A freelancer with a growing client list reads a portal plan table and assumes the bill will climb with every client added. On the three portals read for this piece, it does not. Dubsado, HoneyBook and SuiteDash each state that clients are unlimited. The cost of growth shows up in a different column, and the column differs by vendor.
The unlimited-clients line is on all three pages
All three pricing pages were fetched on 2026-09-29. Dubsado’s feature table has a row called “Unlimited projects & clients” with the description “Manage unlimited number of clients and projects.” and a tick under both Starter and Premier. HoneyBook’s pricing FAQ answers the question of how many projects or clients each plan includes with “Unlimited. That’s right, you can add as many clients and projects as you need with any of our plans. We’ll never charge you to add more leads, projects, or clients.” SuiteDash carries a footnote on its plan cards that reads “UNLIMITED Clients & Staff for all Plans”.
Moxie was on the original list. Its pricing URL, moxie.co/pricing, returned 404 on 2026-09-29 and again when this piece was written, so it is not covered.
This piece is therefore about which other unit each plan meters. A reader whose roster grows from ten clients to sixty will not notice the client count on any of these invoices. They will notice team size, lead forms, storage or a feature that sits one tier up.
What each plan actually meters
The table below is read only from each vendor’s own pricing page on 2026-09-29. Prices are as displayed under the billing option named in the third column. Where a cell says a limit is not stated, the page did not give one in readable text.
| Vendor | Plan | Displayed price | Metered unit | Limit at that plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dubsado | Starter | $335/yr (annual option) | Active lead capture forms; users; brands | 1 form; 3 additional users free, then bands; $10/mo per additional brand |
| Dubsado | Premier | $525/yr (annual option) | Active lead capture forms; users; brands | Unlimited forms; same user bands and brand price |
| HoneyBook | Starter | $29/mo, billed yearly | Live lead forms; team members | Up to 2 live lead forms; team member limit not stated on the page in readable text |
| HoneyBook | Essentials | $49/mo, billed yearly (struck-through $59, labelled 25% off) | Live lead forms; team members | Up to 10 live lead forms; up to 2 team members |
| HoneyBook | Premium | $109/mo, billed yearly (struck-through $129, labelled 25% off) | Live lead forms; team members | Unlimited live lead forms; unlimited team members |
| SuiteDash | Start | $19/mo (monthly option) | File storage; tier features | 100GB; unlimited clients and staff |
| SuiteDash | Thrive | $49/mo (monthly option) | File storage; tier features | 500GB; adds Deal Stage Pipelines and Client-Side Live Chat |
| SuiteDash | Pinnacle | $99/mo (monthly option) | File storage; tier features | 2TB; adds Complete Automation Toolkit and Support Tickets Toolkit |
Three details need reading closely. First, Dubsado’s user pricing sits in a separate “Pay as you grow” block. Its wording is “Bring your team with you. Customize the account access for each user. Enjoy 3 additional users for free.” The bands beneath it are 4 to 10 users at $25/mo, 11 to 20 users at $45/mo and 21 to 30 users at $60/mo. The page does not say what the three free users are counted against, and this piece does not guess.
Second, HoneyBook’s Starter plan card lists no team member line, and the compare table’s team member row shows “Up to 2” and “Unlimited” without a readable Starter value. That is why the Starter cell states no figure rather than guessing one. The 25% off labels may be promotional, so treat the struck-through prices as the page’s own framing on the fetch date.
Third, SuiteDash’s plan cards offer monthly, yearly and “Century” options. On the yearly option the cards show $180, $480 and $960 a year. The page also states that additional storage is available for $5/month ($60/year) per 250GB. Its FAQ answer to whether it charges per user sits in the page’s embedded FAQ data and reads “No. Unlimited users on all plans.”
One roster, three meters
The roster here is hypothetical, chosen by the writer, and describes no real business. Picture a freelancer who starts solo with 40 clients, then grows to a team of five people over two years. The client count stays at 40 throughout. Only team size and the asset library change.
