Comparison
Powell, Omnia, Staffbase and the rest sell a complete intranet platform, priced per user and quoted by a salesperson. If you are replacing an intranet, that is money well spent. If you already run SharePoint and the honest problem is that it looks dated and is missing a proper org chart, staff directory and calendar, you are about to licence a platform to solve a web-part problem.
We do not quote their prices, because they do not publish any. Put your own quote next to £990 a year and the comparison makes itself.
| Glow Cloud Kit | Intranet platforms | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | £99/mo, published, flat for the whole tenant | By quote. Powell states pricing is tailored to the number of users |
| What happens when you grow | Nothing. It is licensed per tenant, not per head | Per-user pricing scales with headcount |
| How you buy | Online, on a card, 14-day free trial, cancel anytime | Contact sales for a quote |
| What you are buying | 18 web parts that improve the SharePoint intranet you already run | A complete intranet platform, with its own layer over Microsoft 365 |
| Provisioning, templates and lifecycle | Not included. That is governance tooling, not a web part | Included, and generally done well |
| Mobile app, multilingual comms, targeted news | Not included | Typically included |
| Readership analytics | None, by design. Nothing records who opened what | A headline feature: who read which post |
| Getting started | Upload to your app catalog and configure in an afternoon | An implementation project, often with a partner |
| Effect on your existing intranet | Adds to it. Your sites, pages and content stay as they are | Reshapes it around the platform's own structure |
One question decides this, and it is not a feature comparison: are you replacing your intranet, or improving it?
The short version: an intranet platform is the right purchase when the intranet itself is the problem. It is an expensive way to get an org chart.
Glow Cloud Kit does not replace anything. It installs into the SharePoint you already run, leaves your sites and content where they are, and gives you the 18 parts that should have been in the box. If that turns out not to be enough, you have spent £99 a month finding out, and the platforms will still be there.
£99/mo for all 18, or £29/mo per part. 14-day free trial, a card is required to start, cancel anytime, no licence keys.
Weighing something else up? These cover the other ways teams solve this.
A focused, affordable ShortPoint alternative - 18 purpose-built web parts at a fraction of the cost, unlimited sites, self-serve, no tracking.
Plumsail prices its org chart by employee count - cross a band and the price steps up. Ours has no employee bands, and the whole kit costs less than one banded renewal surprise.
TeamOrgChart steps from $25 to $60 to $140 a month as you hire. Glow Cloud Kit - Org Chart is £29/mo at any headcount, or the whole kit for £99.
A native SharePoint social feed instead of a third-party embed - no iframes, no view limits, no vendor branding, and nothing tracking which staff read what.
Building one is easy. Owning it through five years of SPFx versions is the part nobody budgets for - with real maintenance numbers from our own repositories.
Based on publicly available information as of August 2026. No competitor price is quoted here because none is published: Powell's pricing page states that plans are tailored to the number of users and directs visitors to its sales team, and Omnia and Staffbase are likewise quote-led. Platform capabilities vary by vendor and by tier, and the conceded rows above are generalisations across the category rather than claims about any one product - check the specific vendor before deciding. Powell, Omnia and Staffbase are trademarks of their respective owners; this page is independent and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any of them.