Pitchcraft vs Proposify pricing: $684 vs $29 once

OneTimeSuite Blog · Published 2026-07-21

Proposify and PandaDoc charge $19+ per user every month, forever, for what is fundamentally a pricing table with a signature box. Pitchcraft is $29 once. Build proposals from content blocks, drop in a pricing table with client-toggleable add-ons, send a trackable link, and get a click-to-sign acceptance — all self-hosted, all yours. Your sales documents are not a subscription.

This is the full pricing breakdown: what Proposify actually costs over one, two and three years, what Pitchcraft gives you for $29 paid once, and the honest cases where the subscription is still the right call.

What Proposify actually costs you

Proposify prices per user — $19+/user/mo — so the subscription grows with every user you add. The comparison below uses the catalog's annual figure of $228; the per-user table underneath shows how the bill scales either way.

Proposify bills per user, so the total scales with headcount — and the figures below use the low end of the advertised range:

Three years in, the gap is $655 — and every year after that adds another $228 to the subscription side of the ledger.

Pitchcraft vs Proposify, feature by feature

Price is only half the story — here's how the two line up on the things that decide day-to-day use:

What you get for $29, once

Self-hosted proposal builder with pricing tables, open tracking and click-to-sign acceptance. The highlights:

• 🧱 Block-based builder — Cover, text, pricing table, terms, testimonial and image blocks that you drag to reorder.
• 📑 6 starter templates — Web design, marketing retainer, consulting, video production, freelance dev, or blank.
• 💰 Pricing tables with add-ons — Mark line items optional and your client toggles them on the live page, watching the total update before they sign.
• 🔗 Trackable share links — See when a proposal was opened, how many times, and total reading time.

Costs less than one month of either subscription — for three seats, that's $684 a year you keep.

Switching is 3 steps

1. Buy once on Whop. One payment of $29 gets you the packaged installer, or clone the MIT source and deploy it yourself for free.
2. Deploy on your own server. Run the desktop app locally or stand it up on a $5 VPS with Docker so clients can reach your share links.
3. Send and get signed. Build a proposal from blocks, send the trackable link, and collect a click-to-sign acceptance record.

When paying Proposify is still the right call

Being straight about it: the subscription earns its keep in three situations. If your team is large enough that Proposify's collaboration features, permissions and admin controls are genuinely load-bearing; if your workflow is built on its integrations and leaving means rebuilding that plumbing; or if you have enterprise requirements — SSO, audit logs, SLAs, a vendor to call — that a pay-once app doesn't come with. Everyone else is paying $19+/user/mo for a job that runs fine on hardware they already own.

If that's you, Pitchcraft is $29, once. For the deeper dive, read the Pitchcraft vs Proposify head-to-head.

Frequently asked questions

Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — Pitchcraft is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/proposal-generator-mvp. The $29 buys the packaged Windows installer and updates; building from source is free.

Where does my proposal data live?
On your server. Pitchcraft is self-hosted in a SQLite file you can back up with cp — no per-seat pricing and no third-party cloud.

Does it replace Proposify entirely?
No, and we say so. If you need enterprise e-signature compliance, CRM sync and approval workflows, the subscriptions earn their fee. For sending proposals, tracking reads and collecting a signed yes, Pitchcraft does that once.

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