Bloom Growth isn't only software. It sells a growth system, coaches, a community and a platform, and it prices the platform flat with unlimited users. Few products match all of that, so a like-for-like replacement is the wrong thing to look for. A better approach is to decide what you would keep and what you would stop paying for.
A 12-person company paying $299 a month might only want cheaper meeting software. A 90-person company with a coach might only want a different coach. Those people need different answers, and most of this page is sorted by that.
Which part of Bloom Growth are you replacing?
| What you want to change | Look at | Keep in mind |
|---|---|---|
| The price, on a small team | EOS One, Strety, Ninety | They charge per seat, so the saving shrinks as you grow |
| Meeting and accountability software only | Strety, Ninety | You will lose the bundled community and playbooks |
| The method: you want OKRs | Perdoo | A goal-setting tool, without Bloom's weekly rhythm |
| The coach | An EOS Implementer with any EOS tool | Coaching is a separate purchase, and the software matters less |
| The whole idea of a framework | Wave, Nautis | You are changing how you run the company, and not just the tool |
If you run EOS, stay with a tool built for it. EOS® is a trademark of EOS Worldwide. Our page on EOS for startups can help if you are questioning the method itself.
When a flat fee stops being a good deal
Bloom Growth's main selling point on price is that it has no per-user charge: $299 a month on Core, $499 on Scale and $999 on Flourish, as of October 2026, on a month-to-month basis. That favours large teams and costs small ones more per head. Here's the arithmetic against the per-seat tools.
| Paid seats | Bloom Core | EOS One | Strety | Ninety Essentials | Ninety Thrive |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | $299 | $90 | About $130 | $120 | $160 |
| 20 | $299 | $190 | About $260 | $240 | $320 |
| 30 | $299 | $290 | About $390 | $360 | $480 |
| 50 | $299 | $490 | Under $650 | $600 | $800 |
So below about 19 seats, every option in the table costs less than Bloom Core. Around 30 seats, even EOS One catches up. These sums compare platforms only. Core's price also buys community access, its library of playbooks and a Transcriber with AI summaries. Decide what those are worth to you before you call a per-seat tool cheaper. The numbers also hide a tier decision: Bloom's AI meeting prep and pattern detection start at Scale, which moves the comparison to $499.
Bloom Growth alternatives for the same weekly rhythm
Strety
Strety is the option with the broadest bundle in one price. About $13 a user covers EOS tools, Projects, Playbooks, Performance, Surveys and Check-ins, month to month with no contract or seat minimum. Up to two coaches join free, and its pricing page states an organization-wide data export. Choose it if you run EOS with an implementer and also want reviews and engagement surveys. It's less suited to teams running Scaling Up or Pinnacle, since its product is explicitly EOS software.
Ninety
Ninety's plans climb from $12 to $16 a user, with a $0 plan for the V/TO and Accountability Chart. Its homepage FAQ says it supports other systems too, naming Empire, Fireproof and Pinnacle next to EOS, which matters if you left EOS for one of those. Its Maz AI is on Thrive, can create or update Rocks, To-Dos and Issues, and asks you to review changes first. Choose it if you want a large installed product: its pricing page cites 18,695+ companies. Annual plans earn 10% off but carry no refund for unused licences.
EOS One
EOS One comes from EOS Worldwide itself and has a single plan: first user free, then $10 a user a month, with Atlas AI, meeting transcription and meeting prep included. On those terms it's the simplest of the three to price. Choose it if you want to stick closely to the official method at low cost. It describes itself as the official EOS software, so look elsewhere if you run a different framework.
If you would rather use OKRs
Perdoo describes itself as strategy execution software and a system of record for strategy. It covers OKRs and KPIs, Strategy Maps, projects and tasks, meetings, and check-ins and reviews, with an AI agent called Spark and a coach called Vince on paid plans. Free covers up to 5 users. Its pricing page shows Premium at €6.40 and Supreme at €8.00 per user a month, billed annually or quarterly, but those figures appear next to a total that matches 100 users, and it says the per-user price falls as you add licences. Expect a smaller team to see a higher rate, and confirm it in their calculator.
Perdoo's page doesn't mention EOS. It suits a company that sets goals at company, team and person level and wants them traced to strategy. It gives you less of the prescribed weekly meeting discipline that Bloom teaches. If you are torn, read EOS vs Scaling Up vs OKRs before you trial anything.
