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Alternatives and Comparisons

How our self-hosted business software compares with the subscription tools it replaces, and where the subscription tool is the better choice.

Every page here compares one of our products with a tool you might be using or considering today. They say where the other tool is the better choice as well as where ours is, and they leave out competitor prices, which change too often to print.

Restaurant software

  • Toast alternative

    Resto compared with Toast: one-time licence and your own hosting versus a monthly subscription, hardware and payment processing.

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  • Square for Restaurants alternative

    Resto compared with Square: where a free starting plan is the better fit, and where owning your software and data is.

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  • TastyIgniter alternative

    Resto compared with the free, open-source ordering system: two self-hosted options, and what each covers out of the box.

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HR, CRM and project management

  • Odoo alternative

    Nexus compared with Odoo: one focused application bought once, against a wide suite priced per user.

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  • Zoho People alternative

    Nexus compared with Zoho People: HR, CRM and projects in one system, against HR software priced per user.

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  • monday.com alternative

    Nexus compared with monday.com: a self-hosted system that bills your time, against a flexible platform billed per seat.

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Online course platforms

Mentor LMS has its own comparison pages on its product site.

Choosing between our own products

Think the cost of owning is the real question? The own versus rent page walks through five years of both.

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