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What Buyers Are Saying
“Plan price, increases to $15/month (yearly) or $25/month (monthly)”
“Starting December 10, 2025, the Pro plan costs: Yearly $4 USD per month ($48 per year) $5 USD per month ($60 per year).”
“Monthly subscription plans will increase up to 16% for both new and existing customers billed monthly, starting April…”
Newest alternatives and builders
FactoryJet
Built for you
FactoryJet builds custom AI agents that integrate with and replace workflows in existing enterprise systems.
Cosmic
AI-native alternative
AI-native headless CMS with autonomous agents for content operations.
Prophecy
AI-native alternative
AI agents generate visual data prep workflows from plain English for analysts to inspect and run on Databricks, Snowflake or BigQuery.
Builts AI
Built for you
Builds custom AI intake, communication and automation systems integrated with Clio and similar.
Most activity this month
HubSpot
#1+35 this month
$20 – $150 /user/mo
List price · teams pay $50,000/yr (13 teams)
Salesforce
#2+31 this month
$165 – $330 /user/mo
List price · teams pay $40,000/yr (11 teams)
Adobe
#3+26 this month
Custom quote
List price · teams pay $840/yr (9 teams)
Microsoft
#4+22 this month
$5,300 /yr
Median of 6 teams
AWS
#5+19 this month
$6,500 /yr
Median of 7 teams
ServiceNow
#6+14 this month
Custom quote
List price
Webflow
#7+14 this month
From $14 /mo
List price · teams pay $550/yr (8 teams)
ZoomInfo
#8+13 this month
Custom quote
List price · teams pay $33,500/yr (6 teams)
From teams who pay for it
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
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry: When $74.89 in AI training becomes $74,892 in billing.
I founded an AI-native software manufacturing company and chose Microsoft's Azure infrastructure expecting reliability from one of the world's largest technology companies. Instead, two small AI fine-tuning jobs produced a documented 1,000× billing-unit discrepancy. Azure reported $74,921.93 in usage, and my bank received attempted Microsoft card authorizations totaling $201,575.78. Thankfully, those authorizations were blocked. Microsoft subsequently suspended my subscription, canceled my $5,000 startup credits, and converted my account to Pay-As-You-Go. Here's the incredible part: I independently investigated the discrepancy, reconciled Microsoft's original billing CSV against its own training-job records, and submitted a nearly 40-page audit packet with the evidence and root-cause analysis. Microsoft's response? Engineering needs another 5–7 business days, after which they'll review the possibility of reinstating my startup credits. To be fair, Microsoft did restore access to my subscription, and Executive Customer Relations has acknowledged the complaint. But the billing discrepancies and startup-credit cancellation remain unresolved. The AI model was trained but apparently, the billing department still needs training. 😭 I'm giving Microsoft two stars because the technology has enormous potential, but reliable billing and accountable customer support are fundamental requirements, not optional features. I hope Microsoft uses this incident to correct the underlying failure and protect other startup founders.
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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