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Pick the tool that fits your team. Know the bill first.

CRMs, help desks, password managers and 11 more categories, compared on four things: real cost at your team size, team-size fit, features by plan and control over your data. Every fact is read from the vendor's own pages and dated.

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16self-hostable
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Cheapest hosted plan that fits the team, before tax. Prices read 28 Oct 2026.

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E-signature · 3 min read

E-Signature Software for Small Teams: Limits, Features and Real Costs

One service counts envelopes, one sells unlimited requests to teams of up to five, and one is open source with a flat team price. Three ways to pay for signatures, priced at real team sizes.

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AI tools for work · 3 min read

AI Assistants for Business: Seat Prices and Who Trains on Your Data

What an AI assistant costs per seat for a small team, and what each vendor says in writing about using your company's data to train models.

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CRM · 5 min read

The Best CRM for a Small Team: Features, Seat Limits and Real Costs

Free CRM tiers stop at two or three users. Here is what five CRMs cost once a team passes that point, read from each vendor's own price page.

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Password managers · 3 min read

Password Managers for Teams of 5 to 25: SSO, Self-Hosting and Real Costs

One plan is a flat pack for ten people, one has a ten-user minimum, and two can run on your own server. Four ways to share credentials, priced at 5, 10 and 25 users.

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Hosting & servers · 3 min read

Cloud Servers for Small Teams: Specs, Traffic and Price Compared

What a small virtual server costs at three providers, how much traffic each includes, and the free panel that makes self-hosting several tools manageable.

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Developer platforms · 2 min read

Developer Platforms for Small Teams: Code Hosting and Deploy Costs

Code hosting is cheap or free for a small team; deployment platforms are where usage costs appear. Five platforms priced for a team of 10 developers.

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1. Cost at your size

The monthly bill at 5, 10 and 25 seats, with minimums, caps and flat packs counted.

2. Team-size fit

Free-tier caps, seat minimums, self-serve limits and where a growing team is forced up a plan.

3. Features by plan

The cheapest plan that includes the features that decide the purchase. “Not stated” when the vendor does not say.

4. Control and data

Single sign-on, self-hosting, licence and data terms. No scores, no paid positions. Our method