As of 6 Nov 2026, the panel rates anny 3/5 and Skedda 3/5 in Desk Booking & Hybrid Workplace. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 5 of the 6 judges pick anny and 0 pick Skedda, 1 calls it a tie. anny scores higher on 5 of 7 criteria (European sovereignty, Hybrid work coordination, Pricing transparency, plus 2 more). Skedda scores higher on 1 of 7 criteria (Check-in, auto-release & booking rules). Provenance — anny: EU-Made; Skedda: Rest of world, United States. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
On the computed table, anny leads booking and floorplans 7.2 to 6.7, hybrid coordination 4.5 to 3.8, integration and administration 7.3 to 7.0, pricing transparency 6.3 to 5.7, and sovereignty 7.0 to 4.0, where 6 judges lean anny and 0 lean Skedda. Skedda's clear lead is check-in and rules, 7.0 to 6.0, with 5 judges leaning Skedda and 1 tie. Occupancy analytics splits genuinely: identical 6.2 means, 1 lean each way, 4 ties. anny's verdict states hosting on servers in Germany; Skedda's attributes list US jurisdiction and non-EU data residency, its verdict citing Azure hosting in the USA and SOC 2 Type II. Weighted totals favor anny on five judges — 6.9 to 6.0 for the IT admin judge — and sit even at 6.3 to 6.3 for the workplace-manager judge. With the lean differing by criterion, this page declares no overall winner.
Choose anny if
You need hosting stated on servers in Germany — anny's verdict records exactly that, and sovereignty reads 7.0 to 4.0 with 6 judges leaning anny, 0 Skedda, 0 tie.
Your admins build floorplans and booking flows themselves — booking and floorplans leans anny 7.2 to 6.7, 3 judges to 0 with 3 ties, and the verdict credits administrator-edited 3D maps for desks, rooms and parking.
You coordinate hybrid presence — hybrid coordination leans anny 4.5 to 3.8, 4 judges to 0 with 2 ties, though the verdict records no public information on seeing which colleagues plan to be in, booking next to a colleague, or team days.
You want public per-resource rates before committing — anny publishes 5,00 €, 10,00 € and 15,00 € per month, its terms add an unpublished monthly base rate, and pricing transparency leans anny 6.3 to 5.7, 4 judges to 0 with 2 ties.
Your login stack is Entra ID, Okta or another SAML2/OIDC provider with Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace calendars — integration and administration reads 7.3 to 7.0, 2 judges leaning anny and 4 tied.
Choose Skedda if
Your office enforces no-show policies — check-in and rules leans Skedda 7.0 to 6.0, with 5 judges leaning Skedda and 1 tie.
Your people check in via QR, email link, app, office Wi-Fi, Slack or Teams — the verdict documents those methods plus grace periods of 5, 10 or 15 minutes and no-shows logged or auto-released, the criterion where 5 judges lean Skedda.
Your data can reside in the USA — Skedda's sovereignty attributes list US jurisdiction and non-EU data residency, and its verdict cites Azure hosting with a published data processing agreement and Standard Contractual Clauses for EEA, UK and Swiss transfers.
Your procurement asks for SOC 2 Type II — the verdict cites SOC 2 Type II alongside those clauses, with hosting on Microsoft Azure in the USA.
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Workplace Manager
Runs workplace and facilities for a 900-person insurer with offices in Cologne, Munich and Vienna and 0.6 desks per employee since the move to hybrid work. Tuesdays are full, Fridays are empty, and the Munich lease is up in eighteen months. Wants desks, rooms and parking on real floor plans, no-shows released automatically, neighbourhoods per team, and occupancy figures built from check-ins rather than bookings, good enough to take to the board.
anny
Skedda
This judge calls it a tie.
Criterion by criterion
Desk, room & parking booking
anny
Desks, rooms and parking sit on interactive 3D maps built on our own floor plans with a self-service map designer, each parking spot carries properties such as wallbox or barrier-free, and booking runs from the web, iOS and Android apps, an Outlook add-in and Microsoft Teams with two-way sync into Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Visitor parking is managed in the same calendar as team spots, catering add-ons attach to room bookings, and the product is available in 28 languages. I found no public information on team neighbourhoods or zones on the plan, wayfinding to the booked desk, or accessibility of web and apps documented to a standard, which keeps this just short of the top level.
