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SyncHQ vs ClickUp
A sourced comparison of SyncHQ and ClickUp for agency work: client portals, native time tracking, invoicing, plan pricing, and setup cost.
Last reviewed August 9, 2026
The short answer
ClickUp gives you more features per dollar than anything else in this list. SyncHQ gives you fewer decisions, and for a small agency the decisions are usually the expensive part.
- 01ClickUp includes native time tracking from the $7/user annual Unlimited plan - genuinely good value, and better value than most tools here.
- 02It has no native invoicing and no purpose-built client portal, so the money and client layers still come from elsewhere.
- 03The common failure mode is not missing features, it is an unmaintained workspace: too many views, statuses, and custom fields, configured once and never revisited.
What each one costs
SyncHQ
Free plan (3 projects, 5 members). Professional $29/mo. Enterprise $99/mo.
ClickUp
Free Forever. Unlimited $7/user/mo annual ($10 monthly). Business $12 annual ($19 monthly). Enterprise custom.
The thing that changes the bill: Dashboards start on Business. The bigger cost is setup and maintenance time, which no plan covers.
Prices as published on August 9, 2026. Vendors change pricing without notice - check the source links below before you budget.
Capability by capability
YesPartialPaid add-onOn the roadmapNoNot published
Choose SyncHQ when
- Nobody on the team wants to own tool configuration as a part-time job.
- You need invoicing and a client portal in the same system as the work.
- You have tried a broad tool before and watched the workspace rot.
Choose ClickUp when
- Budget is the binding constraint - ClickUp's per-seat price is hard to beat.
- You want maximum surface area and have someone who will genuinely maintain it.
- You need docs, whiteboards, sprints, and goals in one place and are happy to bolt on billing.
Questions people actually ask
Is ClickUp cheaper than SyncHQ?
Per seat, usually yes. Whether it is cheaper overall depends on what you add around it - a billing tool, a portal, and the hours someone spends configuring and re-configuring the workspace.
Does ClickUp have invoicing?
Not natively. Agencies typically export tracked time or push it to an accounting tool. That handoff is where hours get lost.
Sources
Every claim about ClickUp on this page comes from its own public pages, listed here so you can check them yourself.
See whether it fits before you commit
The free plan runs three projects with five people - enough to put a real client through intake, delivery, and an invoice before you decide anything.
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