Proposify alternative that drafts the whole proposal from your brief

Proposify is a mature proposal tool with a loyal user base, and most people who search for an alternative are not unhappy with the editor. The reasons we hear are more practical, and they usually show up when the team grows or the proposal volume climbs.

The first is cost per seat. Proposify lists its Grow plan at $65 per user per month billed annually with five users included, which is $3,900 a year, and each extra seat on Grow and Scale is $780 a year. A sales team of eight on Grow pays $6,240 a year before add-ons. That is fair for a large team that uses every feature, and heavy for a small agency that mainly needs good proposals out the door.

The second is writing time. In any template-first tool the structure is ready, but the words are still yours: the executive summary, the scope written for this client, the timeline and the pricing table rebuilt for this deal. When a team sends 20 or 30 proposals a month, those hours add up to a part-time job.

The third is fit. Some teams want a lighter tool for quotes and statements of work, others need RFP answers drafted from their own content, and some simply want monthly billing on a team plan instead of an annual commitment.

We would rather you pick the right tool than the wrong one quickly, so here is where Proposify does well. It has years of product work behind it, a polished drag and drop editor, interactive pricing with optional items, a content library, document insights and e-signature. Its Grow plan adds roles and permissions, approval workflows, custom fields and API access, and the Scale plan adds Salesforce, single sign-on, multiple workspaces, custom reporting and premium onboarding.

• A proven editor that many design-minded teams like.
• Approval workflows and permissions for controlled sending.
• Salesforce, SSO and multiple workspaces on its Scale plan.
• Premium onboarding and support on its higher tier.

If your team is large, already built around Proposify templates and happy with the price, staying put is a reasonable decision.

ProposalCreation starts one step earlier than a template. You give it the brief and it gives you a full draft to edit, in your voice, with your prices.

• Full first draft from a brief, call notes or a pasted RFP: cover page, executive summary, goals, scope, deliverables, timeline, pricing table, terms, next steps and signature block.
• Your company style on every draft: logo, brand colors, fonts, voice notes and two or three past proposals you upload once.
• A shared content library and price catalog the AI reads, so every rep quotes the same numbers and the same approved wording.
• RFP import on Business and Enterprise: the AI extracts each question and drafts answers from your library, up to 60 pages per RFP on Business and 200 on Enterprise.
• Seats included in the plan: 1 on Starter, 5 on Growth, 15 on Business and 50 on Enterprise, with monthly billing available on every plan.
• E-signature on every plan with multiple signers, signing order and an audit trail certificate.

Choose Proposify if you want a long-established editor, approval workflows across a large team and premium onboarding, and the per seat price works for you. Choose ProposalCreation if proposals, quotes and SOWs are what bring in revenue and you want the first draft written for you at a flat team price.

• You send 10 or more proposals a month and each one starts by duplicating an old file.
• Your team is between 2 and 15 people and per seat billing is the main cost.
• Your reps rebuild pricing tables by hand and quote slightly different numbers.
• You answer RFPs or security questionnaires and want answers drafted from content you already own.
• You want monthly billing on a team plan rather than a 12 month commitment.