Independence
No One Pays for Placement
Anyone, vendors included, can ask for a correction on the contact page. If a number is wrong, we fix it.
Free for everyone
Reading, reviewing and listing cost nothing.
Vendors can't buy changes
No one pays to rank, edit or remove anything.
Votes set the order
Listings rank by visitor votes, nothing else.
No referral fees
We don't take a cut or sell leads.
Estimates are labeled
They live only in the calculators, marked as estimates.
Every number has a source
Each one shows its count or where it came from.
Our mission
Show Buyers What Software Really Costs
Before you renew, switch or build, you should know what teams like yours pay, why they leave and what replaced it. We collect that from real bills, reviews and public posts.
New tools launch every week, so buyers ask the same four questions about each one. We answer them with evidence and show the source for every number.
About the name: a cat hisses when it has had enough. Buyers do the same at renewal time. We write down what they paid, what they said and what replaced it, so the next buyer starts with facts.
What buyers ask now
- Is this tool real?
- Will it be here in three years?
- Who owns my data?
- Who fixes it when it breaks?
Real or Not
Every listing is checked against its own live site before it goes up.
Proof Over Pitch
Numbers come from bills, reviews and public posts, each with its count or source.
No Paid Placement
Rankings come from votes and evidence, never money.
Why it exists
Every day, old software makes less sense.
Per-seat prices rise at each renewal while the cost of building keeps falling. Vendor pages show list prices, not what teams pay. Review sites compare one vendor with another, not with owning your own.
We think forward-deployed engineers, the people who build software inside a business, are the new SaaS. That's our view. The data decides each page.
What we expect
Six Predictions for the Next Five Years
Our view, not a forecast with a number on it. We track the data that will prove us right or wrong, and we'll say so either way.
Every big platform gets a hundred alternatives.
AI makes a credible copy cheap to build. Choice stops being scarce. Knowing which one to trust becomes the hard part.
What to do: ask for proof, not demos. Check who else uses it and what they pay.
Per-seat pricing fades.
Charging per person makes less sense when AI does more of the work. Expect pricing by usage, outcome or a flat fee.
What to do: at renewal, ask for a price that doesn't grow with headcount.
Forward-deployed engineers become the new SaaS.
More businesses will pay a small team to build and run the system they own, instead of paying for one built for everyone.
What to do: get a build quote next to your renewal quote, even if you keep paying.
The tools that last have something hard to copy.
Compliance, networks and trusted data (think Vanta or Slack) stay worth paying for. Simple forms and dashboards don't.
What to do: split your stack into "hard to copy" and "easy to rebuild."
Owning your data becomes the main reason to switch.
As software gets cheaper, the data and the workflows inside it are what's worth keeping.
What to do: confirm you can export everything, today, in a usable format.
Multi-year contracts give way to short ones.
When a better option can appear in months, locking in for three years is a bigger bet. 7 in 10 buyers already say AI is pushing them toward shorter terms (G2).
What to do: ask for a one-year term or a clear exit date before you sign.
The choice
Three Ways Forward, Side by Side
Every company page puts all three next to each other. We don't push you to leave.
Keep paying
Some tools earn their price. We say so when the data does.
AI-native alternative
A newer tool built around AI from day one, often for less.
Built for you
A team builds the system you own, fitted to how you work.
Who it's for
Built for Buyers and Builders
Teams paying for software
See what others pay and why they leave, then compare keeping, switching and building.
Write a reviewMakers of AI-native tools
List on the page of every product you replace. Visitors vote the best to the top.
List your toolTeams that build for you
Build shops and done-for-you AI firms can list with a typical price and timeline.
List your companyWhat we publish