THE BOARD

A SaaSHub alternative where the money buys the rank instead of a slot beside it

SaaSHub is a software directory that has been running since 2014, lists a product for nothing, and is unusually plain about what its one paid option does: $99 a month, per its featured page, buys fixed slots labelled Sponsored and never a move up the ranking. If you sell software and the pages where people compare it to a rival are where your customers are, list there, and rent the slot if the estimate on the featured page holds for you.

If what you want is for the money to be the rank rather than a slot beside one, The Board lists a brand for a dollar, sorts it by what it paid, and leaves it there until somebody pays more, with the traffic counted by Fathom in public.

SaaSHub compared with The Board: to be listed, Free against $1
SaaSHubThe Board
To be listed
Freeafter approval; $99 a month for a featured slot
$1once, on the board today
A featured slot
$99/monthfixed positions, never rank, per the featured page
$1 overwhatever rank 01 has paid
Rank decided by
Articlesand votes, scored by SaaSHub
Moneythe amount is the rank
Reach
362.6Kvisits, Similarweb, July 2026; 29,300 subscribers
Fathompage views and clicks, in public

The Board is ours, so read this with that in mind. Every listing on it is a paid placement, its position is decided by money and by nothing else, and nothing on it is editorial. The figures for SaaSHub were read from its own pages on 6 September 2026 and are linked at the foot.

What SaaSHub is, and what it costs

SaaSHub calls itself an independent software marketplace: a directory of products, each with a page of alternatives, categories and comparisons, built by Stan Bright in Sydney and released in October 2014. Anyone can submit a product with a URL and its categories, and every submission goes through an approval process of unstated length; verifying the listing with an email on the product's own domain moves it up the queue, and a product with no listed competitors is slowed down and put to the bottom of it. Where a product sits among its alternatives is a rating the site builds from votes and from articles around the web where it has noticed the product named as an alternative to another, and the way to move it is to send SaaSHub links to more of those articles.

The basic listing is free, and the terms call the site a free service provided as is. The one paid product is Featured Products at $99 a month, cancel anytime, no contract, through Stripe checkout and live as soon as the payment goes through, per the featured page on 6 September 2026; it has been that price since it launched on 25 September 2019. It buys placements, not rank: a rotated Featured section and one Sponsored product in the second position of the home page feed, the third position on alternatives pages below the hero, three placements on category pages, a footer section on compare pages, and a random draw for two slots in the weekly newsletter. The about page says featured products are never moved up the ranking list, and the terms say the site may edit or remove any listing at its own discretion.

SaaSHub publishes no visitor figure for the site. What it publishes is the newsletter, at 29,300 or more subscribers, a count of 120 or more products already featured, and an estimate on the featured page that the slot multiplies a product's monthly referrals by ten to eighteen, with the note that no number of clicks is guaranteed and that there are no in-house stats, so you use your own tracking links. Outside it, Similarweb puts July 2026 at 362.6 thousand visits and Semrush puts June 2026 at 270.7 thousand, down from 312.36 thousand in May.

The price of a place, and the price of the top

Two prices matter: what it costs to be on the page at all, and what it costs to be the one everybody sees first. Drawn to scale, with The Board’s top spot read live from the board.

A log scale: every gridline is ten times the last, which is the only way a dollar and a five-figure sum fit on one line. Prices on the left are SaaSHub’s as read on 6 September 2026; the top spot on The Board is $101 as this page was built and changes as the board does.

SaaSHub and The Board, side by side

QuestionSaaSHubThe Board
To be listedFree, after an approval process of unstated length; a verified email on your domain moves you up the queue$1, once, for a listing: a logo, a line and a link
What decides your rankA score built from votes and from articles around the web that name you as an alternative; $99 never moves itWhat the listing has paid. Nothing else, and nobody decides
A guaranteed top positionNot sold. $99 a month buys fixed slots labelled Sponsored: second in the home feed, third on alternatives pages$1 more than whoever holds rank 01 has paid
How long it lastsThe listing is permanent; the featured slot lasts as long as the $99 a month keeps runningUntil somebody pays more. Hold rank 01 for 30 days and the season is yours: the standings freeze on a permanent page and every amount resets
Reach you can verifyNone published for the site. 29,300 or more newsletter subscribers; Similarweb 362.6K visits (July 2026); Semrush 270.7K (June 2026)Page views and outbound clicks counted by Fathom on a public dashboard; every listing shows its own impressions and clicks
RefundsNone stated. Cancel in one click and nothing bills again; terms dated 13 October 2023None. Every payment is final and the terms (dated 25 August 2026) say so
Who you are dealing withNew Atlantis Pty Ltd, Sydney; founder Stan Bright; StripeDustin W. Stout, Bakersfield, California. Stripe, with a public Stripe profile
Best forA SaaS product with comparison articles to cite and a budget for a monthly slotA brand that wants the money to decide the rank, paid once, for as long as it holds

Eight things to know before you pay either

QuestionSaaSHubThe Board
Terms with a date on them✓ Latest update 13 October 2023✓ Dated 25 August 2026
A named operator✓ New Atlantis Pty Ltd, Sydney; Stan Bright✓ Dustin W. Stout, with a city and a Stripe profile
The price of the top spot published✕ Rank is not sold; $99 a month buys fixed slots✓ On the board, live, to the dollar
Reach counted by a third party✓ Similarweb 362.6K, Semrush 270.7K; the site says nothing✓ Fathom, on a public dashboard
Position lasts past a day✓ The listing is permanent; the slot runs monthly✓ Until somebody pays more; seasons end it
A refund path✕ None stated; cancelling stops the next charge✕ None. Every payment is final
No curator between you and the page✕ An approval process, and editors may remove a listing✓ None. Money decides, nobody else
On the page for a dollar✓ Free✓ $1, once

How The Board works, for somebody leaving SaaSHub

SaaSHub asks you to send it articles in which somebody else compared you to a rival, and works the rating out from those. The Board asks for nothing but the payment. A listing is a logo, a line and a link, it costs a dollar, and it sits on the page at whatever rank a dollar buys among brands sorted by what each has paid, from the moment it is paid for.

