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Allbound vs Channeltivity: PRM software pricing, partner limits, and which channel platform to shortlist
Allbound and Channeltivity turn up on the same shortlists because both sell partner relationship management to companies that sell through resellers, distributors and referral partners. The comparison has changed twice in the last eighteen months, though, and most of what is written about it online is stale. Allbound no longer exists under that name, and Channeltivity no longer tells you what it costs. Here is what both vendors publish today, read off their own sites in August 2026, and what the gap between them means for a shortlist.
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Buy Channelscaler if you run a large multi-tier distribution or hardware channel, you want implementation and support folded into a fixed module price, and $50,000 a year per module is a normal line item. Buy Channeltivity if you run a focused technology channel that needs a proven partner portal, deal registration and native CRM sync, and you are willing to go through a sales call to get a number. Buy Partnerships if the harder problem is that you still have to find the partners in the first place.
The short answer
What is the difference between Allbound and Channeltivity?
The price gap is the headline: Channelscaler, which is what Allbound became, publishes a floor of $50,000 per module per year, while the last figure Channeltivity published was $1,899 a month, about $22,788 a year. That is roughly a twenty times difference at the entry point for two products that both call themselves channel PRM. Neither will quote you without a call today, but Channelscaler at least tells you the floor, and Channeltivity has published nothing since mid-2026. Channelscaler is built for large multi-tier distribution and hardware channels. Channeltivity fits a focused technology channel that wants a proven portal and native CRM sync.
Last updated August 2026 · pricing re-verified on each vendor's own pricing page
- Allbound is now Channelscaler
- Allbound merged with Channel Mechanics and relaunched as Channelscaler. allbound.com 301-redirects to channelscaler.com, checked August 24, 2026
- Channelscaler published pricing
- "Pricing starting at $50k per module annually", stated on its own pricing page
- Channeltivity published pricing
- None. Three unpriced segments, Growth, Mid-Market and Enterprise, each ending in a call to action
- Channeltivity's last public figures
- $1,899/mo Standard and $2,199/mo CRM Edition, with add-on modules at $299 to $499/mo each
- The entry-point gap
- About 20x. $50,000 a year per module against roughly $22,788 a year
- What each is sized for
- Channelscaler: thousands of partners across distribution tiers. Channeltivity: roughly 100 partners on Growth
- Partnerships pricing
- $79, $199 and $449 a month, flat, published, no cut of partner revenue
Side by side
Allbound and Channeltivity vs Partnerships, honestly
A fair look at what each does well. Both are capable tools. Here is where they differ.
| What matters | Partnerships | Allbound and Channeltivity |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | Yes. $79, $199 and $449 a month, on the pricing page | Channelscaler publishes a floor of $50,000 per module a year. Channeltivity publishes no figure at all |
| AI partner discovery (finds partners) | Surfaces reseller, affiliate, integration and co-marketing companies ranked by transparent fit, with reasons | Neither finds new partner companies. Channeltivity scores and runs outreach to partners you already source |
| Time to a working portal | Same day, self-serve | Both are implementation projects. Channelscaler bundles implementation and a dedicated CSM into the module price |
| How you are metered | Flat per workspace | Channelscaler charges per module. Channeltivity charges by program structure and states it does not price per seat |
| Cost of adding users | Included | Channelscaler charges nothing extra for additional users, usage or growth. Channeltivity does not disclose |
| Native CRM sync | Integrates with the CRM you already run | Channeltivity lists Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics 365, NetSuite, Zoho and SAP. Channelscaler sells through the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace |
| Contract flexibility | Monthly, cancel any time | Channelscaler fixes the price for the full contract length with no mid-contract changes. Channeltivity is quote-led |
Comparison reflects general, publicly understood positioning. Capabilities change, so check each product for the latest.
Verified figures
Channelscaler, Channeltivity and Partnerships side by side
Read off each vendor's own site in August 2026. Where a row says no published price, that vendor genuinely publishes none: the page routes you to a form or a call. Channeltivity's last-known figures are labeled as historical because it withdrew them in mid-2026. Nothing here is copied from a third-party listicle.
