Acquire.com vs TrustMRR vs Flippa: Best for Indian Buyers? (2026)

Quick answer: Indian buyers can use all three, and each suits a different buyer. Choose TrustMRR for small SaaS or apps where verified revenue matters most, Acquire.com for screened SaaS listings if you will pay for access, and Flippa for the widest choice if you will do your own checks. Pay through escrow on all of them.

If you want to buy an online business from India, three marketplaces now matter. Flippa is the broad, open marketplace. Acquire.com is built around startups and SaaS, screens its listings and charges buyers a subscription. TrustMRR, launched in November 2025, is the newest: every listing’s revenue is pulled straight from the seller’s payment provider.

They suit very different buyers. This guide compares what each sells, what you pay, how much you can trust the numbers, and the fine print that matters when you are paying from India.

None of them is for buying a traditional Indian business like a factory or a clinic. For that, see our comparison of SMERGERS and IndiaBizForSale.

Acquire.com vs TrustMRR vs Flippa at a glance

Fees and plans as published on each platform’s pricing, help, FAQ and terms pages, checked in October 2026. At around ₹95 to the dollar, Acquire.com’s plans cost roughly ₹37,000 and ₹74,000 a year. Fees change, so check before you bid.

Flippa: widest choice, your own checks

Flippa is the biggest and broadest marketplace. It says it has more than 400,000 weekly active buyers and that 85% of its transactions are cross-border, so you are competing with buyers worldwide.

What works for an Indian buyer:

• Browsing is free, and about a third of listings were priced under $10,000 in March 2024, so small budgets have real choice.
• FlippaPay and Escrow.com hold the money until the business is transferred.

What to watch:

• Only listings of $50,000 and above get the “Vetted by Flippa” review. The “Data Verified” badge on smaller listings means third-party data is connected read-only, not that anyone has checked it.
• Flippa’s terms say it makes no warranties about the accuracy of listings, even vetted ones.
• Bidding requires a $5 card hold, and bids or offers of $5,000 or more put a $500 hold on your card. It is released, but plan for it.

Acquire.com: screened startups, paid access

Acquire.com is narrower and built around startups, especially SaaS. Its team reviews listings before they go live.

What works for an Indian buyer:

• Fewer low-quality listings to wade through.
• You talk to founders directly once you have a paid plan, and make offers through a standard LOI.

What to watch:

• The free plan shows only public listing details. Contacting founders needs Premium ($390 a year, for startups up to $250k in annual revenue) or Platinum ($780 a year, all sizes).
• Screening is not due diligence. You still check the numbers yourself.

TrustMRR: verified revenue, small deals

TrustMRR was launched in November 2025 by indie founder Marc Lou. Sellers connect their payment provider with a read-only API key, and revenue syncs to the listing, usually hourly. Supported providers include Stripe, LemonSqueezy, Polar, Paddle, DodoPayment, RevenueCat, Superwall, the App Store, Creem, Whop and Shopify.

What works for an Indian buyer:

• Revenue comes from the payment provider, not a screenshot. For small deals, that removes the most common fraud.
• Deals are small and fast. TrustMRR reports 204 acquisitions worth about $2.18 million in the past year, about $10,700 each on average, with an average of 23 days to sell. That is roughly ₹10 lakh a deal.
• Buying is simple: contact the seller with a name and email, make an offer, and chat in the dashboard.

What to watch:

• Verified revenue is not verified profit. The seller enters the profit margin. Costs, time spent and churn still need checking.
• The numbers can be off. TrustMRR’s own FAQ warns of discrepancies of up to 30% between its figures and the provider’s dashboard, depending on the provider.
• Lump sum only. Escrow supports a single payment. Instalments, earnouts and seller financing are not available on the platform.
• The fee sticks even off-platform. Its terms let TrustMRR charge the platform fee if a deal it introduced closes elsewhere.
• No warranty. TrustMRR says it is not a party to the deal and does not verify information provided by buyers or sellers beyond the revenue sync.

What most Indian buyers don’t know

1. Many Indian SaaS products can’t be verified on TrustMRR. Razorpay, the most common gateway for Indian SaaS, is not on TrustMRR’s supported list as of October 2026. An Indian product billing through Razorpay will show no verified revenue, so it either won’t be listed or you will be relying on the seller’s word.

2. The seller’s fee is in the price. Flippa sellers pay up to 10%, Acquire.com sellers 6% to 8%, and TrustMRR sellers part of 3%. A seller paying 10% will push for a higher price to net the same amount.

3. Escrow is the only safe way to pay a stranger abroad. Flippa and TrustMRR both offer Escrow.com, which holds your money until you confirm the transfer; on Acquire.com, write an escrow service into the LOI. Never send money directly by wire, however friendly the seller.

Paying from India

Buying from a foreign seller means sending money out of India. Two rules matter most:

• LRS limit. Under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme, a resident individual can send up to $250,000 per financial year for permitted purposes.
• TCS. Above ₹10 lakh a year in investment remittances, your bank collects 20% tax at source. It is not a final cost: you claim it against your income tax when you file. A typical TrustMRR deal sits right at that line.

Deal structure matters too. Buying the shares of a foreign company counts as an overseas investment and has its own rules. Buying only the assets, such as the website, code and accounts, is handled differently. Ask your bank and a CA which applies before you sign. Our guides to how much money you need to buy a business in India and the due diligence checklist for India cover the wider budget and checks.

Checks before you pay, on any platform

• Revenue: read-only access to Stripe, PayPal, Shopify or the app stores, not screenshots. On TrustMRR, compare the listing with the provider dashboard yourself.
• Profit: every cost for 12 months, and the hours the seller spends each week.
• Traffic: direct access to Google Analytics and Search Console.
• What transfers: a written list of every account, domain, codebase and supplier that moves to you. With Stripe, customer records can be copied to your account, but subscriptions must be recreated.
• Money held until transfer: use escrow. Never pay a seller directly.

Which one should you use?

• Choose Flippa if your budget is small, you are open to content sites, ecommerce or apps, and you will do your own checks.
• Choose Acquire.com if you want a screened SaaS business and will pay for access.
• Choose TrustMRR if you want a small SaaS or app and verified revenue matters most, and you can pay in one lump sum.
• Use all three if you are actively buying, so you see more of what comes to market.