The slot SaaSHub rents is fixed and labelled and comes off the page when the subscription stops. A position on The Board is bought once and stays until somebody pays more; there is no month to renew, and an amount, once paid, never goes down. Rank 01 is a dollar over the holder, every amount is on the page, and thirty days at the top ends the season, freezing the standings on a permanent page and resetting the amounts. Fathom counts the page views and outbound clicks and the dashboard is public, so the in-house stats SaaSHub says it does not have are the first thing you see here.

Where SaaSHub falls short, and where it wins

Falls short
  • The queue has no published length, and a product with no listed competitors goes to the back of it.
  • The rating is built from what other people wrote. It is a fair way to rank software, and there is no lever on it that you hold.
  • The $99 buys a labelled slot, the result is an estimate the page itself says can deviate, and there are no stats on their side to check it against.
Wins
  • It has been free and permanent since 2014, and the pages it puts you on are the ones where somebody is choosing between you and a rival.
  • The paid option is honest about itself: fixed placements, never rank, month to month, cancel in one click, Stripe.
  • A product that is genuinely compared across the web rises without paying, and a weekly newsletter of 29,300 subscribers sits behind it.

Which to pick

Pick SaaSHub if
  • Your customers arrive by comparing you to a named rival, and those pages are where you want to be.
  • You can point to articles that already compare you, and you are happy to send them in.
  • Ninety-nine dollars a month is a fair rent for a labelled slot, and you will measure it with your own links.
Pick The Board if
  • You want the payment to be the rank, not a slot beside somebody else's rank.
  • You want it paid once and held, not renewed every month.
  • You want the reach counted by somebody who is not selling the placement.

Claim a spot from $1

A listing is a logo, a line and a link. Rank 01 costs $1 more than whoever holds it, every amount on the page is public, and the traffic is on a Fathom dashboard anyone can open.

Questions people ask about a SaaSHub alternative

Is SaaSHub free?
Yes. Submitting a product costs nothing, the listing is permanent once approved, and the startup directory, verification, competitor links and reviews are all free. The one paid product is a featured slot at $99 a month, per the featured page on 6 September 2026, and the site says it never moves a product up the ranking.
How much does a SaaSHub featured listing cost?
$99 a month, month to month, cancel in one click, paid through Stripe and live as soon as the payment clears, per the featured page on 6 September 2026. It has been that price since the option launched on 25 September 2019. It buys fixed placements labelled Sponsored on the home page, alternatives pages, category pages and in the newsletter, and the page estimates ten to eighteen times your monthly referrals while guaranteeing no number.
Does paying SaaSHub move you up the ranking?
No, and the site says so on its about page: featured and sponsored products may be highlighted but are never moved up the ranking list. The ranking is a score built from votes and from articles around the web that name your product as an alternative to another, and the way to move it is to send SaaSHub links to more of those articles.
How long does SaaSHub take to approve a product?
No duration is published. Every submission goes through an approval process; verifying the listing with an email on the product's own domain gives it higher priority, and a submission with no listed competitors is slowed down and put to the bottom of the queue. Agencies, waiting-list landing pages, unreleased products and products on free subdomains are refused.
Is The Board a SaaSHub alternative?
For a different job. SaaSHub is a directory of software alternatives ranked by how often the web compares them; The Board is a public leaderboard where every listing is a paid placement, the position is decided by what each brand paid and nothing else, and it holds until somebody pays more. A software product can be on both, and the two do not touch each other.
What does The Board cost compared to SaaSHub?
SaaSHub is free to list on and $99 a month for a featured slot. A listing on The Board is $1, paid once, and rank 01 costs $1 more than whoever holds it has paid. There is no subscription, nothing bills again, and every amount on the page is public.
What happens when somebody outbids me?
You drop one place and your listing stays; the amount you paid never goes down. You get one mail saying who passed you and what taking the place back costs, and no more until you have paid to move again, so a busy week is one message rather than ten. Raise by any whole-dollar amount or leave it where it is. Waiting is free.
Can other brands damage my listing?
Yes. Anyone can pay for one of four kinds of sabotage against a listing; each changes how it looks or whether its link works for a few hours and never what it paid or its real rank. It wears off by itself, it can be cleared early or protected against ahead of time, and nobody is told who attacked whom. Other brands can also pay to back a listing, and backing is public.
Do I get a backlink from The Board?
Not one to buy the listing for. Outbound links on the board go through a counted redirect and the embeddable badge carries rel=sponsored, which is what a paid placement has to do. SaaSHub does not say on any page read whether its links pass anything. Buy the position for the people who see it and click it; both are counted and shown.

Sources

Read on 6 September 2026. Prices on these sites move, and a figure here that no longer matches its source is a figure to tell us about: hello@toptheboard.com.

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