// OPEN-SOURCE ALTERNATIVES
Powerful tools you own —
instead of monthly subscriptions.
For nearly every mainstream subscription there's a proven open-source alternative that does the same job — without per-user fees, data lock-in, or surprise price hikes. We pick the right ones, set them up, connect them, and keep them running.
No per-user fees
Add your whole team without scaling the bill.
Your data, your server
Everything lives on your infrastructure.
No lock-in
Open standards mean you can leave anytime
We migrate & maintain
Setup, updates, backups, and support handled.
// GROWTH
Win & keep customers
WEBSITE & CMS
Wix / Squarespace
WordPress
A site you own outright and can move anytime — never rented by the month.
SCHEDULING
Calendly
Cal.com
24/7 booking that syncs your calendars, with no per-seat fees.
FORMS & INTAKE
Typeform
Formbricks
Customer intake forms, surveys, and lead capture that you own and control.
CRM & SALES
Salesforce
Twenty
A modern CRM you control, minus the enterprise price tag.
MARKETING
HubSpot
Mautic
Email campaigns and lead nurturing without subscription creep.
LIVE CHAT & SUPPORT
Intercom / Zendesk
Chatwoot
Customer chat and a shared inbox running on your own server.
// FINANCE
Run the money
ACCOUNTING
QuickBooks
Akaunting
Invoicing and books without per-seat fees or escalating tiers.
BILLING
Chargebee
Invoice Ninja
Recurring billing and invoices you fully own and control.
E-SIGNATURES
DocuSign
DocuSeal
Send and sign contracts — without per-envelope pricing.
// OPERATIONS
Operate the team
FILES, EMAIL & DOCS
Microsoft 365 / Google
Nextcloud
Files, mail, calendars, and documents on your private cloud.
TEAM CHAT
Slack
Mattermost
Team messaging on your infrastructure, full history kept.
KNOWLEDGE BASE
Notion / Confluence
BookStack
Documentation and SOPs that always stay yours.
AUTOMATION
Zapier / Make
n8n
Connect every tool with workflows you own — no task limits.
DASHBOARDS
Power BI / Looker
Metabase
Business metrics and reporting without per-viewer fees.
PASSWORDS
1Password / LastPass
Vaultwarden
A self-hosted, private password vault for your whole team.
IT & ASSETS
Asset Panda
Snipe-IT
Track equipment, licenses, and assets in one place.
// SAVINGS CALCULATOR
Add up what you'd stop renting
Tick the subscriptions you pay for today and set your team size. We'll total the license fees you'd drop by switching to the open-source equivalents.
Team size
5 employees
Drives QuickBooks payroll's per-employee charge. Akaunting's payroll module is a flat fee.
WHAT YOU PAY QUICKBOOKS
Accounting plan
Payroll plan
WHAT YOU'D PAY WITH AKAUNTING
Akaunting core — invoicing, bills, banking, reportsFREE
Add the modules you need
YOU'D SAVE
Over three years
$0
QuickBooks / mo$0
Akaunting / mo$0
You save / mo$0
You save / yr$0
Akaunting's license is $0 and its modules are flat-rate — no per-employee payroll fees. You pay only for hosting you already run, plus our flat build & maintenance.
Get my exact savings →* QuickBooks figures use published list rates (payroll = base + per-employee); promotional discounts expire. Akaunting module prices as configured. Illustrative only.
// AND MORE
Don't see the tool you pay for?
There's almost always an open-source fit. Tell us what you're renting and we'll show you the alternative — and what it takes to switch.
Open-source names and trademarks belong to their respective projects. We're an independent integrator — not affiliated with any of the products listed above.