Better, cheaper or open alternatives to the SaaS you pay for.
Alternatives to popular SaaS apps across 15 categories, with stated pricing, free plans, open-source and self-hosting options.
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Part I Contents
Start with the kind of software you pay for today.
- 01CRM14
- 02Project Management19
- 03Analytics36
- 04Email Marketing10
- 05Customer Support14
- 06Forms13
- 07Scheduling14
- 08Docs & wiki16
- 09Design5
- 10Developer Tools14
- 11HR7
- 12Accounting6
- 13Team Chat11
- 14Video Meetings9
- 15Automation50
Part II Specimens
Every app is read from its own pages and listed with what they state. Open an entry for its alternatives.
Activepieces lets teams build AI agents and automation flows that work across their tools.
- Price
- Price not listed
- Free plan
- Yes
- Open source
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- Yes
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Acuity Scheduling lets businesses manage appointments, accept payments, and automate scheduling tasks.
- Price
- Price not listed
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Akaunting is free, open-source online accounting software for small businesses and freelancers.
- Price
- Price not listed
- Free plan
- Yes
- Open source
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- Yes
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Amplitude analyzes product and customer signals to help teams make product decisions, optimize experiences, and measure growth.
- Price
- Price not listed
- Free plan
- Yes
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Asana helps teams and AI agents plan and manage work together in shared workflows.
- Price
- Price not listed
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Attio is a CRM platform that builds pipeline, advances deals, and grows accounts with agents and automations.
- Price
- Price not listed
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BambooHR brings employee, payroll, time, and benefits information together in one HR platform.
- Price
- from $10
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Basecamp brings project tasks, discussions, files, schedules, and team communication together in one project management platform.
- Price
- from $29
- Free plan
- Yes
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An all-in-one platform for creating, publishing, growing, and monetizing newsletters, websites, and podcasts.
- Price
- Price not listed
- Free plan
- Yes
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Bitbucket connects source code and CI/CD with Jira and AI to help teams accelerate software delivery.
- Price
- Price not listed
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BookStack is free, open-source documentation software for creating and organizing searchable books, chapters, and pages.
- Price
- Price not listed
- Open source
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- Yes
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Brevo is an AI-powered customer platform for marketing, sales, CRM, and customer engagement.
- Price
- Price not listed
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Part III Side by side
Part IV Questions, answered
What is SaaS Alts?
SaaS Alts is an independent guide to alternatives for popular SaaS apps across 15 categories. Each entry lists only what the vendor's own pages state: price, free plan, open-source and self-hosting status.
How are alternatives chosen?
An alternative is another app in the guide that shares at least one category with the app you know. They are ordered by shared categories, then by how much the vendor states, then by name.
Can a vendor pay to rank higher?
No. Advertising is labelled and never changes an entry or the order of alternatives.
Does the publisher list its own apps?
Yes. Apps built by the publisher are listed on the same rules and marked "Ours" wherever they appear.
From the publisher
SaaS Alts is a Cuanto Labs publication. These are the products Cuanto Labs builds and runs.
- OnyxMetricCookieless web and product analytics, fully managed: one dashboard and an 18 KB script; no cookies, IPs not stored, visitor IDs salted daily.
- ShulMakerSynagogue websites that keep candle lighting, parsha, Hebrew calendar and donations current automatically.
- MeetSynqScheduling that finds the window that works for both calendars and books it; white-label for agencies.
- QrafficDynamic QR codes with editable destinations, scan analytics, geo and device routing and A/B testing.
- SayMayaAI chat that answers from live Shopify catalog, prices, policies and discounts, and hands tricky chats to your team inbox.
- SoldFrontFast real estate websites agents own: instant-loading, SEO and AEO optimized, MLS and IDX sync, 100% lead ownership.
- SetClaudeOpenClaw AI agent setup, customization and ongoing maintenance.
- LLCDropSearchable Florida business filings with owner names plus public phone and email, for contractors and agencies selling to new businesses.
- ZmanymCandle-lighting, havdalah and daily zmanim for any location, with reminders and synagogue microsites; iOS and Android apps.
- MikeLegal AI workspace that searches case law, reads the firm's own documents and drafts memos with page-level citations; set up and run by Cuanto Labs.
- DoctorsCMSWhite-label multi-tenant Payload CMS: one codebase re-skinned per deployment through environment configuration.
- GallarixGallery operating system for digital art: 3D viewing rooms, AI artwork descriptions, a gallery dashboard and collector checkout.
All products and what each one does
The SaaS Alts letter
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