Is this actually free?

Honest answer: no. Nothing in this category is actually free. The page-1 incumbents call themselves "free" and gate the audit behind demos for $30K-$150K/yr SaaS Management Platforms. StackScan is fundamentally cheaper, not free: $25 per actionable decision (SWAP or REMOVE), capped at $249. KEEP rows are free, so a clean stack costs you only what the engine surfaces. No login, no demo, no sales call, no SSO.

Is anything free at StackSwap?

Yes — StackBuilder is free. It's a 4-question planner for teams starting from scratch (seed-stage founders, first RevOps hires, mid-rebuild teams). It recommends a stack but doesn't audit one — no scan engine. Different product. If you have a stack to audit, StackScan is what you want; if you're picking your first tools, StackBuilder is.

Why does every other "free SaaS audit tool" require a demo?

Because they're not free tools — they're lead-gen funnels for SaaS Management Platforms (Zylo, BetterCloud, CloudEagle, 1Password SaaS Manager) priced at $30K-$150K/yr. The "free assessment" is the booking form. The keyword "free SaaS audit tool" has been hijacked by enterprise SMP marketing teams. Nothing wrong with that motion, but it makes the keyword misleading on every page-1 result.

How is $25-$249 different from those $30K-$150K SMPs?

Different jobs. SMPs are IT-side: they connect to SSO and accounting to track every SaaS subscription company-wide, including HR, dev, finance, and design tools. They're built for the CIO who needs the company-wide dashboard. StackScan is GTM-side: it models your sales/marketing/RevOps stack against benchmarks and tells you what to cut. SMPs answer "what do we have?" StackScan answers "what should we cut, and what do we replace it with?" If you have 100+ employees and need company-wide IT governance, get an SMP. If you have a 10-tool GTM stack to clean up, StackScan covers it for $25-$249.

How does the $25 per decision pricing actually work?

A "decision" is a SWAP (replace tool A with tool B) or a REMOVE (cut tool A; capability already covered). Each costs $25, capped at $249 total per scan (so 10+ decisions max out the price). KEEP rows — tools the engine recommends keeping — are free. You see the full overlap report and modeled waste estimate as part of the scan; the $25 line items are the actionable findings the engine recommends acting on.

What data do you need from me?

Just the tools. You select what's in your stack from a registry of 200+ GTM tools. We don't need SSO access, accounting integration, contract documents, or seat data. The audit is modeled against your team size, industry, and stage — selected at the start. The whole input takes 30-60 seconds.

How accurate is the audit?

The methodology is open: 100,000 synthetic GTM stacks generated across 12 archetypes and run through the same scoring engine that powers StackScan. Reproduce it with `SIM_SEED=42 npm run simulate:100k`. Cost models use vendor list pricing where published, with documented assumptions where vendors hide pricing. Full disclosure: /methodology.

What happens after I run StackScan?

You see results in the browser. Pay $25-$249 only for the actionable decisions. We don't email you, don't follow up with sales, don't add you to a nurture sequence. The scan is a tool, not a funnel. If you want to re-run quarterly to see what changed, you run StackScan again — same $25-$249 model.

Does StackScan cover non-GTM tools (HR, finance, dev tools)?

No — the registry is 200+ GTM tools (sales, marketing, RevOps, CS). For company-wide SaaS audits including HR, finance, and dev, you want a SaaS Management Platform like Zylo, Torii, or BetterCloud. StackScan is purpose-built for the GTM stack because that's where the highest-impact overlap patterns live.

Honest take · No demo gates · Per-decision pricing

Free SaaS Audit Tool — The Honest Read on a Hijacked Category

Nothing in the "free SaaS audit tool" SERP is actually free. Every page-1 incumbent gates the audit behind a demo for $30K-$150K/yr SaaS Management Platforms — the "free" is a booking form. Here's the honest read on the category, and the cheapest legitimate alternative: StackScan at $25 per actionable decision, $249 cap, no demo. Modeled against 100,000 synthetic GTM stacks (open methodology).

Run StackScan ($25–$249) →See pricing

What "free" actually means in this category

Search "free SaaS audit tool" and the page-one results all promise a free assessment. Try clicking through:

Zylo: "Free SaaS Audit" → demo booking form, requires SSO + accounting integration to actually return results.
CloudNuro: "Free assessment" → 15-minute scheduled call before you see anything.
CloudEagle: "Free trial" → email-gated checklists, demo required for the actual platform.
1Password SaaS Manager: Demo only. No free tier published.
BetterCloud: Demo gated. Same shape.

The reason: those are enterprise SaaS Management Platforms (SMPs) priced at $30K-$150K/year. The "free assessment" is the booking form. There's nothing wrong with that motion — SMPs are useful for IT-side governance at 100+ employees — but the keyword "free SaaS audit tool" has been hijacked. No real free audit tool exists in this category, because the audit costs something to operate.

