How We Cut Our Cloud SaaS Bill by $14,000/Year with 7 Self-Hosted Open-Source Tools in 2026
If you're running a small engineering team or building a startup in 2026, you've probably noticed a silent killer on your credit card statement: SaaS seat tax and multi-vector usage fees.
What started as $10/month per user quickly balloons:
Firebase/Supabase Cloud: Database reads, realtime quotas, egress fees ($150–$400/mo)
Zapier/Make: $0.03 per task run once you hit 50k monthly workflow executions ($250/mo)
