How Saaspare ranks software
Rankings here are an editorial judgement, built from what can be checked: each vendor's published pricing, its documentation, and what the category actually needs. This page sets out what goes in, what doesn't, and where our limits are.
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Plans with a source link
The method
How a ranking is made
Three inputs, weighed by an editor for the job each category does.
Published pricing
Every plan is taken from the vendor's own pricing page, normalised to a monthly per-unit price with the billing unit stated, and linked back to its source so you can check it.
Documented capability
Features, limits, integrations, and security and compliance claims come from vendor documentation. Where something can only be judged by using the product, we say so.
Fit for the job
Each category weighs what actually decides that purchase — renewal pricing for hosting, published audits for VPNs, per-seat costs for SEO tools. The criteria are listed on every category page.
What we don't claim
This is desk research, not a test lab.
We don't run lab benchmarks or long-term hands-on trials across whole categories, and rankings aren't computed from user ratings. When a category does get first-hand testing, its methodology section will say exactly what was tested and when — never before it has happened.
User reviews
How reviews are handled
Anyone who uses a tool can review it. These are the rules every submission goes through.
1.Screened on submission
Submissions containing links are rejected, and repeat submissions from the same network are flagged for a moderator.
2.Read before publication
Every review arrives as pending. A moderator reads it and approves or rejects it — nothing is published unread.
3.Never paid for
We don't pay, reward or offer anything in exchange for a review, and each person can review a given tool once.
4.Shown, not yet weighted
Published reviews appear on each tool's page, but category order is editorial today. Before reviews influence a ranking, we'll publish exactly how.
Pricing
How we source pricing
Pricing benchmarks on Saaspare are computed from plans in our own database, each with its source.
A source for every number
Every plan stores the vendor pricing-page URL it came from and the date it was recorded. Tool pages show both next to the price.
Prices move — tell us
Vendors change pricing often. If a price here no longer matches the vendor's page, let us know and we'll correct it.
Apples to apples
We normalise to a monthly per-unit price with the billing unit stated (“per user, per month, billed annually”), so comparisons across tools mean what they say.
Conflicts of interest
What vendors can and can't do
Some outbound links earn us a commission. Here is exactly where the line sits.
Vendors can
- Respond publicly to reviews of their product, labeled as a vendor response
- Claim their listing and submit pricing updates for editorial review
- Buy a clearly labeled sponsored slot, shown outside the ranked list
Vendors can never
- Edit, hide or reorder reviews — ever
- Pay to change their position in a category
- Buy a badge, a verdict or a place in an article
How we make money is set out in our affiliate disclosure, and how we write in our editorial policy. Spotted an error? hello@saaspare.com.