The short answer
This category splits cleanly in two, and the split runs along the same line as the pricing.
The tools that schedule your existing staff publish a price. The tools that plan your future headcount do not. Deputy prints a full rate card. Legion and UKG sit in the same operational half and print nothing. On the strategic side, Visier, Anaplan, Eightfold, Orgvue and Dayforce all quote.
That matters before you book a single demo, because it means you cannot build a like for like cost comparison across this category. Anyone who tells you otherwise is comparing a published per user rate against an estimate.
What each of the nine publishes
Every vendor was loaded in a real browser on 2 September 2026, entered through its own homepage navigation where one existed, with the consent banners stripped. Status codes are for the pricing URL itself.
| Tool | Pricing page | What is actually on it |
|---|---|---|
| Deputy | 200 | A full rate card. Three tiers, both billing terms, add-ons and a minimum spend |
| Deel | 200 | Figures, for other products. Hiring and payroll rates, not planning |
| Anaplan | 200 | A demo request form with a country dropdown. No figure anywhere on it |
| Orgvue | 200 | A page that asks you to get in touch |
| Visier | 404 | No pricing page. The word “pricing” does not appear on its homepage either. Full Visier review |
| Legion | 404 | No pricing page |
| Eightfold AI | 404 | No pricing page |
| Dayforce | 404 | No pricing page |
| UKG | 403 to us | We could not read it. See the caveat below |
Four of the nine have no pricing page at all. Not a page that says “contact us”, which is at least an answer. A 404.
One caveat we are not going to paper over. UKG returned 403 to our browser on every attempt, including its homepage. That tells you about their bot filtering, not about their pricing. We have no evidence either way on what UKG publishes, and we are not going to call it quote-only to make the table tidier.
Deputy: the one complete rate card
Deputy is the only tool here where you can work out your bill before speaking to anyone, and our full review covers the billing rules that sit underneath the rate card. Read from the live pricing page on 2 September 2026, USD, stated as excluding applicable taxes.
| Plan | Annual | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| Lite | $5.00 per user per month | $5.50 per user per month |
| Core | $6.50 per user per month | $7.25 per user per month |
| Pro | $9.00 per user per month | $10.00 per user per month |
The page opens on the annual view with a “SAVE 10%” label on the toggle, so the figure you see first is the discounted one. That is worth knowing, not because it is dishonest, the toggle is right there, but because the $5 that gets quoted around the internet is the committed rate rather than the month to month one.
The line that changes the answer for small teams
Buried in Deputy’s own FAQ:
There is a minimum monthly spend of USD $30 per month per invoice on our monthly Lite, Core and Pro plans from September 1, 2025.
The equivalents given are AUD $30 and GBP £20.
Below about six users, the per user rate stops being what you pay. A five person team on monthly Lite computes to $27.50 and is billed the $30 minimum instead. A three person team pays the same $30 as the five person team. If you are a small business comparing Deputy on its headline $5, the floor is the number that actually governs your invoice, and it is not on the pricing table.
The add-ons are separately metered
| Add-on | Published rate |
|---|---|
| Deputy Payroll enabled by Paycor | $8 per user per month billed monthly, plus a $49 monthly base fee. US only, annual Core and Pro plans |
| Deputy HR | $2 per user per month billed monthly |
| Messaging+ | $1.95 per user per month billed monthly |
| Analytics+ | $1.50 per user per month billed monthly |
Deputy notes that the payroll base and per employee fee vary by business size, so the $49 is a starting point rather than a fixed line.
Messaging+ and Analytics+ are included in the Pro plan, so on Pro they are not separate meters. Compared on published monthly figures, Lite at $5.50 plus HR, Messaging+ and Analytics+ comes to $10.95 per user per month, while monthly Pro is $10.00 and already carries two of those three.
Deel publishes prices, for a different product
Deel appears in workforce planning roundups, including ours, for its global headcount scenario planning. Its pricing page carries real figures. None of them is a price for planning.
| What Deel prices | Published rate |
|---|---|
| ATS and Talent | from $14 per worker per month |
| Contractor management | from $49 per contractor per month |
| Contractor of Record | from $325 per contractor of record per month |
| US PEO | from $125 per US PEO employee per month |
| Employer of Record | from $599 per EOR employee per month |
These are hiring, contracting and employment rates. If you are costing out a workforce planning deployment, none of these lines is your answer, and quoting Deel’s $14 as a workforce planning price would be wrong. It is a good illustration of why a published number is not automatically a comparable one.
