Spodus vs Front
The best shared inbox is still only a shared inbox.
Front does one job extremely well, and Spodus does not do that job: our Inbox is internal team chat, not a shared email inbox.
Front
Spodus- Starting price
- $25/seat/mo, Front Starter, annual
- Quoted per seat — one rate at any size
- Inbox rules, workflows & analytics
- Included
- Basic
- Seat ceiling per tier
- Starter 10, Professional 50
- Not offered
- Purpose-built CRM
- Not offered
- Included
What sets us apart
Front does one job. Spodus does five.
Everything you'd bolt onto Front, and pay for separately, is already in one Spodus seat.
Front
The shared inbox tool
- $25 per seat a month on Front's Starter, $65 on Professional, $105 on Enterprise, billed annually.
- Seat ceilings per tier: Starter stops at 10 seats and Professional at 50, so growth means a tier jump.
- The conversation, not the customer. The deal, the invoice and the ticket live in other tools.
- Every teammate is a seat, so ten people on Starter is $250 a month for an inbox.
Spodus
The whole suite, one seat
- Quoted per seat, one rate at any size, with the shared inbox included.
- The ceiling is fifty, not ten. Every plan runs to it, and keeps all five products.
- The conversation sits on the customer, next to their deals, invoices and tickets.
- Four more products in the same price: CRM, finance, HR and a help desk.
What the bill is counted by
Two hundred and fifty dollars of email.
Front Starter is $25 per seat a month billed annually, so ten people is $250 before any CRM, invoicing, help desk or HR exists.
Front figures are their own published prices as of August 2026.
A Spodus bill has one meter.
- Seats, and only seats: the people you give a login.
- Not contacts, not the customers in your portal, not payroll headcount.
- No packs, no bands. The eleventh person is one more seat.
- One rate covers all five products. A plan sets limits and controls, never which products you get.
The argument
Why teams switch.
Three arguments for moving off Front, the row-by-row table behind them, and one argument against.
- 01
The email lands on the customer
A message arrives beside the deal it concerns, the invoice that is overdue and the ticket still open. In Front it arrives beside other messages.
- 02
The ceiling is fifty, not ten
Front's Starter stops at ten seats and Professional at fifty. Every self-serve Spodus plan runs to the same fifty, and none of them takes a product away.
- 03
$250 a month, for an inbox
Ten seats on Front Starter is $250 a month and gives you email. The same ten people on Spodus get email plus four more products, on one bill.
Side by side.
Row by row, with Front’s own published plans in the right-hand column.
| Spodus | Front | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Quoted per seat — one rate at any size | $25/seat/mo, Front Starter, annual |
| Shared team inbox | ||
| Assignment & internal comments | ||
| Inbox rules, workflows & analytics | Basic | |
| Seat ceiling per tier | Starter 10, Professional 50 | |
| Purpose-built CRM | ||
| Invoicing & finance | ||
| HR & people | ||
| Help desk with SLAs |
Front plans and pricing reflect publicly listed information as of August 2026. Spodus is priced per seat; customers in the support portal are free.
The honest part
Being fair about it.
Where Front fits better: as an inbox it is deeper than ours, and not by a little.
Is the Spodus inbox as good as Front?
No. Front's rules, workflows and analytics go deeper, and we would rather say so. Spodus gives you shared team addresses, threading, assignment and internal comments, sitting on the customer record. If your business is email triage at volume, Front is the better tool.
What happens at ten seats?
Nothing, on Spodus. Front's Starter plan stops at ten seats and Professional at fifty, so passing either means moving tier and changing price. Every self-serve Spodus plan runs to fifty people and keeps every product.
Can we import our conversations?
You connect your mailboxes and the history syncs in, so team addresses like support@ and sales@ carry on working. Contacts and companies come in by CSV or a guided import.
Head to head
Compare Spodus with the rest of your stack.
The same side-by-side, for the other tools a Spodus seat replaces.
Trade Front for the whole suite.
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