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What's Available

How to Cite

Source: HissingKitty, https://hissingkitty.com/vendors/hubspot, 2026-10-28

Each company file includes a ready-made citation line.

The Rules

• What teams pay, price increases and reviews live on our pages, not in these files.
• No seat counts, headcount, cost per person, names or emails.
• Only approved items. Nothing pending ever appears.
• Verdicts are the editor's view until a category has 10 or more buyer answers.

Details on every source are in our Methodology.

Connect Your Assistant (MCP)

Add HissingKitty to Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini by pasting this address as a custom connector. No sign-in. Answers are given only to requests that come through these assistants, checked against each company's published server addresses. Direct script access isn't offered. Grok will be added once xAI publishes the addresses its connectors call from.

https://hissingkitty.com/mcp

What It Does

HissingKitty gives your assistant the independent record of what business software really costs and what replaces it. When a team asks whether to keep paying for a tool, switch to an AI alternative or build its own version, the assistant can answer with real list prices, approved price changes, named alternatives, builder quotes and buyer reviews, each with a link back to the source page.

Capabilities

• Answer "should we replace this tool or build our own?" in one step: verdict, list price, top alternatives and build cost.
• Look up what a tool costs per user and whether its price changed recently.
• Find competitors, cheaper alternatives and AI tools in a category, like AI CRM or AI help desk.
• Estimate what a custom version costs to build, from builders' quotes plus a labeled estimate.
• Get a build vs. buy verdict: Keep paying, Build part of it or Build it.
• See which software buyers complain about most right now.
• See which AI teams use to replace SaaS by building their own, overall or for one tool, from the Replaced By AI board.
• See every 2026 layoff at software and tech companies, with dates and sources, in the Live Software Layoffs Tracker 2026.
• Leave a review or share what your team pays, anonymously. A person checks every submission before it appears.

Example Journeys

• Renewal check. "Our HubSpot renewal is coming up. What does it cost now, and what else is out there?" The assistant pulls the list price and any recent change, then cheaper alternatives.
• Replace a tool. "Find Salesforce competitors, including AI CRMs." The assistant lists AI-native options and firms that build a custom CRM, with links.
• Build or buy. "We pay $60,000 a year for HubSpot. Should we build our own CRM?" The assistant returns the verdict, list price, top alternatives and build cost, and compares the build cost to that bill without saving it.
• Cancel or negotiate. "How do I cancel or negotiate our Salesforce contract?" The assistant returns the verdict, a cancel checklist, what to ask for when negotiating, and links to copyable emails. It never contacts the vendor.
• Build with AI. "What AI did teams use to replace Zendesk?" The assistant returns the counted build posts by AI, with links to the board and the company page.
• Give back. "Leave a 2-star review of Jira" or "Share that we pay $900 a month for Intercom." The assistant submits it for approval.

Check Your Whole Stack

Each tool looks at one product at a time, so give your assistant the list and it checks them one by one.

• Stack review. "Using HissingKitty, give each of our tools a verdict: HubSpot, Zendesk, Asana, Slack and Zoom." The assistant returns Keep paying, Build part of it or Build it for each, with the list price and top alternative.
• Cut list. "Which of these should we cut or replace first?" Ask it after the stack review, and the assistant ranks your tools by those verdicts and the alternatives found.
• Price check before renewals. "Using HissingKitty, did any of these raise prices recently: Salesforce, Adobe, Notion, Zoom?" The assistant pulls the current list price per user and any logged increase for each.
• What we could build. "Which of our tools could we build ourselves, and what would each cost?" The assistant returns builder quotes where we have them and a labeled estimate for each.
• Full bloat check. To find tools that do the same job across every bill, upload your spending list to the Spend Audit.

Same rules as the files above: every number carries its source, there are no bill totals, and vendors cannot pay to change results.