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Everything on this page comes from what the vendor publishes. Where there is a genuine offer we can verify, it is listed. Where there is not, this page says so rather than dressing up a standard trial as a deal.
What counts as a deal here. A price that is lower than the published list price, for a reason the vendor states publicly. A free trial is not a deal — it is the normal way to buy software, and we list those separately below. We do not accept payment to feature an offer, and an offer appearing here is not a recommendation: read the review first.
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We are not tracking a discount we can stand behind this month. Rather than pad the page, we have left it empty — the free plans and trials below are real and cost nothing, and they are usually the better starting point anyway.
Free forever, not free for a fortnight
Tools with a real free plan
A free plan you can run a business on is worth more than any launch discount. These are the ones where the free tier is a product rather than a trial in disguise.
Mailkeel
Email automation
The free plan is a usable product up to 500 contacts, not a limited trial
Broadcastly
Social scheduling
The cheapest credible option, and the free plan covers one person properly
Try before you buy
Every free trial, side by side
| Tool | Category | Trial or free plan | Starting price | Best for | Test this first |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Draftmill | AI writing | 14-day trial | From $19/user/mo | Small teams | Like everything in this category it invents facts and citations; assume every claim needs checking |
| Pipeforge | CRM | 21-day trial | From $29/user/mo | Growing SMB | Custom reporting is locked to the $79 tier, which is where the real cost sits |
| Mailkeel | Email automation | Free plan, no card | Free plan, then $29/mo | Small teams | Priced per contact, so the bill climbs even when you send less |
| Stackleaf | Headless CMS | 30-day trial | From $45/user/mo | Mid-market | You need a developer to launch it, and probably to keep it running |
| Quotely | Proposals & CPQ | 14-day trial | From $35/user/mo | Growing SMB | Integrations outside sales tools are thin — no accounting sync worth relying on |
| Replyloop | AI support | 14-day trial | From $55/agent/mo | Growing SMB | Fiddly escalation rules are the most-cited setup complaint — budget a day, not an hour |
| Rankcraft | SEO & analytics | 7-day trial | From $79/user/mo | Mid-market | $79 is hard to justify below roughly weekly publishing |
| Dealbase | Lightweight CRM | Free plan | From $14/user/mo | Solo | No team permissions — everyone sees everything |
| Nodewise | AI automation | 14-day trial | From $49/user/mo | Growing SMB | Debugging a failed run is the most repeated complaint — logs say what broke, not why |
| Knowbase | Knowledge base | 14-day trial | From $22/user/mo | Small teams | The editor is limited beyond simple formatting — tables are roughly the ceiling |
| Vaultkit | Digital asset management | 30-day trial | From $65/user/mo | Mid-market | The upfront tagging work is a fortnight nobody budgets for |
| Broadcastly | Social scheduling | Free plan | From $18/user/mo | Solo | Analytics are thin enough that you'll still export to a spreadsheet |
Make the trial count
Five things to do before the clock runs out
Import your real data on day one
Sample data hides every import problem. Load a genuine export from whatever you use now, mess and all, in the first hour.
Run one full week of normal work
Not a demo scenario. The actual Monday-to-Friday, including the awkward job nobody wants to do.
Break the thing the review warns about
Every review here names a main trade-off. Go straight at it — that is the part that will annoy you in month six.
Open a support ticket deliberately
Ask something real and time the reply. Support speed during a trial is the fastest it will ever be.
Check you can get your data back out
Export everything before you pay for anything. If the export is partial or paid-for, treat that as the price of leaving.
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