Self-host the SaaS you're paying for.
A directory of paid SaaS and the open-source tools that replace them — strictly self-hostable, with setup time, monthly cost on a small VPS, and a migration sketch you can actually follow.
100 SaaS covered, alphabetized. Each page lists 2-3 alternatives with live GitHub freshness checked at build time.
11 of 227 tracked alternatives (5%) look dead — last commit over a year ago, or the repo is archived. Another 10 are stale (90–365 days). See the graveyard →
Monthly digest: which SaaS got new self-hostable alternatives, and which OSS tools went stale.
One email a month. New self-hostable alternatives we add, plus which recommended OSS tools have gone stale or dead since last month.
- 1Password Password manager / secrets vault
- Airtable Spreadsheet / lightweight database
- Algolia Search-as-a-service
- Amazon SQS Message queue / async messaging
- Amplitude Product analytics / event tracking / funnels
- Asana Project + task management
- Audible Audiobook subscription / playback
- Auth0 Identity / SSO / authentication-as-a-service
- AWS S3 Object storage / blob store
- Bitbucket Git hosting + Pipelines
- Bitwarden Password manager / secrets vault
- Buffer Social media scheduling + analytics
- Calendly Scheduling / booking links
- ChatGPT AI chat assistant (consumer UI)
- CircleCI Hosted CI/CD
- Cloudflare DNS Authoritative DNS hosting
- Cloudinary Image / video CDN + on-the-fly transformation
- Confluence Team wiki / documentation
- Contentful Headless CMS
- ConvertKit (Kit) Creator email marketing
- Datadog Observability (metrics + logs + traces + APM)
- DeepL Machine translation API
- Discord Community / voice chat
- Discourse Hosting (Discourse.org) Community / forum hosting
- Docker Hub Container image registry
- DocuSign Electronic signature / document signing
- Dropbox File sync + sharing
- Elastic Cloud Managed search engine
- Evernote Personal notes / web clipper / archive
- Fathom Analytics Privacy-first web analytics
- Feedly RSS feed reader
- Figma Design / collaborative vector editor
- Firebase Backend-as-a-service (auth + DB + storage + realtime)
- FullStory Session replay + product analytics
- GitBook Documentation hosting / knowledge base
- GitHub Codespaces Cloud development environment
- GitHub Copilot AI code completion / chat in the IDE
- GitHub Issues Issue tracking (for code repos)
- GitLab DevOps platform / git hosting + CI
- Google Analytics Web analytics
- Google Drive Cloud file sync + sharing for teams
- Google Photos Photo backup / library / face search
- Grammarly Writing assistant / grammar + style checker
- Help Scout Customer support helpdesk / shared inbox
- Heroku App platform / git-push deploy
- Honeycomb Distributed tracing / observability
- HubSpot CRM + marketing automation
- Insomnia API client / HTTP request testing
- Intercom In-app messenger + customer support
- Jira Issue tracking / agile boards
- LaunchDarkly Feature flags / progressive delivery
- Linear Issue tracker / project management
- Linktree Link-in-bio landing page
- Loom Async video messaging
- Mailchimp Email marketing / newsletters
- Microsoft Teams Team chat + video meetings
- Mint Personal finance / budget tracking
- Miro Online whiteboard / visual collaboration
- Mixpanel Product analytics
- Monday.com Work management / project boards
- MongoDB Atlas Document database (managed)
- New Relic APM / observability platform
- Notion Notes / wiki / docs
- OpenAI API LLM inference API
- Otter.ai Meeting transcription / AI notes
- PagerDuty On-call rotation / incident response / paging
- Pipedrive Sales CRM / pipeline management
- Pocket Read-it-later / web article archive
- Postman API client / API workspace
- QuickBooks Small business accounting
- Raindrop.io Bookmark manager / collection-organized
- Reddit Threaded community / forum
- Salesforce CRM (sales pipeline)
- SendGrid Transactional email API
- Sentry Error tracking / APM
- Shopify Ecommerce platform
- Slack Team chat
- Splunk Log management + SIEM
- Spotify Music streaming
- Squarespace Website builder + hosting
- Statuspage (Atlassian) Public status page / incident communication
- Substack Newsletter publishing + paid subscriptions
- SurveyMonkey Online surveys
- Tableau Business intelligence / dashboards / data exploration
- Tailscale Mesh VPN / zero-config networking
- Teachable Online course platform
- Toggl Track Time tracking
- Trello Kanban / project boards
- Twitch Live streaming + chat
- Twitter / X Microblogging social network
- Typeform Forms / surveys / quizzes
- UptimeRobot External uptime / availability monitoring
- Vercel Frontend hosting / serverless deploy
- Vimeo Professional video hosting + embed
- Webflow Visual website builder + CMS
- WeTransfer Large file transfer / one-off send
- YouTube (creator) Video hosting + publishing
- Zapier Workflow automation / iPaaS
- Zendesk Customer support / helpdesk
- Zoom Video conferencing