Kumo prices read 24 October 2026
Kumo Alternative and Kumo Competitors for Buyers Who Want Fresh or Verified Deals
The right Kumo alternative depends on what Kumo is not giving you, because on price it is already near the bottom. Kumo Pro costs $89 a month and Ultimate $149, read from withkumo.com on 24 October 2026. If you only want a cheaper way to see fresh listings, DealStream Pro ($40) and SMB Market ($49) cost less. If you want deals that are not in any public feed, Rejigg contacts owners for you and charges a success fee at closing, and Baton publishes off-market profiles free to buyers. If you buy software and need the recurring 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
Kumo does one thing very well. It says it pulls more than 100,000 deals from thousands of brokers and marketplaces into one search, merges duplicates and tracks listing changes, and it takes no commission on any deal you find. No alternative on this page is broader. What Kumo cannot do is check a number, because it copies what brokers post, and it cannot show you a business that was never listed. Its free Basic plan also shows only deals that are 30 or more days old, which on a good listing is often too late.
Every price below 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 run your own search length and deal size through each plan, success fees included.
Kumo is the broadest aggregator of public business listings at $89 a month; the alternatives are cheaper listing boards, a pricier feed with its own off-market leads, an owner outreach service with a buyer success fee, a free off-market marketplace, and Buyouts, which is narrow by design and verifies software revenue before a listing goes live.
Sorted by why you are leaving
Kumo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kumo Pro (the baseline) | n/a | Basic free (deals 30+ days old); Pro $89 a month; Ultimate $149 a month; Enterprise custom | None, per its FAQ | Nothing; it aggregates what brokers post | 24 Oct 2026 |
| DealStream | You want fresh listings for less and can search one board | Free plan; Pro $40 a month or $400 a year | None | Nothing; it says it does not verify listings | Sep 2026 |
| SMB Market | You want a cheaper feed with coaching content | $49 a month, or $39 a month annual ($468) | None | Its terms disclaim listing accuracy | Oct 2026 |
| BizScout | You want a curated feed with its own off-market leads | Basic free; Pro $199 a month, or $129 a month annual ($1,548) | None published | No claim to verify listing financials | 22 Oct 2026 |
| Rejigg | You want owners who never listed, contacted for you | 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 | You want off-market profiles without a subscription | Free to buyers | None for buyers; the seller pays 6% | Off-market profiles have no data room | 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 |
Kumo shows Pro and Ultimate against struck-through prices of $100 and $200 and does not say how long that discount runs. Its pricing page now offers a 7-day free trial on both paid plans, while its FAQ, when we read it in September, said there was no free trial and offered a 30-day money back guarantee instead. Ask which applies before you pay. Clef, another aggregator, is listed by software directories at roughly $45 to $59 a month; we could not find and read its own pricing page, so it is not in the table.
Our own math, shown in full
What an eight month search costs on Kumo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kumo Pro | $712 | Not shown on the pricing page | $0 | $712 |
| Kumo Ultimate | $1,192 | Not shown on the pricing page | $0 | $1,192 |
| DealStream Pro | $320 | $400 a year | $0 | $320 |
| SMB Market | $392 | $468 a year | $0 | $392 |
| BizScout Pro | $1,592 | $1,548 a year | $0 published | $1,548 |
| 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 |
Two things stand out. Kumo Pro is already cheaper over eight months than every paid feed except DealStream and SMB Market, so leaving it to save money only makes sense if a single board covers your market. And the only tool that changes the order by thousands of dollars is the one with a buyer success fee: Rejigg's Lehman fee on a $1,000,000 deal is $50,000, more than every subscription on this page combined. These totals are our arithmetic on published prices, not quotes.
Kumo is already the cheap option, so price is rarely the real reason to leave
Most people who look for a Kumo alternative are not trying to save money. Kumo Pro is $89 a month, which is less than half of BizScout Pro and only a little more than a cheap listing board. What sends buyers looking is usually one of three other things: the free plan only shows deals that are at least 30 days old, the listings repeat whatever the broker typed (stale links and numbers that do not add up included), or the buyer has realized that an aggregator of public listings will never show them a business nobody else has seen.
Each of those has a different fix. A listing board you search directly gets you fresh deals for less. An owner outreach service or a free off-market marketplace gets you deals that are not in any feed. And if you buy software, a marketplace that checks the revenue before a listing goes live replaces the first round of diligence that no aggregator can do. The table below is sorted by that reason.
Side by side
Buyouts against Kumo, honestly
A fair look at what each does well. Both are useful. Here is where they differ.
| Feature | Buyouts | Kumo |
|---|---|---|
| What it covers | AI SaaS and software businesses only | Businesses for sale in most industries, main street to lower middle market |
| How wide the pool is | Narrow by design, far fewer listings | More than 100,000 deals by its own count. Kumo wins on breadth |
| Where listings come from | Founders list directly with us | Copied from thousands of broker sites and marketplaces |
| Revenue checked before you see the deal | MRR, ARR, growth and churn verified against the billing data | No; the figures are whatever the broker posted |
| Deals nobody else has seen | Acquirer members see listings a seller has taken off the public marketplace | No; every Kumo deal is already public somewhere |
| Fresh deals on the cheapest plan | Every verified listing on Buyer Access | Basic shows deals 30 or more days old; real time needs Pro |
| Price for a buyer | $99, $299 or $899 a month, or $49, $149 or $449 a month billed yearly | Basic free; Pro $89 a month; Ultimate $149 a month |
| Success fee for the buyer | None on any buyer tier | None |
| Best fit | A software buyer who wants recurring revenue they can trust before the LOI | A main street searcher who wants every public listing in one search |
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
If Kumo feels stale, the fix is a board, not a cheaper aggregator
An aggregator is only as fresh as the sites it copies and the plan you are on. Kumo's free Basic plan shows deals 30 or more days old, and Searchfunder members have reported broken external links on older listings. If you know which board your market uses, going to it directly gets you the listing the day it posts. DealStream Pro is $40 a month and SMB Market $49. You give up the single search across thousands of sites, which is what Kumo is for, so this only works when one or two boards cover your niche.
No aggregator can show you an unlisted business
Everything in Kumo has already been published by a broker or a marketplace, which means every other buyer with a search alert can see it too. If you keep losing deals to faster bidders, you need deal flow from outside the public feed. Baton publishes off-market profiles free to buyers and says about 10% convert into sales after an initial expression of interest. Rejigg contacts owners who never listed and charges the buyer a Lehman fee at closing, about $50,000 on a $1,000,000 deal. Price that fee before you compare subscriptions.
For software, the number has to be checked before the offer
A broker listing for an HVAC company can be screened on price and cash flow and then tested in diligence. A software business is priced on recurring revenue, churn and growth, and a teaser copied from a broker site cannot show any of them reliably. 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. The trade is breadth: we list far fewer businesses than Kumo, and only software.
Keep reading on the parts of a deal this page touches: our Kumo review, pricing and what its own pages disagree on, the BizScout alternative, for buyers leaving the pricier feed, every deal sourcing platform priced side by side, off-market businesses for sale and how buyers reach them, DealStream reviews and DealStream Pro at $40 a month, SMB Market reviews and its $49 plan, Rejigg reviews and the buyer success fee, Baton Market reviews and its free off-market profiles, SaaS companies for sale with verified metrics.
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