Supervisible vs Float: The Float Alternative for Agencies That Don't Want Timesheets

Float has been the default answer to "how do we see who's working on what?" for years. It's good at it. But if you run an agency, the next question is usually "and are we making money on that work?", and that's where the two tools part ways.

Here's the honest comparison, including the places where Float is the better pick.

Supervisible vs Float at a glance

Float details from Float's pricing and integrations pages, checked October 9, 2026.

What's the core difference between Supervisible and Float?

Float is a scheduler first: every person gets a row, every project gets a color, and you drag work onto specific days. Supervisible is a weekly capacity and margin plan: you decide how many hours each person spends on each project per week, and it shows who's over, who's free, and what that plan does to each project's margin.

That sounds like a small difference. It isn't. Daily scheduling is what a production team needs to run Tuesday. Weekly planning is what an agency founder needs to answer "can we take this project, and who would do it?" on Monday.

Who should pick Float?

Float is the better choice if any of these are true:

• You schedule by the day. Float books hours or percentages on specific days. Supervisible doesn't do daily planning, and we're not going to pretend it does.
• You want time tracking in the same tool. Float Pro includes time tracking, prefilled timesheets, and planned-vs-actual reporting.
• You want to try it today. Float has a 30-day free trial with no credit card. Supervisible is demo-only right now.
• You're a small team on a tight budget. Under about 15 scheduled people on Starter, Float costs the same or less than Supervisible.
• You need enterprise extras. Float offers SSO, an Enterprise plan for 100+ seats, SLAs, and account management.
• Your stack runs through Zapier. Float connects to Asana, Basecamp, ClickUp, Jira and HubSpot through Zapier, plus Google and Outlook calendars.

Who should pick Supervisible?

Supervisible is the better choice if you run a 10-50 person agency and:

• Your team won't fill in timesheets, and you've stopped asking. Supervisible shows projected margin from planned hours times cost rates. Actuals are optional.
• You plan in weeks, not days. Most agency staffing questions are weekly: who's on which retainer, who has room next week, who's overbooked this month.
• Your headcount is growing. One flat price, no per-seat fees. Hiring person 31 doesn't change the bill.
• You want leave to show up in capacity without anyone re-entering it. Approve time off in Supervisible (or from Slack) and that person's available hours drop for those weeks. Full-day leave also lands in their Google Calendar as an out-of-office event.
• You want to ask your plan questions from Claude. Supervisible's MCP server lets authorized users ask "who's free next week?" from an AI assistant, with their own permissions.

We built Supervisible at Meaningful because we were running a scheduler and a margin spreadsheet side by side, and the spreadsheet was always a week behind. Honestly, that gap is the whole reason the product exists.

How much do Supervisible and Float cost for a 15- and 30-person agency?

Supervisible costs $129 a month or $1,188 a year at any team size. Float costs $7 or $12 per scheduled person per month billed annually, or $8.50 or $14 billed monthly, so the total moves with headcount.

Float prices from float.com/pricing, checked October 9, 2026. Float only charges for people on the schedule; non-scheduled guests are free.

Here's the thing: at 15 people, Float Starter and Supervisible cost about the same. The comparison that matters at that size is Float Pro, because that's where Float's finance dashboard and planned-vs-actual reports live, and it runs $2,160 a year against Supervisible's $1,188. At 30 people the gap is $1,332 to $3,132 a year, depending on the plan.

Does Supervisible need timesheets to show margins?

No. Supervisible calculates projected project margin from planned weekly hours multiplied by each person's cost rate, compared with the project's revenue. If someone records actual hours, you can compare them with the plan, but nothing in planning or margin depends on them.

Float can also plan without timesheets. Its planned-vs-actual and estimates-vs-actuals reporting, though, comes from time tracking on the Pro plan. If your team already logs time happily, that's a strength. If they don't (and in most agencies we talk to, they don't), it's a report that stays empty.

What can't Supervisible do that Float can?

Supervisible doesn't plan by the day, doesn't track time with timers, and doesn't offer a self-serve trial. It also doesn't automatically reschedule someone's work when their leave is approved: the leave reduces their capacity, and you move the work. If any of those is a deal-breaker, pick Float.

Is Supervisible a good Float alternative for agencies?

Yes, if you're an agency of 10-50 people whose real question is capacity plus margin, planned weekly, without timesheets. No, if you need a daily production schedule. For a three-way view that also covers Runn, read Supervisible vs Float vs Runn, or see how Runn and Float compare head to head.

Related reading: agency capacity planning, what a good utilization rate looks like, and how the vacation tracker feeds capacity.

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See your team's capacity and margin in one view. Supervisible is built by agency operators at Meaningful. We use it to plan our own team and see project margins without timesheets. One flat price for the whole agency. Request a demo →

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