BizScout prices read 22 October 2026
BizScout Alternative and BizScout Competitors for Buyers Who Want Verified Deals
The best BizScout alternative depends on why you are leaving. If the price is the problem, Kumo Pro ($89 a month), SMB Market ($49) and DealStream Pro ($40) aggregate or list businesses for less than BizScout Pro at $199 a month, or $129 a month on its annual plan, read on 22 October 2026. If you want owners contacted for you, Rejigg does it and charges a Lehman success fee at closing. If you want off-market profiles without a subscription, Baton is free to buyers. If you buy software and need the revenue checked before you make an offer, Buyouts verifies MRR, churn and growth on every listing and charges buyers no success fee.
MRR, churn and growth verified before listing · no buyer success fee · from $99 a month, or $49 a month billed yearly
Rejigg’s buyer success fee at this price is . No other platform here charges the buyer at close. Axial is left out because it publishes no rate.
Monthly price x months, plus any buyer success fee · our arithmetic on published prices · not advice
BizScout itself is a good tool for one kind of buyer: somebody open on industry who wants a single main street feed with alerts and an AI summary on every deal. It states more than 20,000 active listings across more than 50 industries, which no alternative here matches for breadth. What it does not state is where those listings come from or whether anyone checks the financials in them, and its off-market leads sit behind Pro. Those two gaps are where most buyers start looking for something else.
Every price on this page is the vendor's own published buyer price, with the date we read it. Where a vendor does not publish something, the table says so. Use the calculator above to put your own search length and deal size through every plan, success fees included.
BizScout is the widest members-only main street feed, at $199 a month for Pro; the alternatives are cheaper aggregators, an owner outreach service with a success fee, a free off-market marketplace, a searcher community, and Buyouts, which is narrow by design and verifies software revenue before a listing goes live.
Sorted by why you are leaving
BizScout competitors, matched to the reason you are switching
Buyer prices read firsthand from each vendor. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, this table says so rather than guessing.
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| Switch to | If your reason for leaving is | Buyer price, as published | Buyer success fee | What it checks before you see a deal | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BizScout Pro (the baseline) | n/a | Basic free; Pro $199 a month, or $129 a month annual ($1,548) | None published | Not stated; listing source not stated | 22 Oct 2026 |
| Kumo | Price, and you want an aggregator that says it aggregates | Basic free (deals 30+ days old); Pro $89 a month; Ultimate $149 a month | None; its FAQ said so | Nothing; it indexes what brokers post | Sep 2026 |
| SMB Market | Price, with coaching content alongside the feed | $49 a month, or $39 a month annual ($468); 7-day trial needs a card | None | Its terms disclaim listing accuracy | Oct 2026 |
| DealStream | Price, and you only need a large listing board | Free plan; Pro $40 a month or $400 a year | None | Nothing; it says it does not verify listings | Sep 2026 |
| Rejigg | Off-market leads that never turned into conversations | Basic $0; Full $150 a month | Lehman scale: 5% of the first $1M, then 4%, 3%, 2%, 1% | Owners are contacted for you; financials come later | Sep 2026 |
| Baton | Off-market access without a subscription | Free to buyers | None for buyers; the seller pays 6% | Off-market profiles have no data room | Oct 2026 |
| Searchfunder | You wanted the community and the Academy, not the feed | $79 a month, $19 a month annual, or $432 lifetime | None | Not a marketplace; nothing is checked | Oct 2026 |
| Buyouts | You buy software and need the revenue checked first | $99, $299 or $899 a month; half that billed yearly | None on any buyer tier | MRR, ARR, growth and churn against the billing data, before the listing goes live | Oct 2026 |
BizScout's Contrarian Academy tier and its Private Client service for acquisitions of about $5,000,000 or more show no price on the pricing page; both are by application. If you are buying at that size, compare Private Client with a buy side advisor rather than with any tool in this table.
Our own math, shown in full
What an eight month search costs on BizScout and each alternative
Eight months because the Stanford GSB 2024 Search Fund Study puts the first signed LOI at 7.8 months into a search on average. Published buyer prices only; the success fee column assumes a $1,000,000 purchase closed through that platform.
