---
title: "Launch500: the startups building software worth paying for"
description: "The annual list of startups building software worth paying for, planned and not yet published. Only a passed Crash Test gets you considered. Listing is free."
canonical: "https://launch500.com"
---

# Launch500: the startups building software worth paying for

- **Discover
  ambition.**
- **Challenge
  conventions.**
- **Shape
  tomorrow.**

[List your product free](https://launch500.com/submit/free) [How to get on the list](https://launch500.com/launch500)

[Review software you use](https://launch500.com/join/crew)

Recent captures

## Real prices, from the vendors' own pages.

[See the receipts](https://launch500.com/pricing)

- [Dropbox from £7.99](https://launch500.com/pricing/dropbox)
- [Loom from $18](https://launch500.com/pricing/loom)
- [Calendly from $10](https://launch500.com/pricing/calendly)
- [Buffer from $5](https://launch500.com/pricing/buffer)
- [Sketch from $12](https://launch500.com/pricing/sketch)
- [Framer from $10](https://launch500.com/pricing/framer)

- [Squarespace from £16](https://launch500.com/pricing/squarespace)
- [GitHub from $4](https://launch500.com/pricing/github)
- [Netlify from $9](https://launch500.com/pricing/netlify)
- [Postman from $9](https://launch500.com/pricing/postman)
- [Cursor from $20](https://launch500.com/pricing/cursor)
- [Zapier from $19.99](https://launch500.com/pricing/zapier)

I am choosing software

## Find out what actually works

Start with a category. Every one publishes what we require before a product can appear and, where we have written them, the scenarios a product will be put through. Once products are tested, a table ranks them by score, with a line saying who each is wrong for.

- [Browse all categories](https://launch500.com/best)
- [Read the test reports](https://launch500.com/crash-tests)
- [See what things really cost](https://launch500.com/pricing)

[Open crew account](https://launch500.com/join/crew)

I built something

## Get listed, or earn a place on the list

A listing puts your product on the platform, free or Premium for £49, and goes live once you prove your domain and complete your page. The annual list is earned: your product is crash-tested against its category's published scenarios, the report names who ran it and is published whatever it says, and a pass gets you considered for the September editorial.

- [How listing and testing work](https://launch500.com/submit)
- [How the annual list is decided](https://launch500.com/launch500)
- [What money cannot buy here](https://launch500.com/trust/how-we-make-money)

[List your product](https://launch500.com/submit/free)

I invest

## Write to the companies that say they are raising

Investor access, £19.99 a month or £149.99 a year on a Crew account. It shows you the companies that say they are raising, with who said it and when, and the contact email each one chose to give investors. Nobody else sees that list. You write to them yourself, off Launch500. Launch500 does not arrange, advise on, recommend or promote any investment.

- [What investor access shows](https://launch500.com/investors)
- [Everything investor access includes](https://launch500.com/investors#investor-access)
- [Investor terms](https://launch500.com/legal/investor-terms)

[Get investor access](https://launch500.com/join/investor)

Latest off the bench

## No Crash Test has been published yet

The method, the scenarios and the weights are published. Each report will appear here and at [Crash Tests](https://launch500.com/crash-tests) once it is published, whatever it says.

From our own captures

## The same job, wildly different money

Every figure below is from a dated capture of the vendor's own pricing page, in the currency they published it in.

CRM and sales pipeline tools **$7** to **$550** a seat a month

Cheapest paid plan

HubSpot Starter Customer Platform

**$7** a seat a month

Regular price $20. [hubspot.com/pricing/crm, HubSpot’s dated pricing receipt](https://launch500.com/pricing/hubspot)

Most expensive plan

Salesforce Max

**$550** a seat a month

[salesforce.com/sales/pricing, Salesforce’s dated pricing receipt](https://launch500.com/pricing/salesforce)

[See the category](https://launch500.com/best/crm)

Marketing automation and email **$5** to **$449 .08** a month

Cheapest paid plan

Buffer Essentials

**$5** a month

Billed yearly. [buffer.com/pricing, Buffer’s dated pricing receipt](https://launch500.com/pricing/buffer)

Most expensive plan

Brevo Professional

**$449.08** a month

[brevo.com/pricing, Brevo’s dated pricing receipt](https://launch500.com/pricing/brevo)

[See the category](https://launch500.com/best/marketing-and-email)

Developer tools and engineering platforms **$4** to **$40** a seat a month

Cheapest paid plan

GitHub Team

**$4** a seat a month

[github.com/pricing, GitHub’s dated pricing receipt](https://launch500.com/pricing/github)

Most expensive plan

Cursor Teams

**$40** a seat a month

[cursor.com/pricing, Cursor’s dated pricing receipt](https://launch500.com/pricing/cursor)

[See the category](https://launch500.com/best/developer-tools)

Helpdesk and customer support ticketing **$19** to **$115** a seat a month

Cheapest paid plan

Zendesk Support Team

**$19** a seat a month

[zendesk.com/pricing, Zendesk’s dated pricing receipt](https://launch500.com/pricing/zendesk)

Most expensive plan

Zendesk Suite Professional

**$115** a seat a month

[zendesk.com/pricing, Zendesk’s dated pricing receipt](https://launch500.com/pricing/zendesk)

[See the category](https://launch500.com/best/helpdesk-software)

[View all pricing receipts](https://launch500.com/pricing)

For makers

## Get listed today. Earn your place on the list.

A free listing goes live once you prove your domain and complete your page; £49 makes it Premium, read by a person before it goes live. Listing information reviewed for publication; product not independently tested. The Launch500 list is never for sale: pass a Crash Test and you are considered for the September editorial.

[List your product](https://launch500.com/submit/free) [How the list is chosen](https://launch500.com/launch500)

## What money can never buy here.

Published as a list, not a paragraph, so you can hold us to every line. Listings and tests pay for the bench; none of them buys any of this.

[Read the full breakdown](https://launch500.com/trust/how-we-make-money)

[And the complete scoring maths](https://launch500.com/trust/how-we-score)

- A place on the Launch500 list
- A Crash Test score, or any sub-score
- Removal or editing of a published review
- A place in a ranked 'best' list

- Position in any organic ranking
- Suppression of a named failure
- Access to a reviewer's identity
- A verdict badge without a Crash Test

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