Dock vs Heybase
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 assessmentHeybase compared with Dock
Heybase's own marketing ran a Heybase vs Dock comparison page, which tells you who it saw across the table. Dock is the workspace-shaped alternative: deal rooms, onboarding plans, and client portals with mutual action plans, order forms, and a free tier, aimed at revenue teams that want one workspace from first call through onboarding. It is venture-funded, actively developed, and integrates properly with HubSpot and Salesforce. Heybase competed on price alone, and with the vendor gone the price argument is void. A Heybase refugee whose use extended past the sale (onboarding checklists, client portals, renewals) should shortlist Dock; one who only needs a tracked proposal microsite can start on either Dock's or Trumpet's free tier and decide on feel.
Choose Dock if
Small and mid-sized B2B software teams running considered, multi-stakeholder deals who want one branded workspace to carry an account from first demo through onboarding, with CRM-synced engagement tracking and a content library that keeps every rep on the current version.
Choose Heybase if
Nobody today. Historically it fit solo founders, consultants, and micro sales teams who wanted a personalized deal microsite with engagement tracking for a one-time price instead of a per-seat subscription, and who could tolerate rough edges in exchange for that price.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Dock | Heybase |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Sales Rooms | Sales Rooms |
| Starting price | Free plan; paid plans from $350 per month (Standard) (free plan available) | Not purchasable as of August 2026; historically $69 one-time on AppSumo, with third-party listings citing subscriptions from $19 to $29 per month (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Flat monthly platform pricing with an included block of internal seats and $50 per month for each additional seat. External collaborators (prospects, clients, partners) are free on every plan and never counted. Tiers gate seats, content volume, CRM integrations, white-labelling, API access, and SSO type rather than metering usage. | Historically a hybrid: AppSumo lifetime deals ($69 for tier 1, up to $179 for tier 2 and 3 licenses) carried most distribution, alongside a subscription with a 14-day free trial. From at least November 2024 the public pricing page listed four tiers (Essential, Growth, Advance, Enterprise) with no prices shown, all behind Talk to sales. As of August 2026 no pricing page exists at all, the AppSumo deal is marked sold out, and there is no published way to buy the product. |
| Free plan | Permanent Free plan: 10 workspaces, 25 CMS assets, 1 slide deck, 1 playbook, 1 course, 1 order form, custom branding, Slack and Teams, call-recorder embeds, and MCP access; no CRM integrations and no seat allowance published | Third-party listings (GetApp) reported a free version existed, but the vendor's own archived pricing page never described one, and no plan of any kind can be signed up for today |
| Free trial | No | 14 days on paid plans, per the vendor's own FAQ while the site was live; not currently obtainable |
| Best for | Small and mid-sized B2B software teams running considered, multi-stakeholder deals who want one branded workspace to carry an account from first demo through onboarding, with CRM-synced engagement tracking and a content library that keeps every rep on the current version. | Nobody today. Historically it fit solo founders, consultants, and micro sales teams who wanted a personalized deal microsite with engagement tracking for a one-time price instead of a per-seat subscription, and who could tolerate rough edges in exchange for that price. |
| Setup time | A first workspace can be published in under an hour. The real project is the template and content library build, which typically takes one to two weeks of an enablement or ops person's time before reps are asked to use it. CRM sync setup is straightforward on Salesforce or HubSpot and usually a single afternoon. | Not applicable for new buyers, since no signup path exists. Historically, first room live in about 15 minutes by user report, with template setup for a small team taking an afternoon. |
| Learning curve | Low for reps, who mostly duplicate a template and swap in the client's name, logo, and call recording. Moderate for the admin who owns templates, content governance, order form approval rules, and course structure. Reviewers most often report friction in the editor's formatting model rather than in the concepts. | Low. The drag-and-drop editor was the product's best-reviewed quality and required no training; the ceiling was equally low, since there was no admin, governance, or analytics layer to master. |
| Platforms | Web application, Chrome extension, Mobile-responsive buyer-facing workspaces | Web application (app.heybase.io), Mobile-responsive buyer view; third-party catalogs also listed Android and iOS access |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type II, GDPR | |
| Founded | 2021 | 2022 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California (distributed team) | Presented as Austin, Texas in its AppSumo listing, with the founding team based in Pune, India; the company never published a formal HQ page |
| Ownership | Independent, venture-backed | Bootstrapped and independent; no acquisition, funding, or dissolution has been announced |
Strengths and limitations
Dock
Strengths
- One workspace object serves sales, onboarding, and the ongoing client portal, so context survives the handoff instead of being rebuilt in a second tool.
- External collaborators are free on every plan, which removes the usual anxiety about how many buyer-side people get invited.
- A permanent free plan with custom branding and 10 workspaces, unusual in a category where most rivals offer a two-week trial.
- Content library with engagement analytics means version control and collateral performance are solved in the same product as the deal room.
Limitations
- The paid entry point is a flat $350 per month, so per-head economics are poor for very small teams compared with per-seat rivals starting near $30 per user.
- No CRM integration on the free plan and no advertised trial of Standard, which means the deciding feature cannot be evaluated before purchase.
- Removing the Dock logo requires Premium at $1,000 per month, and a custom domain requires an Enterprise contract, an expensive path to a fully white-labelled portal.
- Full API access is Enterprise-only and webhooks are Premium-only, blocking programmatic workspace creation for smaller buyers.
