Open-source apps have presented viable cheaper solutions to expensive SaaS tools that businesses rely on. I have been caught up in a fix when my team has over-relied on Airtable but then the cost is unbearable once you exhaust the free tier limits. $20 per employee per month is not as affordable for a large layer of small and medium-sized businesses. This problem extends beyond Airtable into almost every subscription tool a business uses, whether it is analytics with Amplitude or Mixpanel, link shortening with Bitly or Tinyurl, even document signing with Docusign.
However, in today’s open-source market, there is an open-source alternative for the most common SaaS tools used in enterprise. Therefore, your business can save significant cost by moving to a self-hosted You can read this blog on open-source alternatives to popular
