For teams of 2–50 paying for too many subscriptions
Stop renting the tools you could own.
There are thousands of free and open-source tools. UberBots filters them down to the few that replace what you pay for today, then tells you honestly whether switching is worth your time.
Two minutes. No signup. Type your tools or drop in a bank export, and it stays in this tab.
- 16
- swaps priced end to end
- Every
- license named, open-core flagged
- Honest
- when the answer is “keep it”
Savings scout
Your numbers stay in this tab
- Slack$87.50→ Zulip$0 license
- Zoom$133.30→ Jitsi Meet$0 license
- Notion$100→ Docmost$0 license
- Asana$109.90→ Plane$0 license
- Calendly$100→ Cal.com$0 license
Why it keeps growing
Every hire adds a seat. Every seat adds a line to the bill.
Try it
Price your stack at list
$1,480/yr back
Cautious case: upkeep takes twice my estimate, plus a shared server and your time at $95/hr. Not worth swapping at 10 seats: Slack, Asana.
Per-seat pricing compounds quietly
Nobody decides to spend six figures on software. It arrives one seat, one add-on and one “just upgrade for that feature” at a time, until the stack costs more than your rent.
Open-source tools don't bill per head
A shared server doesn't care whether it has 8 users or 38. That's the whole lever: cost that stops scaling with your headcount.
But switching isn't free. Setup time and upkeep are subtracted from every number you'll see here, so the savings are what's left after the work.
The filter
Thousands of tools in. A handful out.
You don't have time to compare open-source projects. Filtering is the job, so you only see the ones that fit what you pay for today.
- 01
Tell us what stings
Name the subscriptions that make you wince. No logins, no card statements, no access to anything. Just the names and roughly what you pay.
- 02
We run the filter
Every swap is priced three ways: the server it needs, the upkeep hours it costs you at your own hourly rate, and the time to move across.
- 03
You get a plan, or a “keep it”
Winners come back ordered by quickest payback. Anything that wouldn't pay for itself gets a plain 'leave it alone', and we say why.
The shortlist, curated
How a tool earns a spot on the list.
A real, maintained project
Releases, a living community, and someone accountable behind it. Not a weekend repo.
A license we can name
Every swap shows its license. Fully open source and open-core are labelled differently, so nothing is a surprise later.
You can actually run it
Host it yourself or use the project's own hosted plan. No 'contact sales' wall.
A realistic way across
We look for a believable path to bring your data over, and say how long it takes.
Honest about the trade-off
Every result lists what you give up, not only what you keep.
The shortlist
16 swaps today, each priced with the same math.
Tap “Run my numbers” on any row and the scout takes it from there, with your team size and your real bill.
- ModerateOpen source · Apache-2.0
Keep it at 10 seats
- ModerateOpen source · Apache-2.0
$1,195/yr at 10 seats
Email marketing
Mailchimp → Listmonk
Fast newsletter and campaign manager. You pay pennies per thousand sends.
ModerateOpen source · AGPL-3.0Keep it at 10 seats
Automation
Zapier → Activepieces
No-code automations that connect your apps, with no per-task billing.
ModerateOpen-core · MIT (community edition)Keep it at 10 seats
- EasyOpen-core · MIT (community edition)
$843/yr at 10 seats
- EasyOpen-core · AGPL-3.0 (core)
Keep it at 10 seats
Files
Dropbox → Nextcloud
File sync and sharing you host yourself, with calendars and contacts built in.
Go carefullyOpen source · AGPL-3.0Keep it at 10 seats
- EasyOpen-core · AGPL-3.0 (core)
$558/yr at 10 seats
- ModerateOpen source · AGPL-3.0
Keep it at 10 seats
- ModerateOpen-core · AGPL-3.0 (core)
$564/yr at 10 seats
Accounting
QuickBooks → Bigcapital
Web-based bookkeeping with invoicing, double-entry accounts and reports.
Go carefullyOpen source · AGPL-3.0Keep it at 10 seats
- ModerateOpen-core · MIT (core)
$2,529/yr at 10 seats
- EasyOpen-core · AGPL-3.0 (core)
$2,643/yr at 10 seats
- EasyOpen-core · MIT (core)
$1,734/yr at 10 seats
- ModerateOpen source · AGPL-3.0
Keep it at 10 seats
Passwords
1Password → Vaultwarden
A lightweight server compatible with Bitwarden's apps. An independent project.
Go carefullyOpen source · AGPL-3.0$318/yr at 10 seats
Per-row figures assume 10 seats at approximate US list price, a shared server, and your time at $95/hr. Per-seat tools. Flat-fee tools use their typical plan.
The part most tools skip
Sometimes the answer is: keep what you have.
Good. Be skeptical. A recommendation engine that says “switch” to everything is a sales funnel. We'd rather lose the swap than your trust, so when the numbers don't work, you'll hear it plainly.
A real example, from our own math
QuickBooks → Bigcapital
- It would cost you
- $70/mo
- Setup
- 10 hours
- Pays back in
- never
Verdict: keep QuickBooks. It isn't worth the ten hours yet, and your accountant would need to sign off anyway.
Fair questions
What you're probably thinking.
Do I need to be technical?
Not to get your answer. The savings scout is just a conversation. To actually switch, some swaps are an afternoon with a good guide (scheduling, forms, docs) and some deserve care (accounting, file storage). Every result shows the effort. If you'd rather not do it yourself, the plan matches your list to setup bots from the catalog and, where one has been vetted, an independent developer you choose. The developer network is small and still being onboarded, so if nobody fits you'll be told that rather than shown a guess.
What does “open source” do to my bill?
The license fee goes to zero. What replaces it is a small server (we assume about $6 a month for the first, less when swaps share one) and some of your time to keep it patched and backed up, priced at $95 an hour unless you say otherwise. Every number the scout shows already has both subtracted, plus the break-even point and a case where upkeep takes twice as long as I estimate.
Where does my data go?
The conversation, and any expense file you add, is read in your browser. There's no account, no database and no upload. The Privacy button lists every network request this page makes, and blocks any that carries a merchant name or amount from your file. The one thing that can leave, and only when you ask for the setup plan, is the names of the tools you mentioned: the same names printed on this page's shortlist. Never a merchant, an amount, a seat count or a line of the file, and the card you get back lists exactly what was sent. It can't see browser extensions or a modified copy of this site, so for an independent check use your browser's DevTools. If you join the setup list, the form shows exactly what will be sent, and your plan goes only if you tick the box. When you later host a tool yourself, your data lives on your server, so backups and updates are yours.
What if something breaks?
Self-hosting means you own uptime, and we won't pretend otherwise. The practical answer: run the new tool alongside the old subscription for a month, switch the team over when you trust it, and only then cancel. The plan you download is written in that order.
Where do the prices come from?
They're approximate US list prices on annual billing, and vendors change them often. If your bill is different, tell the scout what you pay and it uses your number instead. Check each vendor before you commit.
Why would you ever tell me to keep a tool?
Because a swap that saves fifteen dollars a month and costs ten hours isn't a win, and the first time we oversold you, you'd stop trusting every other number we show.
Before the next invoice
Your bill won't shrink on its own.
Every month you wait is another full invoice. Name one subscription and see, in about two minutes, whether owning it would actually pay.
Setup help, being onboarded
Guided setup: a catalog bot for the swap, or an independent developer you choose. The scout matches both from your list, and says so plainly when nobody fits yet.