What replaces the coach?
Bloom's coach add-on starts at +$2,500 a month, on top of your plan. If that's the line you want to cut, be careful about what you expect from a software substitute. Bloom's own coaches page describes people spending 60 to 120 days a year working alongside leadership teams, and no AI feature in this list does that.
You have three realistic routes. You can hire an EOS Implementer and use any EOS tool, and both Strety and EOS One provide coach seats for this. You can use a fractional operator for a few months while one internal person learns to run the sessions. Or you can run the rhythm yourselves from Bloom's Core plan and its included library, which is the cheapest choice and works only if someone senior will truly own it. AI tools can prepare the meeting, summarise it and chase the actions. They can't push back on your priorities in the room.
For startups that don't want a framework
If your company has eight people and you signed up for an operating system because everything felt chaotic, you may not need one of these methods yet. Your bigger issue might be scattered records and missed follow-ups. Two products aim at that, and both call themselves operating systems for startups.
- Wave (ourwave.io, not Wave accounting) bundles Projects, Goals, Scorecards, a CRM, Phone, Mail Campaigns, Meetings and 1-on-1s with AI agents. Plans cover 2, 8 and 25 team members, at $20, $50 and $150 a month on its comparison table, with $38 and $64 shown as the billed-monthly figures for the first two. It suits a small team that sells actively. We couldn't confirm from its public pages how agent approvals work.
- Nautis is our product. Plans are $49, $99 and $129 a month for 5, 10 and 25 members, with a 14-day trial and no card. It holds a fundraising pipeline, runway, invoices, leads and tasks, and a Chief of Staff ranks the day and asks before acting. It has no EOS or OKR tooling, no coach and no community, it launched only in July 2026, and credits are capped by plan. A company committed to EOS should look at the tools above. See Nautis vs Bloom Growth for the direct comparison.
Keep Bloom Growth if any of these is true
- You have more than about 30 people who need a seat. The flat fee will beat any seat-based tool here, and at 80 people it's under $4 a head on Core.
- You run Scaling Up or Pinnacle and want those terms in the software. Bloom says it supports these, and it can rename labels, with full terminology control on Flourish.
- Your coach is working. Replacing a coach who has changed how your team behaves to save money on software is a poor swap.
- You use the community. Peers running the same system are hard to rebuild, and the pages we read for the other options here don't describe the same thing.
- You are unhappy with one part only. Bloom's plans are month to month, and it says you can upgrade at any time, so try a different tier or ask them what can change before you spend a quarter moving.
Our business operating system guide explains the category if you want to step back, and the Ninety alternatives page adds Rhythm Systems for mid-market firms.
FAQ
Which Bloom Growth alternatives suit a small team?
For a team under about 20 paid seats that wants the same weekly rhythm, per-seat tools cost less: EOS One at $10 a user after the first, Strety at about $13, or Ninety at $12 to $16, as of October 2026. If you don't want a framework at all, look at Wave or Nautis.
What does Bloom Growth charge, and is it per user?
It charges per organization, not per user: as of October 2026, Bloom Core is $299, Scale $499 and Flourish $999 a month, each with unlimited users. A coach is an add-on starting at $2,500 a month. Plans run month to month.
Was Bloom Growth built for EOS?
Bloom says its original platform was built for EOS's six components and still supports them. It now says any business OS can run on it, and names Scaling Up and Pinnacle, alongside its own Growth System.
Do I need a coach to use one of these tools?
No. EOS One lists self-serve setup, and Strety says no formal training is required for a first L10. But a coach does different work from software, and a team that struggles to hold itself accountable won't fix that by switching tools.
Disclosure: We make Nautis, which appears on this list, so we aren't neutral. The list draws on published information, not a scored hands-on test. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we will correct it.
Sources
- Bloom Growth: pricing (checked Oct 31, 2026)
- Bloom Growth: coaches overview (checked Oct 31, 2026)
- Bloom Growth: working with an OS (checked Oct 31, 2026)
- Strety: pricing (checked Oct 31, 2026)
- Ninety: pricing (checked Oct 31, 2026)
- Ninety: Maz AI (checked Oct 31, 2026)
- EOS One: pricing (checked Oct 31, 2026)
- Perdoo: pricing (checked Oct 31, 2026)
- Perdoo: homepage (checked Oct 31, 2026)
- Wave (ourwave.io): pricing (checked Oct 31, 2026)