Is Arrows or Qwilr cheaper?

Arrows starts at Not published; the last publicly listed entry point was $500 per month (early 2025) (free trial). Qwilr starts at $35/user/mo (Starter, billed annually; $49 billed monthly) (14 days trial).

Arrows vs Qwilr

An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.

The short answer

Editorial assessment

Arrows compared with Qwilr

Different jobs that get shortlisted together. Qwilr is a proposal and quoting tool: interactive web-based proposals with pricing tables, ROI calculators, acceptance, and e-signature, priced self-serve from a low per-user figure. Arrows is a buying-process workspace that happens to hold documents. A Qwilr proposal is a document the buyer signs; an Arrows room is a plan the buyer works through over weeks. Teams whose sales cycle is essentially send-a-proposal-and-close should buy Qwilr and skip this category.

Choose Arrows if

B2B sales and customer success teams that already run on HubSpot or Salesforce, sell a considered purchase involving multiple stakeholders, and want the buyer-facing plan and the CRM record to be the same source of truth rather than two systems a rep has to reconcile.

Choose Qwilr if

Design-conscious B2B sales teams of roughly five to fifty people selling considered purchases (agencies, SaaS, professional services) that want proposals to look like a product experience, need engagement analytics to time their follow-up, and can justify a four-figure annual spend for the sales content layer.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Arrows	Qwilr
Category	Sales Rooms	Proposals
Starting price	Not published; the last publicly listed entry point was $500 per month (early 2025) (free trial)	$35/user/mo (Starter, billed annually; $49 billed monthly) (14 days trial)
Pricing model	Quote-only subscription as of August 2026. Arrows prices by volume of sales rooms and onboarding plans rather than by seat, so internal and external participants are unlimited and adding reps does not raise the bill. Every plan includes full platform access; the tier structure gates enterprise controls such as SAML SSO, SCIM, and audit logs rather than core room features. Monthly and annual billing are both offered, with a discount for paying annually.	Three published self-serve tiers. Starter is per user; Growth and Scale are packaged monthly prices that include a fixed number of users with a per-user rate above that. All paid plans are billed annually except Starter, which also offers monthly billing.
Free plan	No	No
Free trial	Free trial with no credit card, covering all products and most business-tier features	14 days on the Starter plan with full Starter features, no credit card required
Best for	B2B sales and customer success teams that already run on HubSpot or Salesforce, sell a considered purchase involving multiple stakeholders, and want the buyer-facing plan and the CRM record to be the same source of truth rather than two systems a rep has to reconcile.	Design-conscious B2B sales teams of roughly five to fifty people selling considered purchases (agencies, SaaS, professional services) that want proposals to look like a product experience, need engagement analytics to time their follow-up, and can justify a four-figure annual spend for the sales content layer.
Setup time	A first room can be built the same day the marketplace app is installed. A real rollout takes one to three weeks: designing room templates that match your actual buying process, deciding which Arrows data points map to which CRM properties, and building the workflows that act on room engagement. The template design is the work, not the software.	A first branded proposal in an afternoon: apply brand settings, adapt a template, send. Building a reusable block library and wiring CRM document generation with merged deal variables is more like one to three weeks of part-time work.
Learning curve	Low for reps, since room creation runs from the CRM record they already use and the AI provides a draft. Meaningfully higher for the admin or RevOps owner, who has to decide what a good buying process looks like before encoding it into a template. Reviewers frequently note that Arrows forces you to confront a vague process rather than hiding it, which is useful but not effortless.	Low for reps, who mostly duplicate a template and swap the quote block. Moderate for the person owning templates, since block-based layout thinking is different from editing a Word document and the automation rules take experimentation.
Platforms	Web application, HubSpot App Marketplace app with CRM cards, Salesforce AppExchange integration, Mobile-responsive buyer-facing rooms	Web app, Responsive buyer-facing pages, REST API, Zapier
Compliance	SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, Annual third-party penetration testing, Data processing addendum available	SOC 2 Type 2, PCI-DSS compliant payment processors for QwilrPay, Legally binding electronic signatures
Founded	2020	2014
Headquarters	Fully remote (US-based leadership)	Sydney, Australia
Ownership	Independent, venture-backed	Venture-backed

Strengths and limitations

Arrows

Strengths

The deepest CRM integration in the digital sales room category, endorsed by HubSpot itself, which uses Arrows internally and invested through HubSpot Ventures.
Rooms are created and maintained from inside the CRM, so adoption does not depend on reps opening another tool.
AI that assembles the first draft from real deal activity, cutting room creation to a couple of minutes, which is what makes a room-for-every-deal policy realistic.
No login for buyers, removing the single most common reason sales rooms go unopened.