Skedda
Desks, rooms and parking are all bookable on interactive floor plans that the vendor's setup team builds from an architectural PDF, CAD drawing or even a hand-drawn sketch within a day, with desk attributes and amenity tags, office neighbourhoods per team, assigned spaces, repeat bookings, two-way Outlook and Google sync, and booking from Teams, Slack and native iOS/Android apps across sites — most of what I need for Cologne, Munich and Vienna. The languages documented are English, French and Spanish with no German listed, and we found no public information on wayfinding, lockers or EV chargers, or on the accessibility of the apps.
Check-in, auto-release & booking rules
anny
Check-in happens by QR code at a self-service terminal, by tap on the room display and in the apps, unused rooms are automatically released, and the booking rules are documented in real depth: limits per day, week, month or year, scoped to a resource, group, category or service, with block and allow lists and every appointment of a recurring booking counting against the limit. Communities give named groups their own quotas and gated access to resources, and reminders go out by email plus paid SMS, WhatsApp or Telegram. I found no public information on approvals for restricted areas, fair allocation of scarce parking by lottery or rotation, capacity limits per floor, or assigned and permanent desks released during a documented absence.
Skedda
The no-show machinery is exactly what I want: check-in by web, app, email link, QR code, office Wi-Fi, Slack or Teams, a configurable window, grace periods of 5, 10 or 15 minutes, and no-shows either logged to the activity feed or automatically removed to free the space — all documented in detail, with passive Wi-Fi detection even checking people in as they arrive. Rules per area and per user tag with approvals, quotas, windows and buffer times apply to any part of the floor plan; we found no public information on fair parking allocation by lottery or rotation, capacity limits per floor, or assigned desks released automatically during absence.
Hybrid work coordination
anny
The planner books office, home office and after-work event days with one click per day and plans a whole week in a few clicks, reachable in Microsoft Teams, with absences synchronised both ways to Personio and HRworks — enough for anchor days at policy level. Profiles and a person search by roles, skills and interests help people find each other, an incognito mode and deactivatable visibility give employees control over who sees them, and a role-based widget checks presence quotas as target against actual in aggregate. I found no public information on booking a desk next to a chosen colleague, explicit team days, or notifications when colleagues plan to come in.
Skedda
There is a genuine who's-in view — employees can see which colleagues will be in ahead of time, with Slack and Teams reports and check-in reminders — but that is the extent of it. We found no public information on a weekly office/home/absence planner, favourite colleagues, booking next to a colleague, anchor days or office-day policies with nudges, per-user visibility settings, or sync with absence and HR systems.
Occupancy analytics & employee privacy
anny
Utilisation is reported per resource, group and address with heatmaps on the interactive map including a 3D view per site or across sites, week-by-hour and day-by-month distributions for peak analysis, and a real-time check-in widget setting checked-in bookings against the total — the booked-versus-arrived split I need before any board decision on Munich. Dashboards export widgets to CSV and scheduled automatic exports ship bookings and customer data as CSV, role permissions govern which dashboards each admin sees, and the deletion-periods app anonymises booking data for utilisation reports while removing the personal link, with free and paid bookings configurable separately. I found no public information on occupancy sensors, badge or Wi-Fi measurement, room size against meeting size, or scenario planning for consolidation.
Skedda
Occupancy is measured rather than merely booked: Wi-Fi presence detection with QR and app check-in as backstops marks each booking Seen on-site or Not seen on-site, with historical data, admin filters, an export carrying the Seen on-site column, and retention configurable per data type up to a year — the check-in-based numbers I could defend to the board. Utilisation by room, floor, team, day of week and time of day, forecasting, and a booking-data API are documented; the privacy side is thinner, as we found no public information on minimum group sizes, role-based access to personal booking data, or works-council material.