SaaS audit tools — head to head

How the "free" offerings actually compare on what matters: pricing, time to first result, what you have to give them.

Tool	Pricing	Time to first result	What it requires	Coverage
StackScan (this page)	$25 per decision, $249 cap — KEEP rows free	60 seconds	A list of your tools (no login, no demo, no SSO)	200+ GTM tools
Zylo	Enterprise contract (typically $30K–$150K/yr)	4–12 weeks (SSO + accounting + onboarding)	Demo, SSO, accounting integration, IT admin	All SaaS company-wide
CloudNuro	Quoted after demo	15-min onboarding + scheduled walkthrough	Demo signup, business email, integrations	All SaaS company-wide
CloudEagle	Quoted after demo	Days (after onboarding)	Trial signup, demo, integrations	All SaaS company-wide
1Password SaaS Manager	Quoted after demo (no free tier published)	Demo + integration cycle	350+ API connections, IT admin onboarding	All SaaS company-wide
BetterCloud	Quoted after demo	Demo + onboarding	Demo, integrations, IT admin	All SaaS company-wide

The honest pricing breakdown

StackScan charges $25 per actionable decision the engine surfaces, capped at $249. Two kinds of charges:

SWAP ($25 each): Replace tool A with tool B. E.g., "Replace Outreach + Salesloft with Outreach alone."
REMOVE ($25 each): Cut tool A; the capability is already covered by another tool in your stack. E.g., "Remove Lemlist; Apollo already covers sequencing."
KEEP (free): The engine recommends keeping the tool. No charge.

Cap is $249 — anything beyond 10 decisions is included. So the worst case for any stack is $249, regardless of how many overlaps the engine finds. Compared to a $30K-$150K/yr SaaS Management Platform contract, that's the structural difference: per-decision pricing, not enterprise SaaS.

What StackBuilder (the actually-free product) does differently

StackBuilder is the free product at StackSwap — a 4-question planner that recommends an opinionated GTM stack based on your team size, stage, motion, and budget. It's built for operators who don't have a stack yet (seed-stage founders, first RevOps hires, mid-rebuild teams). No login, no email.

StackBuilder doesn't audit. It plans. If you have a stack to audit, StackScan is the right tool. If you're picking tools for the first time, StackBuilder is. Different products, different jobs — both run without contact, both with open methodology.

How a StackScan works

Three steps, ~60 seconds end to end:

1. Pick your tools. Select from a registry of 200+ GTM tools (CRM, sequencing, data, intel, automation, ABM, etc.). No login, no card, no email. Takes 30-45 seconds for a typical 8-12 tool stack.
2. Engine runs benchmarks. Your stack runs against the same scoring engine that powers 100,000 modeled GTM stacks. Detects overlap pairs, scores tool fit for your team size + stage, models recoverable spend.
3. Get the itemized report. Pay only for SWAP and REMOVE decisions ($25 each, capped at $249). KEEP rows are free. See your full overlap report, modeled annual recoverable spend, AI readiness score, and ranked cut list with replacement recommendations.

What a StackScan returns

Every StackScan returns the same six findings. The price scales with the actionable decisions ($25 each, $249 cap) — the overlap report and benchmarks come with the scan:

Finding	What you get
Itemized overlap report	Every pair of tools doing roughly the same job. Apollo + Outreach, Gong + Chorus, ZoomInfo + Lusha, etc. Each pair named with the consolidation pattern.
Modeled recoverable spend	Total $ recoverable from cutting overlap, benchmarked against 100,000 modeled stacks at your team size. Median modeled team has $7,770/mo recoverable.
Tool count vs benchmark	How your tool count compares to the median for your stage and archetype. Most modeled teams run 8.9 GTM tools; the optimized version runs 7.9.
AI readiness score	0-100 score for how AI-native your current stack is, with a projected score for your optimized stack. Median modeled improvement: 43 → 71.
Ranked cut list	Cuts ranked by ROI: what to cancel first, what to renegotiate, what to keep. Each ranked decision is one $25 line item.
Replacement recommendations	Where a cut creates a capability gap, the named replacement (e.g., consolidate Apollo + Outreach to Apollo Pro alone). Based on modeled patterns, not vendor relationships — we have none.

Built for GTM stacks (not company-wide SaaS)

Most "SaaS audit tools" are built for IT/security teams auditing company-wide SaaS sprawl: HR tools, dev tools, finance tools, design tools, the company VPN, the credentials manager, the print server. That's a real job, but it's not the same job as auditing a GTM stack.

