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Comparison · PM
Float vs Harvest
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Float and Harvest — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Float vs Harvest: at a glance
What is Float?
Float adds AI experience profiles and multi-currency rate cards — expanding from scheduling into project economics.
Float is a resource scheduling and time-tracking platform for agencies and professional services teams, shipping roughly every 2–3 weeks. The last 90 days show two substantive sparks: AI-powered experience profiles that surface who on the team has done similar work before, and multi-currency rate cards that bring consistent billing across clients and regions. Supporting releases added a dedicated Rates tab, Zapier project templates, people codes, and new API endpoints for project templates and rate cards.
What is Harvest?
Harvest rebuilt its interface and split off a Premium tier for profitability
Harvest is mid-rollout of 'the new Harvest,' a full interface redesign paired with a paid Premium plan (profitability reporting, activity log, SAML SSO), task-level scheduling in Forecast, and reworked invoice sending. Its changelog reads as marketing-heavy blog posts and SEO articles rather than granular release notes, with several near-duplicate posts per release.
Float vs Harvest: editorial side-by-side
Float
6.3PM
Float adds AI experience profiles and multi-currency rate cards — expanding from scheduling into project economics.
◆ Current state
Float is a resource scheduling and time-tracking platform for agencies and professional services teams, shipping roughly every 2–3 weeks. The last 90 days show two substantive sparks: AI-powered experience profiles that surface who on the team has done similar work before, and multi-currency rate cards that bring consistent billing across clients and regions. Supporting releases added a dedicated Rates tab, Zapier project templates, people codes, and new API endpoints for project templates and rate cards.
◆ Where it's heading
Float is building the financial layer of resource management — rate cards, multi-currency support, and a Rates tab form a coherent billing workflow that didn't exist six months ago. In parallel, AI experience profiles signal entry into talent-matching territory: the product can now answer 'who has done this type of work before' rather than just 'who is available.' These two vectors together position Float as a project economics tool, not just a scheduling view. The API expansion follows the financial features, suggesting partner and integration investment.
◆ Prediction
The most likely next move is connecting AI experience profiles directly into project assignment — auto-suggesting matches during scheduling based on past work. On the billing side, rate card data likely feeds a revenue or margin reporting view as the next logical release.
Harvest
2.5PM
Harvest rebuilt its interface and split off a Premium tier for profitability
◆ Current state
Harvest is mid-rollout of 'the new Harvest,' a full interface redesign paired with a paid Premium plan (profitability reporting, activity log, SAML SSO), task-level scheduling in Forecast, and reworked invoice sending. Its changelog reads as marketing-heavy blog posts and SEO articles rather than granular release notes, with several near-duplicate posts per release.
◆ Where it's heading
The redesign is the surface; the deeper move is upmarket. Profitability insights, SSO, and a Premium tier target agencies and larger teams that need margin visibility, not just time entry. Harvest is repositioning from a timesheet tool toward a project-profitability system, with invoicing and Forecast scheduling as supporting pieces.
◆ Prediction
Expect the new interface to finish rolling out to all accounts and more Premium-only reporting to follow the Profitability tier.
Alternatives to Float and Harvest
Other PM products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Float or Harvest.
Hive
Hive keeps iterating on proofing and dashboard UX — workmanlike improvements, no pivot.
SmartSuite
SmartSuite ships EU data residency, linked record filters, and API control improvements in a dense September release.
Fibery
Fibery rebuilds its AI agent from scratch and ships OAuth Apps, accelerating its MCP-first agentic platform bet.
Camunda
Camunda 8.10 enters release candidate as the 8.7 stable branch absorbs a wave of CVE patches.
NocoBase
NocoBase is hardening its AI employees and security surfaces while stabilizing the v2 client.
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Recent activity from Float and Harvest
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1mo agoFloatFloat is the #1 resource management software, 8 seasons running
- 1mo agoFloatRates tab, Zapier project templates, and people code
- 1mo agoFloatSmart insights: know who’s done this work before, with AI experience profiles ⚡
- 1mo agoFloatNew API endpoints: project templates and rate cards, and Zapier project updates
- 2mo agoFloatRate cards and multi-currency: consistent billing across every client and region ⚡
- 2mo agoFloatA new look: updates to the sidebar navigation
- 2mo agoHarvestIn Season: The latest from Harvest, Summer 2026
- 4mo agoHarvestInside the new Harvest
- 5mo agoHarvestA fresh Harvest
- 5mo agoHarvestA fresh Harvest
- 5mo agoHarvestIndustry leader award (PR, not a release)
- 5mo agoHarvestIntroducing Harvest Premium: a new plan with Profitability Reporting, Activity Log, and SAML-based SSO ⚡
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Float and Harvest?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Float is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 2.5), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Float better than Harvest?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Float is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 2.5), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other PM products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Float?
Top Float alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Float alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/float for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Harvest?
Top Harvest alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Harvest alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/harvest for the full list with editorial commentary on each.