Commercial SaaS vs. Self-Hosted Open-Source TCO
Evaluate whether your organization should continue paying premium subscription fees for proprietary SaaS or transition to self-hosted open-source software running on cloud compute or bare metal infrastructure.
Enterprise Database CapEx vs Cloud Managed DB TCO
Evaluate self-hosted PostgreSQL/Oracle clusters on physical hardware vs Amazon Aurora / Azure SQL Managed Instances.
Self-Hosted Bare-Metal Kubernetes vs Managed EKS/GKE TCO
Compare bare-metal control plane maintenance, etcd management overhead, and physical rack leases against managed cloud Kubernetes.
On-Premises Datacenter vs Multi-Cloud Infrastructure TCO
Comprehensive 5-year hardware depreciation, 1.45 PUE power/cooling, and sysadmin operations modeling.
Salesforce Enterprise vs Self-Hosted Open-Source ERP/CRM TCO
Calculate enterprise CRM license savings ($300/user/mo) vs self-hosted ERPNext or SuiteCRM on dedicated cloud VMs.
Datadog Observability vs Self-Hosted Prometheus & Grafana TCO
Model log ingestion ($0.10/GB), APM hosts ($31/host/mo), and custom metrics fees against open-source LGTM stack.
Snowflake Data Cloud vs Self-Hosted ClickHouse TCO
Evaluate warehouse credit consumption ($2-$4/credit) vs dedicated ClickHouse bare-metal or Kubernetes analytical nodes.
MongoDB Atlas Managed vs Self-Hosted MongoDB Community TCO
Quantify the management markup of Atlas dedicated clusters vs deploying sharded replica sets on cloud compute.