Open-source alternative  ·  File Storage

Replace Google Drive with Nextcloud.

Google Drive: Business

Self-hosted file sync and share platform. Nextcloud provides file storage, real-time collaboration, desktop and mobile sync, and granular sharing controls. No storage fees.

You'd keep~R15 600 to ~R48 840/year

Current licence  ·  File Storage

Google Drive

~R15 600 – ~R48 840/yr

10-user estimate

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Nextcloud

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R48 840/yr

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Today's licence price

3 tiers. Google Drive (Business)'s prices.

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

Business Starter (30 GB)

R15 600/yr

R130/user/month

With Nextcloud

Keep R15 600/yr

Business Standard (2 TB)

R31 080/yr

R259/user/month

With Nextcloud

Keep R31 080/yr

Business Plus (5 TB)

R48 840/yr

R407/user/month

With Nextcloud

Keep R48 840/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.

Google Drive grows around 10% per year on average. Nextcloud hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR22kR43kR65kR87kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R79kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.31M

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

How this migration runs

Google Drive (Business)Nextcloud, 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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Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.