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FreeAgent vs Stigg
A side-by-side editorial comparison of FreeAgent and Stigg — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
FreeAgent vs Stigg: at a glance
What is FreeAgent?
FreeAgent widens VAT and mobile MTD tools while pitching itself as accounting for every business.
FreeAgent's recent feed is filling in its compliance core. Over the summer it shipped quarterly Making Tax Digital submissions from mobile and seven VAT workflow improvements, and in October its Director of Product framed the roadmap as building FreeAgent for every business type, after June's Landlords product and the CIS simplification.
What is Stigg?
Stigg moves its entitlements and credit checks inside agent orchestrators and gateways.
Stigg now runs inside agent orchestration layers, applying entitlements, credits and budgets to each step of an agent run, and its Agent SDK supports solo.io and agentgateway out of the box. It also lets customers bill subscriptions through Airwallex invoices and payment links. This lands a day after new pricing with a free plan and monthly billing, and three days after Usage Governance went GA.
FreeAgent vs Stigg: editorial side-by-side
FreeAgent
2.5FINANCE
FreeAgent widens VAT and mobile MTD tools while pitching itself as accounting for every business.
◆ Current state
FreeAgent's recent feed is filling in its compliance core. Over the summer it shipped quarterly Making Tax Digital submissions from mobile and seven VAT workflow improvements, and in October its Director of Product framed the roadmap as building FreeAgent for every business type, after June's Landlords product and the CIS simplification.
◆ Where it's heading
The pattern is segment-by-segment expansion (landlords, construction subcontractors) on top of a UK tax compliance base that keeps getting deeper. MTD for Income Tax is the anchor: each segment gets tooling for the filing obligations it now faces.
◆ Prediction
Posts are sparse and mostly retrospective, so timing is unclear; the next visible move is likely MTD for Income Tax readiness work ahead of its rollout, possibly another segment-specific product.
Stigg
7.5FINANCE
Stigg moves its entitlements and credit checks inside agent orchestrators and gateways.
◆ Current state
Stigg now runs inside agent orchestration layers, applying entitlements, credits and budgets to each step of an agent run, and its Agent SDK supports solo.io and agentgateway out of the box. It also lets customers bill subscriptions through Airwallex invoices and payment links. This lands a day after new pricing with a free plan and monthly billing, and three days after Usage Governance went GA.
◆ Where it's heading
Stigg is placing its billing engine at the points where AI agents spend money: the orchestrator, the gateway and credit reservation before each operation. Billing-backend breadth, now Airwallex invoicing, keeps pace in the background.
◆ Prediction
Expect more gateway and orchestrator integrations in the Agent SDK and its move out of beta. Billing backends will likely keep widening around Airwallex and its peers.
Alternatives to FreeAgent and Stigg
Other Finance products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either FreeAgent or Stigg.
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LNbits
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Kolleno
Kolleno is stretching from collections software toward the whole cash cycle.
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Recent activity from FreeAgent and Stigg
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 9d agoStiggStigg Now Runs Inside Your Agent Orchestrator
- 9d agoStiggSupport for solo.io and agentgateway in the Agent SDK
- 10d agoStiggBill subscriptions using invoices and payment links with Airwallex
- 10d agoStiggStigg's New Pricing Is Now Generally Available ⚡
- 12d agoStiggUsage Governance Is Now Generally Available
- 15d agoStiggIntroducing Stigg's New Navigation
- 1mo agoFreeAgentProduct spotlight: building FreeAgent for every business
- 2mo agoFreeAgent7 ways we’ve improved FreeAgent’s VAT functionality
- 3mo agoFreeAgentFile MTD quarterly updates on the go from your mobile
- 5mo agoFreeAgentProduct spotlight: FreeAgent for Landlords ⚡
- 5mo agoFreeAgentA game changer for landlord clients: automatically capture and categorise rental statements
- 6mo agoFreeAgentProduct spotlight: CIS simplified
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between FreeAgent and Stigg?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Stigg is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 2.5), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is FreeAgent better than Stigg?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Stigg is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 2.5), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Finance products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to FreeAgent?
Top FreeAgent alternatives in Finance are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "FreeAgent alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/freeagent for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Stigg?
Top Stigg alternatives in Finance are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Stigg alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/stigg for the full list with editorial commentary on each.