StackScan is purpose-built for the GTM stack because that's where the highest-impact overlap patterns live. The 200+ tool registry covers sales engagement (Outreach, Salesloft, Apollo, Reply), data + intel (ZoomInfo, Apollo, Lusha, Cognism), CRM (HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive), conversation intel (Gong, Chorus, Clari Copilot, Fireflies), marketing automation (Marketo, Pardot, HubSpot), ABM (6sense, Demandbase), and the long tail of RevOps and CS tools. The benchmarks are GTM-specific. The recommendations are GTM-specific. If your stack is mostly non-GTM, an SMP will serve you better.

What you don't need to give us

No SSO access. The audit doesn't connect to Okta, Azure AD, or Google Workspace.
No accounting integration. No QuickBooks, NetSuite, or Stripe. We're not in your books.
No contract data. No MSAs, order forms, or vendor agreements. Just the tool list.
No login. No account creation. No email. No password.
No demo or sales call. The tool runs and returns results in the browser. We don't follow up unless you contact us.

Methodology

Statistics on this page are derived from 100,000 synthetic GTM stacks generated across 12 archetypes (founder-led, PLG, outbound-heavy, ABM-heavy, RevOps-mature, etc.) and run through the same scoring engine that powers StackScan. The simulation is reproducible: SIM_SEED=42 npm run simulate:100k. Cost models use vendor list pricing where published, with documented assumptions where vendors hide pricing. Full disclosure: /methodology.

FAQ

Is this actually free?: Honest answer: no. Nothing in this category is actually free. The page-1 incumbents call themselves "free" and gate the audit behind demos for $30K-$150K/yr SaaS Management Platforms. StackScan is fundamentally cheaper, not free: $25 per actionable decision (SWAP or REMOVE), capped at $249. KEEP rows are free, so a clean stack costs you only what the engine surfaces. No login, no demo, no sales call, no SSO.
Is anything free at StackSwap?: Yes — StackBuilder is free. It's a 4-question planner for teams starting from scratch (seed-stage founders, first RevOps hires, mid-rebuild teams). It recommends a stack but doesn't audit one — no scan engine. Different product. If you have a stack to audit, StackScan is what you want; if you're picking your first tools, StackBuilder is.
Why does every other "free SaaS audit tool" require a demo?: Because they're not free tools — they're lead-gen funnels for SaaS Management Platforms (Zylo, BetterCloud, CloudEagle, 1Password SaaS Manager) priced at $30K-$150K/yr. The "free assessment" is the booking form. The keyword "free SaaS audit tool" has been hijacked by enterprise SMP marketing teams. Nothing wrong with that motion, but it makes the keyword misleading on every page-1 result.
How is $25-$249 different from those $30K-$150K SMPs?: Different jobs. SMPs are IT-side: they connect to SSO and accounting to track every SaaS subscription company-wide, including HR, dev, finance, and design tools. They're built for the CIO who needs the company-wide dashboard. StackScan is GTM-side: it models your sales/marketing/RevOps stack against benchmarks and tells you what to cut. SMPs answer "what do we have?" StackScan answers "what should we cut, and what do we replace it with?" If you have 100+ employees and need company-wide IT governance, get an SMP. If you have a 10-tool GTM stack to clean up, StackScan covers it for $25-$249.
How does the $25 per decision pricing actually work?: A "decision" is a SWAP (replace tool A with tool B) or a REMOVE (cut tool A; capability already covered). Each costs $25, capped at $249 total per scan (so 10+ decisions max out the price). KEEP rows — tools the engine recommends keeping — are free. You see the full overlap report and modeled waste estimate as part of the scan; the $25 line items are the actionable findings the engine recommends acting on.
What data do you need from me?: Just the tools. You select what's in your stack from a registry of 200+ GTM tools. We don't need SSO access, accounting integration, contract documents, or seat data. The audit is modeled against your team size, industry, and stage — selected at the start. The whole input takes 30-60 seconds.
How accurate is the audit?: The methodology is open: 100,000 synthetic GTM stacks generated across 12 archetypes and run through the same scoring engine that powers StackScan. Reproduce it with `SIM_SEED=42 npm run simulate:100k`. Cost models use vendor list pricing where published, with documented assumptions where vendors hide pricing. Full disclosure: /methodology.
What happens after I run StackScan?: You see results in the browser. Pay $25-$249 only for the actionable decisions. We don't email you, don't follow up with sales, don't add you to a nurture sequence. The scan is a tool, not a funnel. If you want to re-run quarterly to see what changed, you run StackScan again — same $25-$249 model.
Does StackScan cover non-GTM tools (HR, finance, dev tools)?: No — the registry is 200+ GTM tools (sales, marketing, RevOps, CS). For company-wide SaaS audits including HR, finance, and dev, you want a SaaS Management Platform like Zylo, Torii, or BetterCloud. StackScan is purpose-built for the GTM stack because that's where the highest-impact overlap patterns live.