| Channelscaler (was Allbound) | Channeltivity | Partnerships | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Channel program automation plus PRM, sold by module | Focused channel PRM with a proven partner portal | AI partner discovery plus program management |
| Published price | From $50,000 per module, per year | None since mid-2026 | $79, $199 and $449 a month |
| Last known figure | $50,000 per module annually (current) | $1,899/mo Standard, $2,199/mo CRM Edition | Current and published |
| Pricing unit | Per module, fixed for the contract term | Program structure, explicitly not per seat | Flat per workspace |
| Extra user cost | None. Users, usage and growth are not metered | Not disclosed | None |
| Setup and training | Included in the module price, with a dedicated CSM | Not disclosed | Self-serve, no setup fee |
| Sized for | Thousands of partners, multi-tier distribution and hardware | Roughly 100 partners on Growth, thousands on Enterprise | Teams building or scaling a first program |
| Deal registration | Yes | Yes, with real-time pipeline visibility | Yes |
| Finds new partners | No | Scores and runs outreach, does not source companies | Yes, AI discovery with reasons |
| Can you price it online | Floor only | No | Yes, in full |
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Allbound is not a brand you can buy any more, and that changes the comparison
If you are comparing Allbound against Channeltivity today, the first thing to correct is the name. Allbound merged with Channel Mechanics and relaunched as Channelscaler. Type allbound.com into a browser and you get a 301 redirect to channelscaler.com, which we checked again on August 24, 2026. That matters for more than tidiness. Allbound was known as a mid-market PRM: a partner portal, onboarding, enablement content, a learning library. Channel Mechanics did something different, namely channel program automation, promotions, pricing and quoting, and incentive execution. The merged product carries both, and it is priced like it. A lot of the Allbound reviews and roundups still circulating describe a product positioned for growing SaaS partner programs. The thing you would actually sign for today starts at $50,000 per module per year. So if an old comparison put Allbound and Channeltivity in the same budget bracket, that comparison is out of date.
The entry-point gap between them is roughly twenty times
Channelscaler's pricing page says it plainly: "our platform is built for organizations managing large or complex channel ecosystems, with pricing starting at $50k per module annually." Note the unit. That is per module, per year, so a program that wants PRM plus incentive execution is looking at two modules. Channeltivity no longer publishes anything. Its pricing page lists Growth, Mid-Market and Enterprise, describes them by partner scale of roughly 100, hundreds, and thousands of partners or dealers, and ends each one with a prompt to talk rather than a number. Before mid-2026 it did publish, and the figures were $1,899 a month for Standard and $2,199 a month for the CRM Edition, with add-on modules between $299 and $499 a month each. Put those side by side and the entry points are about $50,000 a year against about $22,788 a year, and the Channeltivity figure is the older, cheaper, no-longer-guaranteed one. For most buyers that single line decides the shortlist before anyone opens a feature matrix.
What Channelscaler includes in the module price is genuinely unusual
The $50,000 figure looks brutal next to a $79 a month tool, and for a small program it is. But read what sits inside it, because the packaging is not standard for this category. Channelscaler states that the module price covers implementation, configuration, support and maintenance, feature updates, expert guidance, a dedicated Customer Success Manager, setup and configuration, and training and onboarding. It also states that it does not charge extra for additional users, usage or growth, and that there are no setup fees. The price is fixed for the full contract length with no mid-contract changes. That is the opposite of how most enterprise channel software behaves. The usual pattern is a license fee, then a separate implementation statement of work, then seat creep as the partner count grows, then an uplift at renewal. If you have been burned by that sequence, a fixed all-inclusive module has a real value that a headline number hides. It is also sold through the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace, which lets Azure customers draw the spend against an existing commitment.
Channeltivity's strength is CRM depth and a portal that has been in production a long time
Channeltivity does not try to be a channel operating system. It runs a focused set of things: partner recruitment with scoring and automated outreach, deal registration with real-time pipeline visibility, a branded self-serve partner portal, and performance dashboards for partner health. The integration list is the part buyers usually care about. Channeltivity names Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics 365, NetSuite, Zoho and SAP, and describes the ability to connect to effectively any CRM, ERP or business system. Historically its CRM Edition carried a premium over Standard, which is why the last published figures showed $1,899 and $2,199, and it is reasonable to assume a similar split still exists behind the quote. It also says something most of this category avoids saying: partner programs do not fit seat-based pricing. It prices on program structure instead. If your partner count swings seasonally, that is a meaningfully different risk profile from a per-seat contract.
Both have now moved evaluation behind a sales call, which has a cost of its own
There is a trend worth naming here because it cuts against buyers. Channeltivity used to publish and stopped. impact.com removed its pricing page and later restored a version of it. Impartner has never published and its pricing URL returns a 404. Channelscaler went the other way and started publishing a floor it had never shown. The practical effect is that comparing two channel platforms now takes weeks rather than an afternoon. You book two demos, sit through two discovery calls, and receive two quotes built on different units, one per module and one per program structure, which do not divide into each other cleanly. Budget for that. If you need a decision inside a quarter, start the vendor conversations before you finish internal requirements, not after. And ask both vendors the same three questions in writing: what is the unit, what triggers an increase, and what does year two look like.
Neither of them solves the problem of not having partners yet
This is the honest limit of both products, and it is the reason we build something different. Channelscaler and Channeltivity are both administration layers. They onboard, enable, track, register deals, and pay partners you have already recruited. Channeltivity scores and runs outreach, but you still have to supply the list. If your partner program is real and running, that is exactly what you need and one of these two is probably the right call. If the actual bottleneck is that you have eleven partners and need sixty, a portal does not move that number. Partnerships puts discovery at the front: describe what you sell and it surfaces reseller, affiliate, integration and co-marketing companies ranked by fit, with the reasoning shown, then drafts the outreach for you to approve. Plenty of teams end up running discovery first and a heavier PRM later, once the partner count justifies it. Those are not competing purchases so much as different stages.
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