Dubsado. The client count trips nothing, since the page lists unlimited clients on both plans. Team size does. Once the account has a fourth user, it falls in the “4 to 10 users” band at $25/mo, which is $300 a year. On Starter at $335/yr, that makes $635 a year for the plan and the band together. The plan price is displayed annually and the band monthly, so the $300 is an accrual of a monthly charge, not a figure the page itself totals. If the same freelancer needs more than one active lead capture form, the page lists Premier at $525/yr, a $190 a year difference from Starter.
HoneyBook. Again, 40 clients trip nothing. The meter is team members. On Essentials, the page allows up to 2. A third team member means Premium, which lists unlimited team members. Both are billed yearly at the displayed monthly rate: $49 times 12 is $588 a year, and $109 times 12 is $1,308 a year. The difference is $720 a year. The page does not say whether the account owner counts toward the 2.
SuiteDash. Staff and users are unlimited on every plan, so the team of five trips nothing. The meter is file storage. Suppose the asset library grows past 100GB. On the monthly option, Start is $19/mo, which is $228 a year, and Thrive is $49/mo, which is $588 a year, a $360 a year step to reach 500GB. The page also lists extra storage at $5/month per 250GB, so two blocks would add $10/mo, or $120 a year. The tier step and the storage block are different purchases, since Thrive also adds Deal Stage Pipelines and Client-Side Live Chat. For how storage is priced in other kinds of tools, see how storage is priced by seat, terabyte or asset.
All arithmetic uses only the displayed prices, with no tax or processing fees added.
Why the limit moved off the client
This is a reading of the tables, not a claim about what any vendor intends. What the tables show is that each vendor separates its plans on something other than clients. Dubsado’s Premier row adds scheduling, automated workflows, public proposals and a lifted lead form limit. HoneyBook’s Essentials adds a scheduler and automations, and its Premium lifts team members and lead forms. SuiteDash’s higher tiers add pipelines, live chat, automation and support tickets, alongside storage.
A reader who compares on client count is therefore comparing on a line that does not vary between these plans. The lines that vary are the ones in the table above.
Questions to put to a plan table before subscribing
These apply to any portal, including ones not read here.
- What does the plan meter besides clients? Look for users, forms, brands, storage or projects.
- What counts as a user, and how is that different from a client login? Check whether the page defines the two separately.
- Is storage capped, and is there a priced add-on?
- Does the tier gate the features you would actually use, such as scheduling, automation or pipelines?
- What changes at the next tier, in both the limit and the price?
- Is the displayed price a monthly rate billed monthly, a monthly rate billed yearly, or an annual total?
One note on scope. Dubsado’s page lists a client portals feature on both plans, and HoneyBook’s Starter lists a client portal. On these three, the portal itself is not the gated item.
Where this sits next to seat pricing in social tools
Seat billing inside social media management software is a separate subject from standalone portals. For that market, see guest, member and viewer seats in social media tools. This piece covers standalone portals only. For pipeline records, see what CRM free tiers meter for brand deal pipelines, and for proposals, which all three portals bundle, see what proposal software runs out of first.
Disclosure: followedapp is published by the team behind RecurPost. RecurPost is covered vendor #34 under the same rules as every other vendor. RecurPost is not a client portal and is not compared here.
Prices verified, and what this page is not
Prices verified 2026-09-29 from https://www.dubsado.com/pricing, https://www.honeybook.com/pricing and https://suitedash.com/pricing/. This page is not Watchdog data and is not on the re-verification schedule, so prices and limits may have changed since the date given.
FAQ
Does Dubsado limit the number of clients?
Not according to its pricing page as fetched on 2026-09-29, which lists “Unlimited projects & clients” on both Starter and Premier. What the page does meter is active lead capture forms (1 on Starter, Unlimited on Premier), users beyond the three it says are free, and brands at $10/mo each.
Is a client portal the same as a client login?
The three pages use portal, client and user as separate terms, and the page wording should be checked for which one a plan meters. Dubsado lists “Client portals” as a feature, HoneyBook lists “Client portal” on its plan cards, and SuiteDash’s plan cards carry the footnote “UNLIMITED Clients & Staff for all Plans”. This piece does not assert a general definition beyond what those pages say.
Sources
- Dubsado pricing, fetched 2026-09-29 (HTTP 200)
- HoneyBook pricing, fetched 2026-09-29 (HTTP 200)
- SuiteDash pricing, fetched 2026-09-29 (HTTP 200)