For SaaS vendors choosing where to list
SaaSHub Alternatives for Listing Your SaaS With Prices and Wait Times Compared
Seven directories side by side on what they charge, how many days you wait before the listing is live, and which kind of visitor each one sends.
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The short answer
The best SaaSHub alternatives for a vendor are AlternativeTo, which ranks for "alternative to" searches, G2 for review credibility, and Product Hunt for one launch day. SaaSHub itself is free and usually live in one to three days, so list there too. What none of the free queues give you is a date: AlternativeTo makes a new account wait seven days, and Uneed's free queue can take five months.
If you need to be findable this week, a $49 listing here goes live on submit and puts your product in front of business buyers comparing 181 tools across 35 categories.
How long each directory makes you wait
Price is rarely what hurts. Time is. Most directories are free because they ration attention with a queue, and the queue is where a launch plan quietly slips by a month.
The bars show the typical days between hitting submit and having a public page, from the directories' own pricing pages and vendor guides that tracked it. Paid options on Uneed and Smol Launch shorten the wait to days or zero.
Log scale, so a five month queue still fits on the chart.
SaaSHub alternatives compared on price and wait time
Every row is checked against the directory's own pricing page where it publishes one. Where a price only appears in third party reports, the table says so.
| Directory | Free listing | Paid option | Time until live | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SaaSHub | Yes | Featured Products, about $99 a month (reported) | 1 to 3 days | Alternatives pages for your competitors |
| AlternativeTo | Yes | Official Partners program, price not published | 7 day account age, then 2 to 7 days | "Alternative to X" searches from people switching |
| Smol Launch | Yes, 50 slots a week | $19 Premium, $39 with a featured week | Next free week, or immediately if paid | Indie makers and a weekly ranking |
| Uneed | Yes | $14.99 Fast-Track, $29.99 to pick your date | Up to 5 months free, about 14 days on Fast-Track | Launch day votes from other makers |
| Product Hunt | Yes | Ads from $5,000 | You schedule the day | One big launch day |
| G2 | Yes, basic profile | Annual contracts, quoted privately | Days, then reviews to rank | Review credibility with larger buyers |
| SoftwareHome | Yes, queued | $49 one time, live on submit | Minutes with the $49 listing | Business buyers comparing tools in your category |
Sources: Uneed and Smol Launch pricing pages, Product Hunt help center, SaaSHub and AlternativeTo submission guides. Prices in USD. The full cost of Product Hunt ads is broken down on our Product Hunt advertising cost page.
What each SaaSHub alternative is actually good at
AlternativeTo
The closest thing to SaaSHub, and older. Its pages rank for "alternative to Slack" style searches, which means the visitor is already unhappy with a competitor. Rank on each page comes from user likes, so a listing with no likes sits at the bottom. Our AlternativeTo listing guide covers the wait and the ranking.
G2
The free profile is quick to get, and it now feeds Capterra, GetApp and Software Advice too. It only starts to work once you have reviews, and paid visibility is an annual contract. Worth doing, rarely worth paying for in year one. See G2 alternatives for small vendors.
Product Hunt
Still the biggest single day of traffic a launch can get, and free to post. The traffic is mostly other makers and early adopters, and it fades within a week. Paid promotion starts at $5,000. Compare the launch boards on our Product Hunt alternatives page.
Uneed
A friendly launch board with a real audience of makers. The free queue is the catch: Uneed assigns your date, up to five months out, and you need 10 upvotes to stay published. $14.99 gets a slot in about two weeks, $29.99 lets you pick the day.
Smol Launch
Weekly launches with 50 free verified slots across the whole site, so the free route means waiting for the next open week. $19 launches you immediately, $39 adds a featured week and a newsletter mention. Good for indie tools, thin on corporate buyers.
SoftwareHome
A business software directory organized the way buyers shop: by category, by head to head comparison and by "alternatives to" page for each product. The $49 listing is live on submit with your own description. Free listings are accepted too, they just wait in a queue.
