Employee Engagement · head to head
Profit.co vs Assembly
Profit.co
Employee Engagement
OKR software that drives business results
- From
- Free
- Rated
- -
Assembly
Employee Engagement
Employee recognition platform for distributed teams
- From
- Free
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Each has a real cost: Profit.co no published pricing at all; every deal is a custom proposal built with their sales team; Assembly client counts are capped by tier, at 50 on Starter and 500 on Professional
- They diverge on capability: Profit.co covers OKR management, Assembly covers Social recognition.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Profit.co and Assembly actually diverge.
Identical on both: starting price (Free), pricing model (subscription), free tier (Yes), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Employee Engagement).
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 Profit.co
- OKR management
- Goal alignment
- Key result tracking
- Task management
- Check-ins (CFR)
- KPI dashboards
- Strategy visualization
- Performance insights
Only in Assembly
- Social recognition
- Rewards catalog
- Points system
- Mobile app
- Analytics
- Manager tools
- Customizable workflow
- Reporting
Both cover
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Profit.co
- Running OKRs across an organisationnot Assembly
- Performance reviews and goal trackingnot Assembly
- Project portfolio management alongside objectivesnot Assembly
- Balanced scorecard reportingnot Assembly
- Building KPI dashboards from prebuilt templatesnot Assembly
Assembly
No use cases recorded yet. See the Assembly review.
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Profit.co
- No published pricing at all; every deal is a custom proposal built with their sales team
- Split into core modules and add-ons, so strategy roadmaps, one-to-ones, rewards and engagement are each extra rather than included
- There is no free tier
Assembly
- Client counts are capped by tier, at 50 on Starter and 500 on Professional
- Automation tasks are metered, at 100 a month on Starter and 1,000 on Professional
- Extra internal users cost $29 each on Professional and $59 on Advanced, on top of the plan
- Full white-labelling requires Advanced at $499 a month and SSO is Enterprise only at $2,000
- The workspace locks when a trial lapses and the account may be deleted after 30 days
Pricing, plan by plan
Profit.co
Free- FreeFree
- Up to 5 users
- OKR management
- Task management
- Growth$7/month
- Unlimited users
- Everything in Free
- CFR (check-ins)
- Enterprise$undefined/month
- Everything in Growth
- Advanced analytics
- HRIS integration
Assembly
Free- FreeFree
- Basic recognition
- Points system
- Mobile app
- Pro$undefined/month
- Advanced recognition
- Rewards
- Analytics
Which should you pick?
Choose Profit.co if
- You need okr management.
- You want to start without paying.
- You work on Web, Ios, Android, Api.
- You also want goal alignment.
Choose Assembly if
- You need social recognition.
- You want to start without paying.
- You also want rewards catalog.
Questions people ask
- Is Profit.co or Assembly better?
- Neither clearly leads. Profit.co starts at Free and Assembly at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Profit.co or Assembly?
- Profit.co starts at Free and Assembly at Free.
- Does Profit.co or Assembly run on more platforms?
- Profit.co runs on Web, Ios, Android, Api. Assembly runs on Web.
- Can I use Profit.co for free?
- Both have a free tier, so you can try either at no cost before committing.
- What is Profit.co best used for?
- Profit.co is most often used for running okrs across an organisation, performance reviews and goal tracking, project portfolio management alongside objectives, balanced scorecard reporting. Of those, running okrs across an organisation and performance reviews and goal tracking are not what Assembly is typically brought in for.
- What can Profit.co do that Assembly cannot?
- Profit.co covers OKR management, Goal alignment, Key result tracking, Task management. Assembly covers Social recognition, Rewards catalog, Points system, Mobile app. Both handle Slack, Microsoft Teams.