The comparison, from someone who paints

Sundry Works vs Artwork Archive

Type "Artwork Archive alternatives" into Google and five companies are already there: G2, Capterra, GetApp, SoftwareSuggest, and Artwork Codex - all five pages live and checked on 22 September 2026. That is five companies spending money to rank for one exact phrase, which is how you know painters actually search it rather than software companies guessing that they might.

Not one of those five pages is written by somebody who paints. This one is - I paint, and I built Sundry Works. It is not a takedown. Artwork Archive is a real product that a lot of painters use well, and it beats Sundry Works outright on several things below. Read to the end for those.

The cost

Sundry Works is $79 a year, or $8 a month - one artist, every painting you catalogue, 30 days free, no card required to start. Artwork Archive does not have one price. It has three, and the one that applies to you depends on how many pieces you have painted.

Per year, billed annually. Checked against Artwork Archive's own pricing page, 25 September 2026.

Here is the honest version, which is the whole reason this section exists. It would be easy to stop at the cheapest tier and call it $79 against $108 - a difference, but not a dramatic one. Except $108 a year buys only 100 pieces. A painter with a real body of work has usually painted more than that, and the Artwork Archive tier that actually matches Sundry Works' no piece cap is Master, at $432 a year - five and a half times the price.

That $108-for-100-pieces figure did not start on this page. It came from a competitor's own comparison page, not from Artwork Archive - and a rival's number, printed wrong on a public page, is exactly the kind of mistake that gets quoted back at you. So before any of this went live, it was checked directly against artworkarchive.com/pricing, on 25 September 2026. It was right. It stays footnoted here anyway, because a number worth using is a number worth showing your working on.

One more thing, in fairness, before moving on: Artwork Archive's cheapest tier already bundles a CRM, sales tracking, online invoicing, edition tracking, QR codes, advanced reporting and a public profile website - all of it, at $108. Sundry Works does not do any of that at any price. So this is not the same product for less. It is a smaller product for less, at least at the entry tier - which is exactly what the next section is about.

Where Artwork Archive is ahead

Artwork Archive has been at this for twelve years. Sundry Works has been at it for one, built by a single painter. That difference shows up as scale: 110+ reviews on Capterra alone, before G2, GetApp or Software Advice are even counted, and a team rather than one person answering the emails.

Its CRM runs deeper than anything Sundry Works offers. Every tier, even the cheapest, gives you contact groups, follow-up reminders tied to a specific person, a history of your past interactions with them, and a weekly reminder email. Sundry Works catalogues paintings; it does not track relationships with the people who buy them.

A few specific things Sundry Works does not have yet, that Artwork Archive does:

• A certificate of authenticity saved as a reusable template
• Tax and consignment reports
• Private viewing rooms for a collector
• A native phone app that works offline
• More than one user on an account
• Online invoicing and payment processing

What Sundry Works has that Artwork Archive doesn't

Artwork Archive catalogues inventory - what you own, where it is, what it is worth, who might buy it. That is the job, and it does it well. It has no tool that writes anything, and none that designs anything: no story, no card, no certificate, no video, no caption.

Sundry Works starts one photograph later. Give it a picture of a finished painting and it will:

• Write a story about the piece, AI-drafted and yours to edit
• Lay out a printed story card at 300dpi
• Design a numbered certificate of authenticity
• Lay out a back label for the frame
• Build a vertical reel with crops, transitions and spoken narration
• Draw branded post images in eight formats
• Write a caption for Instagram, Facebook, Threads and Bluesky
• Post them on a schedule, and bring the comments back to the painting

Artwork Archive's product catalogues the work. Sundry Works makes what a painter does with it afterwards - the story, the object handed to a buyer, the video, the posts. Different jobs, and this page would be more useful to you if it said so plainly instead of pretending they compete row for row.

How the rest of the field compares

Artwork Archive is the one painters find first, but it is not the only name that comes up. Here is where four more stand, checked against each one's own site between 19 and 25 September 2026.

Artwork Codex

The newer, cheaper archive - named right alongside Artwork Archive in these comparisons so often that Artwork Codex runs its own "vs Artwork Archive", "vs Artlogic" and "vs ArtCloud" pages, checked on its site today. It has a real free tier (5 artworks, no card) and a native iPhone app, both things Sundry Works does not have.

Per year, billed annually. Same scale as the chart above. Checked against artworkcodex.com, 25 September 2026.

Past the free tier the shape repeats: $96 a year caps at 100 artworks, and matching Sundry Works' no-cap catalogue costs $288 - three and a half times the price. And Codex's own feature list is inventory, portfolios, viewing rooms, invoices and auto-numbered certificates: a lighter version of Artwork Archive's job, not a different one. No story is drafted, no card is laid out, no reel is built, and nothing posts to social media.

ArtCloud, Artlogic and ArtBinder

All three lean gallery-first - inventory plus a CRM, and in ArtCloud's case email campaigns and a website, in Artlogic's case invoicing and art-fair lists. ArtCloud and Artlogic share a parent company since 2025, though each still runs and prices itself separately. Both now publish real numbers, including a track aimed at one artist rather than a gallery: ArtCloud runs a genuine free tier (50 pieces) up to $149 a month, Artlogic from about $95 a month with no self-serve signup above that - a gallery quote only. ArtBinder alone is still gallery-only, $195 a month, no free tier. ArtCloud comes closest to what Sundry Works attempts and still stops at a website and an email campaign - its inventory reaches social shops, not social posts. None of the three writes a story or builds a reel.

ArtMoi

Provenance-first, built for proving a painting's history and ownership over time rather than making anything from a photograph of it - and, as of this research, its own site does not load. artmoi.com returns nothing, and independent monitoring shows it has been down since around the end of June 2026, three months before this page was written. That is worth saying plainly rather than quietly listing it beside four working products: take its "$1 a month, pay what you can" pricing, reported here from third-party listings rather than ArtMoi's own site, as unconfirmed and possibly no longer current.