Zero to Hundred vs Acquire.com
They sell different things, so the fee comparison matters less than it looks. Acquire.com sells businesses: revenue and customers change hands once and the seller leaves. Zero to Hundred sells non-exclusive licences to working software, so nothing changes hands and the same build can be sold again. Acquire.com charges $25 to $100 a month to list plus a 6% to 8% closing fee. Zero to Hundred is free to list and takes 8% plus $0.50 when you bring the Buyer yourself, or 25% when the Buyer finds your listing here. Bring your own Buyer and the closing rate at the small end is the same on both.
Acquire.com figures are quoted from their published pricing pages, verified 18 August 2026. Check them before relying on this page.
What does each one actually sell?
Acquire.com is an acquisition marketplace. A buyer purchases a business: the software plus the revenue, the customers, and the accounts holding them. One transaction, one new owner, and the seller is out.
Zero to Hundred is a licence marketplace. A Buyer pays once for a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual licence to use, modify, and deploy the software, including in their own commercial products. There is no revenue attached and no customer list. The Builder keeps the copyright and can license the same software to the next Buyer.
That is the whole comparison. Everything below is detail.
What does it cost a seller?
Bring your own Buyer and the closing rate at the small end is identical. Two things differ: what you pay before anything sells, and what happens when we find the Buyer instead of you.
| Asking price | Acquire.com | Zero to Hundred |
|---|---|---|
| Under $250k | $25/mo to list, 8% closing fee | $0 to list, 8% + $0.50 on a sale you bring, 25% on one we bring |
| $250k to $1M | $50/mo to list, 7% closing fee | $0 to list, 8% + $0.50 on a sale you bring, 25% on one we bring |
| Above $1M | $100/mo to list, 6% closing fee | $0 to list, 8% + $0.50 on a sale you bring, 25% on one we bring |
Take a $5,000 price. On Acquire.com that is $25 a month while the listing is up plus $400 at closing, so a listing that takes eight months to sell costs $600 in total. Here it is $400.50 if you brought the Buyer through your own link, and nothing before that. If we brought the Buyer, it is $1,250, which is the more expensive outcome of the two and worth knowing before you list. The trade is that we did the finding.
The larger difference is repeatability. A business sells once. A non-exclusive licence at $5,000 sold three times over two years is $15,000, with $1,201.50 in commission if you brought every Buyer and $3,750 if we brought all three. That comparison is not apples to apples, and it should not be read as one: a business with real revenue can sell for far more than three licences, because the buyer is purchasing income rather than code. Which number is bigger depends entirely on whether your software has customers.
What does it cost a buyer?
Acquire.com has a free tier that shows public listings and basic company information. Detailed financials, traffic and customer metrics, and the diligence and closing tooling sit behind a paid membership starting at $390. Their published terms note that memberships are not refundable pro rata after the first seven days.
Zero to Hundred charges buyers nothing. Every listing carries a working demo or a walkthrough video and a seller disclosure form, all public. There is nothing behind a paywall, because there are no financials to put there. You are evaluating software. The business it might have belonged to is not part of the sale.
How do the two models differ, line by line?
| Acquire.com | Zero to Hundred | |
|---|---|---|
| What changes hands | A business. Revenue, customers, and the accounts holding them. | A licence to working software. No revenue, no customers, no copyright. |
| How many times you can sell it | Once. The business has a new owner. | As often as it sells. The licence is non-exclusive and the listing stays live. |
| Cost to list | $25 to $100 a month, charged while the listing is up. | $0. |
| Cost for a buyer to see details | Paid membership, starting at $390. | $0. Every listing has a public demo or walkthrough video. |
| Practical floor on a deal | A business with revenue worth running a diligence process over. | Any price. Every sale runs the same way regardless of size. |
| What the seller does afterwards | Hands over and walks away. | Keeps the copyright, keeps the listing, keeps selling. |
What is Acquire.com better at?
Several things, and they are not close.
- Actually leaving. If you want to stop working on something and be done with it, a business sale is the product that does that. A licence does not. Your listing stays live and Buyers keep arriving.
- Turning revenue into money. If your software has paying customers, most of its value sits in that revenue, and a licence sale captures none of it. Sell the business.
- Buyer volume and buyer intent. Their buyer base is far larger than ours, and a paid membership filters for people who are financially serious. A new marketplace cannot claim either.
- Deal machinery. Diligence tooling, legal templates, and closing support built for transactions with real financial complexity.
Where is Zero to Hundred the wrong choice?
Five cases, stated plainly, because you will find them out anyway.
- You want to buy income. Nothing here comes with revenue or customers. Wrong marketplace.
- You want to be the only one who has it. The licence is non-exclusive by design. The same software is available to other Buyers, including your competitors.
- You want the platform to vouch for the code. Sellers sign in through GitHub and a Builder can verify ownership of the source repository. That is repository verification. It is not a security review, and it is not a code audit.
- You want to try before you commit. There is no evaluation window at any price. The code is delivered the moment you pay, you have 24 hours to report a factual problem, and then the sale is final. The demo on the listing is the evaluation.
- You need deep inventory today. This marketplace is new and the catalogue is small. That is a real reason to wait.
Which one should you use?
Selling, and your software has paying customers you are ready to hand over: Acquire.com. That value only exists in a business sale.
Selling, and your software works but has no revenue, or has revenue you want to keep: here. A non-exclusive licence lets you sell the build without giving up the thing you built.
Buying, and you want a business that already earns: Acquire.com.
Buying, and you want working software to deploy or build on, usually for a client, without writing it: here. That is the case this marketplace exists for.
Common questions
Is Zero to Hundred cheaper than Acquire.com? It depends on who finds the Buyer. Bring your own and the closing rate at the small end matches theirs at 8%, with no listing fee and no buyer membership on top, so the total is lower and the same build can be sold more than once. If the Buyer finds you through this marketplace, the rate is 25%, which is higher than anything Acquire.com charges at closing.
Can you list on both? Yes. Nothing here requires exclusivity.
Do you own what you buy here? No. It is a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual licence to use, modify, and deploy. You cannot resell, re-list, sub-license, or redistribute it as a product. The Builder keeps the copyright.
Is money protected during a purchase? Not by escrow, which this marketplace does not use. The code is delivered immediately on every purchase. You have 24hours to report a factual problem, and the Builder's payout is held for 72 hours, so a report filed in time is reviewed before the money moves. If that is thinner protection than you want on a given purchase, it is worth weighing against a diligence process on a business sale.
Zero to Hundred is not affiliated with Acquire.com. Their figures are quoted from their own published pricing pages as of 18 August 2026 and may have changed.
