Product review (1 stars): There aren't good alternatives unfortunately
I don't pay almost 50 bucks for a filter to still have sediment floating in the water after running a few pitchers through it.  The older filters I never had an issue with. I threw away the box it came in as soon as it got here naively expecting it to work. So no return!

There aren't good alternatives unfortunately. All I can say is, buy a pack so you might get 1 that works.