What we track
Tier names, monthly and annual prices, seat caps, contact limits, send limits, and feature gates, for every plan on every covered tool.
Pricing intelligence · refreshed weekly
Real prices for real software.
Most "best alternatives" pages quote prices from year-old screenshots. TierGauge re-scrapes every vendor's pricing page every week, so the tier you compare is the tier you can actually buy today. 37 tools, 666 comparisons, 43 long-form migration guides, 5 per-team-size cost calculators, all verified against the vendor's pricing URL.
Tools tracked
37
Comparison pairs
666
Migration guides
43
Calculators
5
Last verified
How we keep it fresh
A scheduled scraper hits each vendor's pricing page weekly. Diffs are logged. If a vendor changes the page structure, that tool is flagged until we re-verify by hand. Read the methodology.
What you won't find
Generic AI-written reviews. Hidden affiliate "best of" lists ordered by commission size. Prices we made up. We cite the vendor URL and capture date on every page.
Currently covering
- A/B testing 3
- Analytics 3
- Content marketing 6
- CRM 1
- Customer data platform 3
- Deliverability 4
- Email marketing 11
- Form builders 3
- Help desk 3
- Landing pages 7
- Lead generation 2
- Live chat 3
- Marketing attribution 2
- Marketing automation 7
- Sales engagement 3
- Scheduling 2
- SEO 1
- SMS marketing 2
- Social media management 1
- Transactional email 4
- Webinar 1
Where teams are switching
43 curated migration guides.
Each guide covers the cost math, what you lose, what you gain, and the pair-specific gotchas your alternatives shortlist won't surface. Six paths below span email marketing, creator economy, support / help-desk, transactional email, scheduling, and analytics; the full set covers form-builders, landing pages, sales / CRM, and more.
- Mailchimp → Kit
Mailchimp's Standard tier ratchets fast as a creator's list grows; at 5,000 contacts it's $75 to $100/mo before send-volume overages.
- Creator-focused
- Add commerce
Read guide - Substack → Kit
Substack takes 10% of paid subscription revenue plus Stripe fees forever.
- No revenue share
- Add commerce
Read guide - Intercom → Crisp
Intercom prices per seat ($29 / $85 / $132 per seat per month).
- Per-seat to flat
- Cost reduction
Read guide - Postmark → Resend
Postmark and Resend are both transactional email APIs, but they price differently and they ship different developer experiences.
- Volume value
- Developer DX
- Modern API
Read guide - Calendly → Cal.com
Calendly's per-seat pricing escalates with team headcount; Teams at $16/seat/mo billed yearly means a 10-person revenue team pays $1,920/yr just to schedule meetings.
- Per-seat to flat
- Open source
Read guide - Mixpanel → PostHog
Mixpanel is a single-product specialist (event-based product analytics) with session replay as an add-on.
- Tool consolidation
- Open source
- Self-host option
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Long-form analysis
Editorial pieces, anchored to the data.
Posts pull pricing, take rates, and migration patterns directly from the spine; every figure traces back to a vendor's published page on a specific date. No fabricated numbers; methodology section on every entry.
- Newsletter economics ·Newsletter platform take rates in 2026
Substack keeps 10% of every paid subscription, forever. beehiiv, Ghost, Kit, and Buttondown keep 0%. Real math at $1k, $10k, $50k MRR.
Read post - Pricing analysis ·State of SaaS pricing: marketing & sales tools, Q2 2026
Seven findings from reading 37 pricing pages and 41 migration guides. Where the cliffs are, and why buyers are switching the directions they are.
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Open by default
Every backlog, every check, public.
We don't just ship the data. We ship the things we haven't done yet, the things that broke, and the raw feeds so anyone can audit how pricing claims map back to vendor sources.
- /freshness
When each tool was last verified against vendor pricing, stalest first.
- /coverage
Tools cross-referenced by something we track but not yet seeded. Public TODO list.
- /status
Scraper health: which extractors passed, which failed, when the last run was.
- /scrape-runs
Per-tool extractor audit log: most-recent attempt, outcome, warnings, attempt count.
- /changes
Every pricing change we've detected, newest first. The actual record of what shifted, when. CC BY 4.0 for citation.
- /api
Schema-pinned JSON feeds for every page. Free, CORS-open, CC BY 4.0.
- /calculator
Pre-computed cost tables for per-seat SaaS at the team sizes teams actually buy. Static-rendered; every cell indexable.