Open-source alternative  ·  AI / Copilot

Replace Microsoft 365 Copilot with Open WebUI + Ollama.

Self-hosted AI assistant stack. Open WebUI provides the chat interface, Ollama runs local LLMs (Llama 3, Mistral, Phi-3). Summarisation, drafting, Q&A. Without sending data to Microsoft.

You'd keep~R84 000 to ~R108 000/year

Current licence  ·  AI / Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot

~R84 000 – ~R108 000/yr

10-user estimate

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Open WebUI + Ollama

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R108 000/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Microsoft 365 Copilot's prices.

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

Add-on (per user)

R84 000/yr

R700/user/month

With Open WebUI + Ollama

Keep R84 000/yr

Enterprise Agreement

R108 000/yr

R900/user/month

With Open WebUI + Ollama

Keep R108 000/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.

Microsoft 365 Copilot grows around 10% per year on average. Open WebUI + Ollama hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR48kR96kR143kR191kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R174kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.76M

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

How this migration runs

Microsoft 365 CopilotOpen WebUI + Ollama, 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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