Guides for evaluating, self-hosting, and migrating to open source.

OpenBao, Infisical, SOPS, and Conjur: open source HashiCorp Vault alternatives — enterprise secrets management without BSL licensing in 2026 Side-by-side.

Dokku, Coolify, CapRover, and Piku: open source Heroku alternatives — git-push deploys on your own servers without Heroku pricing in 2026 Free options covered.

HubSpot costs $800-3600/month for full CRM+marketing. These open source alternatives offer CRM, email marketing, and automation for free Updated for 2026.

Intercom costs $39-139/seat/month. These open source customer messaging tools offer live chat, help desk, and chatbots with self-hosting Updated for 2026.

Jira costs $8.15-16/user/month and forces cloud migration. These open source project management tools offer agile workflows with full self-hosting in 2026.

Linear costs $8-16/user/month. These open source issue trackers offer the same fast, keyboard-driven UX with self-hosting and data ownership for 2026.

Mailchimp costs $13-350/month and limits your list. These open source email tools offer unlimited subscribers with self-hosted sending Updated for 2026.

Midjourney costs $10-120/month and you don't own your images on lower tiers. These self-hosted tools give you unlimited AI image generation with full ownership.

Miro's Starter plan costs $8/user/month and Business costs $16/user/month. These self-hosted whiteboard alternatives give you collaborative diagramming with.

Plane, Taiga, OpenProject, and Leantime: open source Monday alternatives — self-hosted project management tools, free and feature-rich in 2026 Updated.

Notion costs $10-18/user/month and can't be self-hosted. These six open source alternatives give you docs, databases, and kanban with full data ownership.

Crowd.dev, Discourse, and Backstage as Orbit replacements: compare open source community analytics and developer relations tools after Orbit's shutdown.

PostHog's cloud plan charges per event and can add up fast. These self-hosted alternatives give you product analytics, session recording, and feature flags.

Postman now charges $19/user/month for teams and mandates cloud sync for API collections. These open source API clients keep your data local for free.

Metabase, Apache Superset, Redash, and Lightdash: open source Power BI alternatives — self-hosted dashboards and analytics in 2026 Free options covered.

Resend charges $20/month for 50K emails and $90/month for 100K. These self-hosted alternatives give you transactional and marketing email delivery for a.