Open-source alternative  ·  VoIP / PBX

Replace 3CX Phone System with Asterisk / FreePBX.

Open source PBX platform. SIP trunks, IVR, call queues, voicemail, video calls, mobile apps. Self-hosted with no per-user licensing.

You'd keep~R3 204 to ~R23 004/year

Current licence  ·  VoIP / PBX

3CX Phone System

~R3 204 – ~R23 004/yr

10-user estimate

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Asterisk / FreePBX

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R23 004/yr

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Today's licence price

3 tiers. 3CX Phone System's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

SMB

R3 204/yr

R267/month

Flat rate (unlimited users)

With Asterisk / FreePBX

Keep R3 204/yr

Professional

R8 004/yr

R667/month

Flat rate

With Asterisk / FreePBX

Keep R8 004/yr

Enterprise

R23 004/yr

R1 917/month

Flat rate

With Asterisk / FreePBX

Keep R23 004/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

3CX Phone System grows around 10% per year on average. Asterisk / FreePBX hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR10kR20kR31kR41kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R37kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.11M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

3CX Phone SystemAsterisk / FreePBX, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Other voip / pbx migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

Check the project

Migrate 3CX Phone System.
Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.