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Anonymous reviews and real bills from teams fed up with SaaS, plus what they switched to.
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Leave old software behind.
Anonymous reviews and real bills from teams fed up with SaaS, plus what they switched to.
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Adobe
#1+38 this month
From $19.99 /mo
List price · teams pay $840/yr (13 teams)
HubSpot
#2+34 this month
$20 – $150 /user/mo
List price · teams pay $17,500/yr (11 teams)
Salesforce
#3+32 this month
From $25 /user/mo
List price · teams pay $40,000/yr (8 teams)
QuickBooks
#4+23 this month
From $38 /mo
List price · teams pay $1,200/yr (11 teams)
Microsoft
#5+22 this month
$3,600 /yr
Median of 7 teams
AWS
#6+20 this month
$6,500 /yr
Median of 7 teams
Webflow
#7+18 this month
From $15 /mo
List price · teams pay $752/yr (9 teams)
Evernote
#8+17 this month
$199 /yr
Median of 6 teams
From teams who pay for it
GitHub
“I don't want to pay for GitHub actions so @openclaw is just got sort it out for free.”
Aaron Edell · @aaronedell
DocuSign
“We kept fighting DocuSign: too many clicks, too many seats, too much friction for a simple signature. So we built our own. LaunchCore Sign does exactly what we need and nothing more. That's what's changed. You don't have to put up with tools that almost fit any more. You can build the one that does. What would you rebuild?”
Geoff Bosley · @launchcoreai
GoDaddy
“Literally just migrated my websites and domains from Godaddy to another provider. Chat GPT did it in 10 minutes. Would have taken me hours if not more to figure it out.”
Flaffie Flaf · @JennyBot88
Adobe
Adobe keeps building out their software until it's untenable for my computer. I have to use InDesign for work; I have to have Creative Cloud active to use the fonts I need to use; Creative Cloud has to activate multiple aspects of itself to operate. There have been enough updates that my Windows 10 PC can no longer use InDesign or Photoshop; my Windows 11 laptop can't handle the workload. InDesign starts misbehaving after being open for more than an hour. The Adobe Community (because there isn't a real help desk) says "please upload pre-release" which is not available in my account.
QuickBooks
“QuickBooks is $38/mo and you still do the work yourself.”
Chris Koerner · @mhp_guy
Canva
“We canceled Canva after 12 years. We'd stopped using it a year earlier but kept paying, and two of us had separate team plans without knowing. We were paying about 4x for nothing.”
Jason Lemkin · @jasonlk
Teams that built their own
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Monthly research
October 2026· Final edition
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AI-native alternatives and builders listed, replacing 205 tools
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