Why the planning half does not publish
There is no conspiracy here, and it is not worth being smug about. The strategic tools price on employee count, module mix and contract length, and the resulting number moves by an order of magnitude between a 300 person company and a 30,000 person one. A single published figure would be wrong for almost every reader.
The consequence for you is still real:
- You cannot shortlist on price. You can only shortlist on fit, then discover the price.
- The demo is the pricing page. Every one of these vendors requires a sales conversation to learn a number, so budget the calendar time.
- Employee count is the meter. Ask for the price per employee per year and the minimum contract, because that is the shape almost all of them use, and it is the only form that lets you compare two quotes.
How to get a comparable number out of a quote
Ask every vendor the same five things, in writing:
- Price per employee per year, at your actual headcount, not a band.
- What counts as an employee. Contractors, seasonal staff and leavers are counted differently by different vendors, and it moves the total.
- Minimum contract term and minimum spend. Deputy publishes a floor. Assume the quote-only vendors have one too and make them say it.
- Which modules are in the number, and what the next one costs. Scenario modelling and analytics are commonly separate.
- Implementation and data integration, priced separately. On the strategic platforms this is routinely a material share of year one.
If your problem turns out to be compliance evidence rather than planning or scheduling, the meters are different again, and our guide to clinical workforce development platforms covers that category. For which tool fits which job in the first place, start with the AI workforce planning tools guide.
Measuring training, honestly
Training is the discipline most prone to measuring the wrong thing well. Four levels of rigour are available and most organisations stop at the first.
Reaction is easy and nearly worthless
Satisfaction scores at the end of a session tell you whether people enjoyed it, which correlates weakly with whether they can now do anything differently. Collect it if you like, and do not report it as evidence the training worked.
Completion is an activity metric
Completion percentage measures compliance with an instruction. It is genuinely necessary for regulated training, where the record is the point, and it is not evidence of capability anywhere else. Report it as what it is.
Behaviour change is where the real evidence starts
Pick one observable behaviour and measure it before and after: the proportion of discovery calls that reach a defined qualification step, the share of tickets resolved without escalation, the number of safety observations logged. It needs a baseline from before the training, which is why this gets skipped, and it is the first level that would survive a hostile question.
Business outcome, with the caveat stated out loud
Attributing revenue or incident rates to a training programme inside one year is genuinely hard, because everything else moved too. If you report an outcome, report what else changed in the same period. The most credible thing a training team can do is claim the behaviour change it can evidence and be openly cautious about the outcome it cannot.
Take the baseline in the week before launch
Whatever you choose, capture it before anything is switched on, from a source the project did not touch. It takes an hour and it is unrecoverable afterwards, which is the single reason most training investments can never be evaluated.
Rolling this out so people actually use it
The failure mode in corporate training software is not a bad product, it is a deployment that reaches week six with impressive licence numbers and no behaviour change.
Pick one team and one behaviour, not one platform
The instinct is to roll out to everyone because the licence covers it. The better move is one team, one measurable behaviour, and a fixed period. A discovery call structure, an objection, a specific product pitch. Narrow scope means you can tell whether it worked, and a result from one team persuades the rest far more effectively than a mandate.
Managers have to use it before reps do
Roleplay and coaching platforms live or die on whether managers review the output. If a rep completes a scenario and nobody ever mentions it, completion becomes a compliance task within a fortnight. Before launch, agree which existing meeting will use the output, ideally the one-to-one that already happens, and make somebody responsible for opening it there.
Mandatory completion produces completion, not skill
If the only metric is completion percentage, you will get a high completion percentage and learn nothing. Pair it with something qualitative from the start: a manager rating on a rubric, a before-and-after recording, or a call outcome. Otherwise the dashboard will look excellent while the sales floor is unchanged.
Plan for the second wave, which is where it usually dies
The first cohort is volunteers and enthusiasts and it always goes well. The second is everyone else, and their experience decides whether workforce planning becomes part of how the team works. Budget real time for the second wave, expect more resistance, and do not read the first cohort’s enthusiasm as evidence the rollout is done.
