The dance-industry incumbent
Jackrabbit Dance is the long-standing name specifically in dance studio software, with deep recital and costume tooling. Its pricing scales with your student roster rather than a flat published number.
DanceUp pricing
Event Host is free. Studio Owner is $129/mo, Studio Owner Pro+ is $179/mo — all three published, no "request a quote" tier, plus a flat 1.5% platform fee on top of standard card processing.
Jackrabbit Dance pricing
Jackrabbit prices by end-of-month student count — Standard from $49/mo, Plus (with a branded app) from $93/mo plus a $169 one-time setup fee, and a flat-rate Enterprise tier at $245/mo. DanceUp's three tiers are flat and published regardless of roster size.
Pricing model
Flat, published tiers — $0 / $129 / $179 per month
Scales with your total student count, active and inactive
Recital & costume management
Not offered
Mature, purpose-built recital and costume tooling
AI
AI Co-Pilot (drafts, revises, and proactively suggests) + AI Insights (churn scoring, revenue forecasting, promo copy)
No AI features published
Event registration depth
Performer/team registration with custom questionnaires and vendor-booth registration for festivals and congresses
Recital-oriented registration, not built for multi-team festival check-in
Check-in
Schedule-based zero-tap auto check-in, plus kiosk, staff, and QR — four ways in, one attendance record
Not detailed on their published feature pages
Branded app
One DanceUp-branded app across every studio
Jackrabbit Plus adds a studio-branded app for an extra monthly fee plus a one-time setup cost
Dancer / member mobile app
DanceUp's dancer app is a cross-studio marketplace with schedule-based auto check-in built in at no extra cost. Jackrabbit's branded app ("Jackrabbit Plus") is a paid add-on with its own one-time setup fee, built around a single studio rather than cross-studio discovery.
Front-desk / tablet app
DanceUp Studio is a dedicated iPad app — phone-number kiosk check-in, QR/ticket scanning, and Kiosk Watch Mode live-syncing to the web dashboard. Jackrabbit's tablet story isn't detailed on its public feature pages the way its recital and costume tooling is.
Where Jackrabbit Dance might actually be the better fit
If costume and recital logistics are core to how your studio runs every year, Jackrabbit's tooling there is the most mature in this entire comparison — that's the gap DanceUp hasn't closed yet.
No sales call required to see what it costs — pricing's public, and Event Host is free to start.