The Responsive Alternative
Responsive gives you a template and a blank page. waxTable writes and designs the finished proposal for this client, on your brand, in about five minutes.
Responsive is an enterprise RFP and proposal response platform, and a good one. waxTable is a different tool for the same job: instead of giving you a template to fill in, it writes and designs the finished document for each client — from a brief, or from the client's own email — and prices per document rather than per seat.
Switch to waxTable if
- Writing the proposal is the bottleneck, not sending or signing it.
- You want documents that look like your studio, not like a template library.
- Your team is small enough that per-seat pricing is money spent on read-only access.
Stay on Responsive if
- Multiple teams collaborate on a single response and need controlled access.
- Enterprise security and compliance reporting is part of the requirement.
- You are running formal bid processes, not sending proposals.
Responsive vs waxTable, feature by feature
| Feature | Responsive | waxTable |
|---|---|---|
| Writes the document for you | Partial — drafts from your existing content library guided by subject-matter experts, not from a brief | Yes — describe the job and Waxe writes, prices and designs the whole thing in about five minutes |
| What you start from | An RFP project and your content library | A finished draft, written and priced for this client |
| How it looks | Configured templates | Designed around your brand — colours, fonts, logo and tone, learned from your website at signup |
| Start a document on WhatsApp | No | Yes, on Pro and above ($15 / month billed annually) |
| Forward a client's email | No | Yes — forward it to your workspace address and the drafted document comes back |
| Pricing model | Custom quote — platform fee plus per-user licences | Per credit, never per seat |
| Entry price | Not published — sales contact required | $5 / month billed annually ($8 monthly) |
| Free tier | No | 40 permanent signup bonus credits + 60 monthly credits that expire at reset. Branded PDF export; Word and PowerPoint on paid plans |
| Free access | None | Free plan with no end date; 60 credits renew monthly, and unused monthly credits expire |
| Document types | RFP responses, security questionnaires, RFIs, DDQs | 11 built in, plus any you define yourself |
Scroll the table sideways to compare.
Responsive plans
Custom quote only — platform fee plus per-user licences. None. No free plan. Standard is an annual subscription. Unlimited responses are included — it is the platform fee and per-user licensing that scale.
waxTable
Current plans and prices are on the pricing page — plans are managed live, so that page is always the authority, not this table.
Responsive plan names and prices were read from their own pricing page on 9 August 2026 and are shown as published on that date — check before relying on them. Responsive publishes its own pricing here. Both billing terms are shown because every vendor on this list defaults its pricing page to the cheaper annual figure.
What a five-person team pays
Five people, of whom two actually write proposals and three need to read, comment or approve them. Responsive is shown at its cheapest published rate for a team that size — a comparison that quotes someone's most expensive plan is not worth reading.
Responsive
waxTable — Pro
waxTable Pro is quoted, not Basic: Basic is a single seat, and setting its $5 / month against five of theirs would be the rigged comparison this page exists to avoid. Pro covers 5 team members, 20 projects and 2,400 credits a month — roughly 25–40 documents. Figures are the published rates on 9 August 2026; both sides have extras this ignores. The shape of it is that per-seat pricing charges you for people who only read the document, and per-credit pricing charges you for documents.
Why teams move off Responsive
You still write it
No published pricing — their own FAQ has an entry explaining why they do not publish it.
It looks like the tool
The model is an annual platform fee plus per-user licences plus add-ons and services.
What it costs you
Its AI drafts from your existing content library guided by SMEs, not from a brief.
Where Responsive is still the better choice
cross-functional RFP response at very large scale — content governance, SME collaboration, advanced access control and enterprise security reporting across bid, sales, marketing and InfoSec. It serves a stakeholder complexity a small-business tool does not attempt.
Moving from Responsive
Keep sending from Responsive
Nothing has to be migrated on day one. Run the next proposal through both and compare the output — that is the only test that settles it.
Point us at your website
waxTable reads your site at signup for colours, fonts, logo and tone, so the first document already looks like you. There is no template to rebuild.
Send one real brief
Describe a live job, or forward the client's email. You get a written, priced, designed document back in about five minutes for a few cents.
Move when it wins, not before
Your Responsive content is not stranded — export what you want to keep and paste it in. Most people find they do not, because the point is not to reuse the old text.
Questions, answered
Is waxTable a good Responsive alternative?
If the slow part of your week is writing the proposal, yes. Responsive is an enterprise RFP and proposal response platform, and it gives you a template to fill in. waxTable writes and designs the finished document for each client — from a short brief, or from the client's own email — in about five minutes. If instead your bottleneck is signature routing or CRM sync, Responsive is the better tool and this page says so plainly.
How is waxTable different from Responsive?
Three structural differences, none of which are features you could add later. You start from a finished draft rather than a blank template. The document is designed around your own brand, learned from your website, rather than poured into a template layout. And it is priced per document rather than per seat, so colleagues who only read or approve cost nothing.
Is waxTable cheaper than Responsive?
For a small team, usually — and the reason is the pricing model, not a discount. custom quote only — platform fee plus per-user licences charges for everyone with access; waxTable charges for documents. Paid plans start at USD 5 per month billed annually. The worked example on this page does the arithmetic for a five-person team.
Can I move my Responsive content across?
You can paste anything you want to keep, but most people find they do not need to. The point is not to reuse the old text — waxTable writes each document for the specific client and job, so a library of saved paragraphs is the thing it replaces rather than the thing it imports.
What does Responsive do better than waxTable?
cross-functional RFP response at very large scale — content governance, SME collaboration, advanced access control and enterprise security reporting across bid, sales, marketing and InfoSec. It serves a stakeholder complexity a small-business tool does not attempt.
Your next proposal, in five minutes
Tell Waxe about the client and get a complete, on-brand proposal to review — the work of two days for a few cents. There is no blank page to start from and nothing to format by hand; you answer a short brief, Waxe does the drafting, and you keep full control of the final document in the editor.