SaaSDB is a directory of SaaS tools where every listing answers the same questions: what the product does, what it costs, how billing works and whether there is a free plan. We confirm those facts on the product’s own website, show the date we checked, and test products hands-on so buyers can compare tools without guessing.
Most software directories are built for the people who submit to them. A founder fills in a form, the product appears, and a badge goes on the founder’s site. That is useful to the founder for a week. It is not much use to the person who lands on the listing six months later and wants to know if the tool still has a free plan.
We wanted SaaSDB to work the other way round. The person we build for is the buyer: a founder, a freelancer or a small team looking for a tool that does one job at a price they can live with. Everything on this page follows from that choice. It explains what goes into a listing, how we check it, how we test products, what our badges mean, how to find a tool quickly and how SaaSDB makes money.
What a complete listing contains
A listing on SaaSDB is not a logo and a paragraph of marketing copy. Each one is built around the same set of facts, in the same order, so you can open two listings side by side and compare them line by line.
The pricing facts
Every listing has four pricing facts. The first is the pricing model: Free, Freemium or Paid. The second is the starting price, the lowest amount you can pay to use the product. The third is the billing model, for example monthly, yearly, per seat, usage based or a single payment. The fourth is what the free plan or the trial includes, when there is one.
These four facts answer the questions people actually ask before they sign up. Can I try it without a card? What will the first month cost? Am I locked into a subscription? They are also the facts that go stale fastest, which is why each one comes with a date.
The check date
Under the facts, each listing shows when we last confirmed them on the product’s website. A price we checked last week tells you something. A price nobody has looked at for two years tells you very little, and most directories never say which one you are looking at.
When we check a listing again and the price has changed, the new price replaces the old one and the change goes into the listing’s price history. You can see what the product used to cost and when it moved. If a product drops its free plan or doubles its starting price, that shows up on the listing instead of disappearing.
Uses, category and description
Each listing also carries one or more use tags, such as Invoicing & quotes, SEO & AI visibility or Voice & audio. The tags describe the job a tool does rather than the market it says it belongs to. A listing has a category for browsing, and a plain description of what the product does, written to be read rather than to rank.
We explain how we fill in every listing, and what happens when a fact can’t be confirmed, in How We Complete Every Listing, and Why Each One Shows a Check Date.
How we check facts before a listing goes live
A founder who submits a product tells us its pricing facts and confirms that they match the product’s website on that day. That confirmation is a required step in the form. It doesn’t make the facts true, but it means the founder has looked at their own pricing page before sending them.
We then look for the facts on the product’s own website, starting with the home page and the pricing page. If we find the starting price where the founder said it would be, the listing goes live with its pricing facts and the date of the check. If we can’t find it, the listing still goes live, but without pricing facts, until we can confirm them.
We would rather show an empty field than a price we couldn’t see. A blank tells you to check the product’s site yourself. A wrong price sends you there with the wrong expectation, and that costs everyone time.
The details of that process, including what happens when a product changes its prices after it is listed, are in What We Confirm Before a SaaS Goes Live on SaaSDB.
When a product stops working
Products close, change hands or go quiet. When a listed product stops working, we take the listing out of the directory and out of our sitemap instead of leaving a dead page for someone to find. A directory is only as good as its worst listing, and a listing that leads nowhere makes every other one look less reliable.
How we test SaaS products hands-on
Checking a price tells you what a product costs. It doesn’t tell you whether the product is any good. For that, someone has to use it.
We are starting hands-on tests of two SaaS products a week. Each test means signing up like a normal customer, using the product for the job it promises to do and writing down what worked, what didn’t and who the product suits. Every test ends with a published report, whether the result is good or bad.
A report is attached to the listing, so anyone who finds the product on SaaSDB can read what happened when we used it. If we test the same product again later, the listing points to the newest report.
How the tests work, how we choose products and how a report is written will be explained in How We Test Two SaaS Products a Week and Share Every Report.
