Agileday vs Rocketlane: which PSA fits a consulting firm?

Agileday or Rocketlane: which firms does each fit?

Rocketlane fits software companies and implementation teams that deliver customer onboarding projects and want clients inside the project, with a branded portal and unlimited customer seats. Agileday fits consultancies and agencies of 50 to 10,000 people whose business is staffing people by skills across many clients, with sales, delivery and finance in one system.

Both now describe themselves as PSA platforms with AI agents. The difference is the job they started from: Rocketlane from running a customer's implementation project well, Agileday from deciding who works on which project and what that does to margin.

How do Agileday and Rocketlane compare?

The Rocketlane column uses Rocketlane's pricing and home pages as they read on Oct 20, 2026. The Agileday column uses our own product and pricing pages.

How much does Rocketlane cost?

As of Oct 20, 2026, Rocketlane's Standard plan costs $49 and Premium $69 per team member per month, billed annually, with a minimum of 5 team members, so the smallest Standard team starts at $245 a month. Enterprise is priced on request. Customer members are free and unlimited on every plan, and there is a 14-day trial.

Three things add to that price for a consultancy:

• Plan level: resource management and financials start on Premium; the skills matrix, multiple currencies and soft allocations need Enterprise.
• AI: Nitro agent packages are priced through sales, and AI Fills is a $29 per user per month add-on.
• Implementation: onboarding services are charged extra, based on scope.

Agileday publishes list prices for its two tiers on the Business plan, includes AI and agents in both plans, and charges a one-time setup fee for onboarding and data migration. Current prices are on the Agileday pricing page.

How do Agileday and Rocketlane use AI agents?

Rocketlane's Nitro puts agents into delivery: drafting project plans from statements of work, emails and calls, governing the delivery process, and spotting risks in customer conversations. Agileday's agents work on operations across the firm: building teams from skills and availability, keeping people and project data current, analyzing deals and pre-populating time cards.

For staffing specifically, the difference is current: Rocketlane's pricing page lists its Resourcing Agents as not yet released (Oct 20, 2026), while its Resource AI sits in the Premium plan. Agileday's agents staff projects with people, subcontractors and AI agents in one view today.

The fair test is the same for both: give each vendor one real statement of work and your real bench, and ask the AI to plan the project and staff it, live. We explain where we think agents pay off in our guide to agentic PSA.

Where is Rocketlane stronger?

Rocketlane is stronger where the client is part of the project. Its branded customer portal, unlimited customer members, templates and partner portal make onboarding and implementation projects easy to run in the open. It raised a $60 million Series C led by Insight Partners in March 2026 and shows a 4.7 out of 5 G2 rating.

• Client-facing delivery: customers see plans, milestones and tasks without paying for seats.
• Implementation projects: project plans generated from statements of work, emails and calls, and AI that watches customer conversations for risk.
• Reviews: in our analysis of 200 recent G2 reviews of Rocketlane, only 15% described a clear pain, and 11 reviewers mentioned its AI positively.

Where is Agileday stronger?

Agileday is stronger where the product is people's time and expertise. Staffing, skills and competences are in every plan, not reserved for higher tiers, and resource managers can staff employees, subcontractors and AI agents from one view, generate bid-ready CVs and see margin as allocations change. Sales, staffing, delivery and finance share one data model.

• Skills-based staffing for many clients at once, instead of one customer project at a time.
• Bids and CVs: team setups from client RFPs and CVs from the same skills data.
• Mixed workforce: subcontractors in the same staffing pool as employees. With the Vendor portal, an additional module priced by the number of partner companies, partner company managers handle their own talent.
• Pricing: AI included, list prices public.

When should you choose Rocketlane?

Choose Rocketlane when your services team mostly delivers your own software to new customers, and your customers need to work inside the project with you. For SaaS implementation and onboarding teams, its customer portal and delivery AI are built for exactly that job, and a team of 5 can start on a published price.

For that kind of team Agileday is not the right tool, and neither is it for a firm below about 50 people, where a full PSA is more than the work needs. For consultancies choosing between Rocketlane and other PSA platforms, see PSA vs ERP: which first, and who sends the invoice for how the finance side fits.