Scoro Pricing Explained (2026)
Scoro lists Core at $19.90/user/month, but the five-seat minimum and the features locked behind Performance mean almost nobody pays the headline rate.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core | $19.90/user/mo | per user, 5-seat minimum, save up to 16% annually | Projects, tasks, Gantt charts, contacts, quotes, invoicing, dashboards, default labour costs and work reports |
| Growth | $32.90/user/mo | per user, 5-seat minimum, monthly or annual | Everything in Core plus project budgets, retainers, role-based labour costs, time off, multi-currency, triggers and actions, utilisation reporting |
| Performance | $49.90/user/mo | per user, 5-seat minimum, monthly or annual | Everything in Growth plus the planner, timesheets, task matrix, price lists, cost and profit forecasting, revenue recognition, sales pipeline, supplier management |
| Enterprise | Custom quote | sales-negotiated, annual | Everything in Performance plus company budgets, time locking, approval flows, WIP reports, multi-account reporting, SSO, user provisioning, FTP integration |
The five-seat floor changes the whole calculation
Scoro's price list looks like a normal per-user ladder: $19.90, $32.90, $49.90, custom. It behaves differently, because every paid plan carries a five-seat minimum. That single rule reshapes the entry point for exactly the kind of firm most likely to shop for Scoro — the small consultancy, the six-person design studio, the boutique agency.
At three users on Core, you pay $99.50/month. The effective rate is $33 per person, which is Growth pricing for Core features. At five users the maths finally matches the sticker. Below five, you are subsidising seats you do not have.
This matters more than it sounds, because Scoro's natural buyer is a services business between five and forty people. Teams above the floor never notice it. Teams below it are quietly paying a 40–60% premium against the advertised rate, and no comparison table will tell them.
What each tier is actually for
Core is quote-to-invoice with projects attached. Gantt charts, contacts, tasks, dashboards, default labour costs. It is a competent project and billing system and nothing more — there is no budget tracking, no utilisation reporting, no forecasting.
Growth adds the operational layer: project budgets, retainer management, role-based labour costs, multi-currency, time off, and triggers and actions for automation. This is where Scoro starts behaving like a professional-services platform rather than a project tool. For agencies running retainers, Growth is the first tier that models the business correctly.
Performance is where the financial answers live. The resource planner, timesheets, cost and profit forecasting, revenue recognition, price lists, the sales pipeline. If the reason you are evaluating Scoro is "we cannot see which clients are profitable", this is your tier — the ones below it will not answer the question.
Enterprise adds governance: company budgets, approval flows, time locking, WIP reports, multi-account consolidation, SSO and provisioning. Multi-entity firms and anyone with an audit requirement end up here.
Modelling the real bill
| Team size | Core | Growth | Performance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 users (billed as 5) | $99.50/mo | $164.50/mo | $249.50/mo |
| 5 users | $99.50/mo | $164.50/mo | $249.50/mo |
| 10 users | $199/mo | $329/mo | $499/mo |
| 25 users | $497.50/mo | $822.50/mo | $1,247.50/mo |
Two things fall out of that table. First, the jump from Core to Performance is 151% — this is not a gentle ladder, and the features that pull teams upward are concentrated at the top. Second, a 25-person firm on Performance is at roughly $15,000 a year before add-ons and implementation, which puts Scoro in genuine competition with mid-market PSA platforms rather than with project tools.
Where the extras land
Scoro unbundles more than most. The Customer Portal is a separate purchase. Custom modules are a separate purchase. Custom PDF styling — relevant if you send client-facing quotes and invoices, which is most Scoro customers — is a separate purchase. Implementation is free only below 15 users; above that it becomes a quoted professional-services engagement.
None of these are unusual for the category. What is worth noting is that they all attach to things a services firm is likely to want on day one, so a quote built purely from the per-seat table will understate year-one cost.
Who should buy it
Scoro fits services businesses that bill for time and need margin visibility without stitching together four tools. Agencies, consultancies, architecture and engineering practices, anyone running retainers. The consolidation argument is real: at $49.90/user, Performance replaces a project tool, a time tracker, a resource planner and a billing system, and it does so with the financial model intact end to end.
It fits badly in two cases. Very small teams pay the five-seat tax and get poor value from a platform designed for operational complexity they do not have. And teams that only want project management will find Scoro expensive against tools built for that alone — you are paying for a financial engine you never turn on.
Prices move. Check scoro.com/pricing before you budget against these numbers.
What the pricing page doesn't show
- The five-seat minimum is the single biggest distortion. A three-person agency on Core still pays for five seats — $99.50/month for three people, an effective $33/user, which is Growth-tier money for Core-tier features.
- Revenue recognition, cost and profit forecasting, and the planner all live on Performance. If you are buying Scoro to answer "is this project profitable?", your real price is $49.90, not $19.90.
- Several modules are sold separately rather than bundled: the Customer Portal, custom modules, and custom PDF styling are add-on purchases on top of any tier.
- Onboarding is free only for teams under 15 users. Above that, implementation moves to paid professional-services packages quoted per project — budget for it in year one.
- The annual discount is up to 16%, which is smaller than the 20% most of this category offers. The saving on a 10-seat Performance plan is roughly $960/year, not the $1,200 you might model from habit.