Open-source alternative  ·  VoIP / PBX

Replace RingCentral with Asterisk / FreePBX.

The most deployed open source PBX in the world. VoIP, IVR, call queues, voicemail, conferencing, and call recording. FreePBX adds a web GUI. Self-hosted, no per-extension fees.

You'd keep~R44 400 to ~R66 600/year

Current licence  ·  VoIP / PBX

RingCentral

~R44 400 – ~R66 600/yr

10-user estimate

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Asterisk / FreePBX

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R66 600/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. RingCentral's prices.

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

Core

R44 400/yr

R370/user/month

With Asterisk / FreePBX

Keep R44 400/yr

Advanced

R66 600/yr

R555/user/month

With Asterisk / FreePBX

Keep R66 600/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.

RingCentral grows around 10% per year on average. Asterisk / FreePBX hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR30kR59kR89kR119kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R108kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.44M

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

How this migration runs

RingCentralAsterisk / FreePBX, 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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Other voip / pbx migrations.

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

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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.