Professional Services · ranked shortlist
Best Professional Services software for Remote Teams in 2026
20 approved professional services listings, ordered by published rating with the method stated below rather than assumed. Remote teams pay per person and add people unevenly, which makes the billing model the first thing to check here rather than the headline price.
- Tools ranked
- 20
- Entry price range
- $9-$500
- Publish a $0 plan
- 7 of 20
How this ranking is derived
The sort key
Published rating, highest first. Ties break on the number of ratings behind the score, then on product name so the order never depends on what the API happened to return first. That is the whole rule, there is no weighting, no score of our own, and nothing paid: no sponsored slot runs on these pages.
Where the ratings come from
No listing in this set carries a rating, so the order falls back to name. Those scores are aggregated from public sources rather than collected here, Softwr hosts no reviews of its own, which is also why no rating on this page is marked up as ours in structured data.
What the pool is
Approved professional services listings, capped at 20 per page; 20 came back for this one. It is not the whole market, and a tool being absent means we hold no record of it rather than that it failed a test. The unranked full set is on the professional services category page.
The ranking
Each entry lists why it sits where it sits, drawn from its own published rating and pricing.
- #1
Accelo
Highest rated hereComplete visibility, control and efficiency for client work
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Billing
- quote
- #2
Avaza
Projects, timesheets, invoices done right
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $11.95 a month.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $47.95.
- Billing
- freemium
- Published tiers
- 4 tiers
- #3
BigTime
The all-in-one solution for growing, single-entity firms
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $20 a month, with no free plan.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 4 tiers
- #4
Bonsai
All-in-one business management for freelancers and agencies
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $15 a month, with no free plan.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $59.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 4 tiers
- #5
Certinia PSA
AI-powered PSA suite, Salesforce-native
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Billing
- quote
- #6
Freelancer.com
Find the best freelancers for any job online
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Billing
- transaction
- #7
FreshBooks
Accounting software that makes you look good
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $23 a month, with no free plan.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $70 plus a tier sold by quote.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 4 tiers
- Tags
- accounting, invoicing, time-tracking, freelancer-friendly
- #8
Function Point
Agency management software for operations, projects and finances
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $53 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $62.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- #9
Guru
Find freelancers, find a job
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $11.95 a month.
- 5 published tiers, topping out at $49.95.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 5 tiers
- #10
Harvest
Time tracking software for teams that care about where their time goes
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $9 a month.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $14.
- Billing
- freemium
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- time-tracking, invoicing, project-management, reporting
- #11
Hiveage
Simple, all-in-one invoicing and billing software
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $16 a month.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $42.
- Billing
- freemium
- Published tiers
- 4 tiers
- #12
Kantata
AI-powered professional services automation, formerly Mavenlink
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Billing
- quote
- #13
Netsuite OpenAir
Oracle's professional services automation product, separate from NetSuite ERP
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $500 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $1,200.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- psa, professional services automation, project accounting, resource management
- #14
Plutio
Run your entire business in one place
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $19 a month, with no free plan.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $199.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- #15
PracticePanther
Legal practice management software for law firms
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $49 a month, with no free plan.
- 8 published tiers, topping out at $124.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 8 tiers
- #16
Productive
Run projects, budgets and resources in one place
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $10 a month, with no free plan.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $25 plus a tier sold by quote.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 4 tiers
- #17
Scoro
Professional services automation for agencies
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $17 a month, with no free plan.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $57.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 4 tiers
- #18
Teamwork
Project management software that lets you work your way
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $9.99 a month.
- 5 published tiers, topping out at $24.99 plus a tier sold by quote.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 5 tiers
- Tags
- project-management, agency-focused, client-management, time-tracking
- #19
Toggl Track
Time tracking that's easy, powerful, and frictionless
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $9 a month.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $18.
- Billing
- Model not published
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- time-tracking, productivity, billing, reporting
- #20
TravelPerk
Corporate travel booking and expense management platform with policy controls
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Billing
- usage-based
What professional services software costs
Counted from the published pricing of the 20 listings on this page. A tool counts as free only where it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence or a starting price of zero.
- Cheapest paid plan
- $9Harvest
- Median entry price
- $16across 15 priced
- Dearest entry price
- $500Netsuite OpenAir
- Publish a $0 plan
- 7of 20
Paid professional services plans in this set start anywhere from $9 a month for Harvest to $500 for Netsuite OpenAir. The median entry price across the 15 tools that publish one is $16, half of them start below that figure and half above it.
Entry price is not the ceiling. The dearest published tier anywhere in this category is Netsuite OpenAir's at $1,200 a month, 2.4× the highest entry price on the page. Read the top of each ladder as well as the bottom, because that is where you land after two years of growth.
7 of 20 publish a $0 plan, and 1 of those charge nothing at all. 9 tools have no free tier of any kind.
4 of 20 keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote, which in practice means the number you end up paying at the top end is not on this page or on theirs.
Harvest pricingNetsuite OpenAir pricingNetsuite OpenAir plans
How these vendors bill
The billing model each of the 20 professional services listings publishes, counted. Two tools at the same headline price are not the same purchase if one of them charges per seat.
- subscription
- 11
- freemium
- 3
- quote
- 3
- transaction
- 1
- usage-based
- 1
Separately, 4 of 20 publish at least one tier with no price attached. Those are sold by quote, so the top of the ladder is negotiable, and unknowable, until you talk to sales.
What comes as standard, and what you pay extra for
Every capability named in a published pricing tier by any of the 15 professional services tools here that break their plans down, counted once per vendor. This measures what vendors choose to advertise as a selling point, not everything the software does, an absence below is silence, not a missing feature.