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| Tool and plan | 8 months paid monthly | Annual plan | Buyer fee on a $1M close | Cheapest way to cover 8 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BizScout Pro | $1,592 | $1,548 a year | $0 published | $1,548 |
| Kumo Pro | $712 | Not shown in our read | $0 | $712 |
| SMB Market | $392 | $468 a year | $0 | $392 |
| DealStream Pro | $320 | $400 a year | $0 | $320 |
| Searchfunder | $632 | $228 a year | $0 | $228 |
| Rejigg Full | $1,200 | Not shown in our read | $50,000 | $51,200 |
| Baton | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Buyouts Buyer Access | $792 | $588 a year | $0 | $588 |
| Buyouts Buyer Pro | $2,392 | $1,788 a year | $0 | $1,788 |
| Buyouts Acquirer | $7,192 | $5,388 a year | $0 | $5,388 |
Two lines change the ranking. Rejigg's success fee is charged to the buyer and grows with the deal, so on a $1,000,000 purchase it outweighs every subscription on this page combined. And BizScout's annual plan only beats its monthly plan once your search reaches eight months: seven months monthly is $1,393, eight is $1,592, and the year is $1,548. These totals are our arithmetic on published prices, not quotes, and they leave out the broker or advisor the seller may also be paying.
Most people leave BizScout for one of four reasons, and each one points to a different tool
Ask buyers why they cancelled BizScout Pro and the answers sort themselves quickly. The price felt high for a feed they could partly rebuild themselves. The listings repeated what they had already seen on BizBuySell and broker sites. The financials in a listing turned out to be whatever the broker posted. Or the off-market leads did not turn into conversations.
Those are different problems. A cheaper aggregator fixes the first and does nothing for the third. A service that contacts owners for you fixes the fourth and adds a success fee at closing. A marketplace that checks the revenue before a listing goes live fixes the third and is narrower than any aggregator. The table on this page is sorted by the problem, not by the brand, so you can skip straight to the tool that answers yours.
Side by side
Buyouts against BizScout, honestly
A fair look at what each does well. Both are useful. Here is where they differ.
| Feature | Buyouts | BizScout |
|---|---|---|
| What it covers | AI SaaS and software businesses only | Main street and online businesses across more than 50 industries |
| How wide the pool is | Narrow by design, far fewer listings | More than 20,000 active listings by its own count. BizScout wins on breadth |
| Where listings come from | Founders list directly with us | Not stated on its pages |
| Revenue checked before you see the deal | MRR, ARR, growth and churn verified against the billing data | No claim to verify listing financials |
| Off-market access | Acquirer members see listings the seller has taken off the public marketplace | Off-market leads and exclusive listings on Pro |
| Alerts | MRR and category alerts on Buyer Pro and Acquirer, plus a 24-hour first look | Radar alerts on Pro |
| Price for a buyer | $99, $299 or $899 a month, or $49, $149 or $449 a month billed yearly | Basic free; Pro $199 a month, or $129 a month billed yearly |
| Success fee for the buyer | None on any buyer tier | None published |
| Best fit | A buyer of software who wants recurring revenue they can trust before the LOI | A main street buyer open on industry who wants one feed and an AI summary |
Comparison reflects general, publicly understood positioning. Capabilities change, so check each marketplace for the latest. Trademarks belong to their owners.
Why founders and buyers pick Buyouts
One deal room built specifically for AI SaaS
A cheaper feed is a fair reason to switch
If what you used on BizScout was the feed and the alerts, you are paying for aggregation, and aggregation is cheaper elsewhere. Kumo Pro is $89 a month and says openly that it indexes broker listings. SMB Market is $49. DealStream Pro is $40 and is a listing board in its own right. None of them checks the numbers in a listing either, so you lose nothing on verification by moving down in price. What you do lose is BizScout's AI summary and score on each deal, and some buyers find those worth the difference.
An off-market lead is only worth what it turns into
BizScout gates off-market leads to Pro and publishes no figure for how many become conversations. Baton is the only platform we found that does: on its off-market FAQ it says about 10% of off-market profiles convert into sales after an initial expression of interest, and it tells buyers to approach ten or more. Rejigg goes further and contacts owners for you, which is real work, and it charges the buyer a Lehman fee at closing for it: $50,000 on a $1,000,000 deal. Price the fee before you price the subscription.
For software, the listing has to be checked before the offer
A broker teaser for a car wash can be screened on asking price and cash flow, and then diligence does the rest. A software business is priced on recurring revenue, churn and growth, and none of those can be read from a teaser that an aggregator copied. That is the gap Buyouts is built for. Founders list with us directly, and MRR, ARR, growth and churn are verified against the billing data before the listing goes live, so the first number you see is the one the multiple will be applied to. The trade is breadth: we cover far fewer businesses than BizScout, and only software.
Keep reading on the parts of a deal this page touches: our BizScout review and what Pro costs, every deal sourcing platform priced side by side, off-market businesses for sale and how buyers reach them, Kumo reviews and its $89 Pro plan, DealStream reviews and DealStream Pro pricing, Rejigg reviews and its buyer success fee, Searchfunder reviews and membership cost, Contrarian Thinking reviews and the Academy price, a BizBuySell alternative for software buyers.
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