrations (Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box) connect all aspects of your work

  • Over 1,000 integrations available to connect to all the other tools you use

  • Time tracking and resourcing help track allocated resources
  • Typical customers

    Freelancers
    Small businesses
    Mid size businesses
    Large enterprises

    Platforms supported

    Web
    Android
    iPhone/iPad

    Support options

    Email/Help Desk
    Chat
    Phone Support
    FAQs/Forum
    Knowledge Base
    24/7 (Live rep)

    Training options

    Webinars
    Videos
    Live Online
    In Person
    Documentation

    Hive pricing information

    Value for money

    4.4

    /5

    205

    Starting from

    1.50

    /user

    Per month

    Pricing options

    Free plan
    Subscription
    Free trial
    Pricing range

    Value for money contenders

    Hive features

    Functionality

    4.3

    /5

    205

    Total features

    157

    17 categories

    Most valued features by users

    Task Management
    Collaboration Tools
    Activity Dashboard
    Third-Party Integrations
    Alerts/Notifications
    Access Controls/Permissions
    Prioritization
    Reporting/Analytics

    Functionality contenders

    Hive users reviews

    Overall Rating

    4.4

    /5

    205

    Positive reviews

    92

    %

    Rating breakdown
    • Value for money
    • Ease of use
    • Features
    • Customer support
    • Likelihood to recommend8.52/10
    Rating distribution

    5

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    3

    2

    1

    114

    74

    12

    2

    3

    Pros
    With Hive, you can catch up with your team and have very good interactions with them. It's a great piece of software that delivers almost all your needs for a team at good prices.
    My writers love how clear and concise their workload is presented each day. The ability to change and insert new assignments or move them around is also great.
    I am enjoying my time with Hive so far, very efficient and easy to use. Always updating their features, which is fun to learn about and implement into my work.
    Cons
    The reporting and accountability factors are lacking a little in Hive. There is some bad logic in their recurring actions that prevent us from being able to generate accurate productivity reports.
    There are some quirks which we have discussed at length with the development team - most notably the inability to create dependent tasks within project actions that recur.
    There are some aspects of Hive that are a bit annoying. For example, "future" actions aren't actually future actions.

    Overall rating contenders

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    Nate H.

    Senior Content Strategy Manager

    Education Management, 201-500 employees

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    Overall Rating

    Hive Keeps Us Organized

    Reviewed 4 years ago

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    Nate: My name is Nate. I am the senior content strategy manager at my workplace. I work in the education...

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    Eddie L.

    CEO

    E-Learning, 1-10 employees

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    Overall Rating

    Versatile and solid UX platform

    Reviewed 4 years ago

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    Eddie L.: Hi, my name is Eddie. I am co-founder and CEO of an education technology company and I give...

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    Craig S.

    Information Services, 1,001-5,000 employees

    Used daily for 1-2 years

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    Overall Rating
    • Value for money
    • Ease of use
    • Features
    • Customer support
    • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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    Great Warehouse Tool - Easy to Query and Integrate

    Reviewed 2 years ago

    Hive was my first foray into data warehouse tools (other than a super clunky, outdated tool for pulling limited SQL results from a single table at a time). The ability to query across multiple tables, to quickly examine schemas, and to track your previous queries and results was huge in enabling us to experiment with new ways of scripting back-end processes with immediate, hands-on results. It was also able to plug directly into other areas of our workflow without much issue - we pulled data directly from Hive into Tableau, and we queried data from Hive in R to perform QA.

    Pros

    Being able to track previous queries and results goes a long way when experimenting with different ways to pull what you want. It's particularly helpful when you're constantly making changes and want to potentially revert to versions that worked. Integrations with tools such as RStudio or Tableau are also relatively easy, making it super convenient to load data directly into dashboards or scripts without worrying about extra tools or ETL processes.

    Cons

    Takes a little more work to set up compared to an all-in-one solution (such as AWS, where the various tools are all in a single platform).

    Vendor response

    Thank you for the great review, Craig! We are so glad to hear Hive helps your team stay organized. Cheers!

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    Morgan P.

    Management Consulting, 1-10 employees

    Used daily for 2+ years

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    • Value for money
    • Ease of use
    • Features
    • Customer support
    • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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    Good for Small, Remote Teams

    Reviewed a year ago

    Overall, Hive has been a good system for our team to work effectively. It gets the job done, although not always as simply as other tools.

    Pros

    The native time-tracking feature was one of the biggest reasons our team chose Hive as its primary project management tool. With a team as spread out as ours geographically, Hive has made it easier to collaborate and execute projects. Hive is always looking to improve, and we appreciate that they ask for feedback and implement it.

