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Projectous vs Scoro
Every quote starts at five seats. There are three of you.
Why choose Projectous over Scoro
- No seat floor — a three-person studio pays for a three-person studio.
- The full money picture on every plan instead of spread across bundles you add up.
- From the Team plan up, clients are free and uncapped rather than counted against a five-user floor.
- What needs attention arrives on its own, instead of waiting in a report for somebody to open it.
What Scoro is genuinely good at
- Genuinely end-to-end — quoting, delivery, time, resourcing, spend and invoicing as one system rather than parts.
- Margin estimation built into the quote, so you see the shape of a job before you agree to it.
- Revenue forecasting, work-in-progress reporting and client profiles at the top tier, none of which we have.
- A mature product for firms large enough to need all of it.
Side by side
| Capability | Projectous | Scoro |
|---|---|---|
| Works for client work on day one | Yes | Yes |
| Tells you what needs attention | Prioritisation and the Today tab on every plan; stale detection from the Team plan up | Reports you go and read |
| Drafts your standup from what actually happened | Yes | No |
| File storage that will not stop you | No | Not published in a form we could confirm |
| Timeline or Gantt view | No | Yes |
| Work your team can claim, rather than be given | Yes | No |
| Notices client emails you have not answered | Yes | No |
| Helps the person doing the work, not the person watching | Yes | No |
| Time tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Invoice from the tracked time | Yes | Yes |
| Whether a project made money | Basic profitability reports on every plan; per-project margin tracking from the Team plan up | Margin estimation from the Quote to Cash bundle up |
| Hourly, fixed-price, at-cost and retainer | Yes | Yes |
| Fixed payouts to the freelancer doing it | Yes | Cost rates and spend, not a payout per job |
| The client can be in the work with you | From the Team plan up — the Solo plan has no client access. No separate portal either: clients are invited into the app and invoices are shared links | Not the centre of the product |
| Internal and client conversation on the same task | Yes | No |
| Team chat with channels and direct messages | Yes | No |
| Encrypted vault for client credentials | Yes | No |
| Priced per team, with free clients | Yes | No |
Amber means it exists behind a plan, an add-on or a caveat, and the row says which. Checked 2026-08-24 against Scoro’s own pricing and documentation.
What you came to compare
Pick the argument you actually care about. They are different questions and they have different answers.
The tiers are built for firms of a certain size, and the pricing says so before the features do.
The smallest you can buy
Projectous
One team subscription. Two people is a normal customer and costs what the band costs.
Scoro
Five users, on every plan. A three-person studio buys five seats, and the per-seat price is on top of that.
Checked 2026-08-24, here.
Reaching the full picture
Projectous
Contracts, margin, invoicing and the attention side are on every plan.
Scoro
The plans are bundles of apps. Time and invoicing sit in the cheapest one; quoting with margin estimation is a tier up; the complete set with advanced financials is the End-to-end bundle at the top.
Checked 2026-08-24, here.
What a client costs you
Projectous
Nothing, and no cap, from the Team plan up, with their projects and the invoices they can pay.
Scoro
Client-facing access is not the centre of the product, and the seat floor applies regardless of who is using them.
Checked 2026-08-24, here.
Where the conversation lives
Projectous
On the task, split into an internal thread and a client-facing one, with project rooms and direct messages alongside.
Scoro
Comments on records. Conversation is not what the product is for, and most Scoro shops run it beside something else.
What each one costs
Not the reason to switch, and not something you should have to go looking for either.
Projectous
Per team
One subscription covers a band of people rather than a price per head. Client and guest access starts on the Team plan — the Solo plan has none — and from there guests are free and uncapped.
Hiring does not change the bill until you cross a band. Checked against the live plans on 2026-08-24.
See the current plansScoro
Per user, five-user minimum
- Time-billingBundle — time tracking and invoicing
- Projects & ResourcesBundle — planning and capacity
- Quote to CashBundle — adds margin estimation
- End-to-endBundle — all eight apps
- Every plan has a five-user minimum — a three-person studio buys five.
- Plans are bundles of apps rather than tiers, so the full picture is the top bundle.
- Prices are listed in four currencies and we could not tell which dollar was which, so none is quoted here. Check their page for your region.
Checked 2026-08-24 against their pricing page.
Where we will not go
Projectous exists to help people coordinate work with more clarity, trust and humanity.
Which means some things are permanently off the table, whatever a feature comparison says.
No screenshot monitoring
Nobody works better because software is watching their screen.
No keyboard activity scoring
Movement is not effort, and measuring it teaches people to move.
No public shaming dashboards
A league table changes behaviour. Never in the direction you wanted.
No manufactured urgency
If something is not actually on fire, we are not going to tell you it is.
Also weighing something else?
- Projectous vs Productive.ioThe closest fit on this list. You assemble more of it, and someone has to run it.
- Projectous vs AcceloAccelo does not publish its prices. You book a call to find out.
- Projectous vs Teamwork.comThe closest thing to us here. It stops at the profit number and the client conversation.
Three of you paying for five?
Try it against a real project of yours and see whether it tells you something your current stack does not.