Hespia vs Tability: which OKR tool fits your team?

Hespia and Tability both track OKRs with weekly check-ins, but they price and diagnose differently. Tability is an established goal-tracking platform from a Sydney team, priced per user from $6 to $12 per month with no free plan, strong on integrations, data connectors and a strategy map. Hespia is a new, beta-stage AI mentor charging $100 per month flat for the whole team, which computes weekly pace on every key result and flags slippage in week 4 rather than week 13. Under about ten people Tability is cheaper and far more proven; above that, Hespia flat fee and automatic pace detection start to earn their keep.

What is the core difference?

Tability asks each owner, every week, “what is the number and how confident are you?” It records progress, a confidence colour of green, yellow or red, and a short analysis. It then charts that against a shaded estimation path so you can eyeball your trajectory. The risk call is a human judgement, entered by a person.

Hespia asks the same question but makes the risk call itself. It computes pace against the quarter on each key result, so 40 percent progress in week 6 is scored as behind rather than left for the owner to interpret. It then chases: timezone-aware weekly digests per owner, auto-drafted stakeholder review scripts, quarter retrospectives, and an OKR quality rubric that grades your objectives and key results before the quarter starts.

The honest summary: Tability is a better-built goal-tracking platform. Hespia is a narrower opinionated coach.

How much do they actually cost?

Tability publishes its pricing openly, and there is no free plan.

• Basic is $7 per user per month billed monthly, $6 billed annually.
• Premium is $12 per user per month billed monthly, $10 billed annually.
• Agentic is listed as coming soon at $25 monthly, $20 annually.
• Enterprise is contact-us.

Tability states there are no licensing or user minimums, and each paid user gets 2 free read-only seats.

Hespia is $100 per month flat for the whole team during its 2026 beta. No per-seat maths, no minimums.

So the crossover is roughly ten people. Ten users on Tability Premium annual is exactly $100 per month. A team of five on Tability Basic annual pays $30 per month, and Hespia is more than three times the price. A team of forty on Premium annual pays $400 per month, and Hespia is a quarter of it.

If you are under ten people, Tability wins on price, and it is not close.

How do they compare feature by feature?

Where is Tability genuinely stronger?

Most of this table goes Tability’s way.

• Price for small teams. Under ten people, Tability is cheaper, often much cheaper. A five-person startup on Basic annual pays $30 per month.
• Integrations and data connectors. Around thirty native integrations, and connectors that pull key result values straight from Google Sheets, a SQL database, Amplitude, Power BI or Tableau. Your KRs update without anyone typing a number. Hespia has nothing comparable.
• Enterprise controls. SAML SSO and SCIM on Premium, plus EU, AU and US hosting options for data residency. Hespia has neither yet.
• Strategy map and standups. Tability puts a strategy layer above the quarter and runs async daily standups. Hespia does neither.
• Maturity. Tability has been shipping OKR software for years with a real customer base. Hespia launched into beta in 2026 and has no comparable history.
• Template depth. Tability publishes a large searchable library of OKR examples and templates. Hespia ships 31 starter templates.

If integrations, SSO, data residency, a strategy map, or simply a proven vendor are on your must-have list, pick Tability. That is the right answer for most teams under ten people and for most regulated buyers.

Where is Hespia stronger?

• The tool makes the risk call, not the owner. Tability confidence colour is entered by the person doing the check-in, which means an optimistic owner keeps a KR green until it is obviously dead. Hespia computes pace against the quarter and flags a slip in week 4 whatever the owner types.
• Flat pricing above ten people. Rolling OKRs out to a whole company is where per-seat pricing bites. $100 per month does not change when you add the sales team.
• Chasing by default. Timezone-aware weekly digests land in each owner’s inbox at a sane local hour, so the default is that someone is nudged rather than that a dashboard waits to be visited.
• Quality before tracking. Hespia’s OKR quality rubric grades objectives and key results at the drafting stage. Most tools, Tability included, will happily track a badly written key result forever.
• Review and retro prep. Auto-drafted stakeholder review scripts and quarter retrospectives turn the readout into a confirmation rather than a scramble.

One thing that is not a Hespia advantage: MCP. Tability runs its own remote MCP server so you can query your OKRs from Claude or ChatGPT. Both products cover this.

Which one should you pick?

Pick Tability if you are under about ten people, if you need Jira, Linear, Slack or Teams wired in, if you want key results that update themselves from a database or spreadsheet, if you need SSO, SCIM or EU/AU data residency, or if you simply want a vendor with a track record. That covers a lot of teams, and it is the safer default.

Pick Hespia if you are over about ten people so flat pricing beats per-seat, and if your specific recurring failure is that goals stay green until the quarter ends. Hespia’s whole reason to exist is that a self-reported confidence rating is a lagging indicator and computed pace is not. It is new, in beta, and thin on integrations, so weigh that honestly.

Both offer a way to try before you commit, and running one quarter side by side costs less than a year on the wrong tool.

Try Hespia

If Tability’s breadth is more than you need and your real problem is goals that quietly stall until the readout, Hespia is worth a quarter. It is $100 per month flat for the whole team during the 2026 beta, and Hespia chases every key result for you. It is new and narrower than Tability, and Tability is the better pick for small or integration-heavy teams, so go in with clear eyes. Get started with Hespia.