Mantle is a flat-rate, AI-native alternative to Pulley for cap table management. With Pulley shutting down operations on December 8, 2026, founders need a new home for their cap table regardless — and Mantle is built for exactly this kind of move. Unlike Pulley, whose pricing scaled with stakeholder count, Mantle charges one flat rate per plan no matter how many stakeholders you add. Migrating a cap table to Mantle typically takes under a week self-serve, or a few days with Mantle’s concierge onboarding team.
Why Founders Are Looking for a Pulley Alternative Right Now
Pulley has confirmed it’s shutting down, with all operations and services ending on December 8, 2026. For any startup running its cap table on Pulley, that means SAFEs, option grants, 409A history, stakeholder records, and vesting schedules all need a new home before then.
Even outside the shutdown, Pulley’s pricing structure was already sending founders looking elsewhere: plans that climb along with stakeholder count and complexity, so the bill tends to grow right as a company adds employees, advisors, and investors. Now that search has real urgency behind it — but the criteria for a good landing spot haven’t changed. Founders want a provider that can import their cap table accurately, keep pricing predictable as the team grows, and get them migrated and verified well before any deadline.
Mantle is one of the more direct options on the market: flat-rate pricing that doesn’t climb as you add stakeholders, an AI layer that reads your actual legal documents instead of relying on manual entry, and a support team that answers when something time-sensitive comes up.
What Changes When You Switch
The biggest practical difference founders notice is pricing structure. Pulley’s plans scaled with stakeholder count and complexity, so the bill tended to grow alongside the cap table. Mantle’s plans stay flat regardless of stakeholder count, which matters most once you’re past the earliest stage and adding employees, advisors, and investors regularly.
Here is Mantle’s offer to current Pulley clients until the December 8th cut-off date:
- Fast white-glove migration: We’ll migrate your cap table from Pulley to Mantle for you.
- $100 off any paid plan: You’ll get $100 off our annual Mantle Essentials plan of $1,200 (until December 8, 2026).
- Founder-friendly platform: You get what thousands of founders already rely on Mantle for: flat-rate pricing that doesn’t creep up on you, unlimited stakeholders on all plans, new features every month, and a support team that knows you by name and not a ticket number.
Mantle vs. Pulley at at Glance
| Mantle | Pulley | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Starter plan | $1,200/year | $1,200/year; limited to 25 stakeholders |
| Growth plan | $3,000/year | $3,500/year; limited to 40 stakeholders |
| Stakeholder limits | Unlimited | Limited |
| SAFE issuance & signing | Included on all plans | Paid plans only |
| Issue & sign options | Included on all paid plans | Growth plan only |
| HRIS integrations | Included on all plans | Paid plans only |
| Secondary liquidity solutions | Available on paid plans | Enterprise plan only |
How Easy Is Migrating From Pulley to Mantle?
Easier than most founders expect, on either path.
On Mantle’s free plan, Clerk (Mantle’s AI assistant) reads your source documents directly and builds the cap table around them, so you’re not manually matching CSV columns to vesting-schedule codes.
On a paid plan, concierge onboarding goes further: one Mantle customer described the concierge onboarding process as dropping their agreements into an upload link and letting Mantle’s team build the entire cap table from there (a sharp contrast to the manual CSV imports they’d dreaded with previous tools).
Given Pulley’s wind-down timeline, it’s worth starting sooner rather than later. Most self-serve migrations happen in an afternoon, and concierge onboarding typically takes one to five business days.
Common Questions
How long does a Pulley-to-Mantle migration take?
Most self-serve migrations can happen in an afternoon. Concierge onboarding typically takes one to five business days.
Do I have to migrate everything at once?
No. Some founders run Pulley and Mantle in parallel until the new cap table is fully verified, then cancel Pulley.
Does Mantle support unlimited stakeholders on every plan?
Yes, including the free Starter plan.
What’s the deadline to move off Pulley? Pulley has said it will cease all operations and services on December 8, 2026, so any cap table still on Pulley needs to be fully migrated and verified elsewhere before then.
The Bottom Line
If you’re searching for a Pulley alternative, the decision is more straightforward than it feels, and Pulley’s shutdown makes it a timely one. Mantle costs nothing to start, doesn’t punish you for growing your team, and the migration itself (whether self-serve with Clerk or handled end-to-end by Mantle’s concierge team) is typically done in under a week.
There’s no real tradeoff to weigh: you get flat-rate pricing, unlimited stakeholders, AI-native setup, and a support team that’s actually responsive, without the switching costs founders usually brace for.
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