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FeaturedData · Sep 16, 2026 · 6 min
The AI credit tax: what your software charges now, and who still sells a flat price
Four tools you probably pay for stopped selling AI as part of the seat this year and started selling it by the credit. The seat price did not change. The bill did.

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The Open Source Login That Ends the SSO Tax
VoidAuth is an open source single sign-on server for everything you self-host: one login, passkeys and all, for unlimited users, on a box you own. The paid version of this is a multi-billion-dollar industry.
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The Open Source CRM That Fills Itself In
Comp AI open sourced the agent-first CRM they built for themselves. Instead of a form you fill in, a research agent does the digging and writes down what it finds. MIT licensed, free, self-hosted.
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One Open Source Box Comes for Vercel and Superhuman
Openship is an open source platform that bundles your deploy service, databases, storage, and email into one thing you run on a server you own. The paid versions it replaces are worth billions.
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