Integrations, identity & administration
anny
Identity is covered end to end — single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, JumpCloud, OneLogin, Ping Identity, Keycloak or any SAML2/OIDC provider, and SCIM syncing users and groups automatically — while Personio and HRworks synchronise absences both ways and SAP connects through the open API and webhooks. The admin API is documented across bookings, resources, customers and billing with HMAC-signed webhooks and retry logic, existing resources and bookings import in bulk, multi-tenancy runs with row-level isolation and Gov-Cloud hosting, and room displays are supported with named models from Qbic and Roomz. I found no public information on audit logs or administration delegated per site.
Skedda
SCIM provisioning maps groups to tags with deprovisioning policies documented, SAML 2.0 single sign-on names Okta, Entra ID, Google, JumpCloud and OneLogin, Kisi covers access control, tablet displays and the Logitech Tap Scheduler are named hardware, and webhooks are documented down to signing secrets, retries and plan requirements. We found no public information on HR system sync, OIDC, audit logs exportable to a SIEM, or administering several companies in one account.
European sovereignty
anny
The contracting entity is anny GmbH of Cologne with all data hosted on servers in Germany in the EU, a data processing agreement is offered to customers, and anny GmbH holds ISO 27001 and ISO 27017 certificates with a public Trust Center, while SOC 2 is in progress with the report expected in Q1 2027. The privacy policy names subprocessors with their addresses — bunny.net in Slovenia, MapTiler in Switzerland, Pipedrive in Estonia, Stripe for payments, Framer in the Netherlands — and states that the Google, LinkedIn and TikTok tags are not used on the booking page or admin area. The hosting infrastructure itself is not named and an on-premise option appears only in a support note about data host regions, which holds this just below the top level.
Skedda
Skedda, Inc. is a Delaware corporation whose hosting runs on Microsoft Azure in the USA, with the privacy policy stating processing in the United States and other countries; a subprocessor list with locations (Google Workspace and Vanta in the USA, Cloudflare global), a published data processing agreement, Standard Contractual Clauses for EEA, UK and Swiss transfers, and SOC 2 Type II give a documented chain. We found no public information on an EU hosting option, an EU contracting entity or an EU representative — a genuine constraint for a German-Austrian insurer.
Pricing transparency
anny
Tiers are public with unit and inclusions: Starter free forever for five resources, Essential at 5,00€ per resource, Professional at 10,00€, Business at 15,00€, unlimited users and admins in every paid plan, a 20% annual saving, net prices plus VAT and termination on 30 days' notice in text form. Priced extras include SMS, WhatsApp and Telegram reminders at 0,12 € per message and the web assistant from 4 ct. per message, with the API in Business, extended booking rules from Professional and single sign-on in Enterprise. Enterprise itself is custom, anything beyond 50 resources requires an individual offer, the check-in terminal is on request and the monthly base rate named in the terms carries no public figure — so the annual cost of a several-hundred-desk estate is not computable from the public pages alone.
Skedda
Plus and Premier are public at $249/mo and $349/mo per space billed annually with 35 and 45 spaces included, an administrators add-on costs $99/mo, floor-plan conversion is stated to cost nothing, and the terms state USD billing, taxes excluded, non-refundable fees and a 30-day renewal notice. The price of a space beyond the included count, the Enterprise tier and hardware such as displays are not priced, and feature gating — assigned spaces and SCIM on Premier, webhooks on Premier — must be pieced together from help pages, so I cannot compute a full annual cost for 900 people on three sites.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
anny
Skedda
Legal entity
Not determined
Incorporated in US
Hosting location
Not determined
Outside the EU
Hosting options
Not determined
Not determined
Open source
Not determined
Not determined
Data processing agreement
Not determined
Not determined
Transfer impact assessment
Not determined
Not determined
Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
As of 6 Nov 2026, the panel rates both 3/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 5 of the 6 judges pick anny and 0 pick Skedda, 1 calls it a tie. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is anny or Skedda European?
anny is European (EU-Made). Skedda is not European by provenance (Rest of world, United States). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.
Where do anny and Skedda store customer data?
Per the vendors’ own pages as captured — anny: Default not stated; pages mention Germany. Skedda: Outside the EU by default.
Do anny and Skedda have a free plan?
As of 6 Nov 2026, anny’s own pages state a free plan; Skedda’s pages as captured do not. Each product page links the pricing page it was read from.