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Panorivo vs Bonsai
Bonsai is priced per user per month and keeps the client-facing parts for its second tier. Panorivo is built for one freelancer, free, with the portal and contracts present from the first day.
Per-seat pricing when you are one seat
For a solo freelancer, per-user pricing is a subscription with a growth penalty attached. Panorivo is built for one person and priced accordingly - at nothing - with unlimited clients, projects, invoices and uploads.
Nothing waits for a higher tier
The client portal, contracts, proposals, expenses and your own branding are all present on a new account. In Bonsai the portal and contracts start at Essentials and its branding comes off at Premium, which is a real difference in what your client sees in month one.
Handover and approval, not just invoicing
Deliverables upload at full size and are served only to people entitled to see them. Ask for sign-off and the approval is recorded with a name, a timestamp and an IP address, which is the part most freelance tools leave to email.
One trade's words, not generic project management
Eighteen trades, each with their own noun for a job, their own date label and their own starter sets for what gets handed over. A wedding planner gets weddings and a timeline; a bookkeeper gets engagements and a year-end pack.
Side by side
| Panorivo | Bonsai | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $9-$49 per user/mo billed annually, $15-$59 monthly |
| Free tier | Yes - the whole product | No. 7-day trial |
| Client portal | Yes, on every account | From Essentials |
| Proposals and contracts | Yes, on every account | From Essentials |
| Time tracking | Yes, onto the invoice | Yes, from Basic |
| Expenses, rebillable with receipts | Yes | From Essentials |
| File delivery with sign-off | Yes, access-checked | Not its focus |
| Their branding removed | Never present | From Premium |
Prices are Bonsai's own published rates, read from their pricing page on 11 August 2026, and may have changed since. Check before you decide.
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