New research: The State of SaaS: Build vs. Buy, October 2026.The State of SaaS, October 2026. Read the report
Stop renting your software.
Anonymous reviews and real bills from teams fed up with SaaS, plus what they switched to.
What Buyers Are Saying
Newest alternatives and builders
Substack
AI-native alternative
Teams say they moved to Substack from Beehiiv.
Ploy
AI-native alternative
Ploy is the AI-native marketing platform for marketers to ship and update pages without designers or developers.
Computer
AI-native alternative
Computer is the AI teammate that connects your accounts, your team, and your entire company.
Fini
AI-native alternative
Fini builds AI agents that autonomously resolve up to 80% of customer support tickets.
Most activity this month
HubSpot
#1+31 this month
$20 – $150 /user/mo
List price · teams pay $30,000/yr (9 teams)
Salesforce
#2+30 this month
From $25 /user/mo
List price · teams pay $40,000/yr (7 teams)
Adobe
#3+30 this month
From $19.99 /mo
List price · teams pay $840/yr (10 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
QuickBooks
#6+16 this month
From $38 /mo
List price · teams pay $1,200/yr (11 teams)
Webflow
#7+16 this month
From $15 /mo
List price · teams pay $752/yr (9 teams)
ServiceNow
#8+15 this month
Custom quote
List price
From teams who pay for it
Cursor
“Reported price: $60 per month for Cursor.”
A buyer
Vanta
“Reported price: $10,000 per year for Vanta.”
A buyer
HeyGen
“Reported price: $30 per month for HeyGen.”
A buyer
Evernote
“Reported price: $249 per year for Evernote.”
A buyer
Perplexity
“Reported price: $200 per year for Perplexity.”
A buyer
Calendly
“Reported price: $12 per month for Calendly.”
A buyer
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.
Monthly research
October 2026· Final edition
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AI-native alternatives and builders listed, replacing 203 tools
Most new alternatives
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