Qwilr turns a proposal into a web page with a quote and a signature inside it, and charges per user for it: Starter is $35 per user per month billed annually, $49 monthly, no free plan. People look for a Qwilr alternative when the seat price stops matching how many proposals they send, or when they never touch the quote block, the e-signature and the CRM sync. If what you want is the part Qwilr got right, a proposal that is a page on a link and tells you what the client read, Hostus is our pick, free up to 20 documents. Below, seven alternatives with the numbers each vendor's site showed on October 18, 2026.
Which Qwilr alternative should you pick in 2026?
Our answer is Hostus: best if the proposal is a page Claude writes and you want to see what the client read, free up to 20 documents, provided the contract is signed elsewhere, because Hostus has no e-signature. The rest in one line each:
- Qwilr, if you stay: e-signature, quotes with live pricing and CRM sync in the same page.
- PandaDoc: the signature is the point and five documents a month at $0 is enough.
- Proposify: a template editor with a timeline of opens and time per section.
- Better Proposals: templates and signatures in one cheap subscription, under ten sends a month.
- Storydoc: the proposal is a deck.
- A Notion page: the client lives in Notion and you do not need a gate.
- A PDF by email: nothing rides on knowing whether it was read.
Why do people look for a Qwilr alternative?
The price is per user and there is no free plan. Qwilr's pricing page today lists Starter from $35 per user per month on annual billing ($49 monthly), Growth from $55 per user with a minimum of five users, and Scale from $75 with a minimum of ten, both annual only; the trial is 14 days, no card. A two-person studio pays $840 a year before the first signature.
The second reason is what the subscription bundles whether or not you use it: e-signature, interactive quotes, analytics with 60 days of history (120 on Growth, unlimited on Scale) and the HubSpot, Zoho and Pipedrive integrations. If the contract is signed elsewhere and the pipeline is a spreadsheet, you pay for the quote block and the CRM sync to get the part you wanted: a page with a signal back. And on Starter, analytics older than 60 days are gone. Qwilr is not a bad tool; it is a sales-team tool priced for sales teams.
How do the alternatives compare one by one?
1. Hostus
Hostus hosts one HTML file as a page at your-slug.hostus.page. Claude writes the proposal page from your notes through the Hostus connector, with a heading and an id per section and an Accept form at the end, and publishes it. You switch it 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 each reader opened and for how long, and where they stopped. They can ask the page a question, answered from the proposal with the section cited, and reply on a section. The Accept is a plain <form method="post"> with named fields: it records on the document and emails you, no backend. Free: 20 documents, 2 MB in total, 100 form responses a month, no card, no clock; paid is $9.99 a month or $49.99 a year for the account, with no document limit. No e-signature, no live quotes, no CRM. Pick it if the proposal is a page Claude writes, you want to see what the client read, and the contract is signed separately.
2. Qwilr, if you stay
The page to beat: a proposal that is a web page with an interactive quote and a legally binding signature inside it. Starter is $35 per user per month billed annually ($49 monthly) with e-sign, the quote block, 60 days of analytics history and the 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 in the same link, and the seat price is small next to what a proposal is worth.
3. PandaDoc
The e-signature tool that also does proposals. 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 the signature is the point and five sends a month is enough to start.
4. Proposify
A template editor with a timeline of when each recipient opens the document and how much time they spend in each section. Build is $35 per user per month billed annually ($49 monthly), signatures on every plan, 14-day trial, no free plan. Pick it if you want section-level reading inside a template editor and will sign in the same tool.
5. Better Proposals
The cheapest of the proposal tools: Starter $13 per user per month billed annually ($19 monthly) with 10 sends a month, Premium $21 ($29 monthly) with 50, legally binding digital signatures on every plan, analytics that show which sections got the most time; 14-day trial, no free plan. Pick it if you want templates and signatures in one subscription and send under ten a month. The longer comparison is at Better Proposals alternatives.
