Better Proposals sells proposal templates with a legally binding signature on every plan, priced for people who send a few: Starter is $13 per user per month billed annually ($19 monthly) with 10 sends a month, Premium $21 ($29 monthly) with 50. Proposify, the name people search next to it, starts at $35 per user per month on annual billing ($49 monthly), also with signatures on every plan. Neither has a free plan; both have a 14-day trial.
People look for an alternative for two reasons. The send cap: ten a month is fine until the month it is not. And the subscription itself: if the contract is signed elsewhere, you are paying for a signature you do not use to get a proposal that is a page on a link. Hostus is our pick for that second case, and the category matters: best if the proposal is a page Claude writes and you want to see what the client read, free up to 20 documents.
Where Better Proposals users go
1. Hostus, if the proposal is a page and the contract is separate
Paste your notes into Claude with the Hostus connector on, ask for a proposal page with a heading and an id per section and an Accept form at the end, and Claude writes it and publishes it to a link. Switch the page to email-gated in the dashboard and send the link: the client types an email, no account, and you see who opened it, which sections they read and for how long, and where they stopped. The client can ask the page a question and get an answer from what it says, with the section cited, and can reply on a section; that conversation is private between them and you. The Accept is a plain form that records on the document and emails you, no backend. A second version goes to the same link, with the first kept in history. Free: 20 documents, 2 MB of storage in total, 100 form responses a month, no card and no clock. No signature, no payments, no CRM. Pick it if you want the reading signal and the accept without a seat price, and sign the contract elsewhere.
2. Better Proposals, if you stay
Templates, legally binding digital signatures on every plan, and analytics that show which sections the reader spent the most time on. Starter is $13 per user per month billed annually ($19 monthly) with 10 sends a month; Premium is $21 ($29 monthly) with 50; 14-day trial, no free plan. Pick it if you want templates and signatures in one subscription and send under ten a month.
3. Proposify, if you want section timing inside a template editor
Build is $35 per user per month billed annually ($49 monthly), signatures are on every plan, and the site promises a timeline of when each recipient opens the document and how much time they spend in each section. 14-day trial, no free plan. Pick it if you want that timeline and the signature in the same editor, and the price per seat is fine.
4. Qwilr, if the proposal needs a quote and a CRM behind it
Starter is $35 per user per month billed annually ($49 monthly) with e-signature, interactive quotes, analytics with 60 days of history and HubSpot, Zoho and Pipedrive integrations; 14-day trial, no free plan. Pick it if you need e-signature, quotes with live pricing and CRM sync on the same page. The longer comparison is at Qwilr alternatives.
5. PandaDoc, if the signature is the point
Its help center lists a Free eSign plan at $0 with 5 documents sent a month and 2 recipients per document, Starter at $19 per user per month billed annually ($35 monthly) and Business at $49 ($65 monthly). Pick it if you want a $0 way to get five signed documents a month, and the proposal can live inside the signing tool.
6. A PDF by email
The baseline. Free, no cap, opens everywhere, and tells you nothing after it leaves. Keep it for the client who asks for one.
Side by side
| Tool | Entry price (verified today) | Sends a month on the entry plan | What you learn after sending | E-signature | Free plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hostus | No seat price; paid is $9.99 a month or $49.99 a year for the account | No per-send cap; 20 documents free, 100 form responses a month | Who opened and when, reading by section, questions asked, replies | No | Yes: 20 documents, 2 MB, no clock |
| Better Proposals | $13 per user, annual ($19 monthly) | 10 (50 on Premium) | Which sections got the most time | Yes, every plan | No; 14-day trial |
| Proposify | $35 per user, annual ($49 monthly) | Check their pricing page | A timeline of opens and time per section | Yes, every plan | No; 14-day trial |
| Qwilr | $35 per user, annual ($49 monthly) | Check their pricing page | Analytics with 60 days of history on Starter | Yes, from Starter | No; 14-day trial |
| PandaDoc | $19 per user, annual ($35 monthly) | 5 on the $0 plan; check their plan comparison for Starter | Check their plan comparison | Yes | Yes: 5 documents sent a month, 2 recipients |
| PDF by email | Free | No cap | Nothing | No | Free |
Every number in that table was read on the vendor's own pricing page or help center on October 18, 2026. Where the page did not say, the cell says so instead of guessing.
What a proposal page looks like
A proposal page, live: a fictional business, two options, a timeline and an Accept form, with illustrative numbers. Open it on a phone, ask it a question, send the form; the record lands with us. The prompt that writes a page like it from your notes, with the section ids, the Accept form and the form settings, is in Send a proposal as a web page. Two things to know before you paste it. The page is born private, and you switch it to email-gated in the Hostus dashboard before sharing the link, because the connector cannot change visibility. And the form settings (an email per response, a thank-you line in place of the form, closing after the first accept) are document settings Claude sets with hostus_update, not HTML, so you can change them later without touching the file.
Sends versus documents
Better Proposals counts sends; Hostus counts documents. Each proposal is one document, 20 on the free plan, and a document is reused when you upload v2 to it rather than sending a new one. A proposal sent to three people at the client is one document, and the gate tells you which of the three opened it. The paid plan is $9.99 a month or $49.99 a year, one price for the account rather than per user, with no document limit, 200 MB of storage and unlimited form responses. On the free plan, form responses are 100 a month, which counts accepts, not proposals.
Good to know before you switch
There is no e-signature on Hostus: the Accept form is a record of who chose what and when, with a timestamp, not a legal signature. If every engagement needs a signed contract on the same link, Better Proposals at $13 per user is the honest answer, and we would rather say so here. There are no payments and no CRM; the gate is by email rather than password, and it does not verify that the typed address belongs to the person, an allowlist only limits which addresses can be typed in; and there is no custom domain, the link is your-slug.hostus.page.
Hostus is not a template library either. Claude writes the page from your notes, or from a template you paste in, and changing it later means asking Claude or uploading a new file to the same link. The free plan is 20 documents, 2 MB of storage in total and 100 form responses a month, no card, no clock.