Guides

Project management

• 9 Best ClickUp Alternatives in 2026 (Compared for Real Teams)
  Nine tools ranked with per-seat pricing at 5, 15 and 50 seats — including the two cases where staying on ClickUp is the cheaper call.
• 9 Best Monday.com Alternatives in 2026 (Priced After the February Increase)
  Written after Monday.com raised Standard and Pro rates and enforced a 3-seat minimum — with the annual lock-in and automation-rebuild costs that never make it into a comparison table.

CRM

• What a CRM Really Costs in 2026 (5, 15 and 50 Seats)
  HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho, Freshsales, Salesforce, monday CRM, Less Annoying CRM and Nutshell — including the annual-versus-monthly penalty per seat and the mid-tier step that actually decides the budget.

Tools

• SaaS Stack Cost Calculator
  Tick the tools your team pays for, enter your seat count, and get your monthly and annual bill plus the three highest-impact swaps. 14 project management and CRM tools.
• CRM Cost Calculator
  Eight CRMs priced at your seat count on both annual and month-to-month billing, with the penalty for staying monthly and the cheapest mid tier at your size.

Coming up

Queued next, in the order we are testing them:

• Asana vs Monday vs ClickUp — what each one costs a 15-person team over a year
• The hidden costs of HubSpot Starter — seats, contacts and the add-ons that push the bill up
• Pipedrive vs Zoho CRM — the cheapest sales CRM for a team of 5, priced tier by tier
• Annual vs monthly: a seat-by-seat table of what the billing cycle really costs