6. Storydoc
Decks, not documents. Starter is $19.80 per month billed annually ($237.60 a year), Pro $36 a month; the site does not describe a free plan, so check their pricing page. Pick it if the proposal is a deck and you want it to stay one.
7. A Notion page
The Free plan is $0 with basic page analytics, a list of page viewers and views over time; Plus is $10 per seat per month. No email gate, nothing per section. Pick it if the client already works in Notion and you do not need to know what they read.
8. A PDF by email
The baseline. Free, opens everywhere, and tells you nothing after it leaves. Keep it for the client who asks for one.
Side by side
| Tool | What you learn after sending | Client needs an account | Accept is a form you keep | E-signature | Edit after sending (same link) | Free plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hostus | Who opened and when, reading by section, where they stopped, questions asked, replies | No; the gate asks for an email | Yes, on the document and in your email | No | Yes; v2 on the same link, history kept | Yes: 20 documents, 2 MB, 100 responses a month, no clock |
| Qwilr | Analytics, 60 days of history on Starter | Not stated on their pricing page | Signed in the page | Yes, from Starter | Not stated | No; 14-day trial, from $35 per user |
| PandaDoc | Check their plan comparison | Not stated | Signed in the document | Yes | Not stated | Yes: 5 documents sent a month, 2 recipients |
| Proposify | A timeline of opens and time per section | Not stated | Signed in the document | Yes, every plan | Not stated | No; 14-day trial, from $35 per user |
| Better Proposals | Which sections got the most time | Not stated | Signed in the document | Yes, every plan | Not stated | No; 14-day trial, from $13 per user with 10 sends a month |
| Storydoc | Check their pricing page | Not stated | Not stated | Check their pricing page | Not stated | Check their pricing page; Starter $19.80 a month annual |
| Notion page | A list of page viewers and views over time | To appear in the viewer list, yes | Not stated | Not stated | Yes, it is a live page | Yes, $0 |
| PDF by email | Nothing | No | No, the reply is an email | No | No, you resend | Free |
Sources: each vendor's pricing page or help center, October 18, 2026. Not stated: the page we verified does not say.
What a proposal page on Hostus looks like
The demo is a proposal for a fictional business: two options, a timeline and an Accept form, with illustrative numbers. Open it on a phone, ask it a question, try the form. The full prompt that writes a page like it from your notes is in Send a proposal as a web page.
How do you move a proposal from Qwilr to Hostus?
- Get the words out. Copy the text of the Qwilr page, or start from the notes you wrote it from.
- Ask Claude for the page, with the Hostus connector on and the prompt from the guide. Each section gets a heading with an id, which is what reading by section anchors to; the Accept is a
<form method="post" name="accept">with name, email and option. Claude also sets the form to email you on every response; that is a document setting, not HTML. - Switch it to email-gated in the dashboard; the page is born private and the connector cannot change that. Leave the gate open, or restrict it to a list of addresses.
- Test the Accept once. Submissions you send while signed in are marked as tests and do not count toward the 100 a month.
- When they want changes, upload v2 to the same document. The link does not change and v1 stays in the history.
Nothing for the client to install: the link opens on a phone like any web page, with a small "Published with Hostus" pill in the corner of the page.
Good to know before you switch
Hostus has no e-signature: the Accept form is a record of who chose what and when, not a legal signature, so send the contract separately. There are no payments on the page and no CRM: no pipeline view, no HubSpot sync. The gate is by email, not by password, and it does not verify that the typed address belongs to the person: an allowlist only limits which addresses can be typed in. There is no custom domain on any plan; the link is your-slug.hostus.page.
The free plan is 20 documents, 2 MB of storage in total (media counts) and 100 form responses a month, no card, no clock. One document is one page; a folder groups several, with no site menu. If the proposal needs an interactive quote and a signature on the same link, Qwilr is still the right tool, and we would rather say so here.