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Kumo vs BizScout

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Kumo and BizScout, attribute by attribute
AttributeKumoBizScout
What It IsAggregates 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.A 2026-launched acquisition marketplace affiliated with Contrarian Thinking: map-based search over what it describes as 20,000-plus listings, AI matching and quality scoring, off-market inventory, and a DealOS dashboard bundling pipeline tracking, documents, and deal calculators.
CategoryDeal AggregatorsListing Marketplaces
Pricing ModelFreemiumCustom Pricing
What It CostsBasic 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.Published on bizscout.com/pricing and re-read for this refresh, when the Pro tier had more than doubled since the previous reading. Basic is free (full listing database, matching, pipeline, basic calculators); Pro $199 a month billed monthly, $159 a month on a six-month term at $954, or $129 a month annually at $1,548; Contrarian Academy and Private Client both by application. The earlier reading of $83 a month is what the same page said seven weeks before, which is why a price on this shelf is read against the date beside it.
Best ForSearchers who want full on-market coverage without checking a dozen marketplaces by handBuyers already in the Contrarian Thinking orbit who want its aggregated listings and pipeline tooling in one place, and are comfortable evaluating a young platform
Where It FitsSource & Screen DealsSource & Screen Deals
Our VerdictThe default on-market aggregator for a reason: start free, then upgrade when alert speed starts costing you deals.Worth a look if the aggregator you already use feels stale, but make it prove freshness against Kumo before paying for anything.
Pros
  • 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
  • Aggregated inventory with map search and scoring beats raw listing sites for browsing efficiency
  • Bundled pipeline and diligence tooling addresses the document chaos of multi-broker searches
  • Backed by the largest audience in the space, which should keep inventory and features moving
Cons
  • 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
  • Launched in 2026, so platform claims and inventory quality have little independent verification yet
  • The Pro price more than doubled in seven weeks, from $83 a month to $199, so budget from the page rather than from any figure you were quoted earlier
  • Media-company affiliation means the marketplace doubles as a funnel, and listing curation incentives are not transparent

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

Our take

Choose Kumo when finding every listing is the job. It deduplicates on-market inventory from thousands of brokerages and marketplaces into one feed with saved searches and alerts, and Pro is $89 a month. The free tier is genuine and needs no card, but it only shows listings thirty days old or more, which is too slow for anything competitive, so treat it as a way to test the coverage rather than as the way to search.

Choose BizScout when you want the search and the workflow in one place. Its free tier opens the full listing database with matching and pipeline, and Pro at $199 a month adds the tooling: map search, scoring, off-market inventory and a dashboard carrying documents and calculators. Two things to weigh against that. It launched in 2026, so its inventory claims have little independent verification, and the marketplace is affiliated with a media business, which makes it a funnel as well as a market.

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