Launch special
Galleries, CRM, booking, contracts, invoices, automations, your website — every feature, on every plan, including the $0 one. Paid plans buy storage, and nothing else.
No card · no trial clock · yours to keep · 0% platform fee on client payments
Launch special
Everything, while you find your feet
$0 — yours to keep
While the launch offer lasts
1GB
of photos · ≈ 250 delivered
Part-time and getting going
$10/month
or $96/year — save 20%
25GB
of photos · ≈ 6,000 delivered
Most popular
A working studio, shooting most weeks
$28/month
or $240/year — save 28%
100GB
of photos · ≈ 25,000 delivered
Full-time, and every gallery stays online
$49/month
or $480/year — save 18%
1TB
of photos · ≈ 250,000 delivered
The feature list is identical on purpose — storage is the only thing a bigger plan buys. Start on Free, move up when it fills; nothing is deleted if you move back down — the storage policy is public.
What $0 buys you
Everything below is live today and included at $0 — not a starter subset, the same product a paid studio runs on.
Do the math
A gallery platform doesn't run your bookings. A business manager doesn't deliver photos. So most studios end up paying for both — and the pairing HoneyBook itself recommends costs $84 a month.
$672
saved every year against the two-app stack, at 100 GB with the business side included
$0
to run everything while you start out — HoneyBook's entry plan is $36/mo and has no galleries
$28/mo
100 GB · nothing else to buy
$35/mo
100 GB · Only 3 active session types · Photo editor is a $12/mo add-on
$59/mo
No photo delivery · You still need a gallery platform · No website
$84/mo
100 GB · Two subscriptions · Two logins · Two support queues
Month-to-month list prices on all sides — comparing their yearly rate against our monthly one would be the oldest trick on a pricing page. Yearly, ours drops to $240.
Side by side
Not ticks — the actual answer. “Included” and “included once you have upgraded twice” are both a tick, and the tick is the less honest of the two.
| Photographers Office HQ | Pixieset | Pic-Time | HoneyBook | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Client galleries | Every plan | Every plan | Every plan | None — integrates with Pic-Time |
| CRM, contacts & pipeline | Every plan | Studio Manager or Suite | None of its own | Every plan |
| Booking & scheduling | Every plan, unlimited session types | Suite — 3 session types on Starter | None | Essentials, $59/mo |
| Automations | Every plan | Email campaigns, capped by plan | Sales automations | Essentials, $59/mo |
| Contracts & e-signature | Every plan | Studio Manager or Suite | None | Every plan |
| Website & blog | Every plan | Separate product, or Suite | Portfolio page; blog on Professional | None |
| Free plan | The whole product, every feature | 3 GB, 15% store commission | 10 GB, 15% store commission | None — 30-day trial |
| Our cut of your client's payment | 0%, every plan | 0% on paid plans | 0% self-collected, on paid plans | They process it: 2.9% + 25¢ |
| Whose payment account | Yours — charged on your own Stripe | Yours | Theirs by default, yours optionally | Theirs |
| Remove platform branding | Any paid plan | Any paid plan, from $10/mo | Beginner, $8/mo | Essentials, $59/mo |
| Print store | Coming next | Every plan | Every plan, 30+ labs | None |
Client galleries, with the website and the studio manager sold as separate products (or bundled into the Suite).
Commission-free on paid plans; 15% of store sales on Free.
Their pricing page →Client galleries and a print store. There is no CRM of its own — it integrates with one, and bundles a year of Studio Ninja on the paid tiers.
Store commission on payments Pic-Time collects: 15% on Free and Beginner, 8% Professional, 6% Advanced — charged on your markup. Collect the payment yourself on Professional or Advanced and it is 0%.
Their pricing page →A business manager for any service business — not photography-specific, and it has no client galleries at all. Its answer to galleries is an integration with Pic-Time.
HoneyBook is the payment processor: card fees start at 2.9% + 25¢, ACH 1.5%. There is no free plan — a 30-day trial, then a card.
Their pricing page →Every competitor price on this page was read off the vendor's own pricing page on . They change their prices without telling us; if you find one of these out of date, we would rather hear about it than keep it up — chavezmarcoa2023@gmail.com.
The whole product, free — 1 GB of photos, no card, no trial clock. Yours to keep.
Create your studio — free