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Pipefy vs Hive
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Pipefy and Hive — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Pipefy vs Hive: at a glance
What is Pipefy?
Pipefy ships 11 governance controls for AI agents: model choice, testing, monitoring, approvals.
Pipefy's latest entry is its first concrete product item in months: 11 updates for governing AI agents, covering which model each agent uses, how executions are tested and monitored, and when a decision needs human approval. The rest of the feed is recognition and content marketing, including an Oracle ISV Partner of the Year award and a Gartner Peer Insights placement.
What is Hive?
Hive turns reporting into a planning tool: shared inputs, grouped values, per-person drill-downs.
Hive's November releases have two tracks. Bulk work got easier with undo and redo, a rebuilt Workflows library and now setting or shifting dates across many actions at once. Reporting got deeper: on November 13 dashboards gained per-person burndown drill-downs, grouped custom-field values in charts, and formulas that read monthly capacity and factors stored in Tables.
Pipefy vs Hive: editorial side-by-side
Pipefy
5.0PM
Pipefy ships 11 governance controls for AI agents: model choice, testing, monitoring, approvals.
◆ Current state
Pipefy's latest entry is its first concrete product item in months: 11 updates for governing AI agents, covering which model each agent uses, how executions are tested and monitored, and when a decision needs human approval. The rest of the feed is recognition and content marketing, including an Oracle ISV Partner of the Year award and a Gartner Peer Insights placement.
◆ Where it's heading
Pipefy keeps pitching governance rather than speed, and it now has product behind that claim. Its essays on agentic AI and legacy integration all point toward controlled AI agents running on top of existing systems.
◆ Prediction
Expect follow-up posts expanding on individual controls, such as cost tracking per model or approval steps, rather than a new product line.
Hive
6.3COLLABPM
Hive turns reporting into a planning tool: shared inputs, grouped values, per-person drill-downs.
◆ Current state
Hive's November releases have two tracks. Bulk work got easier with undo and redo, a rebuilt Workflows library and now setting or shifting dates across many actions at once. Reporting got deeper: on November 13 dashboards gained per-person burndown drill-downs, grouped custom-field values in charts, and formulas that read monthly capacity and factors stored in Tables.
◆ Where it's heading
Dashboards are moving from showing tracked time toward capacity planning, with shared inputs that update every report when edited. Bulk editing keeps reaching more views, and each new bulk action ships with undo.
◆ Prediction
Expect more report widgets to accept Tables inputs and drill-downs, and bulk actions extending to fields beyond dates and status.
Pipefy alternatives
Other PM products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Tap any card for the full editorial trajectory or compare directly with Pipefy.
Asana
Asana lets Division admins run their own custom roles, on top Enterprise plans only.
NocoBase
NocoBase's v3 beta lets apps ship their own CLI, separate from Agents.
Productboard
Productboard's v2 documents API now keeps plain web addresses and emoji as ordinary text.
Tracecat
Tracecat 1.5 alpha patches add sub-cases and lock down agent sandboxes.
SmartSuite
SmartSuite adds tracked changes to SmartDocs, so policy edits need an approver.
Hive alternatives
Other PM products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Tap any card for the full editorial trajectory or compare directly with Hive.
Interact
Interact opens its intranet to outside AI assistants and uses Claude to attack its own platform.
Nextcloud
Nextcloud's November patches lean on preview speed and sharing fixes across three branches.
Mattermost
Mattermost v12.1 puts bots and burn-after-reading messages under the same access rules.
Asana
Asana lets Division admins run their own custom roles, on top Enterprise plans only.
Double
Double turns a recorded Chrome session into an agent that repeats the task.
SiYuan
SiYuan 3.8.11 alphas add freeform mind maps and plugin snapshots right after 3.8.10.
Recent activity from Pipefy and Hive
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoHiveCharts can group custom field values into categories
- 1d agoHiveReporting formulas can use values stored in Tables
- 1d agoHiveBurndown chart points open a per-person breakdown
- 1d agoHiveSet, shift or clear dates across many actions at once
- 2d agoHiveWorkflows library beta adds filters, grouping and bulk actions
- 3d agoHiveUndo and redo for bulk action changes
- 10d agoPipefyAI Agent Governance: 11 Pipefy Updates for Scaling AI with Control
- 17d agoPipefyPipefy Named ISV Partner of the Year at the Oracle Partner Awards 2026
- 22d agoPipefyUp to 260% ROI with a Workflow Automation Platform: Real Results from 10 Companies That Orchestrated Their Workflows with AI on Pipefy
- 25d agoPipefyPipefy Named a Strong Performer in the Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies
- 1mo agoPipefyAI ROI: 5 Metrics to Measure the Return of Artificial Intelligence in Operations
- 1mo agoPipefyAgentic AI for Enterprise: Why Using AI No Longer Sets Your Company Apart
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Pipefy and Hive?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Hive is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Pipefy better than Hive?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Hive is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other PM products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Pipefy?
Top Pipefy alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Pipefy alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/pipefy for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Hive?
Top Hive alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Hive alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/hive for the full list with editorial commentary on each.