Top Eqvista Alternatives in 2026

Mantle flips the pricing model Eqvista buyers often outgrow. Instead of charging per stakeholder, every plan is a flat annual fee, and the free Starter tier includes unlimited stakeholders rather than Eqvista's 20-person cap. Essentials runs $1,200 a year for e-signing, board actions, and option exercising, and Growth at $3,000 a year bundles one 409A valuation, with extra valuations at $1,800 each. That's a real jump from Eqvista's $990 pre-revenue bundle, but the math flips once your stakeholder count grows, since Mantle never charges more for adding people. Mantle Clerk, its AI assistant launched in June 2026, reads legal documents and drafts the resulting cap table entries. The tradeoffs: no monthly billing, a login flow that emails a fresh link on every access that some users find annoying, and no stock-based compensation calculator for finance teams that need one.

Cake Equity mirrors Eqvista's core idea, price by stakeholder count and bundle the 409A valuation in, but starts smaller and scales differently. The Free plan covers just 5 stakeholders versus Eqvista's 20, while Build stretches to 25 for $1,000 a year and Team to 40 for $2,750 a year with two audit-ready 409A valuations included annually. Extra stakeholders cost $1 each on Build and $5 each on Team, so costs climb with headcount much like Eqvista's per-seat model does. The My Cake employee portal lets stakeholders view and exercise their own equity, a feature Eqvista doesn't offer. Reviewers say the option distribution logic takes real effort to learn and that cap table recalculation can lag. Pro, the top tier for international or more complex cap tables, is quote-only.

Carta is the category's default, and for founders leaving Eqvista chiefly for name recognition, that matters: most VCs, lawyers, and auditors already know how to read a Carta cap table. Its free Launch plan covers up to 25 stakeholders and $1M raised, a notch above Eqvista's 20-stakeholder cutoff, and Carta also acts as its own SEC-registered transfer agent for option exercises. The catch is pricing. Every paid tier past Launch, Build, Grow, and Scale, is a custom quote with no published number, and third-party write-ups based on real customer contracts describe renewal jumps as steep as $99 to $3,000 in one case. Board meetings, 409A valuations, and GAAP/IFRS reporting sit behind the higher Grow and Scale tiers rather than Build, so budget-conscious switchers should expect to negotiate.

Pulley was built to compete directly with Carta, and it shares Eqvista's instinct for publishing real prices instead of hiding behind a sales call. Startup runs $1,200 a year for your first 25 stakeholders, and Growth is $3,500 a year for up to 40, bundling 409A valuations, option exercises, and Rule 701/Form 3921 support rather than charging for them separately. That's more than Eqvista's cheapest pre-revenue bundle, and still more than Eqvista's Seed ($1,990) and Series A ($2,590) bundles, which already include the cap table at no extra charge. Pulley's edge here is published pricing and no funding-stage step-up, not a lower sticker price. There's no free plan, and stakeholder caps mean growing past 40 people pushes you into a custom Enterprise quote, the same kind of wall Eqvista hits at 50. One G2 reviewer also flagged that canceling isn't self-service.

Ledgy's biggest edge over Eqvista is the free tier's size: Launch is free forever for up to 50 stakeholders, more than double Eqvista's 20-person cutoff, and covers real cap table management and equity plan automation, not a stripped demo. Past that, Scale, Enterprise, and Public are all custom quotes, with Ledgy's own site suggesting Scale starts around 4,000 euros a year, a rough floor rather than a fixed price. It adds 70+ HRIS integrations, a vesting tranche builder with performance conditions, and an AI Auditor that checks equity documents against recorded transactions for mismatches. Ledgy is built around European and UK compliance first, and reviewers outside Europe flag the lack of phone support or 24/7 coverage as a real gap worth weighing if your team isn't on European hours.