Named most often
- Time tracking , 5 of 15
- Custom pricing , 3 of 15
- Unlimited projects , 3 of 15
- AI Assistant , 2 of 15
- All Professional features , 2 of 15
Named by fewer
- API access , 2 of 15
- Expense management , 2 of 15
- Invoicing , 2 of 15
- Resource planning , 2 of 15
Named by exactly one vendor: Activity log, Autotracker, Dedicated support, Multi-currency invoicing, Recurring budgets, Teams. Those are differentiators rather than table stakes.
What “Professional Services” covers in practice
The subject tags that recur across these 20 listings, with the number of tools carrying each. A category label is a filing decision; this is the closer read of what is actually filed under it.
- time-tracking4
- invoicing3
- billing2
- project-management2
- reporting2
Carried by a single tool: accounting, agency-focused, freelancer-friendly, oracle, professional services automation, project accounting, resource management, simple. If one of those is the reason you are here, the category page is the wrong lens, go straight to that product.
How to choose between them
Four things the numbers above should change about your shortlist.
Start with the free tiers if there are enough of them
7 of 20 professional services tools here publish a $0 plan, which is enough to run a real trial without a purchase order. A free tier is worth more than a free trial when you are evaluating: a trial expires on the vendor's schedule, a free plan expires when you outgrow it. The thing to check before you commit is which of the capabilities below sit above the free line, starting with time tracking, the single most frequently named capability in this category's published tiers.
Read the spread before you read the features
$9 to $500 is a $491 spread on entry price alone, and a spread that wide is never about polish, it is about who the vendor built for. Tools at the bottom of this ladder are priced for one person or a small team; tools near $500 are priced for a department with a procurement process. Decide which of those you are before you compare capability, or you will shortlist four tools that were never competing for the same buyer.
Check which tier you actually land on
13 of 20 tools here publish three or more tiers, and the median vendor in this category ships 4 of them. The advertised price is the first rung, and the things teams tend to need, time tracking, custom pricing, unlimited projects, are named in higher plans far more often than in entry ones. Price your shortlist at the tier that contains what you need, not at the tier on the pricing page's left edge.
The billing model matters more than the headline number
This category splits across 5 billing models: subscription on 11 listings, freemium on 3, and 3 other arrangements across the rest. A per-user price and a flat subscription at the same headline figure are not the same purchase, the first one grows with headcount and the second does not. Multiply by your real team size before you compare two numbers side by side.
Compare professional services tools directly
Every pairing below is a full comparison: the same checklist applied to both, so a gap in one is a gap in the other.
- Accelo vs Avaza
- Avaza vs BigTime
- BigTime vs Bonsai
- Bonsai vs Certinia PSA
- Certinia PSA vs Freelancer.com
- Freelancer.com vs FreshBooks
- FreshBooks vs Function Point
- Function Point vs Guru
Go straight to the numbers
- Accelopricingalternatives
- Avazapricingalternatives
- BigTimepricingalternatives
- Bonsaipricingalternatives
- Certinia PSApricingalternatives
- Freelancer.compricingalternatives
Questions people ask about professional services software
Answered from the listings on this page, and nowhere else.
- How is this professional services ranking decided?
- Mechanically. The 20 approved professional services listings on this page are sorted by their published rating, highest first, with the number of ratings behind each score as the tie-break and the product name as a final tie-break so the order is stable. Those ratings are aggregated from public sources, not collected from Softwr readers, this site hosts no reviews, so the order is a summary of what is already published elsewhere, not a verdict of our own. Nothing on this page is paid placement.
- Is this list re-ordered for remote teams?
- No, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. The catalogue records no data about which team sizes or roles each tool suits, so the ranking is the same published-rating order as the unsegmented list. What the remote teams framing changes is which of the figures below matter most. Remote teams pay per person and add people unevenly, which makes the billing model the first thing to check here rather than the headline price.
- How much does professional services software cost?
- Across the 20 professional services tools listed here, paid plans start between $9 and $500 a month, with a median entry price of $16. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $1,200 a month (Netsuite OpenAir). 7 of 20 also publish a $0 plan.
- What is the cheapest professional services software?
- 1 of the 20 tools listed here cost nothing at all. Among the ones that charge, Harvest has the lowest published entry price at $9 a month. Cheapest and best value are different questions: check which tier the capability you need actually appears in before you compare starting prices.
- Is there free professional services software?
- Yes, 7 of 20 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. 1 of them are free outright, with no paid tier above. A tool is only counted as free here when it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence, or a starting price of zero, a free trial does not count.
- What features should professional services software have?
- Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are time tracking (5 of 15 tools that publish plan detail), custom pricing (3) and unlimited projects (3). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as activity log or autotracker, is a differentiator rather than a standard, so it is worth deciding whether you need it before it narrows your shortlist to one.
- How is professional services software usually billed?
- subscription (11), freemium (3), quote (3), transaction (1), plus 1 less common arrangements, counted across the 20 listings on this page. The distinction that costs money is per-seat versus flat: a per-user plan at the same headline price scales with your headcount and a flat subscription does not. 4 of 20 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.
- What does professional services software actually cover?
- The 20 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are time-tracking (4), invoicing (3), billing (2), project-management (2), reporting (2). That spread is the honest answer to what the category means in practice: it is not one product shape, and two tools filed under professional services may overlap on very little.
- How many pricing tiers do professional services tools offer?
- 15 of 20 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 4 tiers. 13 of 20 publish three or more. More tiers is not generosity, it usually means the capability you are buying for sits two rungs above the advertised price, so price your shortlist at the tier that contains it.
- How many professional services tools are listed on Softwr?
- 20 approved professional services listings appear on this page, including Accelo, Avaza, BigTime, Bonsai. Each links to a full breakdown with its pricing tiers and plan detail, and the category can be filtered by price and sorted by rating above. You can also read the shortlist view at /best/professional-services, which ranks the same set by published rating.
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