Still paying per-seat SaaS prices? Overpriced. Building your own tools from scratch? A money pit — even with AI, production-grade software needs security, backups, compliance, and 24/7 uptime. Startapps is the middle ground: hardened tools, fully managed, without the per-seat price tag.
*Based on list-price comparison for 25-100 seat teams, SSO-enabled tiers, Feb 2026. Monitoring compared per-host.
Each solution replaces a SaaS tool your team uses today. Stops per-seat scaling. Your data stays yours.
Competitor prices as of February 2026, monthly billing, SSO-enabled tier.
Slack charges EUR 17/user/month and climbing. At 50 people, that's EUR 10,200/year for a chat app. Chat is easy to install. Hard to run with SSO, retention, audit logs, and uptime — Startapps runs it.
Real-time messaging with threads, channels, SSO, and integrations. Runs in your Startapps workspace. Price scales with what you use, not how many seats you fill.
Add-ons available: custom domains, high availability, compliance packs
A transparent process designed for teams that ship product, not infrastructure.
Proven open source. Not a weekend prototype. We redesign the UI, harden the defaults, and wire AI between every tool — so your stack works as one system, not five browser tabs.
Startapps provisions everything automatically: networking, TLS, monitoring, backups, patching. Automation reduces toil; humans are on-call. You never touch a terminal.
Choose EU or US hosting. EU workspaces run in German data centers, GDPR-ready controls and DPA available. US workspaces run in US regions with equivalent security controls. Transparent billing, full data export, 30-day exit path.
No per-seat pricing. Cost scales with workload, not headcount.
The tools are easy to install. Running them 24/7 — patching, monitoring, backups, incident response, compliance — that's the hard part. We handle it so your team ships product.
Workload-based monthly pricing per app. Users are free. Price scales with your workload, not your headcount. Monitoring, backups, patching, and incident response included.
Per-app pricing based on the infrastructure each app consumes. Monitoring, backups, patching, on-call, and compliance included.
Add-ons stay modular: HA replicas, dedicated domains, compliance packs.
Stops seat-based scaling. Includes operations you'd otherwise staff.
Everything you need to know about Startapps
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From agency work to startups, through a corporate acquisition and evaluating deals at a VC fund — I've watched software pricing from every angle. Per-seat made sense when delivery costs scaled with every user. That equation is over.
Today, one engineer with AI ships what used to require a team of ten. The cost of building software has fallen off a cliff. But SaaS vendors still charge per-seat because most businesses aren't staffed to run the alternative. That's the gap.
Startapps closes it. Proven tools, fully managed — patching, backups, monitoring, incident response — priced on actual infrastructure, not headcount.