Every buyer price below read from the platform itself
Deal Sourcing Platform and Deal Flow Platform Pricing for Small Business Buyers
A deal sourcing platform for a small business buyer costs between $0 and $299 a month for listing feeds, aggregators and subscription networks, and the price that matters is the one charged at closing. Of the twelve platforms below, only Rejigg and Axial charge the buyer a success fee: Rejigg's is the Lehman scale, $50,000 on a $1,000,000 purchase, and Axial's rate is set privately in each membership agreement. Everyone else charges a flat subscription and nothing at close.
Verified MRR, churn and growth on every listing · no buyer success fee · from $99 a month · cancel any month
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
That makes the choice simpler than the marketing suggests. Pick by what you are buying. For a main street business in any industry, a wide aggregator such as BizScout, Kumo or SMB Market covers more listings than any single marketplace. For owners who are not selling yet, Rejigg runs outreach for you and charges for it at close. For banker-run lower middle market processes, Axial is the network. For a software business, none of those check the revenue against the billing system, which is the gap Buyouts fills: AI SaaS listings with MRR, churn and growth verified before they go live, from $99 a month and no buyer success fee.
The enterprise data platforms that dominate searches for the term, Grata and Sourcescrub, publish no prices at all. On 2 October 2026 every Grata tier ended in Book a demo and every Sourcescrub tier in Request pricing, and Sourcescrub's site carried a banner that the two are joining forces. They are built for private equity deal teams screening thousands of private companies, not for an individual buyer looking for one business.
Every price on this page was read from the platform's own pricing page, terms or help center between 17 September and 2 October 2026; the date is on each row. Prices change, so confirm before you subscribe. Nothing here is investment, legal or tax advice.
A subscription is the cheap part of deal sourcing. On a $1,000,000 purchase the spread between these platforms is about $400 at one end and $51,800 at the other, and nearly all of that difference is one success fee.
Read from each platform directly, 17 September to 2 October 2026
Every deal sourcing platform a small business buyer is likely to pay for
Each row comes from the platform's own pricing page, terms or help center, not from a roundup. "Not published" means the platform sells the product without stating the figure. The type column matters more than the price: an aggregator, an outreach engine, an advisor network and a verified marketplace are four different products.
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| Platform | Type | Buyer price, as published | Buyer success fee | What it checks before you see a deal | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buyouts | Verified AI SaaS marketplace | $99, $299 or $899 a month | None on any buyer tier | MRR, ARR, growth and churn against the billing data, before the listing goes live | Oct 2026 |
| BizScout | Aggregator plus off-market leads | Basic free; Pro $199 a month, or $129 a month annual ($1,548) | None published | Not stated; listing source not stated | Oct 2026 |
| Kumo | Aggregator of broker listings | Basic free; Pro $89 a month; Ultimate $149 a month; Enterprise on request; 7-day trial | None; its FAQ said so in September 2026 | Nothing; it indexes what brokers post | Oct 2026 |
| SMB Market | Aggregator plus coaching content | $49 a month, or $39 a month annual ($468); 7-day trial needs a card | None | Its terms disclaim listing accuracy | Oct 2026 |
| DealStream | Listing board | Free plan; Pro $40 a month or $400 a year | None | Nothing beyond the poster's own data | Sep 2026 |
| DealOrb | Sourcing software for SMB searchers | Solo Searcher $49 a month, or $39 a month yearly; Team $69 a month; Private Search custom | None published | Not stated | Oct 2026 |
| PrivSource | Subscription deal network | $149 the first month, then $299 a month; 7-day free trial | None, "No contracts or success fees" | Not stated | Oct 2026 |
| Rejigg | Owner outreach engine and marketplace | Basic $0; Full $150 a month; Concierge $3,000 to $5,000 a month, 3-month minimum, deducted from the success fee | Lehman scale: 5% of the first $1M, then 4%, 3%, 2%, 1% | Owners are contacted for you; financials come later | Oct 2026 |
| Axial | Advisor-fed lower middle market network | Not published; set in your Membership Agreement | Your rate x Transaction Value, including notes and earnouts, 18-month tail | Deals come from sell-side advisors | Sep 2026 |
| Baton | Marketplace with off-market profiles | Free to buyers | None for buyers; the seller pays 6% | A Baton valuation the owner requested | Sep 2026 |
| Grata | Private company data platform | Not published; every tier says Book a demo | None | Company data, not listings | Oct 2026 |
| Sourcescrub | Private company data platform | Not published; every tier says Request pricing | None | Company data, not listings | Oct 2026 |
The pages that rank for this term are mostly written by the platforms themselves, and each one ranks itself first. Several of them, Kumo and DealOrb among them, publish best-of lists that include their own product. We have done the same thing here in one respect: Buyouts is the first row, and the rows below it say where the others beat us. Read the type column before the price column, because the cheapest feed is the wrong product if what you need is somebody to call owners for you.
