Kill Guides
Step-by-step guides to replace expensive SaaS tools with AI agents and open source alternatives you own.
Not everything should be DIY
Some tools handle payments, auth, or compliance. We tag every guide with a risk level so you know when to use a hosted service instead of building your own.
Kill Grammarly
$12-$25/mo per user
Grammarly charges per user per month for grammar and writing suggestions. Claude does everything Grammarly does and significantly more - rewriting, to...
Kill Notion
$16/mo per user
Notion is powerful but charges per seat, stores your data on their servers, and has become bloated for teams that just need a reliable wiki and notes ...
customer-facing support, conversation data
Kill Intercom
$74-$400+/mo
Intercom is powerful but its per-resolution AI pricing ($0.99 per AI-resolved conversation) and base seat fees make it expensive and unpredictable for...
Kill Calendly
$16-20/mo per user
Calendly charges $16-20/month per user to share a booking link. Cal.com is the open source version of the same thing. Self-host it on Railway in under...
subscriber data, sending reputation
Kill Mailchimp
$13-350+/mo
Mailchimp starts at $13/month and scales painfully by contact count - including contacts who unsubscribed. Listmonk is the self-hosted alternative wit...
Kill Otter.ai
$17-40/mo
Otter.ai charges $17-40/month for AI meeting transcription it now throttles aggressively on the free tier. Whisper is the open source model that power...
Kill QuillBot
$10-20/mo
QuillBot charges $10-20/month to paraphrase and rewrite sentences. You already pay for an AI assistant that does this better. Cancel QuillBot, use the...
Kill Rev
$0.25-2.50/min
Rev charges $0.25/min for AI transcription and $1.50-2.50/min for human transcription. A one-hour meeting costs $15 with AI, $90-150 with a human. For...
Kill Trint
$48-80/mo
Trint charges $48-80/month to transcribe audio and let your team edit and comment on transcripts. The transcription is AI-powered (killable). The coll...
Kill Jasper
$49-125/mo
Jasper charges $49-125/month for an AI writing assistant built on the same models you can access directly. A Claude Pro subscription is $20/month. You...
Kill Drift
$2,500-$5,000/mo
Drift was taken offline in September 2025 after a supply chain attack compromised OAuth tokens across 700+ organizations. Salesforce confirmed Drift w...
Kill Monday.com
$36/mo+ (3-seat min)
Monday.com starts at $36/month for three seats - even if you only need one. Seats are sold in buckets of five, automations are capped, and prices went...
Kill Asana
$22/mo+ (2-seat min)
Asana started as a generous free tool and spent five years slowly taking features away. The free plan now caps at 2 users and blocks Timeline, automat...
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