Plutio alternative
Plutio vs ClientOS: rent a portal, or own one.
Plutio is a hosted all-in-one business app for freelancers and small teams: projects, invoices, proposals, contracts, scheduling and a client portal. ClientOS is a self-hosted client portal for agencies that sell services as products.
The short answer
Plutio is a strong freelancer toolkit, but it has no service store, and white-label is a paid add-on. ClientOS sells your services from its own pages, runs every order to delivery and is white-label on your own server from day one.
Plutio
From $19 a month
ClientOS
$490 once
Side by side
Plutio and ClientOS, row by row.
Plutio details from its public pages, checked 29 October 2026. Sources are listed at the foot of this page.
Three years of cost
A subscription never ends. A license does.
Plutio bills every month for as long as your agency uses it. ClientOS Standard is $990 once, with 12 months of updates, and keeps running on your server after that. You also pay for your own server, which you choose.
$804kept over three years, before server costs
What the portal costs, by year
Plutio Pro with white-label at $598 a year, list price on 29 October 2026, before extra seats or add-ons.
A fair reading
Where Plutio is strong, and where it pinches.
Plutio is a good product, and for some agencies the right one. Here is what it does well, and why agencies on it look at ClientOS.
What Plutio does well
A wide toolkit for the price
Contracts with e-signature, scheduling, time tracking and Gantt charts from $19 a month.
Room for a team
Pro includes 30 contributors at $49 a month.
Open data
No transaction fees, a public API on every plan and free data export.
Why agencies move to ClientOS
A real store and checkout
ClientOS sells each service from its own page, with packages, add-ons and a checkout that creates the order.
Orders, not just projects
Briefs, statuses, deliveries, revisions and approvals, built for repeatable services.
White-label included
Your domain, logo and words on every package, with no add-on.
Choose Plutio if
- You are a freelancer who needs contracts and scheduling
- You bill custom projects rather than packages
- Core’s limit of 9 active clients is enough
Choose ClientOS if
- You sell productized services and want clients to buy online
- You want a help desk and crypto at checkout
- You want the portal on your own server
Moving from Plutio
Switch in a day, not a quarter.
- Step 1
Export from Plutio
Take your clients out of Plutio as a CSV file. Keep Plutio running until the new portal is live.
- Step 2
Install ClientOS
One command on your own server, about ten minutes. The installation guide walks through it.
- Step 3
Bring your clients in
The CSV import maps your columns, and each client can sign in straight away.
- Step 4
Or let us do it
On Premium and Custom our team installs ClientOS on your server and moves your data for you.
FAQ
Plutio vs ClientOS, asked and answered.
Is ClientOS a good Plutio alternative?
For agencies that sell services as products, yes. Plutio is a broad freelancer toolkit; ClientOS adds a service store with checkout, an order workflow, a help desk and runs on your own server.
Does Plutio include white-label?
On Core and Pro, white-label is a $9 a month add-on, and a custom domain needs it. It is included on Max at $199 a month. ClientOS is white-label on every package.
Can I move from Plutio to ClientOS?
Yes. Export your clients from Plutio as a CSV file and bring them in with ClientOS’s CSV import, which maps your columns. On the Premium and Custom packages our team installs ClientOS and moves your data for you.
Do I need to be technical to run ClientOS instead of Plutio?
No. Installing is one command on a Linux server with 2 to 4 GB of RAM, and takes about ten minutes. On Premium and Custom we install it for you, connect email and payments, and hand over a working portal.
Sources, checked 29 October 2026. Plutio is a trademark of its owner; ClientOS is not affiliated with it. Prices change, so check Plutio’s site for its current terms.
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