deskbird

deskbird appears independent and active; no acquisition or rename was found. It is one of the few vendors in this category to publish actual per-user rates in multiple named currencies, which makes it unusually easy to budget.

The only priced plan is Business, charged per active user per month with a minimum of 25 users. The published figures, annual then monthly billing, are: USD 3.75 and 4.75; EUR 2.75 and 3.50; CHF 2.75 and 3.50; GBP 2.50 and 3.25. Two further rows at 5.00 and 6.50, and 5.50 and 7.25, correspond by position in the currency selector to CAD and AUD respectively, but the page does not label each figure with its ISO code, so those two are inferred by position and should be confirmed. Professional and Enterprise tiers are custom priced with no figures, quoted via a demo or a sales conversation. There is no free plan, but the FAQ states there is a free trial with no credit card needed, and that after the trial you can either upgrade or stay on a Starter plan limited to 15 users. The page gives no Starter pricing or detail, so whether Starter is free or paid is unverified; it is recorded here as unknown rather than assumed to be a free tier.

The integration story is the strongest in this set after Robin, and in some respects stronger. deskbird describes itself as native in MS Teams so employees use its features without switching apps, and separately lists a Microsoft Outlook add-in for integration directly within Outlook. Bookings sync to Google Calendar and Microsoft 365 Calendar, with personal and resource calendars kept in sync across both. Slack carries booking and check-in updates and shares work locations. Crucially for IT, deskbird lists SCIM for automated user provisioning and management, plus SSO across OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0 and FIDO2 with named options including Custom SAML2, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace SSO, Okta, OneLogin and Keycloak. Google Workspace user and group sync is included. An Open API is offered for access control systems and workflow automation, with documented use cases spanning analytics and business intelligence, finance and cost control, facility management, sustainability and reporting, and smart office scenarios.

Beyond calendars there are ticketing integrations with Jira and ServiceNow, access control with Gallagher and Salto Systems, hardware and signage with Embrava, Iiyama, ProDVX and Tapirx, and a long HRIS list including Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, BambooHR, Personio and ADP. Even so, deskbird does not state that bookings can be created from the Outlook or Teams calendar as opposed to appearing in it, so calendar-native booking remains the one thing to test.

deskbird fits organisations with many employees and many desks, where per-user billing is cheaper than per-space, and where IT governance matters. The combination of SCIM provisioning, SAML 2.0 and FIDO2 SSO, Entra ID and Okta support, and HRIS sync from Workday or SAP SuccessFactors is the kind of plumbing that decides enterprise procurement, and it is more fully documented here than by most competitors of comparable price. Active-user billing also means low-attendance hybrid patterns cost less than headcount would suggest.

At USD 3.75 per active user per month on annual billing, deskbird is also simply cheap relative to this category, and the published multi-currency rates let a European or Swiss buyer model cost in their own currency without a quote. The 25-user minimum rules out very small teams on the Business plan, though the FAQ mentions a 15-user Starter plan whose terms are not published.

It is a poor fit if you have few bookable spaces and many people, where Skedda per-space pricing wins outright. It is also not a space management product: nothing in the published material suggests stack and block planning, chargeback, BOMA reporting or portfolio analysis, and sensors are not among the listed integrations despite the blog addressing occupancy measurement without them. Organisations needing real estate planning should pair deskbird with a space tool or look at Kadence SpaceOps, Serraview or Archibus.

Typical use cases: mid-sized and large hybrid organisations hot-desking at scale, Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace estates wanting SCIM-provisioned desk booking, and multinational buyers needing published rates in EUR, GBP or CHF.