Brilliant Directories alternatives: six builders, priced

Brilliant Directories alternatives at a glance

The six Brilliant Directories alternatives worth pricing are eDirectory, Directify, GeoDirectory, Directorist, Business Directory Plugin and WildApricot. As the baseline, Brilliant Directories Essentials costs $40 a month billed monthly, or $20 a month billed yearly ($240 a year), on its account pricing page, as read on October 23, 2026. Each row below names its own billing basis. The Brilliant Directories yearly figure may change, and a discounted yearly plan may fall outside the terms' seven-day money-back guarantee, which covers new, full-price subscription plans only.

Hosted alternatives: eDirectory and Directify

eDirectory lists unlimited listings and members on all three of its options. Professional shows a "Powered by eDirectory" label, and the Enterprise cloud service is unbranded. The third option is a self-hosted source license with PHP code you host yourself. Pick eDirectory for unlimited listings; the Brilliant Directories vs eDirectory page sets the two side by side.

Directify counts listings and directories by plan. Free is $0 for one directory with 10 listings. Starter is $12 a month, billed monthly, or $10 a month, billed yearly ($120 a year), for 50 listings. Pro is $39 a month, billed monthly, with unlimited listings and, per its page, payments that go to your own Stripe, Lemon Squeezy or Creem account. Paid plans have a 7-day free trial that needs a card.

Pick Directify for a free or low-cost start, and see Directify alternatives for its own rivals.

WordPress alternatives: GeoDirectory, Directorist and Business Directory Plugin

All three have a free core plugin and run on WordPress hosting you buy separately, which no plugin vendor's page prices.

• GeoDirectory: the Pricing Manager add-on adds paid listings at $49 a year for one site, with payments through GetPaid or WooCommerce plus its paid Subscriptions plugin. Refund window: 30 days, first purchase only.
• Directorist: $129 a year for one site at list price, or $379 lifetime; a promotion was running on October 23, 2026. Pricing plans and paid listings are premium extensions that every membership includes. Refund window: 14 days.
• Business Directory Plugin: Basic is $99 for the first year, then $149. The free plugin adds an extra fee on Stripe payments on top of Stripe's own fees. Its plugin page says upgrading removes it, and its pricing table lists Stripe from the Pro license. Refund window: 14 days.

Pick a WordPress plugin to run the directory and its data on your own hosting. The Brilliant Directories vs WordPress page sets that route against a hosted plan.

For associations: WildApricot and Join It member directories

For an association's member directory, WildApricot is $66 a month at 100 contacts, billed monthly, with a 60-day free trial and no card. Its pricing page lists an online membership directory and no per-transaction fees from WildApricot. Join It is a membership tool, not a directory builder, so it sits outside the six: its Total plan lists a member directory at $99 a month for 250 members, billed monthly, with a 2.0% service fee on online transactions beside Stripe's fees.

When Brilliant Directories is still the pick

Pick Brilliant Directories for member profiles, paid listings, email and hosting in one account, with a 7-day free trial and no credit card. Its account pricing page says $0 platform fees, and your payment processor's fees still apply. Take a niche publisher with a newsletter audience who wants to sell leads to listed home-service pros: the monetize page lists leads sold per lead, in credit packs or bundled in subscriptions.

Pick something else if you must host the code yourself. The code stays on the vendor's servers, so eDirectory's source license or a WordPress plugin fits better. The best directory website builder page compares eight builders.