A Pabau alternative built for aesthetics, not general practice

Pabau prices by team size across five user bands, publishes no figures, and puts Book a demo on every plan. Beautay publishes £24.95 a month, starts the same day without a call, and leaves out the prescribing, labs and diagnostic coding a solo aesthetic practitioner never opens.

Beautay vs Pabau at a glance

CriteriaPabauBeautayPick
Published priceNo figures on any plan; Book a demo throughout£24.95 a month, VAT included
How the price is setPer user, by team size, Starter and Solo, Team, Medium, Group, Enterprise, and by location£24.95, plus £9.95 for each additional practitioner
Getting startedBook a demo30-day trial, no card and no call
Optional extrasMarketing Plus, Care Plus and Insight Plus, on top of the core subscriptionOne plan, no add-on packs
What the platform is built aroundMedical practice, prescribing, labs, vaccines, diagnostic and billing codesAesthetic practice, consent, injection plotting, batch tracking, deposits
Client limit on the entry planStarter is capped at 100 clients; Solo and above are uncappedNo cap

Why practitioners switch

They want a price, not a demo

Pabau prices per user by team size and shows no figure on any plan card. Every button reads Book a demo, on both the monthly and annual toggle, and the pricing page's own FAQ carries the question of why prices are not shown for every plan.

Beautay publishes £24.95 a month, with £9.95 for each additional practitioner, so you can weigh it against your current system tonight rather than after a call.

They are not running a medical practice

Pabau's platform spans prescribing, drugs, labs and lab parsing, vaccines, medical conditions, diagnostic and billing codes, claims and remittance, across specialties from general practice to dermatology, cosmetic surgery and gynaecology.

An aesthetic clinic carries the cost of all of it and opens none of it. Beautay leaves it out on purpose and puts the depth into consent, injection plotting, batch traceability and deposits instead.

They want to start this week

Every route into Pabau runs through a demo booking, which means a call, a diary slot and a follow-up before you have seen your own services in the system.

Beautay's trial runs 30 days with no card and no call, so you can build the booking journey and load your service menu on your own timetable.

Where Beautay wins

  • One published price, no add-on packs

    £24.95 a month covers bookings, consent and screening forms, client records, injection plotting, treatment plans, batch tracking, deposits, reminders, loyalty, marketing and reporting.

    Pabau extends its core subscription with Marketing Plus, Care Plus and Insight Plus. Beautay has no add-on tier to price up alongside the subscription.

  • Built for aesthetics rather than adapted to it

    Consent forms attach to specific services and can hold a booking for review before payment is taken.

    Injection points are plotted on face and body charts with the product, amount, batch number and expiry recorded against the treatment.

    Before and after photos sit on the same client timeline, so a comparison across months is one screen rather than a folder hunt.

  • Where Pabau suits a different clinic

    Pabau gives every plan full access to the whole platform with no feature gating between tiers, and its medical tooling runs deep: prescribing, labs, coding and an AI consultation scribe.

    If you prescribe, order labs or bill through insurance claims, that machinery is a genuine requirement and Beautay does not attempt it. It is also a different category of product, priced accordingly and only after a demo.

    For the aesthetic clinic whose week is consultations, injectables and skin treatments, Beautay covers the ground you actually use, at a published £24.95, whether you are one room or several.

Full comparison

FeaturePabauBeautay
Price published without booking a demo
Free trial of the platform without booking a demo
One plan with no paid add-on packs
Prescribing, labs and diagnostic coding
AI consultation scribe
Online booking and client portal
Digital forms with conditional rules
Before and after photo comparison
Stock and inventory management
Marketing automation in the core plan
No client cap on the entry plan
No client cap above the entry plan

Pabau plan structure, client caps, add-ons and demo-only pricing taken from pabau.com/pricing and its pricing FAQ on 16 August 2026. Every plan card shows Book a demo rather than a figure, checked on both the monthly and annual toggles with the UK currency selected, so no plan price is quoted here. Pabau does publish add-on pricing through a calculator on its Care Plus page, and offers a 14-day trial of that add-on to existing subscribers. Check both sites before deciding: prices and plans change.

See the price without booking a call

£24.95 a month, published. Thirty days free with no card required, so you can load your services and test the booking journey first.