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Every tool in your tech stack, priced against building it yourself

AI can rebuild a lot of the SaaS you pay for. It cannot write the tests, take the 3am page, or make the maintenance disappear. One row per tool: the subscription, the true cost of replacing it, and whether something cheaper already does the job.

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Every paid tool, costed both ways

Move the rate slider to what an hour of your time is actually worth — at $50 an hour almost nothing here is worth building, and that is the point.

$50 /hr

3 worth building · 187 have a cheaper swap · 356 shown

GitHub Copilot logo
GitHub CopilotAI Coding Assistant
Keep paying
$10/mo
$120 a year

The model is the product, and you are not building the model.

Can't self-host

Nothing cheaper in this category
Cursor logo
CursorAI Coding Assistant
Keep paying
$20/mo
$240 a year

The model is the product, and you are not building the model.

Can't self-host

Cheaper optionGitHub Copilot−$10/mo$10/mo · also Windsurf
Vercel logo
VercelHosting
Keep paying
$20/mo
$240 a year
Running your own$174/mo

More than the subscription — 3 h of upkeep at $50/hr plus $24 of infrastructure, every month.

Cheaper optionCloudflare Pages & Workers−$15/mo$5/mo · also DigitalOcean App Platform, Heroku
Figma logo
FigmaUI/UX
Keep paying
$16/mo
$192 a year

A design tool is a decade of work by a company that does nothing else.

Can't self-host

Cheaper optionFramer−$12/mo$4/mo · also Penpot, Sketch
GitHub logo
GitHubVersion Control & Code Review
Keep paying
$4/mo
$48 a year
1 × $4 per seat
Running your own$225/mo

More than the subscription — 4 h of upkeep at $50/hr plus $25 of infrastructure, every month.

Nothing cheaper in this category
Bubble logo
BubbleAll-in-One Development
Keep paying
$59/mo
$708 a year

These bundle a frontier model with hosting and a build pipeline — replacing it means replacing all three.

Can't self-host

Cheaper optionTrickle−$42/mo$17/mo · also Base44, Dyad
Supabase logo
SupabaseDatabase
Keep paying
$25/mo
$300 a year
Running your own$245/mo

More than the subscription — 4 h of upkeep at $50/hr plus $45 of infrastructure, every month.

Cheaper optionDigitalOcean PostgreSQL−$10/mo$15/mo
Slack logo
SlackCommunication
Keep paying
$8.75/mo
$105 a year
1 × $8.75 per seat

The value is that everyone you work with is already in it. You cannot build a network you are not in.

Can't self-host

Nothing cheaper in this category
Ahrefs logo
AhrefsSEO Tools
Keep paying
$129/mo
$1,548 a year
Running your own$205/mo

More than the subscription — 3 h of upkeep at $50/hr plus $55 of infrastructure, every month.

Cheaper optionOpenSEO−$119/mo$10/mo · also Mangools, Ubersuggest
ChatGPT Plus logo
ChatGPT PlusAI Assistants & Subscriptions
Keep paying
$20/mo
$240 a year

A consumer AI subscription is access to a frontier model. There is no version of this you build.

Can't self-host

Cheaper optionDeepSeek Chat−$20/moFree, hosted for you · also Qwen Chat, Le Chat (Mistral)
Claude Code logo
Claude CodeAI Coding Assistant
Keep paying
$17/mo
$204 a year

The model is the product, and you are not building the model.

Can't self-host

Cheaper optionGitHub Copilot−$7/mo$10/mo
Notion logo
NotionProject Management
Keep paying
$10/mo
$120 a year
1 × $10 per seat
Running your own$137/mo

More than the subscription — 2.5 h of upkeep at $50/hr plus $12 of infrastructure, every month.

Cheaper optionTrello−$5/mo$5/mo
Semrush logo
SemrushSEO Tools
Keep paying
$140/mo
$1,679 a year
Running your own$205/mo

More than the subscription — 3 h of upkeep at $50/hr plus $55 of infrastructure, every month.

