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Common Room vs Proposify

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Common Room

Sales Enablement

Customer and community intelligence that stitches scattered person identities into one go-to-market signal feed

From
$2500/month
Rated
-
Proposify logo

Proposify

Sales Enablement

Proposal Software That Closes Deals

From
$19/month
Rated
-

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Common Room the entry plan is 2,500 US dollars a month billed annually, a floor of 30,000 a year, which excludes exactly the early-stage community-led companies whose signal is strongest.; Proposify document sends are capped monthly and billed per overage, at 10 sends on Basic with $0.50 each beyond
  • They diverge on capability: Common Room covers Person360 identity resolution, Proposify covers Proposal templates.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Common Room and Proposify actually diverge.

Attributes where Common Room and Proposify differ
AttributeCommon RoomProposify
Starting price$2500/month$19/month
Pricing modelPer month by contact volumesubscription
PlatformsWeb, Chrome extensionWeb
FoundedUnknown2013

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Sales Enablement).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Common Room

  • Person360 identity resolution
  • Community source ingestion
  • Signal alerts
  • Account and contact scoring
  • Website deanonymisation
  • RoomieAI research
  • Prospector
  • Intent data

Only in Proposify

  • Proposal templates
  • Content library
  • Electronic signatures
  • Analytics
  • Interactive pricing
  • Salesforce
  • HubSpot
  • Pipedrive

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Common Room

  • A developer tools company whose GitHub stars and Slack community contain buyers nobody has ever contacted because the handles do not match any CRM recordnot Proposify
  • A sales team that wants to be alerted when a former champion changes job to a target account, with the previous relationship attachednot Proposify
  • A marketing function trying to prove that community participation precedes pipeline, which requires joining community identity to opportunity datanot Proposify
  • A product-led business wanting to route free users who match the enterprise buyer profile to sellers based on both product usage and public activitynot Proposify

Proposify

  • Document proposal and template managementnot Common Room
  • Sales document tracking and managementnot Common Room
  • Team collaboration on proposalsnot Common Room

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Common Room

  • The entry plan is 2,500 US dollars a month billed annually, a floor of 30,000 a year, which excludes exactly the early-stage community-led companies whose signal is strongest.
  • RoomieAI and Prospector run on credit allocations rather than unlimited use, so heavy research months exhaust the budget and the workflow stops until the next cycle or an upgrade.
  • Contact ceilings of 100,000 on Essential are consumed quickly by any sizeable public community, and the overage conversation is an upgrade to a quoted tier rather than an incremental charge.
  • Identity resolution is probabilistic, so wrong merges happen, and a seller who contacts the wrong person with context from someone else does more damage than no alert at all.
  • Signal volume overwhelms teams without a defined qualification rule; most implementations that fail do so because everything became an alert and sellers stopped reading them within a month.

Proposify

  • Document sends are capped monthly and billed per overage, at 10 sends on Basic with $0.50 each beyond
  • The Business plan's overage rate of $0.75 per send is higher than either cheaper plan despite starting at $3,900 a year
  • Document analytics, integrations and custom fields all require the Team plan at $49 per user per month
  • API access and SSO are Business only
  • The Basic plan includes a single collaborator seat

Pricing, plan by plan

Common Room

$2500/month
  • Essential$2500/month
    • 5 seats
    • 100,000 contacts
    • Person360 enrichment and identity resolution
  • Advanced$undefined/year
    • 15 seats
    • 250,000 contacts
    • RoomieAI research, 7,500 credits
  • Enterprise$undefined/year
    • 30 seats
    • 750,000 contacts
    • RoomieAI research, 10,000 credits

Proposify

$19/month
  • Basic$19/month
    • 10 document sends per month
    • Annual billing (monthly billing: $29/month)
    • Overage: $0.50 per send
  • Team$41/month
    • 30 document sends per month
    • Annual billing (quarterly billing: $49/month)
    • Overage: $0.30 per send
  • Business$3900/year
    • 75 document sends per month
    • Custom pricing (starts at $3,900/year)
    • Overage: $0.75 per send
  • Enterprise$null/month
    • Custom pricing and send limits

Which should you pick?

Choose Common Room if

  • You need person360 identity resolution.
  • You work on Web, Chrome extension.
  • You also want community source ingestion.

Choose Proposify if

  • You need proposal templates.
  • You also want content library.

Questions people ask

Is Common Room or Proposify better?
Neither clearly leads. Common Room starts at $2500/month and Proposify at $19/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Common Room or Proposify?
Common Room starts at $2500/month and Proposify at $19/month.
Does Common Room or Proposify run on more platforms?
Common Room runs on Web, Chrome extension. Proposify runs on Web.
What is Common Room best used for?
Common Room is most often used for a developer tools company whose github stars and slack community contain buyers nobody has ever contacted because the handles do not match any crm record, a sales team that wants to be alerted when a former champion changes job to a target account, with the previous relationship attached, a marketing function trying to prove that community participation precedes pipeline, which requires joining community identity to opportunity data, a product-led business wanting to route free users who match the enterprise buyer profile to sellers based on both product usage and public activity. Of those, a developer tools company whose github stars and slack community contain buyers nobody has ever contacted because the handles do not match any crm record and a sales team that wants to be alerted when a former champion changes job to a target account, with the previous relationship attached are not what Proposify is typically brought in for.
What can Common Room do that Proposify cannot?
Common Room covers Person360 identity resolution, Community source ingestion, Signal alerts, Account and contact scoring. Proposify covers Proposal templates, Content library, Electronic signatures, Analytics.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Common Room: What does the entry plan actually cost?

2,500 US dollars per month billed annually, for 5 seats and 100,000 contacts. Higher tiers are quoted.

Proposify: How much does Proposify cost?

Proposify Basic plan costs $19/user/month (annual) or $29/user/month (monthly). Team plan is $41/user/month (annual) or $49/user/month (quarterly). Business starts at $3,900/year with custom pricing for Enterprise. All prices in USD.

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Common Room: Is this only for developer tools companies?

It is strongest where there is a public community to observe. Companies with no community signal get a narrower version of the product and should compare it against ordinary intent data vendors.

Proposify: What document send limits does each plan include?

Basic includes 10 monthly sends ($0.50 per overage), Team includes 30 monthly sends ($0.30 per overage), and Business includes 75 monthly sends ($0.75 per overage). Enterprise has custom limits.

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Common Room: Does it replace ZoomInfo?

No. It is signal and identity resolution rather than a contact database, though Prospector covers some contact discovery within accounts.

Proposify: Does Proposify offer a free trial?

Yes, Proposify offers a 14-day free trial on the Team plan features with no credit card required.

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Common Room: How are AI features metered?

By credits per tier, from 5,000 RoomieAI credits on Essential up to 10,000 on Enterprise, with Prospector credits counted separately.

Proposify: How much do I save with annual billing?

Annual billing offers significant discounts compared to monthly options. For example, Basic plan saves up to 4 months of fees per year when billed annually versus monthly.

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