Open-source alternative  ·  Team Messaging

Replace Slack with Mattermost / Rocket.Chat.

Team chat with channels, threads, integrations, and file sharing.

You'd keep~R15 600 to ~R32 400/year

Current licence  ·  Team Messaging

Slack

~R15 600 – ~R32 400/yr

10-user estimate

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Replace with  ·  Team Messaging

Mattermost / Rocket.Chat

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R32 400/yr

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Today's licence price

3 tiers. Slack's prices.

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

Pro

R15 600/yr

R130/user/month

With Mattermost / Rocket.Chat

Keep R15 600/yr

Business+

R27 000/yr

R225/user/month

With Mattermost / Rocket.Chat

Keep R27 000/yr

Enterprise Grid

R32 400/yr

R270/user/month

With Mattermost / Rocket.Chat

Keep R32 400/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.

Slack grows around 10% per year on average. Mattermost / Rocket.Chat hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR14kR28kR43kR57kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R52kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.17M

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

How this migration runs

SlackMattermost / Rocket.Chat, 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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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.