Every platform here that costs less than Dubsado gives up something we verified. There is no cheaper like-for-like, so the question is which feature you are willing to trade, and the cards below name it for each one. That is a point in its favour, not a dodge.
Why people look for an alternative
There is no deals pipeline, bulk email or AI on the pricing page, and a team past four people pays a user add-on on top of the flat plan.
It runs $35 a month at 3 users with the add-ons it forces on you included. Nothing else we list in CRMs for small service businesses costs less than that.
The closest thing to Dubsado
Ranked by how much of what we record for Dubsado each platform also does. Keap is the nearest, and it is $264 a month dearer at 5,000 contacts (Dubsado at 3 users; they charge by different things). On every feature this site records, the two are level.
$264 a month dearer$299 at 2,500 contacts
A small business that wants sales automation and email marketing to run the follow-up for it, priced by contacts with a couple of users included.
- Also lists AI features, email campaigns, a visual deals pipeline, reports and dashboards and text messaging
Try Keap →
The rest, in order of how close they are
Prices are the real monthly cost at 3 users, or the equivalent size on whatever each one charges by, with the add-ons each platform forces on you included, from the same engine the shortlist quiz uses.
$25 a month dearer$0 at 1 user
A small team that wants marketing, sales, service and a website in one subscription, starting on a real free CRM and paying per seat as it grows.
- Also lists AI features, built-in calling, email campaigns, a visual deals pipeline, tasks and projects after the sale and reports and dashboards
Try HubSpot →★ My PickI use this$97at 5,000 contacts
$62 a month dearer$97 at 2,500 contacts
A service business or agency that wants the CRM, the funnels, the email and SMS, the calendar and the invoicing in one flat-priced platform with unlimited users and contacts.
- Also lists AI features, built-in calling, email campaigns, a visual deals pipeline, reports and dashboards and text messaging
Try GoHighLevel →$74 a month dearer$29 at 1 user
A solo or two-person service business (photographers, planners, designers, consultants) that wants proposals, contracts, invoices, scheduling and a client portal in one flat-priced tool.
- Also lists AI features, a visual deals pipeline, tasks and projects after the sale, reports and dashboards and text messaging
- Does not list two-way email sync
Try HoneyBook →$159.97 a month dearer$64.99 at 1 user
A small team that wants marketing email, a sales pipeline, calling, scheduling and a helpdesk in one subscription, starting free and paying by contact count rather than by feature.
- Also lists AI features, built-in calling, email campaigns, a visual deals pipeline, tasks and projects after the sale, reports and dashboards and text messaging
Try EngageBay →$44 a month dearer$39 at 2,500 contacts
When email marketing and automation are the real purchase and a light pipeline beside them is enough.
- Also lists AI features, email campaigns, a visual deals pipeline, reports and dashboards and text messaging
- Does not list a meeting scheduler, two-way email sync and quotes, proposals and invoices
Try ActiveCampaign →
What Dubsado is still the best answer for
A service business that wants contracts, proposals, invoices, forms and client portals at one flat price, with automation once it is ready for Premier.
On this site it is the pick for running clients from proposal to invoice and one price for the whole team. Which is why nothing cheaper here matches it.
Dubsado against one other, side by side
The pairs people actually search for, each one priced at the same four sizes off both vendors' own pages.
Questions people ask about Dubsado alternatives
Is there a cheaper alternative to Dubsado?+
Every cheaper option we price gives something up against Dubsado, which is a point in its favour.
How much does Dubsado cost?+
Dubsado is $35 a month at 1 user and $60 at 10 users, read off their own pricing page and re-checked every week.
Why do people look for alternatives to Dubsado?+
There is no deals pipeline, bulk email or AI on the pricing page, and a team past four people pays a user add-on on top of the flat plan.
How many alternatives to Dubsado are there?+
We compare 6 of them here, every one priced at the same size off its own pricing page, and the whole list of 22 is on the crm page.
Should yours be on this list? If you make CRMs for small service businesses and it is not
compared here, ask to be shortlisted. Listings are free and cannot
be bought.
How to read the feature lines
Two features were checked against each vendor's own pricing page: a free plan and pricing per user. Those are the ones written above as does and does not. The other 14 are read out of each vendor's own pricing page, so an absence there means we did not find it listed, not that the product lacks it, and those lines say lists and does not list instead. How all of this gets checked.
Or let it pick for you
This page compares everything to Dubsado. The shortlist asks 7 questions
about what you need it for and how many people need a login, and gives you four picks priced at your own team size, which is a better
question than “what is like the one I already have”.
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