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47 articles matching / latest 20 Aug 2026
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Intercom charges 99 cents every time its AI resolves a conversation, and it counts a resolution even when the bot gives up and hands the customer to a human. Chatwoot is the MIT-licensed desk that shipped a release overnight, and the thing it actually deletes is the meter, not the seat.
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Ten people who need to make a diagram costs $2,400 a year on Miro's Business tier, and most of those diagrams never get made anyway. Diagram Design is an MIT-licensed skill that draws them inside the coding agent you already pay for, and it went past 22,000 stars in a week.
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Ten people taking customer calls costs $1,680 a year at Granola's Business tier and $3,600 at Otter's, and every minute of audio lands on somebody else's server. Anarlog records and transcribes on the laptop that is already in the room, MIT licensed, with no bot in the participant list.
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Twenty-five people who need to open one internal tool costs $6,000 a year on Power Apps Premium. ToolJet builds the same screen on a server you rent, and the free self-hosted build stops at exactly two apps and two builders, which is in the licensing docs and not in the README.
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Ten people on Superhuman and Linear alone costs $5,880 a year, and all it buys is an inbox and a task board. Macro does email, chat, docs, tasks, calls and CRM out of one app for $40 a seat, and it moved to the AGPL in May, which means the escape hatch is written into the license.
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A ten-person sales team on Salesforce list pricing pays about $21,000 a year, and the thing they are actually renting is not the software. It is the shape of their own business. Twenty puts that shape in a repository you own, and it shipped four releases in two days.
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A Figma Full seat costs $16 a month for every person allowed to make something instead of just look at it, and the queue behind the one person who has it is worse than the bill. Open Design is an Apache-2.0 desktop app that hands the making part to a coding agent you already pay for, and it shipped again yesterday.
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Semrush charges $139 a month plus $45 for every extra login. OpenSEO runs the same six workflows on data you buy by the request, and the honest number is not zero.
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Google will read a supplier invoice for ten cents a document and a generic page for thirty dollars a thousand. Firecrawl open sourced the piece that decides which of your documents need to be sent to a meter at all, and by their own count about half of them never did.
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Fifty people with one company login costs about $3,600 a year on Okta's cheapest tier, or $4,200 on Microsoft's. authentik does the same job on an eighteen-dollar server, and the release that went to beta this week is the first version the OpenID Foundation has certified.
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A brochure site with a blog, a contact form, and two people allowed to edit it runs about a thousand dollars a year on Webflow before anyone writes a word. Instatic is the MIT-licensed version of that shape, with an AI agent that edits the page, and it is honest enough to tell you it is at version 0.0.14.
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Hiring your 26th person takes a Jira bill from $2,250 a year to $4,550 for the identical product, because annual plans are billed in bands. Kaneo is the MIT-licensed board that does the same job on a twelve-dollar server, and the thing it shipped yesterday matters more than the price.
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