Comparison
Artlogic vs Art.industries: a comparison without the brochure
Artlogic is the established player. Art.industries is the modern challenger. Both target serious commercial galleries; the architectural choices, pricing model, and rate of product evolution differ. This page is blunt about both products.
At a glance
| Dimension | Art.industries | Artlogic |
|---|---|---|
| Product age and posture | Modern web stack, weekly product evolution, integrated by design. | Established platform with 20+ years in market; deep features, slower release cadence. |
| Pricing | Core $15/mo, Advanced $40/mo, Max $200/mo. Modular capacity add-ons. | Suite-style packaged pricing, typically multiple modules priced per gallery; reconcile against utilisation. |
| Catalogue and CRM | One workspace per gallery: contacts, works, exhibitions, sales linked in one record. | Modules cover catalogue, CRM, and CMS; verify how cleanly they share state for your data. |
| Private viewing rooms | Live-linked rooms with per-room price visibility, watermarking, instant revocation. | Mature presentations and proposals; benchmark against fair-week edits and rapid revocation. |
| Payments | Stripe-backed invoicing with deposits, instalments, refunds, multi-party splits, multi-currency. | Several payment integrations; verify exports satisfy your accountant and finance lead. |
| Public website | Website Studio on your own domain, on Advanced and Max, fed from the same catalogue. | Mature public-site offering with strong gallery presence; verify maintenance and customisation. |
| Exports and customs | Configurable PDF and CSV templates, ATA Carnet support, stable internal IDs. | Established export library; map against your institution-specific paperwork rather than assume coverage. |
| How to test fit | One real exhibition + one Stripe deposit + one PDF lender packet, end to end, in trial. | Run the same loop. Marketing parity tables rarely survive a real fair week. |
How Artlogic and Art.industries actually differ
Artlogic is a deeply established gallery platform with substantial market presence and a long track record. Galleries that have been on it for years know it well; the product has accumulated significant feature breadth. The price point is suite-style: galleries typically pay for catalogue, CRM, public website, and additional modules as a packaged offering.
Art.industries is a younger product built on a modern web stack. The architectural posture is "one workspace per gallery, everything connected by default": Inventory, CRM, private viewing rooms, Stripe-backed invoicing, and the optional public site all read from the same record per work and contact. Pricing is modular and explicitly per-workspace rather than per-seat.
Neither product is wrong; they are built around different operational philosophies. The right comparison happens on the gallery's actual workflow.
Where Artlogic's strengths show
Artlogic's public-site offering is mature; many established galleries have well-built Artlogic sites that they like. The ecosystem (consultants who know it, designers who have built templates for it, conventions galleries are used to) is real and worth weighting in any comparison.
For galleries that have been on Artlogic for 5+ years, the migration cost is real: trained staff, established workflows, integrations with other tools, the sunk-cost feeling of a recent contract renewal. Migration is rarely the right answer if Artlogic is fitting the gallery's needs and the team is happy.
Where galleries switch to Art.industries
The galleries that switch tend to share a few patterns. They have hit a renewal cycle and the suite-style pricing has moved up materially. They want a more modern web stack (faster pages, better mobile, a cleaner public-facing brand). They want more direct Stripe-backed payment flow without the additional invoicing module pricing. Or the team is small enough that the integrated workflow (viewing rooms tied to inventory tied to Stripe deposits) is more valuable than the depth of any single module.
For new galleries (no existing platform), the comparison is more open: Art.industries' modern infrastructure and modular pricing usually win the evaluation; Artlogic's established ecosystem and feature depth are still real reasons to choose them.
The pricing comparison done honestly
Artlogic's pricing is typically negotiated and varies by gallery size and module selection; the comparable Art.industries plan is Advanced ($40/month base, plus capacity add-ons as the gallery scales). For most working commercial galleries, the Art.industries total cost of ownership is materially lower; for very large galleries with substantial enterprise needs, the comparison gets closer.
Get a real quote from Artlogic for your gallery's specific needs and compare against the Art.industries pricing matrix. Headline parity is rare; honest comparison requires both quotes in hand.
A migration from Artlogic: what actually moves
Artlogic exports works as CSV (with custom fields) and contacts as CSV. Both import into Art.industries with field mapping and a validation pass. Most galleries find the inventory portion of the migration takes 2-3 weeks, contacts and consignments another 2-3 weeks, the public website (if migrating that too) a separate 4-6 weeks with proper redirect mapping to preserve SEO.
The harder migration is workflow: staff trained on Artlogic for years need to learn the Art.industries equivalent. The change usually pays back within a quarter; the learning curve is real.
How to run the comparison properly
Pilot side by side. Pick a representative exhibition and a real consignment, run the workflow on both platforms for two weeks (Art.industries trial, Artlogic existing system), and measure: time per task, errors caught, internal questions raised, paperwork generated.
Specifically, the loop: catalogue 30 works including editions and a consigned work; build a private viewing room for one collector; take a Stripe deposit; generate a lender packet PDF; close out a consignment statement. The platform where this loop runs faster and with fewer copy-paste moments is the one to commit to.
When to stay on Artlogic
If the team is happy, the workflow is established, the public website is performing, and the cost is acceptable, switching costs (training time, transition risk, lost institutional knowledge) usually exceed any platform improvement. Re-evaluate at the next renewal cycle, with a real Art.industries trial as one of the data points.
For galleries who feel the platform is increasingly slow to evolve, where renewal pricing keeps moving up, or where the integrated Stripe and Website Studio story would replace several adjacent tools, the switch is usually worth it.
FAQ
- Is Artlogic bad?
- No. It is a deeply established platform that fits many galleries well. The comparison question is whether the integrated, modular Art.industries model fits your gallery's specific workflow better than the suite model, especially at the next renewal.
- How does pricing actually compare?
- Get a real quote from Artlogic and compare against the Art.industries pricing matrix. Most working commercial galleries pay materially less on Art.industries, but the comparison varies with gallery size and module selection.
- Can we migrate from Artlogic cleanly?
- Yes. CSV exports for works and contacts map directly. Most galleries finish inventory in 2-3 weeks, contacts and consignments in another 2-3 weeks. The public website migration is a separate 4-6 weeks with proper redirect mapping to preserve SEO.
- Does Art.industries match Artlogic's public-website depth?
- Website Studio is built around real gallery website patterns (artist pages, exhibitions, journal, optional storefront) on a modern web stack. For most galleries it matches or exceeds Artlogic's public-site offering; for galleries with very specific custom site needs, evaluate against your specific design and content requirements.
- Does Art.industries take a percentage of sales?
- No. The gallery connects its own Stripe account; we never sit in the money flow. Stripe takes its standard processing fee. See Stripe payment links.
- How does the [viewing room](/private-viewing-room-software) feature compare?
- Art.industries viewing rooms are live-linked to Inventory, with per-room price visibility, watermarking, and instant revocation. Compare them on a real fair-week scenario: edits to availability and price five minutes before the room opens, multiple rooms with the same work at different prices.
- What about Artlogic's established consultant ecosystem?
- Real and worth weighting if you currently rely on it. Art.industries provides direct support and onboarding; Max plan includes custom rollout. For galleries that lean on a specific consultant for their gallery operations, ask whether that consultant has worked with Art.industries.
Pilot the workflow in two weeks
Bring 30 works, one collector, and one consignor into the trial workspace. Run the full loop end to end. Compare the time and clicks against your current Artlogic setup.