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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
Vikunja
AI-native alternative
Teams say they moved to Vikunja from Trello.
railyard
AI-native alternative
Ship your whole app to servers you own.
ChatGPT
AI-native alternative
Teams say they moved to ChatGPT from Canva.
Keycloak
AI-native alternative
Teams say they moved to Keycloak from Okta.
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+18 this month
$6,500 /yr
Median of 7 teams
Webflow
#6+17 this month
From $15 /mo
List price · teams pay $752/yr (9 teams)
QuickBooks
#7+16 this month
From $38 /mo
List price · teams pay $1,200/yr (11 teams)
Zoho
#8+15 this month
From $14 /user/mo
List price
From teams who pay for it
LastPass
Multiple databreaches over many years eroding my trust. Denied having data breaches until data was leaked and vaults were cracked. Company purchased by a VC.
lumos
UI is awful, over complicated wrapper for Entra, written by people with no actual IAM or administration experience, overprivileged garbage.
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
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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