Limitations

No published pricing at all as of August 2026; the pricing page is a request form, so buyers cannot self-qualify on budget before booking a demo.
No free plan, and the last known entry point of $500 per month puts Arrows out of reach of most genuinely small teams in this category.
Hard dependency on HubSpot or Salesforce. There is no meaningful Pipedrive, Zoho, Attio, or Close support, and most of the product's advantage evaporates without a supported CRM.
Deeper HubSpot capabilities are gated by HubSpot's own tiers, not just by Arrows: custom object sync needs HubSpot Enterprise, and workflow automation needs a paid Sales or Service Hub.

Qwilr

Strengths

The best output quality in the category: proposals look like a designed web experience without a designer in the loop, and they are responsive on mobile by default.
Interactivity is real, not cosmetic: buyer-configurable quotes, ROI calculators, and embedded payment change what the document can do rather than how it looks.
Section-level engagement analytics with Slack alerts give reps a genuine follow-up signal instead of a single open notification.
QwilrPay collapsing signature and payment into one moment is a material cycle-time win for deposit-based and retainer businesses.

Limitations

The most expensive entry price in this comparison set, and the pricing structure punishes small teams: the jump from Starter to the $275 per month Growth tier is steep and unavoidable if you want automations or custom branding.
Feature gating is aggressive. Salesforce, conditional content, the Smart Proposal Engine, and AI Prefill all live on the $750 per month Scale tier, which puts Qwilr's headline 2026 features out of reach for most startups.
The 14-day trial only exposes Starter, so buyers cannot evaluate the features that justify the higher tiers before committing to an annual contract.
Growth and Scale are billed annually only, so there is no low-commitment way to run a quarter on a mid tier.

Pricing compared

Arrows

Quote-only subscription as of August 2026. Arrows prices by volume of sales rooms and onboarding plans rather than by seat, so internal and external participants are unlimited and adding reps does not raise the bill. Every plan includes full platform access; the tier structure gates enterprise controls such as SAML SSO, SCIM, and audit logs rather than core room features. Monthly and annual billing are both offered, with a discount for paying annually.

Trial$0
Business (quoted)Custom
Enterprise (quoted)Custom

Judged purely on capability per dollar, Arrows is a mid-market purchase that has drifted away from the small-business end of the market. A $500 per month floor, now hidden behind a form, is real money for a five-person sales team, and several competitors in this category start under $100 per month or offer a free tier. What you are paying for is the integration: the sixty-odd synced data points, workflow triggers, and timeline events mean the room is part of the CRM rather than another tab, and that is the difference between a sales room program that survives a quarter and one that does not. If your team lives in HubSpot and your deals involve four or more stakeholders, the math works quickly. If you are evaluating on price, or your CRM is anything else, it does not.

Qwilr

Three published self-serve tiers. Starter is per user; Growth and Scale are packaged monthly prices that include a fixed number of users with a per-user rate above that. All paid plans are billed annually except Starter, which also offers monthly billing.

Starter$35
Growth$275
Scale$750

Qwilr is priced as sales infrastructure, not as a document tool, and the sticker reflects that: a five-person team on Growth pays $3,300 a year before add-ons, against roughly $1,260 for the same headcount on Better Proposals Premium and $1,140 on Proposify Basic. What you get for the premium is the best-looking output in the category, genuine interactivity (quotes, calculators, embedded payment), and section-level analytics that the cheaper tools approximate at best. If proposals are a meaningful part of how you win deals and the design quality is part of the pitch, the money is defensible. If proposals are paperwork, it is not.

Editorial verdict on each

Arrows

Arrows is the digital sales room for teams whose center of gravity is HubSpot, and it earned that position by deleting the parts of itself that were not. The integration is not a checkbox: roughly sixty data points sync back as CRM properties, rooms are built and published from the deal record, and buyer engagement lands on the timeline where a manager already looks. Add AI that drafts the room from call notes and keeps proposing updates, plus no login for buyers, and you get the two behaviors that decide whether a sales room program works at all, namely reps actually creating rooms and buyers actually opening them. The honest caveat is commercial rather than technical. With no published pricing, no free plan, and a last-known floor of $500 per month, Arrows has moved up-market and out of reach for the smallest teams that this directory usually serves; Dock and Trumpet will quote you a number today and start cheaper. If you run HubSpot or Salesforce, sell into buying committees, and have RevOps capacity to design good templates, Arrows is the strongest product in the category. If any of those three are missing, it is the wrong purchase at this price.

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Qwilr

Innovation

Qwilr makes the strongest sales documents in this category and it is not close: the block editor, interactive quoting, ROI calculators, embedded payment, and section-level analytics add up to a genuinely different artifact than a tracked PDF. The problem is who can afford it. Starter is workable for a one or two person team, but the moment you want automations, custom branding, or Salesforce, you are looking at $275 or $750 a month on an annual contract, and the trial will not let you evaluate any of it. Buy Qwilr when the proposal is part of the pitch and the deals are large enough that a few points of win rate pays for the tier; otherwise Better Proposals delivers eighty percent of the outcome for a third of the money.

Read the full Qwilr profile

Arrows profile last reviewed 2026-08-23; Qwilr last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.