Spodus vs Productive
Everything is in the plan, whichever plan it is.
Productive is a strong agency operations tool with its best reporting a tier or two up.
Productive
Spodus- Published price on every tier
- No, the top tier is quoted
- Up to 50 seats; Enterprise is quoted
- AI sold on top
- Add-on
- Included, not sold on top
- All modules on the entry plan
- Not offered
- Included
- Help desk & customer portal
- Not offered
- Included
Productive gates the reporting. Spodus ships one plan's worth.
Rate cards, billable approvals and the deeper reports sit on Productive's Professional tier, and forecasting, subsidiaries, SSO and webhooks sit on a quoted one above it. Spodus puts all five products in every plan.
Productive
Agency operations, tiered
- Three tiers, with the top one quoted rather than published.
- The deeper reports and rate cards sit on the middle tier, not the entry one.
- Forecasting, subsidiaries and SSO are on the quoted tier above that.
- AI is a separate add-on, priced on top of the seat.
Spodus
The whole suite, one seat
- Three plans, and every one of them carries all five products.
- Dashboards and custom fields are on every plan, not held back for a higher one.
- Permissions and webhooks unlock on a published rate, not a quote.
- Spodus AI is included, on every plan, not sold on top.
The tier you need is rarely the one on the tin.
The entry plan is not where the reporting lives: rate cards, billable approvals and the deeper reports are a tier up, and forecasting, multiple subsidiaries.
Productive's published pricing
- Published price on every tier
- No, the top tier is quoted
Productive 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.
Why teams switch.
Three arguments for moving off Productive, the row-by-row table behind them, and one argument against.
- 01
The plan is the whole product
Every Spodus plan carries CRM, invoicing, support, people and inbox. There is no tier where a module appears for the first time.
- 02
Nothing is tiered away
Productive keeps rate cards and billable approvals for a higher tier, and forecasting, SSO and webhooks for a quoted one above that. Every Spodus plan has all five products in it; a plan sets limits and controls, never which products you get.
- 03
The customer side is included
A help desk, a knowledge base and a portal your clients log into are in the same seat, and portal customers never count against it.
Side by side.
Row by row, with Productive’s own published plans in the left-hand column.
| Productive | Spodus | |
|---|---|---|
| Published price on every tier | No, the top tier is quoted | Up to 50 seats; Enterprise is quoted |
| All modules on the entry plan | ||
| AI sold on top | Add-on | Included, not sold on top |
| CRM & pipeline | ||
| Invoicing | ||
| Help desk & customer portal | ||
| Shared team inbox | ||
| HR, org chart & time off | ||
| Time tracking & timesheets | ||
| Budgets, rate cards & profitability | Budgets, rates and profit per project | |
| Resource planning & forecasting |
Productive plans and pricing reflect publicly listed information as of August 2026. Spodus is priced per seat; customers in the support portal are free.
Being fair about it.
Where Productive fits better: resource planning and forecasting.
Compare Spodus with the rest of your stack.
The same side-by-side, for the other tools a Spodus seat replaces.
Two ways
to start
Start fresh today, or bring the clients, deals and history you already have.
Start fresh
Free for up to three people.
You get every product: CRM, invoicing, support, team, chat and Spodus AI, which asks before it changes anything. Upgrade when your team grows.
Start for freeBring your data
Bring your data from the tool you use now.
Your deals arrive with their stages, owners and dates. Connect your work email, and each client's emails land on their record. On a paid plan, we'll move it all for you, free.
Trade Productive for the whole suite.
Start today, or bring your own data to a demo and see it there.
Questions, answered
Yes. Projects carry a budget and show when they are over, and bill and cost rates give revenue, cost, profit, margin and effective rate per project and client. Utilisation is reported against a fixed 80% target. Productive goes further on resource planning and forecasting, and if that is the job you are hiring for, it is the better tool.
Records, storage, automations and runs, workspaces, sequences, and the admin and team controls a larger company needs, such as custom roles, approvals and workload. All five products are on every plan.
Yes. Spodus AI answers from your own workspace and can act on records, included on every plan with nothing extra to buy. It always asks before it writes.