Open-source alternative  ·  CAD / Engineering

Replace Revit with FreeCAD + BIMserver.

Parametric 3D modeling and BIM server for architecture and engineering coordination.

You'd keep~R648 000/year

Current licence  ·  CAD / Engineering

Revit

~R648 000/yr

10-user estimate

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FreeCAD + BIMserver

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R648 000/yr

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Today's licence price

The tier.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate.

Single-User

R648 000/yr

R5 400/user/month

Autodesk annual subscription

With FreeCAD + BIMserver

Keep R648 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.

Revit grows around 10% per year on average. FreeCAD + BIMserver hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR287kR574kR861kR1148kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R1044kR65k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R4.61M

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

How this migration runs

RevitFreeCAD + BIMserver, 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 cad / engineering migrations.

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

Check the project

Migrate Revit.
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.