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Productive
Run projects, budgets and resources in one place
As of 28 August 2026, Productive starts at $10/month. Agency and professional services management platform combining resourcing, project tracking, budgeting and invoicing. Softwr lists it under Professional Services.
Overview
What Productive does
Agency and professional services management platform combining resourcing, project tracking, budgeting and invoicing.
What people use it for
- Team resource planning
- Project and expense management
- Time tracking and invoicing
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Productive.
- Essential plan is capped at 5 account-level custom fields and 1 CRM pipeline versus 15 fields and 3 pipelines on Professional
- Ultimate tier for complex organizations is quote-only, listed as Let's talk with no published price
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Pricing
What Productive costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Essential
$10 /mo
- Budgeting
- Resource planning
- Project and task management
- Docs
- Time tracking
- Expense management
Essential Annual
$12 /mo
- All Essential features (billed annually at 20% discount)
Professional
$25 /mo
- All Essential features
- HRIS and Invoicing integrations
- Recurring budgets
- Teams
- Advanced task management
- Advanced reports
Ultimate
On request
- All Professional features
- Revenue forecasting
- Scenario Builder
- Multiple subsidiaries
- HubSpot integration
- Advanced time tracking
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
How much does Productive cost per month?
The Essential plan starts at $10/user/month (or $12/user/month billed annually). The Professional plan costs $25/user/month. Pricing is per user, so multiply by team size.
SourceDoes Productive offer a free trial?
Free trial information is not displayed on the pricing page. Contact their sales team via the website for trial availability and custom Ultimate plan pricing.
SourceWhat features does the Essential plan include?
The Essential plan includes budgeting, resource planning, project and task management, time tracking, expense management, reporting, time off management, and API access with 5 custom fields.
SourceWhat is the difference between Professional and Ultimate plans?
The Professional plan includes HRIS integrations, advanced reports, and team collaboration tools at $25/user/month. Ultimate adds revenue forecasting, scenario builder, multiple subsidiaries, and custom integrations at custom pricing.
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