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ClaudeThings alternatives for 2026

ClaudeThings sells two catalogs — 89 agents and 103 skills across engineering and marketing, $49 each or $89 bundled. Fair product, fair price. But people search for alternatives for specific reasons, and the right one depends entirely on which reason is yours. Six options below, two of them free — and a section on when to just stay.

Full disclosure: we make one of the alternatives (The Growth Team), so read skeptically. Every figure here comes from each vendor's public page; if any spec is out of date, tell us and we'll correct it.

THE SHORT ANSWER

Switching for marketing outcomes — traffic and AI citations — The Growth Team ($59 one-time) is the direct alternative: a diagnose-first team with the only dedicated GEO agent, versus a catalog you sequence yourself. Want an even bigger catalog: getclaudekit. Want a subscription: theclaudekit. Want free: marketingskills or claude-seo on GitHub. Keeping their engineering catalog while switching marketing stacks is a perfectly good move.

First, the diagnosis

Why people look for alternatives

Four reasons show up again and again. Match yours before picking — each one points at a different alternative.

YOU NEED AI CITATIONS

ClaudeThings' catalogs don't state any GEO coverage — nothing on AI Overviews, Perplexity, or being the source ChatGPT cites. If your buyers ask AI assistants, that's the growing channel their catalog doesn't touch.

YOU WANT A METHOD, NOT A MENU

Eighty-nine agents is a lot of hiring decisions. The catalog leaves diagnosis, sequencing, and prioritization to you — nothing in it will tell you that SEO is the wrong work this month.

YOU WANT PROOF FIRST

Their page publishes no results, case studies, or live-site testing claims. Capability claims are the market norm — but if you buy on receipts, you'll want a vendor who shows theirs.

YOU NEED A DIFFERENT SHAPE

Nothing wrong with the product — you might just need a subscription instead of a purchase, deeper SEO workflows, or a free option to start. Legitimate reasons, alternatives below.

By use case

The six alternatives

Each entry says what it is, what it trades against ClaudeThings, and who it's for. Ours is first and flagged — judge it hardest.

FOR TRAFFIC AND AI CITATIONS, WITH A METHOD That's us — judge accordingly

The Growth Team

kitsforclaude.com $59 one-time

The direct alternative if you bought (or considered) ClaudeThings for marketing. Ten agents, one job: getting a shipped product ranked by Google and cited by ChatGPT. Where their marketing catalog hands you 31 agents to sequence, ours diagnoses your funnel constraint first, refuses work that won't move it, and runs the pipeline in order — keyword map, gated pSEO build, internal links, weekly analytics read. It's also the only Claude Code kit with a dedicated GEO agent, and the only entry on this page with published results: realjoboffers.com went from 0 to 12,400 daily Google impressions in two weeks with 52 generated pages — full case study on this site. 7-day refund.

Read the full head-to-head →

FOR MAXIMUM BREADTH IN ONE PURCHASE

ClaudeKit (getclaudekit.com)

getclaudekit.com $89–399 one-time

The bigger catalog. Their Complete Kit is 274 files — 79 skills and 16 agents across dev and growth — for $149, and Ultimate adds mobile plus five CMS platforms. The trade-offs against ClaudeThings: the growth side is skills only, zero agents, there's no GEO coverage stated either, and their terms offer no refunds. Pick it over ClaudeThings when raw lifecycle coverage per dollar is the whole decision.

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FOR A SUBSCRIPTION ACROSS VERTICALS

ClaudeKit (theclaudekit.com)

theclaudekit.com $14.99–49.99/mo · $99/kit frozen lifetime

A different shape entirely: six vertical kits — engineering, marketing, video, SEO, ecommerce, trading — rented monthly instead of bought. Two things ClaudeThings doesn't offer: per-file token-cost transparency (a published ledger of what each file costs your context window) and a 14-day refund. Two things to weigh: SEO gets a sixth of one maker's attention, and the one-time tier is explicitly frozen at v1.0.0 with no updates.

