Appsmith Pricing Teardown 2026
Appsmith dropped hourly billing in 2025. It's now $15/user/month, Apache 2.0, and the free tier caps at 5 users. Here's what changed and what it means.
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Cal.com Pricing Teardown 2026
Cal.com has a real free tier for individuals, $12/seat Teams, $28/seat Organizations — and an MIT license that makes self-hosting genuinely frictionless.
Chatwoot Pricing Teardown 2026
Chatwoot is MIT-licensed for almost everything — except the enterprise directory, which ships under a separate commercial license and requires a paid subscription to run in production.
ClickHouse Pricing Teardown 2026
ClickHouse Cloud starts at $66/month for Basic and $499/month for Scale — with a free trial but no permanent free tier.
Pricing the Open Source Software, Vol 2
We tore down 20 open-source tools in 2026 and compared them to 2023: usage rates fell, AI credits arrived, and the SSO tax moved up a tier.
Metabase Pricing Teardown 2026
Metabase pricing: Starter at $100/mo, Pro at $575/mo, Enterprise from $20k/year — and the open-source edition still runs free under AGPL with almost everything except embedded analytics.
PostHog Pricing Teardown 2026
PostHog meters 13 products separately, with 1M free events a month and identified-event overages from $0.000198 down to $0.0000010 at scale.
ToolJet Pricing Teardown 2026
ToolJet went from one flat seat price to five cloud tiers, added AI credits to every plan, and kept AGPL — while Appsmith, the closest comparable, ships under Apache 2.0. That difference matters more than the per-seat number.
Dify Pricing Teardown 2026
Dify has 139k GitHub stars and a modified Apache 2.0 license that quietly bans multi-tenant use. Here's how the cloud pricing actually works — and why the licensing is the real story.
Documenso Pricing Teardown 2026
Documenso has 12.7k GitHub stars, AGPL-3.0 licensing, and a $250/month Platform tier that quietly bets on DocuSign's per-envelope pricing being the competitor's biggest weakness. Here's how it actually works.
Langfuse Pricing Teardown 2026
Langfuse open sourced almost everything under MIT. The cloud pricing is usage-based with a $170 cliff between Core and Pro — here's what you're actually paying for.
Coolify Pricing Teardown 2026
Coolify flips the PaaS model: you pay $5/month but your apps run on your own servers. Here's why the 'bring your own infra' play works.
Grafana Pricing Teardown 2026
Grafana has five active billing meters and a $25k/year enterprise cliff with nothing in between.
Infisical Pricing Teardown 2026
Infisical uses MIT for the core and a proprietary license for enterprise features. The clever part is what counts as an 'identity.'
Novu Pricing Teardown 2026
Novu's free tier has 24-hour log retention, making it a dev environment, not a production one.
Temporal Pricing Teardown 2026
Temporal starts at $100/month with no free tier -- a deliberate signal that this is serious infrastructure.
Twenty CRM Pricing Teardown 2026
Twenty CRM at $9/user/month exposes how much of Salesforce and HubSpot pricing is brand tax.
Windmill Pricing Teardown 2026
Windmill splits users into developers and operators at half the price -- a smart model for internal tools.
n8n Pricing Teardown 2026
n8n charges per workflow execution, not per step. Here's why that matters for complex automations with AI chains and conditional branching.
Plane Pricing Teardown 2026
Plane is an open-source Jira/Linear alternative you can self-host. Integrations are positioned as a deliberate growth lever — here's how the pricing works.
Firecrawl Pricing Teardown 2026
Firecrawl has one of the smartest GTM setups in open source. The trick isn't in the pricing page — it's in the licensing.