A Bonsai alternative that doesn't charge you by the seat

Bonsai is capable, well-built software for running a freelance business end to end. This page is about one decision underneath the price: every plan is billed per seat, in a market mostly built for a team of one.

BillingHub — 25 invoices USD 25.00 once, never expires
What Bonsai costs Basic $15, Essentials $25 or Premium $39 a month — each of those is a per-user rate, and the plan above Premium sets a three-user minimum before it can be bought at all.
Clients Unlimited on every plan
Multi-currency Essentials and up — not on Basic

Prices checked August 2026 — source

See what leaving Bonsai would cost you at your own volume — try the invoice cost calculator.

What Bonsai is good at

Contracts, proposals, time tracking and invoicing sit under one login, with no cap on clients at any tier. For a freelancer who wants all of that in one subscription and plans to hire, Bonsai is a genuinely complete toolkit, and this page isn't arguing otherwise.

Where it stops

  • Every plan is billed per user, so the rate is built to grow with a team rather than to serve one person forever.
  • A solo business stays one seat for as long as it exists, and staying one seat never earns a lower per-seat rate the way adding seats would.
  • The plan above Premium raises that further: it sets a minimum of three users before it can be bought at all, whatever the real headcount is.

When to choose Bonsai over us

If you send contracts and proposals as often as invoices and want time tracking under the same login, Bonsai's broader toolkit is worth paying a seat for. We only make invoices, estimates and quotes, priced by the document rather than by the desk it was sent from.

Make an invoice without an account

Common questions

Does BillingHub charge more if a second person joins my account?
No. Our price is per invoice, not per seat — a second person on the account costs nothing extra, and neither does a fifth.