9 BuiltWith Alternatives Compared: What $0–$300 a Month Actually Gets You (2026)

BuiltWith's cheapest paid plan costs $295/month and covers just two technologies. If your target list needs three, say "Shopify stores using Klaviyo and Yotpo," you're on Pro at $495/month.

That cap matters more than the headline price, so this guide compares alternatives on what their entry plan actually unlocks: how many technologies you can build lists from, what's metered, and whether API access is included. Every price below was checked on the vendor's own pricing page in October 2026.

Disclosure: we build TechPeeker, one of the tools in this list. We've noted where competitors are the better pick, and where TechPeeker falls short.

BuiltWith pricing in 2026

The plans differ mainly in how many technologies and keywords you can build reports from, according to BuiltWith's plans page.

Pro also raises upload-analysis credits from 2,000 to 20,000, per BuiltWith's knowledge base. Third-party reviews report that API access sits on Pro and above.

What every plan includes is BuiltWith's real strength: a database of 414 million domains and more than 18 years of technology usage history. If you need to see when a site added or dropped a tool years ago, none of the alternatives below fully replaces that. If you mostly need prospect lists, keep reading.

Quick comparison: what the entry plan unlocks

Headline prices hide very different limits. Here's the cheapest paid plan of each tool, sorted by price.

Free options: Wappalyzer's free account gives 50 lookups a month. Web Reveal's scanner and extension, WhatRuns and TechPeeker's website checker are all free for single sites. Any of these works for checking one site before a call. Hunter TechLookup gives free single-technology lists; no free tool builds filtered lists across several technologies.

The 9 BuiltWith alternatives

1. TechPeeker: best for unlimited technographic lead lists

TechPeeker turns technology detection into prospect lists. You search by technology or keyword, filter, and export without counting credits. The database covers 800+ technologies across more than 17 million websites. It's our product, so weigh this section with that in mind.

Pick it if you build new lists every week and want one flat price. Skip it if you need years of adoption history, more than one seat on a self-serve plan, or coverage of niche technologies; BuiltWith's index is far larger.

2. Wappalyzer: best for lookups while you browse

Wappalyzer's browser extension shows a site's stack the moment you land on it. A free account adds 50 lookups and email verifications a month, plus sample lead lists.

Annual billing saves 17%, and included API credits expire after 60 days.

Pick it if your team lives in the browser and wants CRM enrichment. Skip it if list-building across many technologies is the goal: that needs Business at $450/mo.

3. SimilarTech: best for traffic-ranked lists and tech alerts

SimilarTech is the technology arm of Similarweb, and that parent company shows in the product. Every lead list comes with traffic estimates, so you can sort prospects by size before you reach out. It also sends alerts when a site adds or drops a technology you track.

There's a free trial, and the free browser extension covers single-site lookups.

Pick it if you rank accounts by web traffic and want change alerts on competitor technologies. Skip it if you export often: 3 exports of 1,000 sites a month is tight for $290, and the next tier is billed yearly at $12,000.

4. WebTechSurvey: best for API access on a starter plan

WebTechSurvey keeps it simple: detection, lead lists and export, with unlimited technology lookups and API access on every plan.

A domain lookup costs 1 credit and a live scan costs 2. You can also buy credits without a subscription, from $200 for 2,000.

Pick it if you want API from day one. Skip it if you export large lists often: credits run out faster than a flat plan.

5. Bloomberry: best for adoption and churn signals

Bloomberry works differently. Instead of reading a website's code, it reads infrastructure signals like new subdomains, DNS records and certificate logs. That lets it track when companies start or stop paying for 1,700+ B2B products, including CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot, HR and AI tools that never appear on a website.

Enterprise plans are custom. A free trial is available on request.

Pick it if you sell against a few specific competitors and timing matters. Skip it if you need front-end stack detection or broad coverage; it's a signals tool, not a tech profiler.

6. Snov.io: best when outreach is the end goal

Snov.io is an outreach platform with prospect search, email finding, verification and campaigns in one place. Technology lookup is one input, not the core product.

Annual billing saves 25%, and every plan has unlimited team seats. The free trial excludes exports, API and bulk search.

Pick it if you want email finding and sequences in the same tool. Skip it if filtering by tech stack is the heart of your targeting.

7. Hunter TechLookup: best free list download

Hunter is best known as an email finder, but its TechLookup tool lets you download lists of websites using a given technology for free. Pick a technology, download the CSV, then send the domains to Hunter's Domain Search to find contacts.

Credits pay for finding and verifying emails, not for TechLookup downloads.

Pick it if you want a free starting list for one technology and plan to find emails in the same place. Skip it if you need lists that combine several technologies, filter by country or traffic, or cover niche tools. TechLookup works one technology at a time.

8. Web Reveal: best free live scanner

Web Reveal checks a site live, so results reflect what's deployed right now. It reads HTML, scripts, meta tags and response headers and tracks 980+ technologies. The scanner and Chrome extension are free for single sites.

The Bulk Scanner, from $19.99/mo, handles 100 domains a day with CSV export.

Pick it if you already have a domain list or need a current answer before a call. Skip it if you need to find companies by technology; it doesn't build lists.

9. WhatRuns: best free extension for WordPress plugins and themes

WhatRuns is a free Chrome and Firefox extension with 300,000+ users. Click the icon on any site to see its CMS, frameworks, analytics, fonts, and the WordPress plugins and theme it runs. You can also follow sites and get notified when their stack changes.

Pick it if you check sites one at a time and care about WordPress details. Skip it if you need lists or exports. WhatRuns only analyzes sites you visit.

Data freshness: crawled database vs. live scan

Build lists from a database, then confirm your most important accounts with a free live scan before outreach.

• Crawled database (BuiltWith, TechPeeker, Wappalyzer lists, SimilarTech, WebTechSurvey, Hunter TechLookup): sites are crawled on a schedule and stored, so "every Shopify store in Germany" comes back in seconds. Each record is only as fresh as its last crawl.
• Live scan (browser extensions, Web Reveal, WhatRuns, single-site checkers): the page is fetched the moment you ask, so the answer is current. But it can't search the web for you.
• Infrastructure signals (Bloomberry): reads DNS and subdomain changes to date when a company adopted or dropped a product.

This matters most for recent migrations. A store that moved from WooCommerce to Shopify last month is exactly the prospect you want, and exactly the one a stale record can get wrong. How often a tool re-crawls matters more than how many sites it claims to index.

Credits vs. unlimited: what scales

Credit-based plans are cheapest at low volume; flat plans win once you export regularly.

Take a team exporting 5,000 domains a month. On WebTechSurvey, reports cost 1 credit per domain, so 5,000 exports outgrow the $125 Professional plan (2,000 credits) and land on Business at $300/mo. On TechPeeker Starter, exports are unlimited at $99/mo. On BuiltWith Basic, the volume is fine at $295/mo, as long as your list is built from no more than two technologies.

Which tool fits your job?

Verdict: is BuiltWith worth $295–$995 a month?

For market research that depends on history, yes. Nothing else here has 18 years of data on 414 million domains.

For building pipeline, usually not. Basic's two-technology cap is too tight for most targeting, and lifting it costs $495/mo. If your goal is exportable prospect lists, a flat-priced list tool plus a free live scanner covers the same workflow for a fraction of the cost.

For a head-to-head on plans, data depth and switching, see TechPeeker vs BuiltWith.

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