    Cons

    Hive has limitations in terms of its reporting and integrations. We would love to be able to build our CRM right in Hive to simplify our sales cycle work and time tracking, but we must still use a third-party at this point. Additionally, automations in Zapier and integrations with third-party apps are still not as robust as with other popular project management systems such as Asana.

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    Matt K.

    Design, 11-50 employees

    Used daily for 1-2 years

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    • Ease of use
    • Features
    • Customer support
    • Likelihood to recommend2/10

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    A potentially powerful tool crippled by poor and inconsistent UI

    Reviewed 3 months ago

    An unmitigated horror story of misery and despair. Completely unsuitable for managing multiple complex jobs with many moving parts. A very poor piece of software for granular time management. It has lots of potentially good features but they are all so badly and confusingly designed. It could potentially be very useful and powerful but they need to completely revamp their UI design philosophy to make it easy and consistent. It feels very outdated and not well joined up.

    Pros

    They have a very good support team and the project gantt charts are useful.

    Cons

    The UI is unbelievably poorly designed with lots of inconsistencies and everything takes more clicks and time than it should. It is incredibly inaccessible for the neurodiverse because of it's poor design. It takes a long time to learn and is quite glitchy. I frequently encounter problems and it is difficult to work out whether each problem is due to a Hive glitch or a user error because of the poor UI. It's a total time sink and makes me want to quit my job.

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    Lindsey P.

    Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

    Used daily for 6-12 months

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    • Ease of use
    • Features
    • Customer support
    • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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    Good and Bad, but Mostly Good

    Reviewed 4 years ago

    Overall, Hive works for our Marketing team and customer service is exceptional (especially [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN]). The biggest frustration is that we tested a few systems and chose Hive because it combined messaging, we liked the look of it, and the ability to link external apps if desired. The ultimate reason we chose Hive, though, was because when tested, projects with a date range for a due...

    Pros

    For our team of five, the most beneficial features are: ability to assign two people, ability to color code projects, ability to track time within a task, ability to add approvers within a task, direct and group messaging within the app (replaced separate use of Slack), Notes and ability to share them, and the "status" and "table" views for projects.

    Cons

    For our team, we have had repeat issues with recurring actions not functioning correctly, specifically with auto-snoozing actions and sub actions (even past their due date) as well as due dates when we try to update recurring actions. We shifted our set-up and re-entered all actions at one point to try and workaround the need for a recurring action. We also prefer for actions with a date range for a due date to show up as of the start of that date range so we know how many days we have to work on something, however they show up the day it's due.

    Vendor response

    Thanks for your review, Lindsey! We're happy to hear that Hive is a helpful tool for your marketing team. Your feedback is also appreciated, and will be passed along to the product team here at Hive. Cheers!

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    Sarah H.

    Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

    Used weekly for 1-2 years

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    • Value for money
    • Ease of use
    • Features
    • Customer support
    • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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    Hive is a fantastic team project management tool

    Reviewed 2 years ago

    Hive is an excellent piece of project management software for groups whose members come from different industries or departments and don't use the same methodologies. Due to its adaptability and user-specific perspectives, it is well-suited to recording a wide range of information pertaining to teams and their projects.

    Pros

    Hive is revolutionary computer program. I am really impressed by what the development team has accomplished with this program: The learning curve is minimal, it offers beautiful Gantt and Kanban views, instant messaging for collaboration, the ability to add comments to tasks and projects, and a fantastic focus mode.

    Cons

    There are only a few functions I've seen in other programs that I wish this one had: The ability to specify task progress percentages, partially conceal Kanban columns, and set rules for each column.

    Hive FAQs

    Q. What type of pricing plans does Hive offer?

    Hive has the following pricing plans:
    Starting from: $1.50/month
    Pricing model: Free, Subscription
    Free Trial: Available | (No Credit Card required)


    Q. Who are the typical users of Hive?

    Hive has the following typical customers:
    Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Small Business


    Q. What languages does Hive support?

    Hive supports the following languages:
    English


    Q. Does Hive support mobile devices?

    Hive supports the following devices:
    Android, iPad, iPhone


    Q. Does Hive offer an API?

    Yes, Hive has an API available for use.


    Q. What other apps does Hive integrate with?

    Hive integrates with the following applications:
    GitHub, Microsoft Outlook, Dropbox Business, Jira, ActiveCampaign, Zapier, Gmail, OneDrive, Google Workspace, Google Drive, Box, Pipedrive, FreshBooks, Zoom Workplace, Microsoft Teams, Freshdesk, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Harvest, Slack, Google Calendar, Intercom, Zendesk Suite


    Q. What level of support does Hive offer?

    Hive offers the following support options:
    Email/Help Desk, Chat, Phone Support, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, 24/7 (Live rep)

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