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Pricing and business model
Office Unbound’s own code is intended to be open source, with no license fee to run it; some third-party components, such as document-engine editions, have commercial terms of their own. This page sets out how the project expects to be funded and what could be offered commercially. No prices have been set.
Project status Nothing here is an offer. The license for Office Unbound’s own code has not been selected, and no commercial service exists.
What is intended to be free
The platform software: the integration, administration, provisioning and migration code that Office Unbound writes, published under an open-source license. An organization or an MSP should be able to download it, run it on its own infrastructure and serve its own users without paying the project.
Running it still costs money. Servers, storage, backup, monitoring and the people who operate them are real costs, and some upstream components sell commercial editions with features or support that a deployment may choose to buy, or may need for its size or hosting model. The document engines are the main example: Document engines compares their editions. Cost and licensing sets out where those costs fall.
How the project could be funded
Options under consideration. None has been chosen, and each carries a status.
| Option | What it would be | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sponsorship | Organizations funding development, infrastructure or a specific workstream. Sponsoring the project | Under evaluation |
| Support subscriptions | Paid support for organizations and MSPs running the platform: response times and upgrade help. | Concept |
| MSP partner program | Training, early access to releases and a direct line to the developers for providers hosting Office Unbound for customers. | Concept |
| Migration services | Assessment and migration delivered with or through MSPs, using the same open-source tools anyone can run. | Concept |
| Managed hosting | A hosted service through approved providers, for organizations that want neither to run servers nor to choose an MSP. | Under evaluation |
Intended principles
Proposed, to be confirmed when a business model is chosen.
- No feature that a self-hosted deployment needs for security will be held back for a paid tier.
- Prices, when there are any, will be published on this site, not quoted on request.
- Upstream component licenses and their commercial editions will be named, so costs are visible before a deployment is planned.
- The license for Office Unbound’s own code
- Whether any commercial offering will exist, and its price
- Which upstream commercial editions, if any, a deployment needs
Tell the project what would work for you
MSPs and organizations planning a move can say which commercial arrangements they would use. It shapes the decision.