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DealOrb vs Kumo

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DealOrb and Kumo, attribute by attribute
AttributeDealOrbKumo
What It IsAI-native entrant (launched late 2025) combining on-market deal aggregation, a Chrome extension that auto-extracts financials from BizBuySell/BizQuest listings, with AI-powered CIM analysis.Aggregates on-market business-for-sale listings from thousands of brokerages and marketplaces into one deduplicated feed with saved searches and alerts. Pro is now sold on a coverage figure, real-time access to all 100,000+ deals, and the Ultimate tier bundles AI deal analysis (DealScreen.ai), BuyerFit scoring, broker activity tracking, SDE normalization and stress-test scenarios on top of the feed.
CategoryAI Deal AnalysisDeal Aggregators
Pricing ModelSubscriptionFreemium
What It CostsPublished on the vendor's site (dealorb.ai, August 2026): Starter $49 a month, Growth $79 a month, Pro quoted rather than listed. The $99, $299 and $999 tiers recorded in July are no longer on the page, and the caps moved with the prices. Starter now covers 25 document analyses and 25 active deals, Growth is unlimited on both, and agentic off-market sourcing is listed in every tier since it went live.Basic free (no credit card, but listings shown 30+ days old, and a BuyerProfile beta with two saved searches and unlimited mini screens); Pro $89/mo (list $100); Ultimate $149/mo (list $200); Enterprise custom. No commissions or success fees.
Best ForEarly adopters who want AI screening layered onto marketplace browsingSearchers who want full on-market coverage without checking a dozen marketplaces by hand
Where It FitsSource & Screen DealsSource & Screen Deals
Our VerdictThe AI-native option in this category and cheap enough to trial; brand-new, so treat its vendor-reported traction with caution and confirm it fits your workflow before you rely on it.The default on-market aggregator for a reason: start free, then upgrade when alert speed starts costing you deals.
Pros
  • Genuinely AI-native approach to listing extraction and CIM screening
  • Priced for individuals, not private equity
  • Broadest practical on-market coverage; the vendor claims 700+ new deals added daily from thousands of broker sources
  • Genuine free tier with no credit card required
  • Clean saved-search and alert workflow
Cons
  • Brand-new (domain registered Nov 2025) with no track record
  • All claims and pricing are the vendor's own; their blog self-ranks them #1
  • Its off-market sourcing went live in 2026 as agentic sourcing, with no outside record yet of what it finds
  • Free tier only surfaces listings 30+ days old, too slow for competitive deals
  • Scale claims (100k+ active deals, $538B combined revenue) are unaudited vendor marketing with ambiguous definitions, and the deal count is now a tier promise rather than a marketing line
  • Experienced searchers debate long-term utility; see the 'outgrowing Kumo' Searchfunder thread

Both rows were read at source: DealOrb ↗ and Kumo ↗.

Our take

Choose DealOrb when the screening is the job and you already have your own sources: $49 a month at the entry tier for 25 document reads and 25 active deals, $79 for unlimited. A browser extension pulls financials straight off BizBuySell and BizQuest listings, and AI reads the documents a broker sends. It is the newer and less proven of the two. The domain was registered in late 2025, every claim and price on it is the vendor's own, and the off-market sourcing it advertises went live in 2026 as agentic sourcing in every tier, with no outside record yet of what it finds.

Choose Kumo's Ultimate tier when you want one bill instead of two: $149 a month buys the deduplicated feed across thousands of brokerages and bundles AI deal analysis, SDE normalization and stress-test scenarios on top of it. Read that number against DealOrb's $79 plus whatever you were going to pay for coverage, because the two products overlap more than the category names suggest. What Kumo does not have is a listing-page extension, so a buyer who lives inside the marketplaces themselves loses the piece that makes DealOrb quick.

Looking wider than these two: alternatives to Kumo, each with a line on when it is the better pick.