The honest comparison
Apricot by Bonterra — built from the case-management platform Social Solutions sold for two decades before joining Bonterra — is real, deep software built for large human-services agencies with a dedicated administrator and a quote to match. A program team of five needs the same intake, eligibility, enrolment, attendance, and funder-reporting shape without the enterprise sales process. Here is the honest comparison, with sources.
Same jobs, different economics
Both columns are public figures: theirs from the sources linked below, ours from the pricing page on this site.
Apricot ships in Fundamentals, Professional, and Enterprise tiers, each listed as "pricing available upon request" rather than published — and reviewers note that robust funder reporting has commonly needed an add-on module rather than shipping in the base plan.
A multi-program agency with 3,000 enrolled participants pays $149 a month — participants are the only thing that counts, so donors, funders, staff, and volunteers never do — with unlimited users, application and eligibility forms, and your website included.
The structural difference
None of this is a discount or a promotion — the product is priced differently on purpose.
Apricot’s three tiers are each listed as "pricing available upon request." Simply Programs publishes every plan and price on the pricing page, so a program director can budget before the first call.
Reviewers of Apricot describe deeper reporting as needing an add-on beyond the base plan. Outcome and funder reporting come from the same enrolment and attendance data in every Simply Programs plan.
Unlimited staff and volunteer logins are included on every plan, because a program only runs with everyone who shows up for it.
The application, the enrolment, the attendance, the outcome, and the donation that paid for it all read from the same records — not a case-management tool bolted to a separate donor database.
Honest answers
A large human-services agency running complex, regulated case management across dozens of programs — with a dedicated system administrator and a budget for an enterprise implementation — gets real depth from Apricot, particularly for clinical-style case notes and compliance workflows that go beyond program enrolment. If that is your agency and it is working, keep it. If you are a program team being asked to start a sales process just to see a price, talk to us first.
Sources: Bonterra Apricot pricing, tiers, and features (Software Advice) · Bonterra Apricot product page · Social Solutions Apricot joining the Bonterra family
Figures are as published at the linked sources in July 2026 — pricing changes, so check the sources for current numbers. Our public plans and professional-service floors are on this site; Custom scope receives a written quote.
Apricot by Bonterra and all other third-party product names on this page are trademarks of their respective owners, named only for factual comparison. Simply Programs is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by them.
Show us the intake binder, the waitlist spreadsheet, and the report your funder keeps asking for. We will map them to Simply Programs and show you the calmer version of next program year.
