# Credence Intel > Independent software comparisons with every price read on the vendor's own site ## Pages - [QuickBooks alternatives: Xero and Zoho Books compared](https://credence-intel.com/guides/quickbooks-alternatives/): Lowest first-year cost: Zoho Books Standard at $180 on annual billing, against $259.20 for Xero Early and $399 for QuickBooks Simple Start (both with new-customer offers). - [Pipedrive pricing explained: every plan, limit and add-on](https://credence-intel.com/guides/pipedrive-pricing/): Four plans: Lite , Growth , Premium and Ultimate per seat a month, billed annually. - [noCRM.io plans and pricing: Starter vs Expert vs Dream](https://credence-intel.com/guides/nocrm-pricing/): Starter: per user a month billed yearly ( monthly). New customers only. - [Mailchimp alternatives: free-plan limits compared](https://credence-intel.com/guides/mailchimp-alternatives/): Biggest free list: Kit, free up to 10,000 subscribers; visual automations and sequences need the paid Creator plan. - [Best CRM for small business: 5 CRMs priced for real team sizes](https://credence-intel.com/guides/best-crm-for-small-business/): Free, up to 3 people: Zoho CRM's free edition covers 3 users. HubSpot's free CRM covers 2 users and 1,000 contacts. - [Zapier vs Make vs n8n: what each costs at three workload sizes](https://credence-intel.com/guides/zapier-vs-make-vs-n8n-pricing/): Small and medium volumes: Make Core ( a month on annual billing for 10,000 credits) is the lowest-priced paid option in our example. - [Workflow automation tools compared](https://credence-intel.com/workflow-automation/): Tasks: each successful action step. Triggers, filters, paths and formatter steps do not use tasks. - [Tool finder](https://credence-intel.com/tool-finder/): How it works: for each tool in your category we take the cheapest published plan, multiply per-seat prices by your team size, and keep tools that fit your budget and must-have. - [Terms of use](https://credence-intel.com/terms-of-use/): Credence Intel publishes general information about software pricing and features. Prices were read on vendor pages on the date shown and can change at any time. - [Team cost calculator](https://credence-intel.com/team-cost-calculator/): Automation, email marketing, accounting and no-code tools are priced by usage, contacts, company or site rather than per seat, so they are compared on their category pages instead. - [Accounting & invoicing software compared](https://credence-intel.com/small-business-tools/): Does QuickBooks have a free plan? - [Privacy policy](https://credence-intel.com/privacy-policy/): Link clicks: when you click a link to a vendor, we count the click against that link and month. - [Price updates](https://credence-intel.com/price-updates/): An automatic checker visits vendor pricing pages every day, and a weekly research pass re-reads every pricing page in full. - [No-code builders compared](https://credence-intel.com/no-code-solutions/): Airtable bills per editor. Team is per seat a month billed annually ( monthly). Read-only collaborators, form submissions and share links are not charged. - [How we check prices](https://credence-intel.com/methodology/): We take prices and plan details from the vendor's own pricing page, plan-comparison page or official help centre. - [Email marketing software compared](https://credence-intel.com/marketing-automation/): Which email tool has the largest free plan? - [Home](https://credence-intel.com/): Compare tools for small businesses side by side. - [Pricing guides](https://credence-intel.com/guides/): Five CRMs priced for 1, 5 and 10 seats, with the catches in each plan. - [Free plans and free trials](https://credence-intel.com/free-plans-and-trials/) - [Editorial policy](https://credence-intel.com/editorial-policy/): Vendors cannot pay for placement, inclusion, wording or position. - [CRM software compared](https://credence-intel.com/crm-software/): Filter for a free plan or a no-card trial, sort by price, or tick up to three to compare in detail. - [Content creation tools compared](https://credence-intel.com/content-creation-tools/): All three charge per person on paid plans. - [Contact](https://credence-intel.com/contact/): Price correction: the tool, the page on our site, and a link to the vendor page showing the new price. - [Software categories](https://credence-intel.com/categories/) - [AI software compared](https://credence-intel.com/ai-software/): Jasper and Notion charge per seat or member. Perplexity Pro is an individual plan, and Copy.ai's Chat plan includes 5 seats, so neither appears here. - [Affiliate disclosure](https://credence-intel.com/affiliate-disclosure/): Some links on Credence Intel are affiliate links. If you click one and buy, the vendor may pay us a commission. You pay the same price. - [About Credence Intel](https://credence-intel.com/about/): Software pricing changes constantly and is often hard to compare: one tool charges per seat, another per contact, another per task. [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)