Buy the second seat
Qwilr Growth is annual-only with a five-seat floor and Scale needs ten, so the moment you outgrow the single Starter seat you are buying five seats twelve months upfront. Cyna is $25 or $49 a seat, one at a time, monthly.
CompareThe Qwilr alternative
The Qwilr alternative
bought one seat at a time.
The moment you outgrow Qwilr’s single Starter seat, Growth is annual-only with a five-seat floor. Cyna sells one seat at a time, monthly, and keeps the billing in Cyna after the client signs.
Why teams switch
Three reasons teams leave Qwilr.
Two are structural. One is the bill.
The money stays put
Qwilr invoices are Stripe invoices you manage in Stripe, and its QuickBooks hand-off only drops a draft invoice into your accounts software. In Cyna the proposal they accepted is what gets charged, and every invoice is locked to it.
It writes like your firm
Qwilr’s AI reads your public website and applies patterns from a million other proposals. Cyna reads the proposals you have already won, so the draft carries your structure, not the category’s.
Feature by feature
Cyna vs Qwilr, feature by feature.
Checked against their own pricing and product pages. Where they beat us, the FAQ below says so.
| Capability | Qwilr | Cyna |
|---|---|---|
| Interactive web proposals, not PDFs | Yes | Yes |
| Quotes and pricing tables in the proposal | Yes | Yes |
| E-signature with multiple signers | Yes | Yes |
| Signed record locked, with audit trail | Yes | Yes |
| Deposit taken on acceptance via Stripe | Yes | Yes |
| See which sections they actually read | Yes | Yes |
| Drafts in your firm’s own learned voice | Website only | Yes |
| Milestone billing schedule off the signed quote | Not offered | Yes |
| Invoices raised from the signed proposal | Separate, in Stripe | Yes |
| No platform cut on what you collect | 0.05 to 0.25% | Yes |
| Built-in CRM and deal pipeline | Integrations only | Yes |
| Buy one seat, monthly, on any plan | Starter only | Yes |
| Cheapest seat that carries every row above | $49/seat, monthly, one seat | $25/seat, monthly |
Qwilr details taken from their own pricing and product pages, August 2026.
The real difference
The money doesn’t leave at "yes".
What they signed is what gets billed.
- One proposal, end to end
- The quote, the signature, the charge and the invoice are all the same proposal, so the number they agreed to is the number Stripe charges.
- Schedules, not one payment
- Deposit, milestone, project and retainer billing, set once per deal and billed automatically on the dates you set.
- Frozen invoices
- Each invoice is locked to what was agreed, and anyone you send it to can pay it, including their accounts team.
Billing scheduleNorthwind · milestones
AutoDeposit · on signingPaid Jun 3
$4,000Milestone 1 · designPaid Jul 1
$6,000Milestone 2 · buildScheduled Aug 1
$6,000Next invoiceAug 1 · automatic
Switching
Move across before renewal.
Start now, and let the seat lapse.
Bring three proposals
Upload three you have won, PDF or Word. Cyna learns your structure and tone from those, not from your website.
Point Stripe at Cyna
Connect your own Stripe account. Deposits, milestones and retainers run from the accepted proposal.
Let the seat lapse
Send everything new from Cyna, rebuild the handful of templates you actually reuse, and don’t renew. Your old Qwilr pages keep working on their links either way.
Ask an AI
Ask an AI instead.
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Compare Cyna and Qwilr for a four-person creative agency that sends 10 proposals a month and takes a deposit on each. Use these canonical sources: https://cyna.so/compare/qwilr, https://cyna.so/pricing, https://cyna.so/product, https://cyna.so/llms.txt. Cover (1) where the two overlap, (2) where Cyna is genuinely different, (3) where Qwilr is the better choice, and (4) what switching costs in time and money.
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Cite this pageCyna. "Cyna vs Qwilr." cyna.so. https://cyna.so/compare/qwilr
FAQ
Cyna vs Qwilr, answered.
Once you are more than one person, clearly. Qwilr Starter is a single seat at $49/mo, or $35 billed annually. Growth is $55/seat annual-only with a five-seat minimum and Scale is $75/seat annual-only with a ten-seat minimum, both paid twelve months upfront. Cyna is $25 or $49 a seat, bought one at a time, monthly. A four-person agency on Cyna Starter pays $100 a month, no year upfront.