Assembly is a client portal with a CRM behind it, aimed at firms that onboard and then keep working with the same clients — accountants, agencies, consultancies. The alternatives below do that same job. Every price on this page was read off the vendor's own pricing page on 7 August 2026, and where a vendor does not print a number, this page says so instead of guessing.
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Pricing: $39 / $149 / $399 per month on yearly billing, Enterprise from $2,000. Monthly billing is $59 / $189 / $499 / $2,400.
Starter carries the whole product — CRM, branded portal, messaging, invoices, proposals, contracts, tasks and forms — but only 1 internal user, 50 clients and 100 automation tasks a month. What moves you up a tier is almost always a count, not a missing feature. Extra internal users cost $39 each on Professional and $59 each on Advanced, so the pricier plan charges more per colleague.
Pricing: $29 / $49 / $109 per month on yearly billing. Monthly is $29 / $59 / $129.
The cheapest way into this category if you are one person. Starter at $29 gives unlimited clients and projects with a client portal; Essentials at $49 adds automations and a scheduler but caps you at 2 team members, and only Premium at $109 unlocks unlimited team. Watch the payment cut: 2.7% + 10¢ on cards and 1.5% on bank transfers, which on real invoice volume dwarfs the subscription. 30-day trial, no card.
Pricing: $335 or $525 per year. No monthly price is printed on their pricing page.
Priced per year rather than per seat, and three users are included before you pay more — then $25/month for 4-10 users, $45 for 11-20, $60 for 21-30. The catch is in the cheaper tier: Starter has no automated workflows, no scheduling and no Zapier, which is most of why people buy this category. Extra brands are $10/month each. 21-day trial, no card.
Pricing: From $19/month. The prices of the two higher tiers are not printed on their pricing page.
The only one here that does not charge per user at all — unlimited staff, contacts and portals on every tier, with storage as the ladder (100GB, 500GB, 2TB). That makes it the obvious shortlist entry for a firm with many colleagues and a thin budget. But you cannot budget past the entry tier from the public page, because THRIVE and PINNACLE carry no printed price. 14-day trial, no card.
Copilot is the closest competitor to Assembly by product, and it belongs on this list. Its pricing page returns a 403 to us, so we have no figure we can stand behind and have left it off rather than repeat a number from a directory. SuiteDash publishes only its entry price; its two higher tiers carry no public figure. Neither gap is a judgement about the product — it is a gap in what we could read for ourselves.
Team size decides this more than features do. One person: HoneyBook at $29 is the cheapest real entry. A small team where three seats is enough: Dubsado at $335 a year works out lower than anything billed per seat. Many colleagues: SuiteDash, because it is the only one that does not charge per user at all. Assembly earns its place when you need the client-facing side to be properly yours — a custom domain and email domain on Professional, full white-labelling and HIPAA with a BAA on Advanced.
One warning that applies to all four: the subscription is rarely the biggest number. Payment processing on HoneyBook is 2.7% + 10¢ per card transaction, and per-seat add-ons on Assembly and Dubsado climb quickly. Price the tool against your actual invoice volume and headcount, not against the sticker.
Prices read 7 August 2026 from each vendor's own pricing page. We have not run a hands-on trial of HoneyBook, Dubsado or SuiteDash; this page compares what they publish, not what they feel like to use. How we review.
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