Buying distribution and buying software are different purchases
This is the most common confusion on this particular comparison, and it is worth separating before anyone looks at a feature table. A distribution decision is about where your next fifty leads come from: which network you are inside, which developers will give you inventory, which partners will sub-broke for you. A software decision is about what happens to those leads once they arrive — whether the follow-up fires, whether the site visit is recorded, whether the brokerage gets claimed.
Firms routinely make the second decision using criteria from the first, and end up with software chosen for reasons that have nothing to do with using it daily. It is also entirely reasonable to make both decisions separately: be inside a network for sourcing, and run your own CRM for operations. Nothing about SaudaFlow prevents you from being a channel partner in somebody else’s ecosystem, and our channel-partner tagging, brokerage ageing and payout tracking are built assuming you are.
So the useful question is not which of these two is better. It is which purchase you are actually making this quarter.