Alternatives
Some of these say stay put.
Eleven guides to leaving the software you already pay for, written for people who know it better than we do. Each one names what pushes teams off it, what Spodus does instead, and what you would be giving up.
- Stay
Front
Shared inbox
- Run both
Asana
Work management
- Move the pipeline
HubSpot
CRM platform
CRM platform
HubSpot alternatives
The bill tracks the size of your database and the number of hubs, not the number of people using it.
Read the guideWork management
monday.com alternatives
A three-seat floor, dashboards counted per tier, and automations that stop working when the month's actions run out.
Read the guideWork management
ClickUp alternatives
An AI add-on stacked on the seat, automation executions counted by the month, and more product than anyone uses.
Read the guideBusiness suite
Zoho alternatives
The cheaper Zoho One rate is the one that licenses every employee on payroll, whether they sign in or not.
Read the guideSales CRM
Pipedrive alternatives
The pipeline is excellent and it stops at won, so everything after the sale lives in another tool.
Read the guideWork management
Asana alternatives
Above five people, seats are added in blocks, so a team of thirty-one pays for thirty-five.
Read the guideWorkspace
Notion alternatives
Everything is possible and nothing is finished, and the person who built it has left.
Read the guideShared inbox
Front alternatives
Plans have seat ceilings and counted rules, and the AI tools are per-seat add-ons on top.
Read the guideHelp desk
Zendesk alternatives
Per agent, on an annual commitment, with AI billed per resolution and the good parts sold as per-agent add-ons.
Read the guideDatabase
Airtable alternatives
Records cap out per tier, editors are all billed, and the app you built has nobody maintaining it.
Read the guideProject management
Basecamp alternatives
It is calm and it is complete, and it does not know who your customers are or what they owe you.
Read the guideHow these are written.
Four rules, and they cost us something on most of these pages.
Every page concedes something specific
Not a hedge, a capability. Zendesk has telephony and workforce tooling and we have neither. Asana plans a programme better than we do. Airtable is a better database. Those sentences are on the pages, above the comparison table rather than under it.
We do not quote their prices
You already know what you pay, to the dollar, on your plan. A stale list price is the fastest way for a page like this to lose you, so these argue from structure instead: seat floors, seats sold in blocks, plan seat ceilings, metered actions, add-ons stacked on the seat. Each was read off the vendor's own pricing page, and the pages say when.
Roughly equal space on them and on us
A page that spends nine paragraphs on itself and one on the tool you use is a brochure. These are close to even, and where they are not, the extra words are on the incumbent.
Sometimes the answer is stay
Spodus Inbox is internal team chat, not shared email, so the Front page opens by saying we are not a replacement. Basecamp's fixed monthly price beats our per-seat rate above a certain headcount, and the Basecamp page does that arithmetic rather than hiding from it.
