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Leave old software behind.
Anonymous reviews and real bills from teams fed up with SaaS, plus what they switched to.
Which business software buyers are most frustrated with this week.
Which SaaS Gets Dumped Next?Newest alternatives and builders
Empyra
Built for you
Turn your monday.com boards into agentic operations.
Nextcloud Hub
AI-native alternative
A Microsoft 365 Alternative Without the Tenant.
45Squared
Built for you
A GoDaddy Website Builder site cannot be exported to WordPress, so it is rebuilt: same pages, same addresses, same domain. A WordPress site on GoDaddy hosting i
Warp
AI-native alternative
AI-native payroll and HR that runs compliance and filings automatically.
Most activity this month
Adobe
#1+38 this month
From $19.99 /mo
List price · teams pay $840/yr (13 teams)
HubSpot
#2+35 this month
$20 – $150 /user/mo
List price · teams pay $17,500/yr (11 teams)
Salesforce
#3+32 this month
From $25 /user/mo
List price · teams pay $40,000/yr (8 teams)
QuickBooks
#4+25 this month
From $38 /mo
List price · teams pay $1,200/yr (13 teams)
Microsoft
#5+23 this month
$3,600 /yr
Median of 7 teams
AWS
#6+20 this month
$6,500 /yr
Median of 7 teams
Evernote
#7+18 this month
$228 /yr
Median of 7 teams
Webflow
#8+18 this month
From $15 /mo
List price · teams pay $752/yr (9 teams)
From teams who pay for it
Calendly
“Avoiding a monthly fee did not justify building my own booking app. I replaced Calendly anyway because I can shape bookings around my needs and adapt the app for LavaEgg clients. Control made that tradeoff worthwhile for me.”
LavaEgg · @EggLava
Tableau
“Many companies are already replacing tableau and power bi with custom built tools.”
Akshay · @tecstoic
Figma
“My mocks moved from Figma to HTML files in the repo. Approved there, then built.”
Agshin Rajabov · @agshinrajabov
Webflow
“This week we've replaced @intercom / @fin and @webflow with our internally built tools/agents. This is in addition to @HubSpot, @NotionHQ, Holistics, @figma, and several other marketing related tools this year. Reducing costs by at least 90%. The biggest wins are how personalized our apps are to us and allowing us to add new features on the fly. @SlackHQ is next.”
Greg Berry · @gregberryai
Webflow
“We moved our website off Webflow. And dropped the CMS completely. Webflow was fine. You click around the UI and drag boxes, then publish. It works. Webflow released an MCP server and that was ok too, despite the limits. But our problem was the same as with every tool these days. We can't get to everything from the command line. The new site is built with Astro and Tailwind, hosted on Vercel. Content is markdown files in git. Pages are components. The contact form posts straight into Twenty CRM, and newsletter signups go to Buttondown.”
Valtteri Taube · @ValtteriTaube
GitHub
“I don't want to pay for GitHub actions so @openclaw is just got sort it out for free.”
Aaron Edell · @aaronedell
Teams that built their own
Todoist raises Pro from $5 to $7 a month, a 40% increase effective December 10, 2025. Buyers should check their billing terms before comparing other plans.
Microsoft's pricing update raises Microsoft 365 F1 from $2 to $3 a month on July 1, 2026. Buyers should check their contract terms and next renewal date.
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October 2026· Final edition
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AI-native alternatives and builders listed, replacing 205 tools
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