Top 10 Self-Hosted Alternatives to SaaS Tools The average person pays for 5-10 SaaS subscriptions. Notion, Google Drive, LastPass, Slack, Trello β the monthly total adds up fast. Worse, your data lives on servers you don't control, subject to terms of service that change without notice and companies that can shut down, get acquired, or jack up prices any time. Self-hosted alternatives let you run the same functionality on your own server. You own the data, you control the access, and the only recurring cost is your VPS. I've tested all of these on my Hetzner box β some I use daily, others I evaluated specifically for this list. Here's my top 10, ranked by usefulness and ease of deployment. Quick Comparison Table SaaS Tool Self-Hosted Alternative Category Docker?β¦