Flippa vs Acquire.com

Flippa vs Acquire.com: fees, buyer pool and which marketplace fits a SaaS business

Flippa vs Acquire.com comes down to an open marketplace against a curated one. Flippa is self-serve and sells every kind of online asset, charging a non-refundable upfront listing fee plus 10% when the deal closes. Acquire.com is built around startups and software, charges a small monthly fee while the listing is live, takes 6% to 8% on close, and puts founder contact behind a paid buyer membership.

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For a recurring-revenue software business, Acquire.com is the closer fit of the two, and it is worth saying that plainly: its listings are mostly bootstrapped SaaS, its metrics sync from the founder's own stack, and its buyers arrived looking for software rather than for a domain or a content site. Flippa wins on reach and on speed to publish, with a far larger audience and assets at every price point, but that reach is also why a SaaS listing there sits beside ecommerce stores and parked domains. The gap neither one closes is that verified recurring-revenue metrics remain optional on both: a seller chooses whether to connect a data source. Buyouts is the marketplace built only for AI SaaS, where verified MRR, ARR, growth and churn appear on every listing before it publishes, multiples are published per deal, buyers are capital-qualified, and closes run through escrow. Listings, metrics and buyers shown here are illustrative product UI, and valuation content is educational rather than a guaranteed sale price or return.

Flippa charges an upfront listing fee plus 10% on close and sells every kind of online asset, Acquire.com charges $25 to $100 a month plus 6% to 8% and curates startups behind a buyer paywall, and Buyouts sits apart from both for AI SaaS with mandatory verified metrics, a 3% to 5% success fee and escrow on every close.

Side by side

Flippa & Acquire.com vs Buyouts, honestly

A fair look at what each does well. Both are useful. Here is where they differ.

Feature	Buyouts	Flippa	Acquire.com
What it sells	AI SaaS only, with AI-aware deal tooling	Every online asset: websites, domains, apps, ecommerce, some SaaS	Startups and software, mostly bootstrapped SaaS
Who lists	Founders directly, metrics verified before publish	Anyone who pays, self-serve and published fast	Founders directly, listings reviewed before going live
Upfront listing cost	$149, $499 or $1,500 one time, by tier	$29 to $699 by price band and package, non-refundable	$25, $50 or $100 per month while listed, by asking price
Success fee on close	3%, 4% or 5% by listing tier	10% on the price bands published on its pricing page	8% under $250k, 7% from $250k to $1M, 6% above $1M
What a buyer pays	Monthly access membership from $99	Free plan, or Premium at $49 a month ($388 a year)	Free to browse public listings, paid membership from $390 to reach founders
Metrics on the listing	Verified MRR, ARR, growth and churn on every deal, required	Seller-reported unless an integration is connected, and assets above $50,000 are reviewed by its vetting team	Synced from the seller stack when the founder connects it
How price is set	Published AI-aware multiple on every deal tombstone	Auction or asking price, set per listing	Founder asking price, supported by a valuation tool
Payments at close	Escrow on every close	FlippaPay from 1% or Escrow.com from 1.2%	Escrow included at no extra cost
Best for	Recurring-revenue AI software with real MRR	Digital assets and smaller online businesses at any price point	Bootstrapped SaaS founders selling direct to individual buyers

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

Run the total cost, not the headline rate

On a $300,000 software sale, Flippa takes 10%, so $30,000, plus the non-refundable listing fee and payment fees from 1%. Acquire.com sits in its $250k to $1M band at 7%, so $21,000, plus $50 a month while the listing is live, with escrow included. The same close on Buyouts is 4% at the middle tier, so $12,000, plus a one-time $499 listing fee. Figures checked July 2026.

A buyer paywall cuts both ways

Acquire.com charges buyers from $390 before they can contact a founder. That filters out tire-kickers, which sellers like, and it also thins the pool to people already committed to buying something. Flippa is open, so a listing gets far more eyeballs and far more unqualified inquiries. Neither is wrong, but they produce very different inboxes.

Verified metrics are optional on both

Flippa pulls data from Shopify, Stripe, WooCommerce, QuickBooks Online, Google Analytics, AdMob, AdSense and SEMRush when a seller connects an account, and its team reviews stated financials above $50,000. Acquire.com syncs metrics from the seller stack. In both cases connecting the data is the seller choice, so verification quality varies listing to listing rather than being a floor.

Good questions

Flippa & Acquire.com vs Buyouts, answered

Flippa is an open, self-serve marketplace for every kind of online asset, charging an upfront listing fee plus a 10% success fee. Acquire.com is a curated marketplace for startups and software that charges $25 to $100 a month to list, 6% to 8% on close, and requires buyers to pay for a membership before contacting founders.

For most recurring-revenue software, yes. Acquire.com was built for startups, its listings are largely bootstrapped SaaS, and its success fee is lower than Flippa 10%. Flippa is better when you want maximum reach, a fast self-serve listing, or you are selling a digital asset that is not really software.

Sellers pay a monthly listing fee of $25 under a $250,000 asking price, $50 from $250,000 to $1M, and $100 above $1M, plus a closing fee of 8%, 7% or 6% in those same bands, with escrow included. Buyers browse public listings free and pay for a membership starting at $390 to reach founders. Checked July 2026.

Flippa publishes a 10% success fee plus a non-refundable upfront listing fee running from $29 for a sub $10,000 asset to $699 for higher bands and packages. Buyers browse free or pay $49 a month ($388 a year) for Premium. Payments settle through FlippaPay from 1% or Escrow.com from 1.2%. Checked July 2026.

Free for buyers only up to a point. Browsing public listings and basic company information costs nothing, but contacting founders and seeing detailed financials requires a paid membership from $390. Sellers are never free: a live listing costs $25 to $100 a month plus the closing fee when the deal completes.

Yes. Acquire.com, formerly MicroAcquire, is an established startup marketplace that publishes its full seller rate card, reviews listings before they go live and includes escrow in its closing fee. Its published pricing and vetted-listing model are the two things buyers most often check, and both hold up.

Flippa if you want volume and free browsing, and you are willing to verify numbers yourself. Acquire.com if you want software deal flow specifically and will pay for access. Buyers who look at both tend to use Flippa for discovery and Acquire.com for serious software conversations.

Yes, Flippa lists SaaS alongside websites, apps and ecommerce stores, and plenty of software changes hands there. The trade-off is context: your listing competes for attention with assets that behave nothing like recurring revenue, and buyers arriving from a domain search are not underwriting churn or net revenue retention.

Every figure here was read firsthand on each company own pricing page in July 2026, Flippa from its pricing page and Acquire.com from its buyer and seller pricing pages. Marketplace pricing changes, so confirm the current rate card on each site before you budget. Buyouts fees are published in full on our pricing page.

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Listings, metrics and buyers shown are illustrative product UI · valuation content is educational, not a guaranteed sale price or return · trademarks belong to their owners