Which product is the official one?

The publisher's own software is the only one that can claim that, and its site describes it as the official product for running the method. Two others hold licenses, which permits them to use the official terminology inside their products but does not make them the publisher's software. The rest are independent and say so. Any vendor implying more than that is stretching the word.

Do we need any of this software?

Not at the start. One spreadsheet, one document and a repeating calendar entry will carry the whole rhythm through your first few quarters, and the constraint is useful: it forces the team to argue about which numbers belong on the sheet instead of filling in boxes a product designer chose. Pay for something once the manual copying starts costing more than the subscription.

What does the software cost against everything else?

Very little. Ten seats on a middle plan runs about $1,176 a year at Ninety's discounted rate and about $1,680 at its regular one, using the published August 2026 prices. A first year with an implementer runs into the tens of thousands. If a decision between two of these products is taking your leadership team more than one meeting, the time is worth more than the difference in the bill.

Can we move our data if we change our minds later?

The short artifacts do: retyping a two-page plan, a seat chart and one quarter of priorities is an afternoon of work. Carry across roughly two months of figures so the fresh sheet opens with a direction rather than one reading, and park the rest in a spreadsheet. What rarely survives is the record of past meetings, so put the export question to a salesperson while you are still a prospect.

Software roundup

Best EOS software: five products compared

Five products serve companies running EOS®, and they are more alike than any vendor would like you to believe. All five hold the same artifacts: a plan on two pages, a chart of seats, weekly numbers, quarterly priorities, an issues list and an agenda. What separates them is how they bill you, where they live, and how strictly they hold to the method as written.

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The short answer, then the reasoning

There is no best product here, only a best fit, and it falls out of three questions. How many people will hold a login. Whether your company already lives inside Microsoft Teams. And whether you want a tool that holds the method rigidly or one that bends when your company does. Answer those three and the field usually narrows to one.

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Start with headcount, because it moves the bill more than any feature. Four of the five charge for every person you add. One charges a flat monthly membership with unlimited seats. Under about thirty logins at a discounted rate, or twenty at a regular one, the per-seat products are cheaper by a lot. Past that, the flat fee pulls ahead and keeps pulling.

The third question is about the method itself. Two of these vendors hold a license from EOS Worldwide, one is the publisher's own product, and two are independent and openly serve other systems as well. A team that expects to keep the method for a decade should lean toward the strict end. A team that already borrows from elsewhere should lean the other way, and should not feel bad about it.

Choosing the weekly numbers

The step most teams skip: deciding what belongs on the sheet before anything holds it.

What the whole thing costs

Implementer session rates and a realistic first year, so the software line sits in proportion.

Five products and the option nobody sells you, on what each vendor publishes about itself. Prices and claims read off the companies' live pages in August 2026; anything a page leaves out is written here as unpublished.
Product	What it charges	Free tier	What sets it apart	Best fit
Ninety	Four plans per user per month: free, then $8.40, $9.80 and $11.20, each listed against a higher regular price. Half price for nonprofits.	The most generous free plan here. It carries the V/TO®, the Accountability Chart™, the assessments and read access to the reference library.	The largest of the five, with the best free reference material anywhere: an ungated glossary of roughly eighty five terms. Licensed since 2023, then widened to run other systems.	A small leadership group wanting a modest invoice, a free plan to fall back on, and the best library to learn the method from.
Success.co	A single paid plan called All Inclusive, priced by the head, with five brackets by team size and a lower rate per person in each larger one. Single sign-on and directory sync cost $250 a month apiece.	Yes. Free Forever covers the two-page plan, the seat chart and the checkup with no time limit and no seat limit.	The strictest of the five. An official licensee badge, the label EOS-Pure, and no setting anywhere to rename the vocabulary. Built with more than thirty implementers, it says.	A team that wants the software to be an argument-settler about how the method is supposed to work, with no options to drift.
Bloom Growth	Three flat monthly memberships with unlimited seats: $299, $499 and $999. One of the company's coaches can be attached to any of them for $2,500 a month and up.	No permanent free plan published. A free trial of a membership is offered, and the page does not state its length.	The only one that stops charging as you grow, and the only one selling its own coaching alongside the software. Its top tier lets you rename the terminology.	A company past roughly thirty logins, or one that wants the tool and a coach on a single invoice.
Strety	One rate per user per month: $13 in the United States, CA$15 in Canada, AU$15 in Australia. No free plan is listed.	None published. A thirty day trial runs without a card.	It runs inside Microsoft Teams as a native app with single sign-on, so the meeting happens where people already are. Slack appears among its listed integrations rather than as a second native home.	A Microsoft-centered company whose people will not reliably open one more browser tab.
EOS One™	The first user is free permanently, and every additional user is $10 a month. One product, no feature tiers and no add-ons.	Yes, in an unusual shape: a single seat that never expires, which suits a founder trying the tools out alone.	The publisher's own software, called on its site the official product for running the method, so it tracks the tools rather than interpreting them.	A team that wants no gap between what a coach teaches and what the screen shows, at one flat rate per seat with nothing to choose.
A spreadsheet and a calendar invite	Nothing beyond what you already pay for.	Entirely, which is the point.	It holds the numbers and the plan perfectly well, and it makes the team decide what belongs there rather than filling in somebody else's fields.	Every company in its first few quarters, and plenty of small teams for good.

