Does Stelaah do accounting like Bonsai?

Stelaah tracks expenses, budgets, and margin, and exports records for accounting review. It does not replace bookkeeping or tax filing. Bonsai includes financial tracking and accounting integrations, which some teams may prefer.

Which scales better to a team?

Both support teams. Bonsai adds workload, Gantt, reporting, and custom permissions on higher plans. Stelaah includes workspace member capacity and connects team roles with vendors, portals, inventory, and Aria.

Stelaah vs Bonsai

Bonsai is an all in one built for freelancers, with light bookkeeping included. Stelaah is built for agencies and teams running client work together. Both cover proposals to payment; here is where each fits.

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Choose Bonsai if

you are a freelancer or tiny team who wants client flow plus simple accounting in one place.

Choose Stelaah if

you run a team and need real project management, vendors, and margin, with an AI across the work.

What each one does for client work.

Capability Stelaah Bonsai

Client CRM ✓ One record per client ✓ Built in

Proposals and contracts ✓ Send, sign, store ✓ Built in

Invoicing ✓ From tracked time ✓ Built in

Connect your own payments ✓ Yes ✓ Yes

Time tracking ✓ To the invoice ✓ Built in

Accounting and taxes – Expenses and reports ✓ Built in bookkeeping

Project management ✓ Dependencies and timelines – Light tasks

Workload planning ✓ Planner Not included

✓ Scoped access Not included

Inventory ✓ Track stock Not included

Reports and margin ✓ Margin and utilization – Basic

AI assistant ✓ Aria acts across the work – Some AI helpers

Checks mark a built in strength. We tried to be fair to both. Bonsai earns its checks where it leads.

Where Bonsai is genuinely strong.

Bookkeeping built in

Client flow and simple accounting in one tool.

All in one for freelancers

Proposals to payment, neatly bundled.

Friendly and quick

Clean interface that is easy to start.

Tax help included

A real plus at year end for solo owners.

Where Stelaah fits better.

Real project management

Built for delivering work, not just billing it.

Team and vendors

Seats, roles, and scoped vendor access.

More than client flow

Inventory, portals, and reporting in one place.

Aria across everything

Drafts, answers, and acts on the work.

What you will pay.

Stelaah

Free to start. Each paid plan is priced per workspace and includes a set number of full members, with extra members available on the Team and Business plans. Aria is included. See the pricing page for the current plans.

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Bonsai

from around $25 a month (Starter) up to about $79 a month (Business), billed annually, more month to month. A free trial. Check hellobonsai.com.

Pricing changes often, so confirm the current numbers at hellobonsai.com

Stelaah vs Bonsai, answered.

Yes, especially if you want inventory, vendor access, client portals, and Aria connected to the same records. Bonsai is a strong pick for per-user client and project management with deeper planning on higher plans.

Outgrowing the freelancer toolkit?

Stelaah keeps the client flow and adds the project, team, and margin tools a growing team needs.

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