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Find the tools startups actually grow with.
156 startups, SaaS tools and providers, each filed by what it does, what it costs and what it replaces. Facts carry the date a person checked them — or say plainly that nobody has.
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- open source
- 47
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Hetzner
Cloud & Hosting
Germany
Cloud instances, dedicated boxes and colocation out of German and Finnish halls, at prices that make hyperscaler invoices look decorative.
instead of AWS EC2, DigitalOcean
Proton Mail
Email & Calendar
Switzerland
Encrypted mail, calendar and drive under Swiss jurisdiction, funded by subscriptions instead of adjacency to an ad business.
instead of Gmail, Outlook.com
Mistral AI
AI & Models
France
Paris lab shipping both open-weight and frontier models, servable inside EU regions.
instead of OpenAI, AnthropicFree tier, then $14.99/seat/mo
Nextcloud
Storage & BackupGermany
Files, calendar, contacts, chat and office on hardware you control — the default answer when the answer has to be self-hosted.
instead of Google Drive, Microsoft 365
Qwant
Search EnginesFrance
French engine building its own index, with no behavioural profile behind the results.
instead of Google Search
Plausible Analytics
Analytics
Estonia
Cookie-free analytics in one small script, hosted in the EU or on your own box.
instead of Google Analytics
Threema
Messaging & MeetingsSwitzerland
Swiss messenger that needs no phone number and keeps no contact graph to hand over.
instead of WhatsApp
Adyen
Payments & Banking
Netherlands
Amsterdam acquirer sitting behind a large share of European e-commerce checkouts.
instead of Stripe, PayPalFree tier
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Found where buyers compare
Filed under its category, its country and what it replaces — 18 categories and 127 “alternatives to” pages, where people land when they are about to switch.
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Migrations people actually run, cut across the whole registry.
Leave Google
39Search, Drive, Gmail, Analytics, Maps and Translate, one row at a time.
Leave Microsoft
13Getting out of the 365 tenancy: mail, files, editing, Teams.
Leave AWS
12Compute, storage and CDN with a bill you can predict.
Open source
47You can read it, fork it, and audit what it sends home.
Self-hostable
32Runs on your own hardware, when the answer to "where does it live" has to be "here".
End-to-end encrypted
17The provider cannot read it either.
Sovereign cloud
15Operators that keep the data, the contract and the parent company in Europe.