Nymble vs Scoro: Which Fits a Small Agency Better?

Scoro is the bigger product. It's been shipping since 2013, it has Gantt charts with dependencies, quoting, multi-currency billing, and reporting that a CFO would recognize. If you're a 40-person agency with a finance team, Scoro is the safer bet and we'd rather say that up front than pretend otherwise.

Nymble is built for the agency that doesn't have a finance team. Sales, contracts, timesheets, client invoices, and contractor invoices in one place, priced so a five-person shop can afford every seat. Below is where each one actually wins, checked against both products as of September 2026. Scoro's pricing page is the source for their numbers.

Price and minimum seats

Scoro sells four plans at roughly $17, $29, $29, and $57 per user per month (annual billing saves 13 to 17 percent). The two $29 plans split along an odd line: one is projects and resource planning, the other is quoting and invoicing. If you want CRM, Gantt, quoting, resourcing, and invoicing together, that's the $57 End-to-end plan. There's a five-seat minimum, so the real floor is about $85 a month for the cheapest plan and $285 for the full one. AI is included, with a monthly credit allowance.

Nymble is $29 (Core) or $49 (Pro) per user per month, or $19 and $32 billed annually. No seat minimum. Automation, team skills, custom roles, and assignments start at Pro. Core is limited to 100 contracts. Every plan includes AI credits (500 or 1,000 per user per month) with overage at $0.10 a credit. Full breakdown on the pricing page.

An earlier version of this post claimed Nymble had no feature tiers. It does, and it did then. Our mistake.

Where that leaves you: for a team of five, Nymble Core is about $145 a month against Scoro's $85 entry plan, but Scoro's entry plan doesn't include projects or CRM. Compare Nymble Pro at $245 with Scoro End-to-end at $285 and you're looking at similar money for similar scope.

CRM and pipeline

Nymble has accounts, contacts, companies, and a weighted pipeline where each stage carries a probability, so the forecast is arithmetic. You can log competitors per deal with strengths and weaknesses. HubSpot users can import contacts, companies, and deals (one way, on demand). BuiltWith enrichment pulls a prospect's technology stack into the record when you ask for it; it uses credits and you trigger it yourself.

Scoro has a CRM too, and its strength is what happens after the deal: quote, order, invoice, all in the same flow. It doesn't do enrichment or competitor tracking.

Our take: Nymble for the sales side. Scoro if you quote from a price list and want the quote to become the invoice with no re-keying.

Project planning

Scoro wins this one and it isn't close. Gantt charts with drag-and-drop scheduling and task dependencies, project templates, recurring projects. Running ten concurrent projects with hard dependencies between them is exactly what Scoro was built for.

Nymble has contracts, projects, and tasks with status, priority, and deadlines. No Gantt, no dependencies, no milestones, no board view. If you plan visually, you'll miss those on day one.

Time tracking

Both have timers, manual entry, and timesheets that flow to invoicing. Scoro lets you plan and log time in its calendar view. Nymble adds weekly attestation (the person signs off that the week is right before it locks) and an availability survey on each timesheet so you can see who has room next week. Nymble can also pull RescueTime activity in so entries are built from what actually happened.

Our take: a tie, with different flavors. Calendar-driven teams will like Scoro's. Teams that fight with late or inflated timesheets will like Nymble's attestation step.

Money: quotes, contracts, invoices

Scoro is broader. Quotes, purchase orders, expenses, multi-currency invoicing, accounting integrations, and cash-flow dashboards. If your agency bills in three currencies and reconciles against Xero every week, this is the section that decides it.

Nymble is narrower and, for a specific kind of agency, more useful. Each contract carries its services and rates. Hours logged against a task land on the client invoice at the right rate, grouped by task, service, or project. If a contractor did the work, the same hours land on their invoice to you. One time entry, both invoices. Contractors submit from their own My Invoices page and you approve and mark paid. E-sign agreements, change orders, and online proposals hang off the contract. And contracts track earned value: planned value, actual cost, SPI and CPI, so a contract that's 20 percent over shows it while there's still time to do something.

Our take: Scoro for breadth. Nymble if half your delivery team invoices you as contractors, or if you want to know a contract is in trouble before the final invoice.

Reporting

Scoro's reports are deeper and older, and it shows in a good way. Nymble's reports are assembled from widgets scoped to a contract or the company: burndown, allocation, work breakdown, year-to-date totals, weekly profit per person. Enough to run the business, not enough to replace a BI tool.

Our take: Scoro.

AI and automation

Both include AI now. Scoro AI comes with every plan. Nymble's Ask Nymble answers from your own records (hours, invoices, pipeline) within each person's permissions, and on a record it summarizes a client, writes a status update or drafts a message. The same AI can run inside automations. Nymble's automation engine is the fuller of the two: triggers on record events, schedules, or webhooks, conditions, then email, Slack, record updates, webhooks, or an AI step. It needs the Pro plan. Scoro's automations cover task assignment, status changes, and notifications, plus Zapier.

Our take: Nymble if you'll build automations. Otherwise it's closer than the old version of this post admitted.

Learning curve

Scoro exposes a lot, and onboarding takes longer because of it. Budget two or three weeks before the "where's that setting" questions stop. Nymble has fewer screens and most teams are logging time and sending an invoice inside the first week.

Who should pick which

Nymble if you're under about 25 people, work with contractors, and want sales through invoicing in one system without a finance-tool learning curve.

Scoro if you need Gantt and dependencies, quote-to-invoice, multi-currency, or reporting a finance team will sign off on, and you can clear the five-seat minimum.

Both give you 14 days free without a card. Put one real contract through each, from proposal to invoice. Whichever one gets you to a correct invoice with less clicking is your answer.