True Cost of SaaS
Checkout prices, not brochure prices

What your SaaS stack really costs

Vendors advertise one number and charge another. We buy the entry-tier plans, walk through checkout, and record what the payment page actually asks for — then show you which swaps cut the bill, and which ones quietly cost more.

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Stack Cost Calculator

Tick the tools your team pays for, set your seat count, and see your true monthly and annual bill — plus the three swaps that save the most.

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CRM Cost Calculator

Eight small-team CRMs priced at your seat count on both billing cycles, including the penalty for staying month-to-month and the cheapest mid tier at your size.

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Guides

Alternatives & head-to-heads

Project management and CRM tools compared at 5, 15 and 50 seats. Every number comes from a vendor pricing page or a checkout screen, and every pick says who should not switch.

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Method

Why these prices differ

Entry-tier plans bought or trialed, per-seat minimums and annual-only discounts recorded, and tables re-dated when vendors change a number.

How we work

How we price a stack

Three steps, repeated every time a vendor changes its pricing page.

  1. We buy the plan. Entry-tier subscriptions on the tools we cover, so screenshots and billing details come from inside the product — not from a press page.
  2. We record the checkout price. What the payment page asks for, including per-seat minimums, mandatory annual billing, and the add-ons that brochures leave out.
  3. We keep it current. When a price moves, the table and the "last verified" date move with it. Vendors change pricing often — treat our figures as a planning baseline and confirm at checkout.

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Written for teams that are already comparing tools and deciding what to cancel.

Disclosure: True Cost of SaaS is reader-supported. If you buy through links on this site we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Commissions never affect the numbers in our tables or the order of our picks.