Pebb vs Deputy: Employee App vs Compliance Scheduler

Deputy is a scheduling engine: auto-scheduling, demand forecasting, biometric punches, and Fair Workweek-style rules. Communication is thinner, with a news feed and basic messaging. Richer chat is Messaging+ at $1.95 per user per month unless you choose Pro at $9.

Pebb is the daily employee app. Shifts and GPS clock-in sit next to team chat. Premium adds calls, news feed, PTO, tasks, forms, wiki, analytics, and SSO. Basic is $2.50 per user per month and Premium is $4. Chat is not an add-on. There is no free plan. The trial is the full product, with no credit card.

This Deputy alternative is for 11–80 person construction, field, security, warehouse, hospitality, and multi-location teams that bought a scheduler and still run the day in WhatsApp. If Fair Workweek templates and demand forecasting are why you opened Deputy, keep Deputy for that.

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At a glance

Pick Pebb if you want chat, shifts, GPS clock-in, timesheets, and (on Premium) calls, PTO, tasks, forms, and a wiki billed per person. Spaces are unlimited and chat is org-wide. Pebb does not run payroll, does not claim Fair Workweek auto-compliance, and does not do live GPS breadcrumbs. Offline does not fully work.

Pick Deputy if building the roster under labor rules is the hard problem: auto-scheduling, demand forecasting, biometric kiosks, and advanced labor-law compliance. Ke

Pricing and plans

USD, excluding tax. Deputy list prices from deputy.com/pricing: Lite $5, Core $6.50, and Pro $9 per user per month. Minimum monthly spend is $30 USD per invoice on monthly Lite, Core, and Pro. Messaging+ is $1.95 per user per month and is included in Pro. Analytics+ is $1.50 and included in Pro. HR is $2 per user. Deputy Payroll via Paycor is a separate line for eligible US plans.

Pebb has no free plan and no published monthly minimum. Basic is $2.50 per user. Premium is $4 per user. Trial is everything, with no card.

Ten people

Pebb Basic is $25. Premium is $40. Deputy Lite is $50 list and Core is $65; Core plus Messaging+ is $84.50.

Twenty-five people

Pebb Basic is $62.50 and Premium is $100. Deputy Lite is $125, Core is $162.50, Core plus Messaging+ is $211.25, and Pro is $225 with Messaging+ and Analytics+ included. At forty people: Pebb Basic $100, Premium $160, Deputy Lite $200, Core $260, Core plus Messaging+ $338, Pro $360. Admins count as Deputy users too.

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Pros and cons

Pebb

Pros

• Per-user price with chat on Basic and calls on Premium. No Messaging+ upsell.

• - Unlimited Spaces on Basic and Premium. A Managers Space can be feed, group chat, and private files. A site Space can be shifts, clock-in, and forms.

• - Chat is org-wide, outside Spaces. Time Off is org-wide on Premium.

• - Tasks, forms, wiki, analytics, and SSO included on Premium.

• - GPS clock-in with optional near-branch validation. Open shifts.

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• Cons

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• - No free plan.

• - No AI demand forecasting or Fair Workweek auto-compliance pack like Deputy’s specialist desk.ep it if Deputy Payroll via Paycor or Messaging+ on a compliance desk is load-bearing.