{"id":36,"date":"2025-12-07T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.perchplatform.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2026-04-10T08:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:04:22","slug":"saas-pricing-and-the-need-for-an-alternative-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.perchplatform.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"SaaS pricing and the need for an alternative (us)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you\u2019ve been anywhere near the internet lately, you\u2019ve probably seen the headlines:
Microsoft\u2019s hiking prices. Google\u2019s hiking prices. And for what?<\/strong>
Not new features. Not miracles.
Just\u2026 vibes, apparently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It genuinely feels like the whole SaaS industry sat down one morning and said:
\u201cRight lads, same product BUT let\u2019s charge more. What other choice do they have?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually it hit us: people are paying a premium tax for a bit of storage and a group chat. And we were sick of watching trillion-dollar giants rinse hardworking people who are trying to run actual businesses, offer real services, and keep the local economy ticking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So we built something different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perch Platform \u2014 your own private cloud that isn\u2019t trying to rob you<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Perch is powered by Nextcloud, hosted fully in the EU, and doesn\u2019t need you to be some sort of server wizard to use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No \u201csurprise, here\u2019s a new tier.\u201d
No \u201cyou\u2019re paying for AI now whether you like it or not.\u201d
No emails saying your plan is going up again<\/em> for the exact same product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n
  • Flat pricing<\/strong> (the price stays the price \u2014 imagine!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • EU hosting<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • GDPR-friendly by default<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Perfect for small teams or even just your own files + photos<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Private, tidy, and not run by lads with trillion-dollar egos<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Perch does NOT wake up in July thinking it deserves 30% more for doing the same job.
    (It\u2019s got manners.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Why any of this matters<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Right now, most people feel stuck between two grim options:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \n
    1. Pay Big Tech more every year<\/strong>, or<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Self-host everything and spend your weekends crying into Docker logs<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Neither sounded appealing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Perch sits bang in the middle \u2014 the good middle:
      you get your own private cloud, it works out of the box, and the price doesn\u2019t jump just because the CEO felt spicy that quarter.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Your data is yours.
      Your cost stays the same.
      And you don\u2019t have to pretend to know what Kubernetes is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Who it\u2019s for<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
        \n
      • Agencies and small teams who want predictable costs<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Freelancers who want a safe home for files + photos<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Privacy nerds<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Anyone allergic to random price hikes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • People who like simple things that just work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        If that\u2019s you, you\u2019ll probably love it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        So yeah, that\u2019s Perch<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

        Big SaaS can keep inventing new bundles and add-ons and AI glitter.
        We\u2019re going the other direction:
        simple, private, flat-priced, European, sound.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Give it go and stop wondering!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        If you\u2019ve been anywhere near the internet lately, you\u2019ve probably seen the headlines:Microsoft\u2019s hiking prices. Google\u2019s hiking prices. And for what?Not new features. Not miracles.Just\u2026 vibes, apparently. It genuinely feels like the whole SaaS industry sat down one morning and said:\u201cRight lads, same product BUT let\u2019s charge more. What other choice do they have?\u201d Eventually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-why-perch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.perchplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.perchplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.perchplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.perchplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.perchplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.perchplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/blog.perchplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.perchplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.perchplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.perchplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.perchplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}