Buying & selling AI SaaS, answered

What Is a SaaS Multiple?

Your questions about buying and selling AI SaaS, answered: what a multiple means, how vetting and escrow work, what data buyers see, what sellers provide, the fees, and how to value your AI software business.

Valuation

A SaaS multiple is the number you multiply a recurring-revenue metric by to estimate what a software business is worth. Most AI SaaS trades on an ARR multiple (asking price divided by annual recurring revenue, for example 3.8x ARR) or an SDE multiple (a multiple of seller discretionary earnings). The multiple is driven by growth, churn, gross margin and defensibility: faster growth, lower churn and a real AI moat earn a higher multiple. On Buyouts every listing shows its asking price and its multiple so buyers can compare deals on the same terms.

Most AI SaaS trades on an ARR or SDE multiple driven by growth, churn, margin and defensibility. Our valuation guide walks through the multiples and how AI-specific factors (inference margins, model dependencies, an AI moat) move them. You set your price, and the vetted buyer pool helps the market find a fair one.

A success fee of 3% to 5% is a fraction of a typical 15% broker commission, and the buyer membership filters out tire-kickers. So both sides save money and time versus a traditional brokered sale, while still getting verified metrics, vetted buyers and escrow on every close.

Buyers

Public listings show the headline metrics, MRR, ARR, multiple, growth, churn, margin and stack, anonymized. Full financials and the data room are released to vetted buyers after they request access, on the seller's approval. You never see fabricated company names; listings use anonymized handles and category chips.

Yes. Buyers are screened for genuine buying intent and capital before they can request a data room, so sellers only deal with serious, qualified parties. That vetting is what keeps tire-kickers and lowball noise out of the marketplace.

Browsing is free. Buyers pay a monthly access membership (Buyer Access, Buyer Pro or Acquirer) that scales with how actively you acquire. The exact numbers are on the pricing page, and there is no free participation tier.

Sellers

Your core metrics (MRR, ARR, growth and churn), a short business summary, your stack, a reason for selling, and proof so we can verify the numbers. You set the asking price and the multiple, and you stay in control of who you sell to.

Sellers submit metrics (MRR, ARR, growth, churn) and connect proof; we verify before publishing and badge verified listings. Buyers are screened for buying intent and capital, so the verification runs on both sides of every deal.

Sellers pay a one-time listing fee plus a success fee only when a deal closes (3% to 5% by tier), far below a typical 15% broker commission. Nothing is owed on browsing, requests or offers that do not close. Concrete numbers are on the pricing page.

Trust & safety

Buyouts is a curated marketplace: seller metrics are verified before a listing goes live, and buyers are vetted and capital-qualified before they can request a data room. It is built to keep tire-kickers and unverified numbers out, so both sides deal with real, checked information.

Every deal can move through protected escrow: the buyer's funds are held while code, accounts and assets transfer, and only released on a clean handover. Both sides are protected through close, so neither has to trust the other on faith.

No. Our valuation guide and multiples are educational, to help you reason about price. We never guarantee a sale price or a return, and you always set your own asking price and multiple.

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