Our arithmetic, applied to the published prices
What a year of deal sourcing costs once you close a deal
Twelve months of access at the published monthly price (the annual price where one exists is shown second; PrivSource is $149 for month one, then $299), plus any success fee the buyer owes at closing. Rejigg's fee is the Lehman scale in its buyer terms. Axial is shown as unpublished because its rate is private. The Stanford GSB 2024 Search Fund Study puts the average first letter of intent at 7.8 months into a search, so twelve months is not a pessimistic horizon.
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| Platform and plan | 12 months of access | Success fee on a $1M deal | Total on a $1M deal | Total on a $3M deal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DealStream Pro | $480, or $400 annual | $0 | $400 to $480 | $400 to $480 |
| SMB Market | $588, or $468 annual | $0 | $468 to $588 | $468 to $588 |
| DealOrb Solo Searcher | $588, or $468 yearly | $0 published | $468 to $588 | $468 to $588 |
| Kumo Pro | $1,068 | $0 | $1,068 | $1,068 |
| Buyouts Buyer Access | $1,188 | $0 | $1,188 | $1,188 |
| BizScout Pro | $2,388, or $1,548 annual | $0 published | $1,548 to $2,388 | $1,548 to $2,388 |
| PrivSource | $3,438 | $0 | $3,438 | $3,438 |
| Buyouts Buyer Pro | $3,588 | $0 | $3,588 | $3,588 |
| Buyouts Acquirer | $10,788 | $0 | $10,788 | $10,788 |
| Rejigg Basic | $0 | $50,000 | $50,000 | $120,000 |
| Rejigg Full | $1,800 | $50,000 | $51,800 | $121,800 |
| Axial | Not published | Your rate x Transaction Value | Not published | Not published |
Rejigg's success fee is the only line in this table that grows with the deal, and it is charged to the buyer, not the seller. Its terms keep the fee window open until five years after you last use the service, so a deal you close long after cancelling can still owe it. Axial is the other platform with a buyer fee; searchers on Searchfunder have reported rates from 1% to a Lehman-style scale, and on a $3,000,000 purchase that is the difference between $30,000 and $120,000. That is our arithmetic on reported rates, not a quote. Rejigg's Concierge retainer of $3,000 to $5,000 a month, with a three-month minimum, is deducted from its success fee, so it is left out of the totals. PrivSource is $149 for the first month and $299 for each month after.
Side by side
Buyouts against the other deal sourcing platforms, honestly
A fair look at what each does well. Both are useful. Here is where they differ.
