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What Buyers Are Saying
Newest alternatives and builders
Cal.com
AI-native alternative
Open-source scheduling with AI agents that book and reschedule meetings.
Glide
AI-native alternative
AI-assisted builder for internal apps on top of your spreadsheets and databases.
Captions
AI-native alternative
AI video studio for avatars, ad creatives, clips and captions.
Comp AI
AI-native alternative
Open-source, AI-run compliance platform for SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
Most activity this month
Adobe
#1+27 this month
From $19.99 /mo
List price · teams pay $840/yr (10 teams)
HubSpot
#2+27 this month
$20 – $150 /user/mo
List price · teams pay $42,800/yr (7 teams)
Salesforce
#3+25 this month
From $25 /user/mo
List price · teams pay $40,000/yr (5 teams)
Microsoft
#4+20 this month
$5,300 /yr
Median of 6 teams
AWS
#5+17 this month
$6,500 /yr
Median of 7 teams
ServiceNow
#6+14 this month
Custom quote
List price
Webflow
#7+14 this month
From $15 /mo
List price · teams pay $550/yr (8 teams)
QuickBooks
#8+13 this month
From $38 /mo
List price · teams pay $1,200/yr (9 teams)
From teams who pay for it
QuickBooks
Logic and user-friendliness are non-existent.
Logic and user-friendliness are non-existent. Too slow. Expensive.
Anonymous buyer · From HissingKitty
Adobe
What a clunky program.
What a clunky program. The mandatory updates totally rearrange your desktop. It's like trying to type on a new keyboard with every update. I thought it was terrible buying Creative Suite every few years for $400 which now only gets you 5 months of subscriptions. I canceled my subs. Bought one year of Canva for most of my graphics and do updates on AI files for one crazy subscribed month a year.
1–10 employees · From HissingKitty
Microsoft
Spying on users.
Spying on users. Ads in the OS. Killing off windows 10. Where do I start?
11–50 employees · From HissingKitty
Adobe
Killing perpetual licenses
Killing perpetual licenses is bad for everyone.
1–10 employees · From HissingKitty
NetSuite
Poor service and support for larger customers.
Poor service and support for larger customers. Constant performance issues, lack of stability and redundancy for system outages. Just overall a lack of interest in supporting customers who are paying $2M+ annually for them to host your website and CRM and ERP.
Verified · 51–200 employees · From HissingKitty
Microsoft
New Outlook is bug filled garbage.
New Outlook is bug filled garbage. New 'features' are pushed without warning that make the product worse.
Verified · 1–10 employees · From HissingKitty
Teams that built their own
Simon Høiberg moved 4 SaaS products off AWS to 3 rented Hetzner servers. The bill fell from close to $8,000 a month to around $300, about $92,400 a year.
Atlanta real estate firm Greenleaf replaced Salesforce with a CRM a partner built himself. It runs on about $300 a month and saves about $100,000 a year.
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October 2026· Final edition
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AI-native alternatives and builders listed, replacing 204 tools
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