A Better Proposals alternative for people stuck before the template
Better Proposals is cheap and good at what it does. Signatures, payments and tracking sit on every plan, and Starter is $13 per user a month billed annually, which is less than Loadout costs. The difference is where the work starts. Better Proposals hands you a template to fill in, and Loadout reads the client's data and hands back three priced options, the exclusions and the cover email, with no signature of its own.
Prices checked on 1 Nov 2026 from each company's own pages
In Better Proposals
Step 1 of 7A proposal ready to sign, as their pages describe it
- Log in to the editor
- 2Pick a template
- 3Fill in the client's details
- 4Build the pricing table
- 5Add the payment option
- 6Send the document
- 7Track the opens
In your AI, with Loadout
1 requestProposal, free to run
- Proposalworking
- Find agencies
- Find freelance buyers
- Scan website
- Find businesses
- Check a message
Starting price
Better Proposals
$13 per user a month on Starter, billed annually, or $19 billed monthly. Starter carries one user seat and 10 documents sent a month. Enterprise is $42 billed annually, or $49 monthly, with unlimited sends. There is a 14 day trial with no card. Nudge, their follow up tool, is $10 per user a month, and custom template design starts at $1,495. The FAQ says every plan lets you add as many users as you need, while the comparison table caps Starter at one seat.
Loadout
Announced on 12 November
Best for
Better Proposals
Anyone who already knows what the proposal says and wants it signed and paid for inside one document.
Loadout
Agencies, freelancers and consultants who have to work out the scope and the price before anything can be written down.
Price model
Better Proposals
$13 per user a month on Starter billed annually, with one seat and 10 sends a month
Loadout
Announced on 12 November
Signatures and payment
Better Proposals
Digital signatures and Stripe, GoCardless and PayPal payments on every plan
Loadout
No signature tool and no checkout. The agreement page asks the client to accept by reply, and carries your own payment link with the instalment amounts and their dates.
Where you start
Better Proposals
A template you fill in, with unlimited templates on every plan
Loadout
The client's own data. The proposal power builds three priced options, the exclusions and the cover email from the call and their site.
Working out the number
Better Proposals
Interactive pricing tables that total up whatever you type
Loadout
The pricing power reads the three nearest alternatives' live prices as a floor and shows the arithmetic for about 13 credits, and the offer builder sets three tiers and a costed guarantee for about 11
How many you can send
Better Proposals
10 documents a month on Starter, 50 on Premium and unlimited on Enterprise
Loadout
No limit on proposals. The proposal power costs nothing in credits unless a market price anchor is needed, which is up to 11.
Tracking
Better Proposals
Open tracking and detailed analytics on every plan, down to the sections they read longest
Loadout
The published proposal page comes with its open stats, and the follow up is written from them
After the signature
Better Proposals
Onboarding flows, forms and PDF export straight from the document
Loadout
The close kit writes the agreement page, the scope document, a dated timeline, a change order and the handoff note at no credit cost, and client onboarding publishes the welcome pack with a dated first 30 days for about 27 credits
Where it runs
Better Proposals
A web app, with API, Zapier and an MCP server from the Premium plan
Loadout
Inside ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Muse, Claude Code or Codex, as a connector
What else is in the price
Better Proposals
Documents, signatures, payments and the tracking around them
Loadout
61 other powers, covering audits, prospecting, ad research, keyword maps, reviews and client reports
Choosing
Better Proposals or Loadout.
Stay with Better Proposals if
- You need the signature. Better Proposals signs inside the document on every plan and says it meets EU and US electronic signature rules, and Loadout has no signature product.
- You take the deposit in the document. Stripe, GoCardless and PayPal sit on every plan, and there is no checkout here.
- Price is the whole question. Starter is $13 per user a month billed annually, under $29, as long as one seat and ten sends a month are enough.
Look at Loadout if
- You only know what to charge after an hour of digging. The pricing power reads the three nearest alternatives' live prices and shows the arithmetic for about 13 credits, and the offer builder sets the tiers and a costed guarantee for about 11.
- Ten sends a month is tight. Loadout has no send limit, and the proposal power costs nothing in credits unless a market price anchor is needed.
- Proposals are one line on your software bill.
Other options
Other Better Proposals alternatives people look at.
Starting prices from each company's own page, checked on 1 Nov 2026.
A free plan for 5 documents a month, then $19 per seat a month on Starter
Signatures, payments and a deal room, with a free plan to test the editor.
$49 per user a month on Build, or $39 per user a month billed annually
Proposal software for sales teams, with approvals, roles and account metrics.
$49 per user a month on Starter, or $35 per user a month billed annually
Web page style proposals with e-sign, analytics and payments built in.
$970 a year on the Starter plan
Proposals bundled into an agency platform with a CRM and sub accounts.
In Loadout
The powers that do this work.
Each one is a proven method your AI follows step by step, with the live data each step needs, and a price shown before it runs.
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Questions
Before you run it.
What does Better Proposals cost right now+
Read from their pricing page on 1 Nov 2026. Starter is $13 per user a month billed annually, or $19 monthly, with one seat and 10 sends a month. Enterprise is $42 billed annually, or $49 monthly, with unlimited sends. There is a 14 day trial with no card, Nudge is $10 per user a month and custom template design starts at $1,495.
Can Loadout sign a proposal or take the payment+
No to both. The close kit page asks the client to accept by replying with the option they picked, which is a simple electronic signature with no certificate and no audit trail, and the page carries your own payment link with the instalment amounts and their dates. Writing the proposal here and signing it in a tool built for signing is a fair setup.
Is Loadout more expensive+
For proposals on their own, yes.
What goes into a Loadout proposal+
Three priced options with scope, exclusions, a timeline and a validity date, plus a short cover email, built from the client's own words and numbers. It publishes as a page and reports whether it was opened and for how long.