Open-source alternative  ·  Creative

Replace Adobe Creative Cloud with GIMP + Inkscape + Kdenlive.

Photo editing, vector graphics, and video editing. Full creative suite.

You'd keep~R54 000 to ~R151 200/year

Current licence  ·  Creative

Adobe Creative Cloud

~R54 000 – ~R151 200/yr

10-user estimate

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GIMP + Inkscape + Kdenlive

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R151 200/yr

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Today's licence price

3 tiers. Adobe Creative Cloud's prices.

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

Single App

R54 000/yr

R450/user/month

With GIMP + Inkscape + Kdenlive

Keep R54 000/yr

All Apps

R118 800/yr

R990/user/month

With GIMP + Inkscape + Kdenlive

Keep R118 800/yr

Teams All Apps

R151 200/yr

R1 260/user/month

With GIMP + Inkscape + Kdenlive

Keep R151 200/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.

Adobe Creative Cloud grows around 10% per year on average. GIMP + Inkscape + Kdenlive hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR67kR134kR201kR268kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R243kR15k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R1.08M

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

How this migration runs

Adobe Creative CloudGIMP + Inkscape + Kdenlive, 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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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.