How to choose where to list your SaaS
You do not have to pick one. The sensible order is by how fast each listing starts paying you back, and that depends on what you sell and to whom.
1
Do the free, fast ones today
SaaSHub and a G2 profile take under an hour together and cost nothing. Start the AlternativeTo account now so its seven day clock is running.
2
Put money where buyers compare
A business buyer shortlisting tools reads category and comparison pages, not launch feeds. That is where a $49 listing pays for itself with one trial.
3
Pay for dates, not for badges
Skip a launch queue only when the day matters. A $19 or $29.99 slot is cheap next to a launch plan that slips a month.
4
Measure for 30 days
Tag every listing link with UTM parameters. After a month, the directories that sent trials get more attention and the rest get left alone.
Why a SaaS vendor lists here as well
SaaSHub and AlternativeTo are built around one question: what can replace the tool I use now. That is a switcher's question. A buyer with a budget line asks a different one, which is what the best tool in a category is and how it compares with the other two on the shortlist.
Every product listed here gets a profile page, a place in its category, head to head comparison pages with the other tools in that category, and a slot on each competitor's alternatives page. One listing, several pages where a buyer can find you.
If your product is already in the directory, you can claim your profile to answer reviews and control the description. To be seen first, a featured week costs $299.
Listing
$49 one time
- ✓Live on submit, no queue
- ✓Your own description and category
- ✓Shown on competitors' alternatives pages
- ✓Included in category comparisons
Who ends up looking for a SaaSHub alternative
The founder a week from launch
Listed on SaaSHub already and wants three or four more places live before the announcement goes out. Speed matters more than price.
The B2B marketer with a small budget
Priced out of a G2 contract and tired of paying per click on Capterra. Looking for fixed price placements that reach people choosing software for work.
The vendor rejected by a queue
Turned away as "beta stage" or stuck in moderation. Needs a directory that takes a live B2B product with a real website and lists it the same day.
If you would rather hand the whole list to someone, our comparison of directory submission services shows what each one charges per live listing.
SaaSHub alternatives FAQ
What are the best SaaSHub alternatives for listing a SaaS product?
For a B2B SaaS, the strongest alternatives are AlternativeTo for competitor comparison traffic, G2 for review credibility, Product Hunt for a launch day spike, and smaller paid launch boards such as Smol Launch and Uneed when you want a date you control. A paid directory listing that goes live on submit covers the gap while the free queues move.
Is SaaSHub free to list on?
Yes. Submitting a product to SaaSHub costs nothing, and most submissions go live within one to three days depending on the queue. A verified listing needs a quick re-verification every three months. The paid option is a Featured Products placement, reported at about $99 a month, which SaaSHub says does not change its rankings.
How long does it take to get listed on SaaSHub?
Most SaaSHub submissions are live within one to three days, according to vendor guides that tracked it. Queue depth and the quality of the submission change that. SaaSHub accepts B2B and B2C products, but turns away beta and waitlist stage products as well as agencies, consultancies and service businesses.
Is SaaSHub worth it for a B2B SaaS?
The free listing is worth the ten minutes it takes, because SaaSHub alternatives pages rank for competitor names and give AI assistants another source that mentions you. Paying for featured placement is harder to justify unless your category pages there already send clicks. Measure referral traffic for a month before you spend.
Which software directories are similar to SaaSHub?
AlternativeTo is the closest match, since both organize software around "alternatives to X" pages. SaaSworthy and SoftwareSuggest are category directories aimed at business buyers. Product Hunt, Uneed and Smol Launch are launch boards with a daily or weekly ranking instead of a permanent catalog.
Should I pay to skip a directory queue?
Pay when the date matters: a launch, a funding announcement or a sales push. Skipping Uneed costs $14.99 to $29.99 and an immediate Smol Launch slot costs $19. If nothing is time sensitive, the free queues work, they are just slow. The one listing worth paying for is the one where business buyers compare tools.
Skip the queue and list your SaaS today
$49 one time. Live on submit, in your category, and next to the competitors your buyers are already comparing.