Open-source alternative  ·  Productivity

Replace Grammarly Business with LanguageTool.

Open source grammar, style, and spell checker. Supports 30+ languages, browser extensions, LibreOffice plugin, and self-hosted API. No per-user fees.

You'd keep~R27 600 to ~R55 200/year

Current licence  ·  Productivity

Grammarly Business

~R27 600 – ~R55 200/yr

10-user estimate

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LanguageTool

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R55 200/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Grammarly Business's prices.

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

Business

R27 600/yr

R230/user/month

With LanguageTool

Keep R27 600/yr

Enterprise

R55 200/yr

R460/user/month

With LanguageTool

Keep R55 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.

Grammarly Business grows around 10% per year on average. LanguageTool hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR24kR49kR73kR97kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R89kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.35M

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

How this migration runs

Grammarly BusinessLanguageTool, 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.