Where Can I Sell My SaaS? Best Available Options Compared

Search "where can I sell my SaaS" and you'll get a pile of options that all sound similar until you actually compare what they cost and who they're built for. Some are made for six-figure-and-up deals with a broker doing the work; some are self-serve marketplaces with real fees; some are free but come with no filtering at all. Here's what each one actually costs and fits, in real numbers.

Flippa

Flippa charges sellers two separate costs: an upfront listing fee and a success fee taken when the business sells. The listing fee scales with your asking price — roughly $29 for anything under $10,000, up to $59-$99 for the $10,000-$999,999 range, and $999 for a 9-month brokerage package on assets over $100,000. On top of that, the success fee runs 5-15% of the sale price, typically around 10% for most deals under $50,000. Listing fees are non-refundable, so you pay it whether or not the business actually sells.

Who it fits: businesses with real, verifiable revenue where the buyer pool and negotiation support are worth a meaningful cut. Less economical for a pre-revenue or very small side project, where the listing fee alone is a real cost with no guarantee of a sale.

Acquire.com (formerly MicroAcquire)

Acquire.com — the platform most people still know as MicroAcquire before it rebranded in 2023 — charges sellers a monthly listing fee (roughly $25-$100 depending on your plan) plus a closing fee of 6-8% of the sale price when it sells, with the lower percentage kicking in only above $250,000. Since the rebrand, the platform has moved upmarket toward larger deals and added tiered subscriptions on the buyer side too.

Who it fits: SaaS businesses with enough traction to justify paying a listing fee every month the deal is live, and enough deal size that the 8% (or 6% above $250k) closing fee isn't disproportionate. A $2,000 micro-SaaS sale would lose $160+ to the closing fee alone, on top of however many months of listing fees it takes to find a buyer.

Empire Flippers

Empire Flippers is a full-service broker: no listing fee, but a blended commission of 15% on the portion of the sale under $700,000, dropping to 8% between $700,000 and $5 million. The catch for a micro SaaS: there's a $10,000 minimum commission, regardless of deal size. On a $20,000 sale, that $10,000 minimum works out to an effective 50% cut — Empire Flippers is simply not built for deals in the range most side-project and micro-SaaS sales actually happen in.

Who it fits: established, profitable businesses selling for well into six figures or more, where full buyer vetting, negotiation, and migration support are worth the commission. Not a realistic option below roughly $70,000-$100,000 in sale price, once the minimum commission is factored in.

Traditional business brokers

Generalist M&A brokers (not SaaS-specific) typically charge 10-15% commission and often set a minimum deal size before they'll even take you on as a client — frequently well above what a micro SaaS sells for. The value they add — buyer network, deal structuring, negotiation — is real, but it's priced for businesses where that expertise measurably changes the outcome, not a solo-run product doing a few hundred dollars a month.

Founder communities, forums, and social posts

Indie Hackers, relevant subreddits, X, and founder Slack/Discord communities cost nothing to post in. The tradeoff is exactly what you'd expect from free and unfiltered: no barrier to entry means a lot of people who reply are browsing, not buying, and you end up doing unpaid triage to find the one serious message in twenty casual ones. It works, but it's slow and noisy, and there's no verification that anyone messaging you can actually pay.

Direct outreach to likely buyers

An underused option: identify who would actually benefit from owning your product — a competitor, an agency already serving your niche, a founder building something adjacent — and reach out directly. It takes real effort to identify good targets and write a pitch that lands, but a buyer who already understands the space converts faster and asks sharper (i.e., more trustworthy) questions than a cold lead from a public post.

Flat-fee marketplaces built for micro SaaS

This is the category the options above don't really cover: a marketplace sized for pre-revenue and small revenue-generating products specifically, charging a flat one-time fee instead of a percentage. SellMySaaS, for example, charges $4.99 to list (a founders introductory price, regularly $9.99) with no commission on the sale — on a $2,000 sale, that's the fee, full stop, versus $160-$229+ on the percentage-based options above. Buyers verify their email before a message reaches you, which filters out at least some of the noise a free community post gets, without the cost of a broker built for much bigger deals.

Which one should you actually use?

• Pre-revenue or under ~$5,000 asking price: a flat-fee marketplace built for micro SaaS, or a well-targeted community post/direct outreach if you'd rather pay nothing and can tolerate more noise
• Roughly $5,000-$50,000: a flat-fee marketplace still makes sense — a percentage-based platform's fees start eating a real chunk of the sale at this range
• $50,000-$700,000 with real, stable revenue: Flippa or Acquire.com, where their buyer pool and tooling are worth the percentage
• $700,000+ or you want full-service brokerage: Empire Flippers or a traditional M&A broker

The honest pattern across every option here: the bigger and more predictable the revenue, the more a percentage-based fee makes sense, because the platform's buyer network and negotiation support measurably change the outcome. Below that, on the deal sizes most side projects and micro SaaS actually sell for, a flat fee (or nothing at all, if you're willing to trade cost for noise) almost always nets you more than losing 10-15%, or more, of a sale that was never that large to begin with.