ContentStudio and SocialBee are the closest SaaS competitors to βWave's all-in-one pitch. They're still a monthly rental with your data in someone else's cloud. βWave is the same loop, owned.
Sprout Social is built for social teams with headcount and enterprise budgets. βWave gives solo founders and small teams the same reach — content, publishing, respond — without the per-seat pricing.
Most small businesses actually run marketing on a stitched-together stack: WordPress for the site, Zapier for glue, Buffer for social, and a writer tool for content. Here's the real cost — and what replacing it with βWave actually looks like.
Ahrefs and SEMrush are the gold standard for keyword and backlink data — for Google. Neither tells you anything about how ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini talk about you. βWave does both.
Jasper and Copy.ai write good copy and stop there. βWave writes it, publishes it, syndicates it to social, and checks whether it actually earned you an AI citation.
HubSpot Free gets you in the door of a CRM designed to upsell you into $800+/mo. βWave is actually free, forever, self-hosted — no seat limits, no feature walls, no sales calls.
Buffer and Hootsuite schedule posts. They don't write them, don't track whether AI engines cite you, and don't own your data. βWave does all three, self-hosted, for free.
Profound and Otterly.ai tell you whether ChatGPT and Perplexity mention your brand. They stop there. βWave tracks it too — then writes and publishes the content that actually moves the needle.