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Eight real Alloy Software alternatives compared on price, billing units, AI scope and on-prem support, with the one question that actually decides the shortlist.

AiTrillion bundles 11+ Shopify modules into one contact-based bill, and nothing on that ladder is a support metric. Here are 8 alternatives with the real numbers.

AiTrillion starts at $9 a month, but the meter is active contacts, not buyers. Here's every 2026 tier, the overage rate, and the five actions that flip a contact to billable.

ClearFeed spreads three products across five rate ladders and bills you on whichever meter is higher. Here are 8 alternatives, with the real numbers.

Kitesurf is free while it is in beta, and it dropped WebGL, video and logged-in sessions to get there. Here are 10 Cloudflare Kitesurf alternatives with real per-hour rates.

Cloudflare built a browser for AI agents in twelve weeks, with no Chromium underneath. It uses 3 to 7x less CPU and memory than Chromium and takes 1.7 to 1.8x longer on the clock. Browser Run bills the clock. Here is the architecture, the benchmark read honestly, the compatibility gate, and the arithmetic on who this is actually cheaper for.

I read every benchmark row, every hands-on report and three days of real traffic on DeepSeek's first vision model. The verdict turned out to be about the text.

DeepSeek charges the plain text rate for images and caps every one at 384 tokens, which works out to roughly 11,800 screenshots per dollar. Here is the full rate card, the arithmetic against five rival vision models, and the three levers that actually move your bill.

Alibaba's screen-driving agent has no weights, no API and no price. Here are the eight Qwen-UI-Agent alternatives you can put to work today.