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HoneyBook pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

HoneyBook (honeybook.com) is a freelancer business tool. Three tiered monthly subscriptions (Starter, Essentials, Premium) that differ by team size, booking, automations and reports, with card and ACH processing fees charged on top.. No free plan.

What HoneyBook costs

  • 1 user, 10 invoices: $29/mo (Starter at $29/mo billed yearly, the only Starter price the page shows (no monthly-billed price is shown, so the monthly basis is unverified). It covers one user, with no client cap and no invoice cap stated, and takes card payments on invoices. No free plan (30-day trial only). Card processing fees are excluded, and no per-invoice software fee was found.)
  • Full clientflow: $49/mo (Essentials at $49/mo billed yearly, the cheapest tier with automations and unlimited booking sessions (Starter has pipeline automations and one session only). Its monthly list price is unlabeled on the page ($59 appears beside '25% off'), so the monthly figure is unconfirmed. Proposals, e-signing, card invoices and automations are listed; the e-signature audit trail and Google or Outlook calendar sync are not stated, so those two requirements are unverified.)
  • 5 users: $109/mo (Premium at $109/mo billed yearly (an unlabeled $129 also appears, so the monthly basis is unconfirmed). Premium lists unlimited team members with no extra-seat fee stated. Essentials caps at 2 team members and Starter gives no seat count, so neither is used.)

Plan compared: Starter, billed yearly ($29/mo); no monthly-billed Starter price is shown. Prices are USD per month for the software on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12). Card and bank processing fees are left out, but invoicing fees charged on top of them (such as a percentage per paid invoice) are counted. The headline is one freelancer sending 10 invoices a month; the other two figures are the full proposal-to-payment workflow for one person and a 5-person team.

What HoneyBook does

Core: Workflow automation (partly), Quotes & estimates, Electronic signatures (partly), Proposal builder, Payments at signing, Online invoice payments, Client CRM and lead capture (partly), Reminders & follow-up workflows (partly), Booking questions & intake forms (partly).

Important: Contact & company records (partly), Deal pipeline CRM (partly), Email & calendar sync (partly), Lead capture forms (partly), Mobile apps (partly), Reusable templates (partly), Custom branding & white-label (partly), Invoices & online payment (partly), Recurring billing, Payment reminders and late fees, Booking pages (partly), Workflow automation (partly), Branded client portal (partly), Task & project tracking (partly), Mobile apps (partly), AI scheduling assistant (partly).

Also has: Sales email sequences (partly), Built-in business calling (partly), WhatsApp & social messaging (partly), AI assistant (partly), AI call & meeting notes (partly), Reports & forecasting (partly), Integrations & API (partly), Permissions & compliance (partly), Native app integrations (partly), Contract repository & lifecycle (partly), Mobile apps & in-person signing (partly), Form-to-document workflows (partly), Simple bookkeeping & tax (partly), Mobile apps (partly), Accounting software sync (partly), AI assistant (partly), Multi-calendar sync (partly), Payments at booking (partly), CRM & app integrations (partly), Website embed & white-label (partly), Team admin & SSO (partly).

HoneyBook price hikes

Cheaper alternatives to HoneyBook

At 1 freelancer sending 10 invoices a month, HoneyBook costs $29/mo. 2 freelancer business tools cost less:

  • Bonsai: $25/mo (Essentials plan, 1 user, billed monthly), covers 82% of HoneyBook; missing or partial: Quotes & estimates (partly), Proposal builder (partly), Payments at signing (partly), Online invoice payments (partly), Recurring billing (partly)
  • Dubsado: $27.92/mo (Starter plan, annual price / 12 (the page shows no monthly price)), covers 81% of HoneyBook; missing or partial: Proposal builder (partly), Online invoice payments (partly), Recurring billing (partly), Payment reminders and late fees (partly), AI scheduling assistant

HoneyBook alternatives: 2 freelancer business tools compared, at every size.

Other kinds of products that cover part of HoneyBook

  • FreshBooks (Accounting): covers 76% of HoneyBook; missing or partial: Quotes & estimates (partly), Proposal builder (partly), Recurring billing (partly), Payment reminders and late fees (partly), Booking pages
  • PandaDoc (E-signature): covers 61% of HoneyBook; missing or partial: Quotes & estimates (partly), Online invoice payments (partly), Recurring billing, Payment reminders and late fees (partly), Booking pages
  • Stripe (Payments & merchant of record): covers 58% of HoneyBook; missing or partial: Quotes & estimates (partly), Electronic signatures, Proposal builder, Online invoice payments (partly), Payment reminders and late fees (partly)
  • QuickBooks Online (Accounting): covers 52% of HoneyBook; missing or partial: Quotes & estimates (partly), Electronic signatures, Proposal builder, Online invoice payments (partly), Recurring billing (partly)
  • Square (Payments & merchant of record): covers 48% of HoneyBook; missing or partial: Quotes & estimates (partly), Electronic signatures, Proposal builder, Online invoice payments (partly), Recurring billing (partly)
  • Harvest (Time tracking): covers 45% of HoneyBook; missing or partial: Quotes & estimates (partly), Electronic signatures, Proposal builder, Online invoice payments (partly), Recurring billing (partly)
  • Xero (Accounting): covers 45% of HoneyBook; missing or partial: Quotes & estimates (partly), Electronic signatures, Proposal builder, Online invoice payments (partly), Recurring billing (partly)
  • BILL Accounts Payable (Expenses & spend): covers 44% of HoneyBook; missing or partial: Quotes & estimates, Electronic signatures, Proposal builder, Online invoice payments (partly), Recurring billing (partly)

Every change we logged

  • May 12, 2026 · Price cut: The card processing fee dropped from 2.9% + 25¢ to 2.7% + 10¢ on every plan. It is a payment fee, not a plan price.
  • Feb 4, 2025 · Price increase: Premium rose from $66 to $109 a month (+65%) and Essentials from $32 to $49 (+53%), effective Feb 4, 2025; Starter rose 81% with no dollar figures logged.

Sources

Pricing page: honeybook.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Only the labeled 'billed yearly' prices come from HoneyBook's pricing page, so monthly-basis values are unconfirmed; PricingSaaS's lower 'current' Essentials and Premium figures ($36.75, $81.75) conflict and were not used. The Feb 2025 increase rests on PricingSaaS alone (its logged date, Jan 11, 2026, conflicts with the Feb 4, 2025 effective date), and the 2025-02 history point assumes Starter stayed at $29 since then, as no later Starter change is logged.