Float vs. Capysaurus: booking hours into a calendar isn’t the same question as who’s overloaded
What Float does well
Float is a genuinely strong scheduling tool — dragging hours into calendar slots across people and projects, with a clean visual timeline that’s hard to beat for booking billable time.
It handles multi-project resource scheduling well, including time off, holidays, and hours-based reporting for teams that bill by the hour.
Its capacity views are built for agencies and studios that need to see who’s available and what’s coming next — spotting over- and under-booking across the roster before it bites.
What it can’t tell you
Whether a booked hour is a fair hour. Float tells you a slot is filled. It has no model of effort, difficulty, or whether the person in that slot is already stretched thin across three other things.
A free plan to stay on. There’s no permanently free tier — once the 30-day trial ends, every seat is $7–12/user.
Whether the work matches the person’s growth path. Float schedules time against a project. Its “roles” are rate cards and seniority tags for billing — there’s no growth or career-progression model, and no sense of whether an assignment is the right stretch for where someone is headed.
The difference that matters
Everyone else either ignores workload, or infers it by watching your work tools and reporting up to the boss. Capysaurus puts the same explicit capacity picture in front of the worker and the manager.
Float doesn’t infer or ignore — it’s honestly answering a different question. Float answers “is this hour booked.” Capysaurus answers “is this person overloaded,” which is a question about effort and fairness, not a calendar slot. You can book every hour on Float’s timeline and still have no idea who’s drowning.
Float vs. Capysaurus at a glance
| Float | Capysaurus | |
|---|---|---|
| Price for a team of 10 | $70–120/mo, no free tier | Free for teams up to 5; $29/mo flat above that |
| Capacity model | Hours booked into calendar slots | Explicit effort — sized by the team, not the clock |
| Who sees the data | Scheduling view, typically manager/ops-facing | Manager and team member see the same capacity picture |
| Contracts/minimums | Per-seat, no free tier | No seat minimum; free tier available |
| 1:1 prep source | No 1:1 workspace | Shared capacity dashboard, built for the 1:1 |
Who should pick Float
If your business runs on booking billable hours into calendar slots — a studio, an hourly consultancy, a shop where “is this person scheduled this week” is the actual question — Float genuinely wins. It’s built for that, and built well. Where it runs out is anything past the schedule: it can’t tell you whether a fully booked week is a fair one, because it was never asking about effort in the first place. That’s a different question, and it’s the one Capysaurus answers.
Every 1:1 starts on the same page.
Capysaurus preps your one-on-ones from capacity data you and your team both see — who’s stretched, who has room, who’s ready to grow.
No tracking. No timers. Just the shared picture of the work, and a better conversation about it.
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