About
About HissingKitty
HissingKitty is a free, independent record of how teams replace rented software. For every company we track, it shows what teams pay, why they leave, and the two ways out: a cheaper AI-native tool, or a custom build they own.
- Companies tracked
- 81
- Anonymous bills
- 19
- Approved reviews
- 19
- Listed alternatives and builders
- 9
- Cost estimator answers
- 4
- Published stories
- 2
Live counts from the record. How each is collected.
Why It Exists
Every day, renting software makes less sense. Per-seat prices rise at each renewal, while the cost of building has dropped. A team can now have its own CRM built in weeks, or move to a newer tool made around AI from day one.
The numbers to make that call are hard to find. Vendor pages show list prices, not what teams pay. Review sites compare one vendor with another, not with owning your own. HissingKitty puts what teams pay next to what switching and building cost them, with the count behind every number.
We think forward-deployed engineers, the people who build software inside a business, are the new SaaS. That's the view behind the site. The data decides each page.
Who It's For
- Teams paying for software. See what others pay, the reasons they leave, and a side-by-side of keeping, switching or building. Then check a renewal quote or rate the tool you use.
- Makers of AI-native tools. List your tool on the page of each product it replaces. Visitors vote the best to the top.
- Teams that build custom software. AI labs, forward-deployed engineers and agencies can list their company with a typical price and timeline.
What We Publish
- Company and category pages: what teams pay, why they leave, how much of the tool they use, ranked alternatives and builders.
- Stories: teams that built their own, with every number tied to its source.
- Research: a monthly report on what buyers paid, what they built and which prices went up.
- Calculators: a renewal check and a build vs. buy estimator, free and without sign-up.
How We Stay Independent
- The site is free to read, free to rate software on and free to list on.
- Vendors can't pay to change, rank or remove a report, review or listing.
- Listings are ordered by visitor votes only. There is no paid placement.
- We don't take referral fees from vendors or sell leads.
- Estimates appear only in the Build vs. Buy estimator, and they are labeled.
Where the Numbers Come From
Bills come from buyers who share them anonymously. Reviews and listings are approved before they go live. Stories come from named sources, such as the team itself or published reporting. Published prices link to the vendor's page with the date we checked. The methodology covers each source, what we check and what we never show.
Corrections
Anyone, including vendors, can ask for a correction. Tell us what's wrong and where through the contact page. If a number is wrong, we fix it and keep the count honest.