| Feature | Buyouts | Other deal sourcing platforms |
|---|---|---|
| What a buyer pays before a deal closes | $99, $299 or $899 a month, stopped whenever you like | From $0 at Rejigg Basic and Baton to $299 a month at PrivSource; Axial, Grata and Sourcescrub do not publish a price |
| Success fee for the buyer at closing | None on any buyer tier | None at the aggregators or PrivSource; the Lehman scale at Rejigg; a private rate on the full Transaction Value at Axial |
| Revenue checked before you see the deal | MRR, ARR, growth and churn verified against the billing data before the listing goes live | None of the aggregators checks seller figures; SMB Market's terms disclaim listing accuracy |
| How wide the pool is | Narrow by design: AI SaaS only, so far fewer listings than any aggregator | BizScout states 20,000 or more active listings across 50 or more industries; Rejigg states 1,641 for sale. They win on breadth |
| Somebody contacting owners for you | No. Sellers list with us; we do not cold-call owners | Rejigg does, and charges for it at close; buy side advisors do it on a retainer |
| Off-market access | Acquirer members see listings the seller has taken off the public marketplace | BizScout gates off-market leads to Pro; Baton profiles are free; Rejigg contacts owners who are not listed |
| Data room | Data-room requests on Buyer Pro and Acquirer | Varies; the aggregators link out to the broker or seller |
| Best fit | A buyer of software who wants recurring revenue they can trust before the LOI | A main street or lower middle market buyer open on industry |
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
Four kinds of platform sell under the same name
An aggregator (BizScout, Kumo, SMB Market) collects listings that brokers and owners have already posted elsewhere and puts them in one feed with alerts. A listing board (DealStream, BizBuySell) is where some of those listings are first posted. An outreach engine (Rejigg) contacts owners who have not listed at all. A network (Axial) is where sell-side advisors send their mandates to registered buyers. They are priced differently because they do different work. A feed is cheap because the inventory already exists. Outreach is expensive because somebody has to find and persuade an owner, which is why Rejigg charges at closing and a buy side advisor charges a retainer. If you are comparing a $49 feed with a Lehman fee you are comparing two different products.
The success fee is the number to read first
On the subscription line these platforms sit within a few hundred dollars of each other. At closing they do not. Rejigg's buyer terms apply the Lehman scale, so a $1,000,000 purchase owes $50,000 and a $3,000,000 purchase owes $120,000, on top of the broker or advisor the seller may also be paying. Axial's terms make the buyer liable for its rate on the full Transaction Value, which includes seller notes, earnouts and above-market consulting agreements, for 18 months from the day you received the deal. Neither is hidden. Both are in the terms. They are simply not on the pricing card, which is where most buyers stop reading. Check the calculator above with your own price and search length before you decide a free tier is the cheap one.
An aggregator cannot verify what it did not list
A feed that indexes thousands of broker sites passes on whatever the broker posted: asking price, revenue and cash flow as the seller reported them. That is fine for screening a car wash. For a software business it skips the step that decides the price, because recurring revenue, churn and growth are what a SaaS multiple is applied to, and none of them can be read from a broker teaser. That is the one job Buyouts does that none of the others do. Every AI SaaS listing has MRR, ARR, growth and churn checked against the source billing data before it goes live, so the number you build an offer on is the number in the account. It is also why the pool is small. We would rather list fewer businesses than list figures nobody has checked.
When an enterprise data platform is the right answer
Grata and Sourcescrub are not listing services. They are databases of private companies, most of which are not for sale, built for private equity teams that run their own outreach at volume. Neither publishes a price; both sell through a demo, and on 2 October 2026 Sourcescrub's site announced that the two are joining forces. If you are a fund screening hundreds of founder-owned companies a quarter, that is the tool. If you are one buyer looking for one business, you will pay for a database and still have to do every call yourself. A feed plus your own outreach, or Rejigg's outreach plus its fee, gets an individual buyer to an owner conversation faster.
Keep reading on the parts of a deal this page touches: off market businesses for sale, and what each off-market channel costs, BizScout reviews and what Pro costs at $199 a month, Kumo reviews, the broker-listing aggregator from $89 a month, SMB Market reviews and its $49 a month search feed, Rejigg reviews and the Lehman success fee its buyers owe, Axial pricing and its 18-month success fee tail, DealStream Pro pricing at $40 a month, Acquisition Ace reviews, the buyer community and coaching program, business acquisition course cost, eleven buyer programs compared, buy side advisor fees, when you pay someone to source for you, SaaS companies for sale and what each venue charges buyers, how to verify MRR before you buy a SaaS business.
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