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FOR DEV + GROWTH WITH THE DEEPEST SEO WORKFLOWS

ClaudeFast

claudefa.st $89–299 one-time

Code and Growth kits with the most SEO workflow depth of the dev-plus-growth bundles: a 9-workflow system covering audit, content, Search Console reporting, GEO, indexing, rank, strategy, and technical SEO, with direct GSC MCP integration. Claims 100+ users with testimonials. No diagnose-first orchestration stated — workflows you drive, like ClaudeThings, but deeper on the SEO lane.

FOR STARTING FREE — MARKETING

coreyhaines31/marketingskills

github.com Free, MIT

Before paying anyone $49, know this exists: 60+ marketing skills — CRO, copywriting, SEO, AI search, pSEO, analytics — by Corey Haines, a SaaS marketer with a public track record, at ~37k GitHub stars. No agents, no orchestration, no support; you drive everything. But it's the honest free benchmark every paid marketing catalog, ClaudeThings included, has to beat.

FOR STARTING FREE — SEO AND GEO

AgriciDaniel/claude-seo

github.com Free, MIT

An open-source SEO plugin with 25 sub-skills and 18 specialist agents — including the deepest free GEO/AEO methodology available (passage citability, question headings, entity signals) and BYOK integrations for DataForSEO and Ahrefs. ~10k stars. SEO only: no funnel diagnosis, CRO, or distribution — but if the SEO lane is all you wanted from ClaudeThings, this covers it for $0.

STAY WITH CLAUDETHINGS IF
✓ You mainly want their engineering catalog — 58 dev agents for everyday coding work at $49 is a fair deal, and none of the growth-focused alternatives here replaces it.
✓ You like assembling your own workflow from a big menu and don't want a method imposed on you.
✓ The $89 bundle price for both catalogs fits your budget better than buying two specialized tools.

An alternatives page that can't name a reason to stay is an ad. These are real reasons — if they're yours, keep it and spend the switching energy shipping.

IF THE REASON IS GROWTH

Catalogs hand you agents. A team hands you the outcome: ranked by Google, cited by ChatGPT.

Diagnose-first method, the only dedicated GEO agent in any kit, quality-gated page systems, published results — and 7 days to change your mind.

Hire the Growth Team →
✓ $59 one-time. 7-day money-back.

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FAQ

Questions people ask

The ones we actually get, answered the way we'd answer them in your inbox.

What's the best ClaudeThings alternative? +

Depends on why you're switching. For marketing outcomes — traffic and AI citations with an orchestrated method — The Growth Team ($59 one-time, 7-day refund). For a bigger catalog, getclaudekit. For a subscription across six verticals, theclaudekit. For starting free, coreyhaines31/marketingskills (marketing) or AgriciDaniel/claude-seo (SEO/GEO).

Is ClaudeThings bad? Why would I switch? +

No — it's a fair catalog at a fair price, and we say so on our comparison page. The common reasons people look elsewhere: no stated GEO/AI-citation coverage, no method (89 agents, but you do the sequencing and diagnosis), and no published results. If none of those bother you, staying is a fine choice.

Are there free ClaudeThings alternatives? +

Yes, good ones. coreyhaines31/marketingskills (~37k stars) covers the marketing lane; AgriciDaniel/claude-seo (~10k stars) covers SEO and GEO with real agents; wshobson/agents (~37k stars) covers the engineering lane. What free repos don't give you: orchestration, a method, quality gates, or anyone maintaining the sequence.

I own ClaudeThings. Can I add The Growth Team instead of replacing it? +

Yes — they coexist as separate .claude/ folders in one repo. Keep their engineering catalog for code work and add the team for growth. What's redundant is running both marketing stacks; on strategy, SEO, and CRO you'd use ours, since it also covers GEO and runs the sequence itself.

Which alternative covers GEO — getting cited by ChatGPT and AI Overviews? +

The Growth Team has the only dedicated GEO agent in any Claude Code kit — scored citability audits via /growth:geo-audit, llms.txt, E-E-A-T. ClaudeFast ships a GEO workflow, theclaudekit's SEOKit an AEO skill, and claude-seo has a deep free methodology. ClaudeThings and getclaudekit state no GEO coverage at all.