Which one for whom, in plain terms

Six people and a tight budget: Ninety, or nothing at all yet. A team that wants the method held rigidly: Success.co. Past twenty to thirty logins, depending on the rate you are quoted: Bloom Growth. A company that runs on Microsoft Teams: Strety. A founder who wants the publisher's own tools with no interpretation: the official product from EOS Worldwide.

The small and thrifty case is the most common one we see, and Ninety is the easy answer because you can start at zero. Put the plan and the seat chart in the free plan, keep the numbers in a sheet, and upgrade the month you tire of retyping them.

The rigidity case matters more than it sounds. Some leadership teams argue endlessly about how the method is meant to work, usually because two people read the book and remember different halves. Software with no alternatives ends that argument. If your team has the habit, buy the strict one and let the interface referee.

The scale case is arithmetic, not preference. Once managers below the leadership team run the same weekly meeting, logins multiply fast, and a flat membership stops the bill from tracking that rollout.

The Microsoft case is about friction, nothing else. Adoption of a weekly rhythm fails on small obstacles, and one of the smallest and most lethal is a tool that lives somewhere people do not already have open. If your company is a Teams company, that single fact outweighs most of the feature differences on this page.

Ninety against Success.co

The two licensed products in detail: one broad and multi-method, one deliberately narrow.

Ninety against Bloom Growth

Per-seat billing set against a flat membership, with the crossover point worked out.

Templates before software

A meeting running order and a first draft number sheet, free and with no email form in the way.

Where roundups like this usually mislead

Scored lists are the main offender. A number out of ten implies the products differ far more than they do, and it hides the fact that the right answer swings on headcount and habit rather than features. Two other traps: buying in month one, and assuming a license makes a product official.

On scores, consider what is being measured. Every one of these tools holds the same handful of artifacts, because the method has that handful. The genuine differences are billing model, host application and strictness, and none of those compress into a rating out of ten.

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How to run a trial that tells you something

Trial two products at most, at the same time, with the same real data, for three consecutive weekly meetings. Anything less than three meetings tests the setup screens rather than the tool. Anything more than two products means nobody finishes either one, and you end up choosing on the demo you remember best.

Use live numbers, not sample data. Take whatever figures you already have, in whatever state, and load them into both. A sheet with history behaves differently from an empty one: trends appear, one row turns out to be impossible to maintain, and somebody discovers their number has no owner.

Give accounts to the people who will use them, including the executive least interested in new software. That person is the real test. If they open it three weeks running without being chased, you have your answer.

Finally, ask each vendor in writing what an export contains before the trial ends. Every product here holds your plan, your numbers and your meeting history, and the answer to that question is the difference between switching later in an afternoon and being stuck. Vendors answer it readily while you are still a prospect.

Ninety vs Success.co: which EOS app fits
Ninety and Success.co set side by side on price, free tiers, how closely each one follows the method, and what the two publish about themselves.
Ninety vs Bloom Growth: seats or flat fee
Per-user pricing set against a flat monthly membership, with the headcount where the cost crosses over and what else separates the two products.
Free EOS tools you can run in the browser
Four free tools for your leadership team on EOS®: build a Scorecard, check readiness, find the right implementer route, and prepare for the first call.
EOS tools, explained one at a time
Every EOS® tool on its own page: the Level 10 Meeting, Accountability Chart, V/TO and People Analyzer, what each is for, and how first-year teams misuse it.
How much does EOS cost? Implementer fees by tier (2026)
Real numbers: EOS® implementer session fees by tier, what year one and a two-year engagement add up to, self-implementation costs, and a cost calculator.
KPIs and EOS: build a Scorecard that predicts results
Where KPIs fit inside EOS®: the weekly Scorecard, 5 to 15 measurables, one owner each, and a simple picker to draft yours by industry in a few minutes.

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