Looking for an Arternal alternative?
Arternal is the CRM-first challenger — strong on relationships, priced per user. Gallery Platform covers the same ground plus inventory depth, viewing rooms, and payments, on one flat plan that doesn't charge you for growing your team.
Side by side
Competitor details verified August 2026 — prices change; check them yourself before deciding.
| Gallery Platform | Arternal | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat $29/mo Pro — every seat included. Free tier to start. | Per-user: Essential $95/user/mo, Principal $195/user/mo, Expert custom (arternal.com/pricing) — a 3-person gallery pays $285–$585/mo. |
| How you buy | Self-serve signup, transparent pricing, cancel anytime. | Sales-led: “Get started” and “Book a demo”. |
| Inventory & editions | Full catalog: editions, formats, provenance, condition reports, registrar moves, custom fields. | Inventory available; the product leads with CRM and relationship workflows. |
| CRM & selling | Contacts, deals, pipelines, tracked offers from your own mailbox, invoicing with hosted payment, consignor payables, QuickBooks sync. | Strong CRM and mail integration — its core strength. |
| Public API | Documented REST API with TypeScript + Python SDKs and webhooks — the app runs on the same endpoints you get. | No comparable public developer API is offered. |
| AI | Built-in assistant that answers from your inventory, contacts, and mail — and takes action. Shipped, not announced. | AI (“Reggie”) is marketed but not generally shipped. |
| Data portability | Full export any time, with a stable ID column that round-trips. No lock-in by design. | Exports available; moving systems is on you. |
Where Arternal still fits: Relationship-led private dealers and advisory teams already living in Arternal's CRM and mail tooling, where per-user pricing bites less because the team is one or two people. An honest comparison beats a rushed switch — export a CSV and trial the import first.
Your data moves with a preset, not a project
The importer ships an Arternal preset that untangles its single status list into our ownership and availability fields, with contacts and sales history as CSV. And everything exports back out with a stable ID column — leaving is as easy as arriving, which is exactly the point.
Common questions
- We chose Arternal for the CRM. What do we lose?
- Contacts, interactions, follow-ups, deals, and pipeline are all first-class here, plus tracked offers sent from your own connected mailbox. What you gain is everything around the CRM — deeper inventory, viewing rooms, invoicing with hosted payment, payables, QuickBooks — without a per-user meter.
- What does per-user pricing really cost?
- At Arternal's published rates (August 2026), a 4-person gallery on Essential pays $380/mo — over 13× Gallery Platform's flat $29/mo Pro, which includes 10 seats.
- How does migration from Arternal work?
- Export your inventory to CSV, and the Arternal preset maps its columns and custom statuses; contacts and sales history import as CSV. See /migrate/arternal for steps and honest caveats.
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