Open-source alternative  ·  Diagramming

Replace Microsoft Visio with draw.io.

Free and open source diagramming tool (also known as diagrams.net). Works offline, integrates with Confluence and SharePoint, supports Visio import/export. No licence needed.

You'd keep~R11 160 to ~R33 360/year

Current licence  ·  Diagramming

Microsoft Visio

~R11 160 – ~R33 360/yr

10-user estimate

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draw.io

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R33 360/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Microsoft Visio's prices.

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

Plan 1

R11 160/yr

R93/user/month

With draw.io

Keep R11 160/yr

Plan 2

R33 360/yr

R278/user/month

With draw.io

Keep R33 360/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 Visio grows around 10% per year on average. draw.io hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR15kR29kR44kR58kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R53kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.18M

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

How this migration runs

Microsoft Visiodraw.io, 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.

Same category

Other diagramming migrations.

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

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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.