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Leave old software behind.
Anonymous reviews and real bills from teams fed up with SaaS, plus what they switched to.
Newest alternatives and builders
Digits
AI-native alternative
AI-native accounting with an autonomous general ledger that books transactions for startups and small businesses.
Puzzle
AI-native alternative
AI accounting software for startups: real-time books, automated categorization and month-end close.
Anysite
AI-native alternative
Typed JSON records from 900+ platforms over API for agents and pipelines.
Lucky Media
Built for you
We rebuilt Chainguard's entire site in 30 days and helped ServiceNow's marketing team ship campaigns without developer bottlenecks.
Most activity this month
HubSpot
#1+33 this month
$20 – $150 /user/mo
List price · teams pay $23,750/yr (10 teams)
Salesforce
#2+32 this month
From $25 /user/mo
List price · teams pay $40,000/yr (8 teams)
Adobe
#3+32 this month
From $19.99 /mo
List price · teams pay $840/yr (10 teams)
QuickBooks
#4+22 this month
From $38 /mo
List price · teams pay $1,200/yr (11 teams)
Microsoft
#5+22 this month
$3,600 /yr
Median of 7 teams
Webflow
#6+18 this month
From $15 /mo
List price · teams pay $752/yr (9 teams)
AWS
#7+18 this month
$6,500 /yr
Median of 7 teams
Evernote
#8+17 this month
$199 /yr
Median of 6 teams
From teams who pay for it
Wix
“Squarespace is a solid step up from Wix for a simple shop. If she already has a site and just wants it redesigned without starting over, I built revamped for that: paste the URL, see a redesign in about a minute.”
codemonkei · @doktordos
Evernote
Started out great years ago, went downhill, doubling price, not worth it now.
Shopify
“One of our 8-figure clients literally replaced Shopify + Skio and built their own platform in just 2 weeks.”
Idris · @IdrisEcom_email
Adobe
Do not standardize on Adobe. There are better alternatives for everything they offer.
QuickBooks
Monthly subscription is growing and Intuit is stealing accountants clients.
QuickBooks
“I replaced the DMS that we had used for 20 years as well as QuickBooks, and website with a vibe-coded replacement that adds a ton of functionality for my small independent store.”
Peter Benson · @pbensonsea
Teams that built their own
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Monthly research
October 2026· Final edition
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AI-native alternatives and builders listed, replacing 203 tools
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