Name the owner and the stop condition
One person whose job includes this, with the hours to do it, and a written statement of what twelve months would have to look like for you not to renew. Both are unglamorous and both are the difference between a platform that survives a budget review and one that quietly does not.
What sales training and roleplay platforms actually charge
This is one of the least transparent categories we cover. Most vendors quote rather than publish, which changes how the evaluation has to be run. Here is each alternative to workforce planning, read at source on 4 September 2026.
Yoodli, the only one here with a published individual rate
Yoodli publishes $8 a month billed annually for its Pro individual plan, which includes up to ten roleplays a week and live AI coaching, and $20 a month billed annually above that. It also runs a free tier. That makes it the only platform in this comparison a single person can price without speaking to anyone, which matters if you want to test the category before committing a team budget.
The five that publish no figure at all
We could not read a price from Second Nature, Hyperbound, Mindtickle, Highspot or Visier on 4 September 2026. Hyperbound and Highspot both render a pricing page carrying no currency figure. That is a commercial choice rather than an oversight, and it is the norm at the enterprise end of sales enablement.
Allego publishes a pricing page with no price on it
Allego is worth calling out separately. It has a real pricing page, headed “Simple Sales Enablement Pricing. Clear Results.”, and there is not a single currency figure anywhere on it. It does publish something useful though: a contract buyout programme for customers switching from a competitor mid-term. If you are locked into a rival, that is worth asking about specifically, because it is the kind of term that rarely appears in a comparison table.
What to do when almost nobody publishes
Price a published alternative precisely at your seat count and make it the number every quote has to justify itself against. Yoodli at $20 a month billed annually across 40 reps is $9,600 a year. That is not a like-for-like substitute for an enterprise enablement platform, and it is a real figure in the room that both sides can verify, which is more than you will otherwise have.
Ask what the platform fee is separate from the seats
Several vendors in this category price as per-user licences plus a platform fee that scales with the number of users supported. That means the cost does not fall as neatly with a smaller pilot as you might expect, and a 10-seat pilot can carry most of the platform cost of a 50-seat deployment. Ask for both components separately before modelling a phased rollout.
Why the price you see may not be the price we saw
This deserves its own section because it affects several tools in this category and almost no comparison article accounts for it.
What we actually observed
When we read Synthesia’s pricing page on 4 September 2026, every plan figure was in rupees, because our captures run from an Indian IP address and the site served local pricing automatically. HeyGen went further: a request to heygen.com/pricing redirected to its /en-in/ locale even when we sent a United States language header, meaning the routing is by IP rather than by browser preference.
Why this breaks most price comparisons
An article quoting a single global figure for a geo-priced tool is describing one country’s rate card and presenting it as the price. Regional pricing is not usually a straight currency conversion either; vendors set local rates deliberately, so the ratio between two markets can differ considerably from the exchange rate. That means you cannot fix the problem by converting, and we do not attempt to.
How to check your own number in thirty seconds
Open the vendor’s pricing page yourself, from the country where the contract will sit, and look at the currency symbol before you look at the number. If the URL contains a locale segment such as /en-in/ or /en-gb/, you are on a regional page. Where a vendor offers a currency selector, note that changing it sometimes changes the plan structure and not merely the symbol.
What to ask when the contract is cross-border
If your company is registered in one country and the team is in another, ask which entity is billed, in which currency, and whether the rate is fixed for the term or moves with a published exchange rate. Ask whether taxes are included, because several vendors here publish figures excluding tax. These questions are dull and they are the difference between a budget that holds and one that drifts by a fifth.
How we checked this
Every vendor was loaded on 2 September 2026 in a real browser with a standard Chrome user agent, entered through the vendor’s own homepage navigation where a pricing link existed and by direct URL where it did not. Consent and cookie overlays were removed before any text was read, because a banner’s own text has previously been misread as page content. Deputy’s toggle was clicked into both states and both rate cards recorded, because reading only the visible state reports half a rate card as the whole one.
This is desk research, not a test. We have not deployed these platforms. Every figure above is what the vendor published on the date stated, quoted in the currency they published it in, with no conversion.
Where we could not read a page, we say so rather than reporting an absence of pricing. A 403 is a blocked request, not a finding.
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