Comparisons
Compared honestly, losses included.
Every table below keeps the rows we lose on, and each page says plainly when you should pick the other thing. We would rather lose a deal early than be found out in month three.
- 3
- head-to-head tables
- 34
- capabilities compared across them
- 15
- rows conceded outright
- 5
- gaps against solar-specific platforms
Against the tool you already have, losses left in.
Solset AI vs Zoho CRM
A broad business suite covers a great deal and knows nothing about roofs. We cover the solar job end to end and have a far smaller surface everywhere else.
Solset AI vs HubSpot
Their strength is the top of the funnel — campaigns, nurture, attribution, content. Ours is everything after the enquiry: design, materials, site and money.
Solset AI vs spreadsheets and WhatsApp
How most solar businesses actually run, and it works until two people need the same truth at once. The honest case for changing is shared state and a record that survives somebody leaving.
Where other solar platforms are ahead of us.
The tables above compare us with tools that were never built for solar. Against ones that were, these are the real gaps.
- Live inverter monitoringOther solar platforms pull generation data straight from the inverter vendors after handover. Our data model and vendor registry exist, but no vendor integration works yet — today it accepts readings entered by hand.
- Channel partner and dealer managementIf you sell through a dealer network, some platforms manage those partners and their commissions as a first-class module. We have no dealer concept at all.
- Customer financing and EMIRooftop finance calculators and loan workflows are a module elsewhere. We do not have one — our subsidy tooling covers the Indian scheme only.
- Designing on a phoneA real touch design editor on a phone exists elsewhere. Ours is a desktop tool; the Android app is for site work, not design.
- CAD hand-offExporting the 3D scene for a CAD package is available elsewhere. We export a STAAD structural model and PDFs, not a 3D scene.
Where each of these stands is on the roadmap, with no dates attached to anything nobody has committed to.
What people ask before moving.
Guides on this topic
- Solset AI vs Arka360Design-first or job-first software
- Solset AI vs Solar LadderTwo solar operating systems compared
- Solset AI vs SurgePVA design platform with a CRM, or the other way round
- Solset AI vs PylonPay per design or pay per workspace
- Solset AI vs OpenSolarWhat a free design tool includes and leaves out
- Solset AI vs Aurora SolarThe design incumbent and an operating system
- Solset AI vs SolargrafPermits and proposals, or the whole job
- Solset AI vs SunbaseSolar-only or a multi-trade contractor CRM
- Solset AI vs PVcaseUtility-scale CAD versus an EPC operating system
The only comparison that counts is your own.
Run one real job through the free plan alongside whatever you use now, and see which one you reach for.