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Alternatives to 17hats
20 proposals tools sit alongside 17hats in this directory. Below is what separates each from 17hats on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 20
- With a free tier
- 4
- Cheaper to start
- -
- 17hats starts at
- On request
Why people look past 17hats
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the 17hats entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for 17hats carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 4 of the 20 alternatives below can be used without paying.
There is only one tier
17hats publishes a single plan, 17hats at On request. There is no smaller tier to drop to if the fit is wrong or the budget moves.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Business management for creatives
- Can be used without paying; 17hats cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $335/year, where 17hats does not.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than quote.
- 2 tiers to 17hats's 1.
Client management for creative entrepreneurs
- Publishes an entry price of $29/month, where 17hats does not.
- 3 tiers to 17hats's 1.
All-in-one business management for freelancers and agencies
- Can be used without paying; 17hats cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $9/user/month, where 17hats does not.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than quote.
- 4 tiers to 17hats's 1.
Freelance workflow suite covering proposals, contracts, invoices and time tracking with a usable free tier
- Can be used without paying; 17hats cannot.
eSignatures Made Easy
- Can be used without paying; 17hats cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $10/month, where 17hats does not.
Quote-to-revenue platform built by former Zuora staff to keep CPQ, billing and revenue recognition on one data model
Priced and rated the same as 17hats on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Every 17hats alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17hats (this page) | On request | Quote | 1 | |
| DubsadoMore modern interface with comparable or better workflow automation for creative service businesses | Free, then $335/year | Subscription | 2 | vs 17hats |
| HoneyBookStronger client facing experience and payments, at the cost of less configurable automation | $29/month | - | 3 | vs 17hats |
| BonsaiBetter fit for freelancers doing project work rather than repeatable bookings | Free, then $9/user/month | Subscription | 4 | vs 17hats |
| Indy | Free | Quote | 1 | vs 17hats |
| HelloSign | Free, then $10/month | - | - | vs 17hats |
| Subskribe | On request | Quote | 1 | vs 17hats |
| Cone | On request | Quote | 1 | vs 17hats |
| Moxie | On request | Quote | 1 | vs 17hats |
| Nusii | $29/month | Per month by active proposal count | 3 | vs 17hats |
| Quoter | $299/month | Per month by published quote volume | 3 | vs 17hats |
| Paperbell | On request | Quote | 1 | vs 17hats |
| Prospero | On request | Quote | 1 | vs 17hats |
| Nutshell | $13/month | Subscription | 5 | vs 17hats |
| Prospect | $225/month | - | 1 | vs 17hats |
| Responsive | $10000/year | Subscription | 3 | vs 17hats |
| RFPIO | $10000/year | Subscription | 3 | vs 17hats |
| Loopio | $20000/year | - | - | vs 17hats |
| Bidsketch | $29/month | - | - | vs 17hats |
| GetAccept | $25/month | Subscription | 3 | vs 17hats |
| Microsoft Dynamics 365 | $50/month | Subscription | 2 | vs 17hats |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the 17hats badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
17hats is most often brought in for a photographer or event professional running the same booking sequence dozens of times a year, automating deposit invoices and reminders so that chasing payment stops being a weekly task, capturing enquiries through a public form that starts a quote and contract workflow without manual entry, a sole trader who wants client records, contracts and basic bookkeeping in one place rather than three. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If 17hats is broadly right and the question is cost, the 17hats pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Proposals category lists everything the directory holds, and best proposals tools ranks them.
17hats runs on web, ios, android. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about 17hats alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to 17hats?
- 20 other proposals tools are listed in this directory, led by Dubsado, HoneyBook, Bonsai, Indy. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to 17hats?
- 4 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Dubsado, Bonsai, Indy, HelloSign.
- Why do people look for an alternative to 17hats?
- On the figures on record, 2 things stand out: there is no free tier; there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from 17hats?
- 17hats is most often brought in for a photographer or event professional running the same booking sequence dozens of times a year, automating deposit invoices and reminders so that chasing payment stops being a weekly task, capturing enquiries through a public form that starts a quote and contract workflow without manual entry, a sole trader who wants client records, contracts and basic bookkeeping in one place rather than three. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to 17hats?
- None of the proposals tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these 17hats alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Proposals, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare 17hats against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against 17hats covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every proposals tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Proposals category, 20 tools beside 17hats. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.