Heybase
Strengths
- Fast, genuinely easy room building: the drag-and-drop editor and premade blocks were the most consistently praised part of the product across AppSumo (4.2 average over 138 reviews) and G2 (4.6) while it was maintained.
- Magic-link access with unlimited free external collaborators, so buyer-side adoption never depended on signups or per-guest fees.
- Session replays on buyer visits, a level of engagement detail some far more expensive rivals do not expose.
- Video narration built in, covering the asynchronous walkthrough use case without a separate Loom subscription.
Limitations
- The product is effectively dead. Every page of heybase.io returned HTTP 404 when SaaSTracker checked on 31 August 2026, the vendor community's most visible 2025 thread is titled Heybase is closing down, and AppSumo reviews from June 2025 through February 2026 uniformly report vanished support. No official statement exists either way, which is itself the most damning fact.
- No official shutdown, refund, or data-export communication has been published, leaving thousands of lifetime license holders in limbo with content inside app.heybase.io.
- Disclosure was always thin: no published team page beyond the founders, no funding or customer numbers beyond an unverifiable 10k+ users claim, no security certifications, and from late 2024 not even prices.
- Even at its best, the feature set was shallow next to category leaders: no mutual action plans, no native e-signature workflow (contracts were embeds), no HubSpot two-way sync, and CRM integration gated to the upper tiers.
Pricing compared
Dock
Flat monthly platform pricing with an included block of internal seats and $50 per month for each additional seat. External collaborators (prospects, clients, partners) are free on every plan and never counted. Tiers gate seats, content volume, CRM integrations, white-labelling, API access, and SSO type rather than metering usage.
- Free$0
- Standard$350
- Premium$1,000
- EnterpriseCustom
Dock is not cheap at the entry point and is honest about it: $350 per month is a real line item for a five-person sales team, and the jump to $1,000 for logo removal, Drive sync, and unlimited courses is steep. What justifies it is scope. A team buying Dock at Premium is plausibly replacing a separate deal-room tool, a content management tool, a light LMS, and a client-portal build, and the external-collaborator-free model means the cost does not grow with the number of buyers or clients touched. Against a per-seat competitor at roughly $30 to $50 per user, Dock is worse value for a two-rep team and better value for a fifteen-person revenue org that would otherwise buy three products. The free plan is the sharpest thing on the price list, and the missing free trial of Standard is the clearest gap, since the CRM sync that decides the purchase cannot be tested without buying.
Heybase
Historically a hybrid: AppSumo lifetime deals ($69 for tier 1, up to $179 for tier 2 and 3 licenses) carried most distribution, alongside a subscription with a 14-day free trial. From at least November 2024 the public pricing page listed four tiers (Essential, Growth, Advance, Enterprise) with no prices shown, all behind Talk to sales. As of August 2026 no pricing page exists at all, the AppSumo deal is marked sold out, and there is no published way to buy the product.
- AppSumo License Tier 1$69 one-time
- AppSumo License Tier 2up to $179 one-time
- AppSumo License Tier 3$179 one-time
- Essential / Growth / Advance / EnterpriseNever published
At $69 to $179 once, Heybase was, for a while, the cheapest real digital sales room you could own, and buyers who closed even one deal with it got their money back. But the ending is the lesson: total cost of ownership on a lifetime deal includes the migration you do when the vendor disappears, and Heybase buyers are now doing that migration with no support and no export tooling. Against that, Trumpet's genuinely free 10-Pod tier or Dock's entry plans cost nothing to start and sit on funded, staffed companies. Capability per dollar is no longer a meaningful question here, because the dollar cannot be spent.
Editorial verdict on each
Dock
Dock is the most expansive product in the digital sales room category and the one that takes the post-sale half seriously. Treating the sales room, the onboarding plan, and the ongoing client portal as one object is the right idea, and the content library, playbooks, courses, and order forms around it mean a mid-sized revenue team can plausibly consolidate three or four subscriptions here. The 2026 AI work is substantive rather than decorative, and shipping MCP on the free plan is a genuinely forward move. The catch is the price shape: a flat $350 per month makes it poor value below five users, the features most buyers assume are basic (logo removal, custom domain, API, Okta SSO) live at $1,000 per month or on an enterprise contract, and there is no trial of the tier that carries CRM sync. Buy Dock if your deals are multi-stakeholder, your onboarding is currently a spreadsheet, and you are consolidating tools. If you only need attractive deal rooms for a handful of reps, a cheaper per-seat competitor will do the job for a fraction of the money.
Read the full Dock profileHeybase
Heybase was a real product with a real constituency: solo sellers and micro teams who got a personalized, tracked deal microsite for a one-time $69 to $179 when every alternative wanted $45 or more per seat per month. The editor was quick, buyers needed no account, and session replays gave more visibility than the price had any right to include. But as of August 2026 it cannot be recommended to anyone. The marketing site returns a 404 on every page, support has been silent by consistent user account since mid-2025, the vendor's own forum carries an unanswered thread announcing the closure, and no official statement, refund, or export path exists. New buyers should choose Trumpet, Aligned, Dock, or GetAccept depending on shape and budget. Existing license holders should treat the still-running application as borrowed time: save your content, move your live deals, and take the durable lesson with you, which is that in this category the vendor's staying power is part of the product.
Read the full Heybase profileDock profile last reviewed 2026-08-23; Heybase last reviewed 2026-08-31. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.