Enterprise PSA for large services organizations.
Kantata is built for 200+ person consultancies with PSA admins, revenue recognition, multi-business-unit consolidation, and a 6-month implementation phase. Tempough is built for service businesses under ~50 people. If Kantata feels like overkill, it is — and that's usually the only reason someone reaches this comparison page.
Mavenlink (now Kantata, after merging with Replicon's Polaris in 2022) is enterprise PSA — designed for services organizations with hundreds or thousands of consultants, multi-business-unit consolidation, professional services automation across the full sales-to-delivery-to-invoicing lifecycle. Tempough is not in this market and isn't trying to be. If you're evaluating Kantata, you're probably running a 200+ person consultancy with revenue recognition, project finance, and a dedicated PSA admin role. If you're running a 5–50 person team and Kantata feels like overkill, it is.
Feature | Tempough | Mavenlink / Kantata |
|---|---|---|
| Time tracking + timer | ✓ | ✓ |
| Projects + clients | ✓ | ✓ |
| Forecast + capacity planning | Team+ | ✓ |
| Cost rates + margin (P&L) | Team+ | ✓ |
| Multi-business-unit consolidation | — | ✓ |
| Revenue recognition | — | ✓ |
| Salesforce / Workday integration | — | ✓ |
| Enterprise SSO | Enterprise | ✓ |
| Self-serve signup + setup | ✓ | — |
| Modern UX | ✓ | Mixed reviews |
Kantata: custom enterprise pricing (typically $40-80/seat/mo at minimum scale). Tempough Team Pro: $13/seat/mo (billed annually). Pricing snapshots reflect publicly listed plans and can change — see the source's own site for the latest.
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