What our badges mean
Most directories give a badge to anything they list. Ours don’t say “listed” at all. We give two badges, and each one stands for work we have done on the product.
The Checked by SaaSDB badge means we confirmed the product’s pricing facts on its own website. It shows the date of that check. The Reviewed by SaaSDB badge means we tested the product hands-on. It shows the date of the test and links to the published review, so anyone who sees it on a product’s site can read what we said.
The Checked badge comes with Basic, Pro and Premium listings, and the Reviewed badge with Premium, which includes a hands-on review. Both are given from November 2026 onwards. The full explanation, including how badges change when a product updates its prices, is in Meet Our Badges: Checked and Reviewed by SaaSDB.
Finding the right tool quickly
Complete, comparable listings are only useful if you can get to the right ones fast. SaaSDB gives you three ways in.
Filters by price
You can filter any list of tools by pricing model: Free, Freemium or Paid. If you need something you can use today without paying, you can see only those tools. If you are happy to pay for a better product, you can leave the free ones out.
Filters by use
You can also filter by use tag. Instead of browsing a broad category like Marketing, you pick the job you need done, such as Email & newsletters or Social media, and see the tools that do it. Price and use filters work together, so you can ask for free tools for invoicing in two clicks.
Collections by need
Some needs don’t fit a single filter. Collections group tools around a specific situation, such as Free Tools with No Sign-Up, Pay Once, No Subscription or Where to Launch Your SaaS. Each collection starts from what the buyer is trying to do and lists the tools that fit, with their facts.
How to get the most out of filters and collections is covered in Finding the Right Tool: Filters by Price and Use, and Collections by Need.
How SaaSDB makes money, and what we don’t sell
SaaSDB is free to browse and free to list. A founder can list a product at no cost by adding our badge to their site, and the listing goes live after a short queue. Basic, a one-time payment, puts the listing live straight away and adds the Checked by SaaSDB badge. Pro adds an author page and a comparison page, and Premium adds a hands-on review and media outreach. Each plan is explained in SaaSDB Plans: Free, Basic, Pro and Premium, and Why Founders Choose Us.
What we don’t sell is Domain Rating. Plenty of directories advertise their DR and sell listings as a way to raise yours. We don’t, for a simple reason: a metric from a third-party tool is not what makes a link worth having. A link is worth having when the page it sits on is useful to the people who read it. That is the kind of authority we are trying to build, one checked listing at a time.
Pro and Premium listings bought from November 2026 also get an alternatives page, where buyers compare the product with similar tools. That page opens with a short introduction that links to the product’s website in context. It is the only place we give a contextual link, and it comes from a page people use to make a decision.
Why we took this position, and what it means for founders who list with us, is explained in Why SaaSDB Doesn’t Sell Domain Rating.
What this means for you
If you are looking for a tool, SaaSDB should save you from opening ten pricing pages to compare ten products. Every listing gives you the same facts, tells you when they were checked and, where we have tested the product, tells you what happened when we used it.
If you are listing a product, it means your listing has to be accurate, and it will be kept accurate. In return, your product sits in a directory buyers can trust, next to facts they can check, with badges that mean something to the people who see them.
Frequently asked questions
Is SaaSDB free to use?
Yes. Browsing, filtering and reading reviews are free, and you don’t need an account. Founders can also list a product for free by adding our badge to their site, or pay once for a paid listing without a badge.
How often do you check prices?
Every new listing is checked before its pricing facts are shown, and we check listings again over time. The date on each listing tells you exactly when its facts were last confirmed, so you never have to guess how fresh they are.
What happens if a listing’s facts are wrong?
Tell us and we check the product’s website again. If the facts have changed, we update the listing, move the check date forward and record the old price in the listing’s price history.
Can a founder pay for a better review?
No. Premium pays for a hands-on test, not for the verdict. Reviews report what happened when we used the product, and the Reviewed badge links to the full report whatever it says.