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Open-Source Pricing Teardowns

We pick an open-source SaaS tool, read its pricing page, run the math, and tell you what's actually worth paying for. New teardown most weeks.

Re-verified weekly via an automated Firecrawl check on each tool's pricing page — see Last verified on each post.

Documenso Pricing Teardown

Documenso Pricing Teardown

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.

License
AGPL-3.0
Free tier
5 docs/mo
From
$25/mo (Individual)
Verdict
Teams for SMB, Platform for embedders
Langfuse Pricing Teardown

Langfuse Pricing Teardown

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.

License
MIT (core)
Free tier
50k units/mo
From
$29/mo (Core)
Verdict
Self-host if you can; Pro for SOC2
Twenty CRM Pricing Teardown

Twenty CRM Pricing Teardown

Twenty CRM at $9/user/month exposes how much of Salesforce and HubSpot pricing is brand tax.

License
AGPL-3.0
Free tier
Self-hosted (unlimited)
From
$9/seat (Pro)
Verdict
Switch from HubSpot/Salesforce when inertia is the only reason to stay
n8n Pricing Teardown

n8n Pricing Teardown

n8n charges per workflow execution, not per step. Here's why that matters for complex automations with AI chains and conditional branching.

License
Sustainable Use (n8n)
Free tier
Community Edition (self-hosted)
From
EUR 20/mo (Starter)
Verdict
Community for solo, Pro for teams, Business for SSO
Plane Pricing Teardown

Plane Pricing Teardown

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.

License
AGPL-3.0
Free tier
12 users
From
$6/seat (Pro)
Verdict
Free for small teams, Pro at SMB scale
Firecrawl Pricing Teardown

Firecrawl Pricing Teardown

Firecrawl has one of the smartest GTM setups in open source. The trick isn't in the pricing page — it's in the licensing.

License
AGPL-3.0 (core), MIT (extensions)
Free tier
500 credits
From
$16/mo (Hobby)
Verdict
Pay for the cloud — self-host is too operationally hard

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