The Agave alternative with everything in one plan, at one price: $199 a month.
Agave sells modules, seats and implementation fees through a custom proposal, and targets contractors from $5M to $5B. Stak gives builders AI AP invoice coding, two-way QuickBooks sync, change orders, cost-plus and progress AR invoicing and a customer portal in one product for $199 a month.
Agave hides its price. Ours is on the page.
Agave won’t put a price on its website. You get one after a sales call. Prices you can’t see tend to climb: Adaptive went from around $600 to $800 a month in 2025 to $2,000 and up today. Stak is $199 a month, on the page, for everyone.
Stak
$199
per month ($2,388 a year). No sales call required to see it.
Agave
Hidden
Behind a sales call. You get a custom proposal after a discovery call and a demo.
How Agave bills you vs. how Stak bills you
Agave
- Subscription. “Flexible subscription based on your business size.” Grow, and it grows.
- Setup fee. A “one-time implementation fee” on AP automation, expense management and vendor compliance.
- Platform fee. AI Analytics adds a “platform fee based on your business size.”
- Seats. “Seat-based pricing by seat type” on AI Analytics and MCP.
- Modules. Six products sold separately, with bundle discounts in a custom proposal.
- The price. You get it after a discovery call and a demo.
From Agave’s pricing page. Amounts aren’t published.
Stak
$199 / mo
One product. No setup fee, no seats, no modules, no sales call. The price is on the page.
Why builders pick Stak over Agave
- One price, everything included
- Agave splits into ERP Sync, AP Automation, Expense Management, AI Analytics, MCP and Vendor Compliance. Stak is one product at $199/month.
- Live in under an hour
- Agave’s own pages put ERP sync setup at weeks. Stak connects to QuickBooks and you’re billing the same day.
- Your homeowner gets a portal
- Stak gives your client their own login for invoices, change orders, progress and budget. We couldn’t find a client portal on Agave’s site.
- Made for small builders
- Stak is built for custom home builders and remodelers who run their own books, not for $5B enterprises with an ERP team.
Stak vs. Agave, feature by feature
Agave details from their public websites as of October 4, 2026. A gray dash means we couldn’t find it publicly, and we’d rather say that than guess. Spot something out of date? Email us and we’ll fix it.
Sources (11, checked October 4, 2026)
Stak vs. Agave: common questions
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