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Primavera P6 vs Trunk Tools

Primavera P6 logo

Primavera P6

Construction

Enterprise project portfolio management for construction

From
$2500/year
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
Trunk Tools logo

Trunk Tools

Construction

Answers questions from a project document set with citations, so field staff stop hunting drawings

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Primavera P6 listed on G-Cloud 14 by reseller RPC UK Limited at £165 to £439 per user per month for Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM; Trunk Tools nothing about pricing is published, and because it is quoted by project rather than by seat, the cost of standardising it across a portfolio of jobs is hard to model before a sales process
  • They diverge on capability: Primavera P6 covers CPM scheduling, Trunk Tools covers Question answering with citations.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Primavera P6 and Trunk Tools actually diverge.

Attributes where Primavera P6 and Trunk Tools differ
AttributePrimavera P6Trunk Tools
Starting price$2500/yearOn request
Pricing modelsubscriptionquote
PlatformsWindows, WebWeb, iOS, Android
Founded1977Unknown

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Construction).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Primavera P6

  • CPM scheduling
  • Resource management
  • Cost management
  • Risk analysis
  • Portfolio management
  • Oracle ERP
  • Unifier
  • Aconex

Only in Trunk Tools

  • Question answering with citations
  • Text message interface
  • Submittal review
  • RFI drafting
  • Schedule agent
  • Drawing and specification ingestion
  • Change awareness

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Primavera P6

  • Project schedulingnot Trunk Tools
  • Resource planningnot Trunk Tools
  • Cost controlnot Trunk Tools
  • Portfolio managementnot Trunk Tools

Trunk Tools

  • A superintendent on a data centre project who needs to know the required fire rating of a specific partition type without leaving the decknot Primavera P6
  • A project engineer reviewing 300 submittals who wants conflicts against the specification flagged before the architect sees themnot Primavera P6
  • A contractor whose RFIs are being rejected as already answered in the specification and wants the document checked firstnot Primavera P6
  • A team that has just received a revised drawing set and needs to know which in-progress work is now affectednot Primavera P6

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Primavera P6

  • Listed on G-Cloud 14 by reseller RPC UK Limited at £165 to £439 per user per month for Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM

Trunk Tools

  • Nothing about pricing is published, and because it is quoted by project rather than by seat, the cost of standardising it across a portfolio of jobs is hard to model before a sales process
  • Answer quality is bounded entirely by the discipline of the underlying document control, and on a project with stale drawing revisions it will cite superseded sheets with the same confidence as current ones
  • It is an overlay on Procore or Autodesk rather than a system of record, so a contractor is now paying two vendors for the same document set and depends on the integration continuing to be maintained
  • The company is young and the product category is new, so there is little independent long-run evidence on accuracy, and a contractor putting field decisions on it should build its own verification sampling rather than trust vendor claims
  • Answers with citations do not carry contractual weight; an RFI response or a specification still governs, so the tool reduces search time without reducing the contractual review burden

Pricing, plan by plan

Primavera P6

$2500/year
  • P6 Professional$2500/year
    • Project scheduling
    • Resource management
    • Cost tracking
  • P6 EPPMFree
    • Enterprise PPM
    • Portfolio management
    • Advanced analytics

Trunk Tools

On request
  • Trunk Tools$undefined/year
    • Quoted by project, user count and modules taken
    • Pilot projects commonly priced separately from an enterprise agreement
    • Document ingestion and integration setup scoped per customer

Which should you pick?

Choose Primavera P6 if

  • You need cpm scheduling.
  • You work on Windows, Web.
  • You also want resource management.
Primavera P6 review

Choose Trunk Tools if

  • You need question answering with citations.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want text message interface.
Trunk Tools review

Questions people ask

Is Primavera P6 or Trunk Tools better?
Neither clearly leads. Primavera P6 starts at $2500/year and Trunk Tools at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Primavera P6 or Trunk Tools?
Primavera P6 starts at $2500/year and Trunk Tools at On request.
Does Primavera P6 or Trunk Tools run on more platforms?
Primavera P6 runs on Windows, Web. Trunk Tools runs on Web, iOS, Android.
What is Primavera P6 best used for?
Primavera P6 is most often used for project scheduling, resource planning, cost control, portfolio management. Of those, project scheduling and resource planning are not what Trunk Tools is typically brought in for.
What can Primavera P6 do that Trunk Tools cannot?
Primavera P6 covers CPM scheduling, Resource management, Cost management, Risk analysis. Trunk Tools covers Question answering with citations, Text message interface, Submittal review, RFI drafting.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Trunk Tools: Does it replace Procore?

No. It reads from Procore or Autodesk Construction Cloud and adds retrieval and review on top. You still pay for the document platform.

Trunk Tools: What does it cost?

Trunk Tools does not publish pricing. Expect a quote scoped by project, users and which modules you take.

Trunk Tools: Can it be wrong?

Yes. It cites its source, which lets you check, but if the document set contains superseded drawings it will answer from them. Document control discipline is a prerequisite, not an optional extra.

Trunk Tools: Can field staff use it without the app?

Yes. TrunkText answers questions by text message, which is the main reason foremen adopt it.

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