Cheaper optionOpenSEO−$130/mo$10/mo · also Mangools, Ubersuggest
Replit logo
ReplitAll-in-One Development
Keep paying
$20/mo
$240 a year

These bundle a frontier model with hosting and a build pipeline — replacing it means replacing all three.

Can't self-host

Nothing cheaper in this category
Claude Pro logo
Claude ProAI Assistants & Subscriptions
Keep paying
$20/mo
$240 a year

A consumer AI subscription is access to a frontier model. There is no version of this you build.

Can't self-host

Cheaper optionDeepSeek Chat−$20/moFree, hosted for you · also Qwen Chat, Le Chat (Mistral)
Adobe Acrobat Pro logo
Adobe Acrobat ProPDF & Documents
Keep paying
$20/mo
$240 a year
Running your own$85/mo

More than the subscription — 1.5 h of upkeep at $50/hr plus $10 of infrastructure, every month.

Cheaper optioniLovePDFs−$20/moFree, hosted for you · also PDF24 Tools, Smallpdf
HubSpot CRM logo
HubSpot CRMSales & Marketing
Keep paying
$15/mo
$180 a year
1 × $15 per seat
Running your own$115/mo

More than the subscription — 2 h of upkeep at $50/hr plus $15 of infrastructure, every month.

Nothing cheaper in this category
GitHub Actions logo
GitHub ActionsCI/CD
Keep paying
$4/mo
$48 a year
1 × $4 per seat
Running your own$150/mo

More than the subscription — 2.5 h of upkeep at $50/hr plus $25 of infrastructure, every month.

Nothing cheaper in this category
GoDaddy logo
GoDaddyDomains & Registrars
Keep paying
$1.83/mo
$22 a year

Becoming a registrar costs ICANN $3,500 to apply and $4,000 a year to stay accredited, before a single registry contract — and the wholesale fee underneath every .com is a fixed pass-through to Verisign that nobody, at any scale, gets to undercut. The only lever here is which registrar you pay.

Can't self-host

Cheaper optionSpaceship−$1/mo$0.83/mo · also Cloudflare Registrar, Dynadot
Auth0 logo
Auth0Auth
Keep paying
$35/mo
$420 a year
Running your own$105/mo

More than the subscription — 2 h of upkeep at $50/hr plus $5 of infrastructure, every month.

Cheaper optionFirebase Authentication−$35/moFree, hosted for you · also Clerk, Kinde
Clerk logo
ClerkAuth
Keep paying
$25/mo
$300 a year
Running your own$105/mo

More than the subscription — 2 h of upkeep at $50/hr plus $5 of infrastructure, every month.

Cheaper optionFirebase Authentication−$25/moFree, hosted for you
v0 by Vercel logo
v0 by VercelAll-in-One Development
Keep paying
$20/mo
$240 a year

These bundle a frontier model with hosting and a build pipeline — replacing it means replacing all three.

Can't self-host

Nothing cheaper in this category
Framer logo
FramerUI/UX
Keep paying
$4/mo
$48 a year

A design tool is a decade of work by a company that does nothing else.

Can't self-host

Nothing cheaper in this category
LangChain logo
LangChainAgent Framework
Keep paying
$39/mo
$468 a year
1 × $39 per seat
Running your own$81/mo

More than the subscription — 1.5 h of upkeep at $50/hr plus $6 of infrastructure, every month.

Nothing cheaper in this category

The bar under each price is what running your own copy would still cost every month, against the subscription it would replace — a nearly full bar is a tool whose upkeep eats the saving. “Cheaper options” are the least expensive tools that do the same job, priced at what they actually cost you — a free self-hosted tool is charged for its servers and half the upkeep of an equivalent from-scratch build, not $0. Same category is not the same feature set: check the comparison before you migrate. Tools billed per seat are multiplied by the team size above, because the replacement you build serves everyone at once — that is the number the verdict is really comparing against.

One tool at a time is the easy question

The harder one is what all of it costs together, and whether replacing the whole stack ever pays back. Add the tools you actually pay for and find out — including the maintenance hours nobody puts in the estimate.

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