Hive

Hive Review: AI-Integrated Project Management for Teams That Want It All

Hive arrived in 2015 with an emphasis on flexibility and collaboration, but its more recent positioning centres on AI integration. The platform's AI toolkit — meeting summarisation, task AI, HiveMind search, and email drafting — is more comprehensive than most PM tools have built natively, even if it remains behind purpose-built AI tools in individual capability.

AI Feature Suite

Hive's AI integration is more thorough than most PM competitors. HiveGPT offers task description writing, status updates, and meeting notes summarisation within the tool. HiveMind allows natural language search across projects, tasks, messages, and uploaded files — functioning as a workspace knowledge base search that reduces time spent hunting for information across channels.

Meeting AI is particularly useful for teams with heavy Zoom and Google Meet usage. Post-meeting transcripts are summarised with key decisions and action items, which can be converted to Hive tasks with a single click. For teams whose project coordination happens in meetings, this reduces the gap between what was decided and what actually gets recorded in the PM tool.

The honest caveat: individual AI features in Hive are less polished than dedicated tools. HiveGPT is less fluent than ChatGPT. Meeting summarisation misses nuance compared to Fireflies.ai or Otter.ai. But having these capabilities integrated into the PM workflow — with task creation tightly coupled — provides workflow efficiency that outweighs the quality gap for many users.

Project Views and Flexibility

Hive's view system is extensive: Gantt, kanban, calendar, table, portfolio, and team resource views are all available. The Gantt includes dependency mapping and baseline comparison. The team resource view shows allocation per person across projects — useful for basic capacity planning.

The interface design is cleaner than Zoho Projects or Teamwork and comparable to monday.com in visual quality. Navigation is intuitive enough for non-PM roles to participate without training investment.

Integrations

Hive's 1,000+ integrations include deep native connections with Google Workspace (Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Meet), Slack, Zoom, Salesforce, HubSpot, and GitHub. For teams standardised on Google Workspace, the bidirectional Google Calendar sync and Gmail integration make Hive one of the most deeply connected PM tools in the category.

Pricing and Value

At $12/user/month for the Teams plan, Hive is priced above monday.com Standard ($12) and meaningfully above Teamwork Deliver ($9.99), Wrike Team ($9.80), and Zoho Projects Premium ($4). For the pricing to make sense, teams need to value the AI integration and Google Workspace depth over the feature-per-dollar comparison.

The free plan is very restricted — only 2 users — making it impractical as a genuine trial for most teams. A more generous free tier (like monday.com's 2-seat free or Jira's 10-user free) would help.

Verdict

Hive is a credible choice for teams that want AI integrated into their PM workflow without a separate AI subscription, and that are deeply embedded in Google Workspace. The AI features are broadly useful if not category-leading. The pricing requires genuine value from AI features or Google integration to justify over cheaper alternatives.

Score: 7.7/10 — Solid AI integration and Google Workspace depth; pricing and free tier are competitive weaknesses.