7shifts vs iSpring Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Comp
- Basic scheduling
- One-way announcements
- Availability and time off requests
Essentials
- Advanced scheduling
- Team messaging and communication tools
- Basic time clocking
- Customizable permission settings
Pro
Popular- Track accruals and balances for PTO
- Labor compliance and labor cost tools
- Advanced time clocking tools
- Manager Log Book
Premium
- 7shifts Payroll
- Tip Management
- Task Management
- Permission templates for faster profile creation
- Advanced hourly labor forecast
- Advanced labor recommendations
- Advanced operational insights and reporting
- Employee Training
Business
- Training and user management automation
- Mobile apps with offline learning support
- Custom roles and permissions
- Unlimited performance review sessions
- Competency profile builder
- Visual reports
- Efficient training
- Structured assessment
- Comprehensive feedback
- Seamless scheduling
- Ready-made courses
- Course, quiz, and training program creation
- Unlimited projects
- Unlimited storage
- HTML5/SCORM courses
- Interactive quizzes
- Role-play simulations
- Training videos
- Text to speech
- Content Library
- Online reviewing tool
- API for custom integrations
- Training reports and analytics
- Report templates
- Scheduled reports
- Corporate newsfeed
- Corporate event announcements
- Interactive organizational chart
- Public user profile
- 24/7 live tech support
Enterprise
- Strong performance for up to 150,000 users
- On-premise installation available
- Dedicated premium support
- SSO and unlimited APIs
- Out-of-the-box integrations
7shifts vs iSpring FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- iSpring is the cheaper option, starting at $6/mo vs $44/mo for 7shifts.
- Can I use either one for free?
- 7shifts has a free plan. iSpring doesn't — though they do offer a free trial.
- How do they charge?
- Different approach here. 7shifts uses flat-rate pricing, while iSpring goes with per-seat. That changes the math depending on your team size and usage.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. 7shifts: They're mid-market — not the cheapest (free tools like basic Square scheduling exist) but well below enterprise workforce platforms. At $44.99–$149.99/location, they're squarely targeting independent restaurants and small chains who've outgrown pen-and-paper but can't justify an HCM suite. iSpring: This lands on the affordable end of the authoring-tool category, especially compared to Articulate 360 or Adobe Captivate, and the discount curve is clearly built to win larger training teams who'd otherwise get sticker shock scaling seat licenses. They're not competing on premium features — they're competing on making per-seat costs shrink fast enough that switching costs feel silly to ignore.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for 7shifts and iSpring and let you know when something moves.