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Pulley alternatives, compared honestly

What Pulley is genuinely good at, where it is worth looking elsewhere, and which products compete for the same job.

Glide Research11 Aug 20264 min read

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What are the alternatives to Pulley?

The realistic alternatives to Pulley are the other cap table platforms in the same market — Carta, Pulley, Ledgy, AngelList, Fidelity Private Shares, Eqvista, Cake Equity, Vestd, Astrella and Qapita — plus Toku for token compensation. Glide Equity, shipped in August 2026, is now also in that set, and is by some distance the least proven option in it.

What Pulley is

Pulley is cap table management aimed squarely at founders, with 409A valuations and round-modelling tools for cap tables full of SAFEs and convertible notes. It built its reputation as the founder-friendly Carta alternative, and it publishes its pricing rather than routing everything through sales.

What Pulley is genuinely good at

Round and dilution modelling that founders actually use themselves rather than handing to a finance hire
Published pricing, which is rarer in this category than it should be
409A valuations offered alongside the cap table
Set-up that does not need an implementation project

Who Pulley is for

Early-stage founders who model their own rounds and want to see dilution before signing a term sheet
SAFE-heavy pre-priced-round cap tables
Teams who want to know the price before booking a call

Choose Pulley over Glide if

You want a Carta-class cap table without a Carta-class bill
You are pre-Series A and modelling rounds is the daily job
You value a published price over a negotiated one

Trade-offs worth checking yourself

These are trade-offs, not defects, and scope in this market changes. Confirm anything that would change your decision directly with Pulley.

Smaller ecosystem footprint than Carta, so a few investors and law firms will have workflows built around Carta instead
Less breadth at the top end — if you also need fund administration, that is a different vendor
Confirm jurisdiction coverage if you are not a US C-corp

Side by side

Feature	GlideShipped August 2026	Pulley
Cap table of record	Yes — shipped August 2026	Core product, years of track record
Round and dilution modellingThis is Pulley’s signature strength and Glide has no equivalent inside the product.	No — records rounds after the fact; free public calculators for scenarios	Built into the product
409A valuations	No — records a valuation obtained elsewhere	Offered
Published pricing	No published pricing yet	Yes
Stablecoin treasury and payouts	Yes	Not what it does

Compiled from Pulley's own published positioning, August 2026. Rows are answered feature by feature, and the ones Glide does not cover say "No" rather than being left out.

What Glide does today

Glide is a stablecoin business account that added a cap table, Glide Equity, in August 2026. It covers the register and the workflow around it; it does not cover valuations, fund administration, national plan types or tokens, and it is the newest product in this comparison by a wide margin.

Glide Equity: a cap table of record for shares, options, RSUs, SAFEs and convertible notes, on an exact whole-share ledger
Set up from scratch or migrate from Carta by uploading your Carta export files
Email invitations, an accept-your-equity flow with e-signature, and holder logins that show a holder their own position only
Data rooms, document storage, recorded valuations and rounds, and a full audit trail
Stablecoin treasury: hold and move USDC on Solana and EVM chains
On-chain multisig vaults — Safe on EVM, Squads on Solana — with M-of-N approvals
Multi-rail payouts (ACH, SEPA, FPS, PIX, wire) alongside on-chain settlement
Cards, payroll and contractor payments from the same balance
Free equity calculators — dilution, vesting, SAFE conversion, waterfall, token unlocks

Other options worth a look

Other options worth a look
Product	Why it is on this list
Carta	The default. Broader, better known, usually pricier.
Ledgy	If your team is spread across European jurisdictions.
Eqvista	If price is the binding constraint.

A fuller survey, including products Glide does not compare against directly, is at /alternatives/carta-alternatives.

Frequently asked questions

Is Pulley a good Carta alternative?

It is the closest like-for-like option for a US startup. The usual reasons to prefer it are round modelling that founders drive themselves, a published price, and a lighter setup. The usual reason to stay with Carta is ecosystem familiarity at diligence.

Can I use Glide instead of Pulley?

For the register, yes — Glide Equity ships and imports from a Carta export. For modelling a round before you sign a term sheet, no: that is built into Pulley and Glide only offers free public calculators outside the product. If modelling is why you were looking at Pulley, Pulley is the answer.

Does Pulley do 409A valuations?

Pulley offers 409A valuations alongside the cap table. Confirm turnaround, refresh cadence and audit support directly, since those terms drive the real cost more than the headline plan price.

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