Contra vs Dubsado Comparison 2026
Both cover creator finance. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Freelance profiles and payments with no commission
Client workflows that run themselves
Why people weigh these two
- Dubsado instead of Contra
- Dubsado is for the same client-of-your-own freelancer, with workflows that run themselves, at $35 with no free tier.
- Contra instead of Dubsado
- Contra pairs a freelance profile with commission-free payments, free tier and plans from $29, closer to getting paid than to running an automated client workflow.
At a glance
- Contra starts cheaper, at $29.
- Only Contra has a free tier.
Side by side
Contra | Dubsado | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $29 | From $35 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | Paid subscription |
| Free tier (they differ) | Yes | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Not stated |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export |
Contra
Freelance profiles and payments with no commission
Contra takes nothing out of what a client pays you, which is the whole pitch and a real difference from the marketplaces that take ten or twenty percent. What it charges instead is a flat platform fee per payment, capped, and a subscription that halves the cap. The work board is smaller than Upwork's, so most people arrive with a client already.
Our note
On a $5,000 project Contra's capped fee is a rounding error and Upwork's percentage is several hundred dollars. On a $200 one the maths reverses. Work out which side of that line your invoices sit on before picking.
Only on this side
- Covers hiring & freelancers
Dubsado
Client workflows that run themselves
Dubsado automates the repeated half of client work: a lead form fires a workflow, which sends the proposal, chases the signature and issues the invoice on a schedule nobody has to remember. Projects and clients are uncapped on both plans, so the tier is about automation rather than about volume. Scheduling, workflows and public proposals all arrive on the second tier. Setting the workflows up is a real afternoon of work, and it is why people either love this or never finish configuring it.
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