Raoura vs Moxie (2026): which fits your freelance business?

TL;DR: Moxie costs $12 per month for Starter and $25 for Pro (less on annual billing) as of mid-2026, and it is one of the best-reviewed freelance platforms, with Trustpilot ratings between 4.8 and 5.0. Raoura costs $17 per month on one flat plan with everything included and no transaction fee markup. Moxie wins on feature breadth (time tracking, scheduling, automations on Pro); Raoura wins if you want fewer features on purpose and one plan with no gates.

Most comparison posts pick a weak rival so the home team looks good. This is not that post. Moxie is genuinely one of the best tools a freelancer can buy, it is priced fairly, and it is built by people who clearly care about freelancers. If you leave this page and sign up for Moxie, you will have made a reasonable decision.

So why write the comparison at all? Because Raoura and Moxie make different bets about what a solo freelancer needs, and depending on how you work, one of those bets fits you much better than the other. We build Raoura, and Raoura is new, so you will find no Raoura review scores or customer counts here. Just the two products, the two philosophies, and honest prices with sources.

Side-by-side comparison#

Pricing sources: Moxie's pricing page and AgencyHandy's Moxie pricing review, both as of mid-2026.

Two different bets on what freelancers need#

Moxie's bet is breadth: give freelancers everything an agency tool has (CRM, pipelines, time tracking, scheduling, automations, accounting-ish reporting) but design it for one person. It largely delivers. That is why its Trustpilot ratings sit between 4.8 and 5.0 as of mid-2026, and why Moxie Academy exists to teach people the deeper features.

Raoura's bet is depth on a shorter list: proposals, e-sign contracts, invoicing, projects with client approvals, and a branded client portal. That is the whole product. No time tracking, no scheduler, no lead pipeline, no automation builder, no team seats. Not "coming soon", just not there, on purpose.

Neither bet is wrong. The question is which one matches your Tuesday afternoon. If you bill hourly and live in a timer, Moxie already won. If you bill fixed-price projects and your real problem is chasing approvals and overdue invoices, a shorter tool with fewer screens starts to look like a feature.

Price and pricing trust#

Both companies behave well on pricing, which is rarer than it should be in this category.

As of mid-2026, Moxie's Starter plan is $12 per month ($10 on annual billing), Pro is $25 ($20 annual), and Teams is $40, per Moxie's pricing page. Moxie does not add a markup on payments. That is honest, freelancer-friendly pricing, and Starter is cheaper than Raoura. Worth saying plainly: if your budget ceiling is $12, Moxie Starter is the answer and you can stop reading.

Raoura is $17 per month, one plan, everything included, and no markup on payments. Stripe's processing fee is passed through at cost. Raoura also includes 30 AI credits per month (10 during the trial) for AI proposal drafting, with optional packs at 25 credits for $5 or 100 for $15.

The structural difference is the tiers. Moxie's Starter plan does not include automations; those live on Pro at $25 per month, per AgencyHandy. So the real Moxie decision for many freelancers is $25 territory, and now the comparison is $25 with tiers versus $17 flat. Raoura has no feature gates because there is only one plan, which means you never hit the moment where the feature you want is one tier up. That moment is small, but if you have lived it with other software, you know how it colors your relationship with a tool.

Both products offer a 14-day trial. Raoura's does not ask for a credit card.

Day-one setup#

Moxie has more to set up because there is more of it. The onboarding is well done, and Moxie Academy is a genuinely good resource, but you are configuring a CRM, pipelines, meeting scheduler, project templates, and invoicing before it all hums. Freelancers who enjoy systems tend to love this. Reviewers occasionally note that support responsiveness is mixed, which matters most during exactly this phase.

Raoura's setup is designed to be an afternoon. Point it at your website and it matches your brand (logo, colors) across proposals and the client portal automatically. Pick a proposal template or let the AI draft one from a short brief, edit, send. Connect Stripe, and invoicing with deposits, payment plans, and automatic overdue reminders is live. There is no pipeline or automation layer to design, which is either the whole point or a dealbreaker, depending on you.

Getting paid#

Neither tool takes a cut of your payments, which puts both of them ahead of most of the industry.

On invoicing depth for fixed-price work, Raoura is built specifically around it: line items, tax, discounts, multi-currency, deposits and partial payments, payment plans, and automatic overdue reminders on every account. The deposits and payment plans piece is the one to notice. If you take 50% up front, or split a $6,000 project into three payments, Raoura treats that as a first-class workflow rather than something you fake with separate invoices.

Moxie's invoicing is strong too, including recurring invoices, and it pairs naturally with its time tracking: track hours, turn them into an invoice, done. If your income is hourly, that loop alone justifies Moxie. Raoura has no time tracking, so hourly-first freelancers should read that sentence twice.

The client experience#

Both tools understand that the client-facing surface is where a freelancer looks professional or does not.

Moxie gives clients a portal for files, invoices, and communication, and its meeting scheduler means clients book calls without the back-and-forth.

Raoura's portal leans hard on friction removal: it is branded to you (matched from your website, not rebuilt by hand), and clients log in with a magic link. No client passwords means no client password resets, which anyone who has walked a client through "check your spam folder" will appreciate. Inside the portal, clients review proposals, e-sign contracts, pay invoices, and approve milestones. The client-approvable milestone is Raoura's quiet favorite feature: scope sign-off becomes a recorded click instead of an archaeology dig through email.

Where Moxie is genuinely better#

• Time tracking. Built in and good. Raoura has none.
• Meeting scheduler. Clients book calls inside Moxie. Raoura leaves scheduling to whatever you already use.
• Automations. On Pro, Moxie can automate chunks of your workflow. Raoura has no automation builder.
• Lead pipeline and CRM depth. Moxie handles prospects, not just booked clients. Raoura deliberately has no lead pipeline.
• A cheaper entry price. $12 per month (or $10 annual) beats $17 if Starter's feature set covers you, as of mid-2026, per Moxie's pricing.
• Track record. Moxie has years of shipping and Trustpilot ratings between 4.8 and 5.0. Raoura is new and has to earn that.
• Moxie Academy. Structured education for running a freelance business, not just using the software.

Who should pick which#

Pick Moxie if:

• You bill hourly and need time tracking in the same tool as your invoices
• You want a meeting scheduler built in
• You want automations and are happy on the $25 Pro tier
• You manage a pipeline of leads, not just active clients
• You might add a collaborator someday (Teams supports up to 5 seats)
• You value a long track record and a large body of tutorials

Pick Raoura if:

• You bill fixed-price projects with deposits, payment plans, or milestones
• You want every feature on one $17 flat plan, with no tier decisions ever
• You want AI-drafted proposals and brand matching from your website without setup work
• Your clients should log in with a magic link and never manage a password
• You actively do not want time tracking, pipelines, and schedulers taking up screen space
• You would rather have five features you use daily than twenty you audit quarterly