Comparisons
Alternative to Google Workspace + Slack + Notion + Trello
The classic SMB stack does almost everything Beskos does. The difference is how many invoices, logins and integrations you maintain to get there.
What it costs per year
For 10 people, on each vendor's annual list price.
Google Workspace + Slack + Notion + Trello
$4,950.00
per year
Beskos
$0.00
per year
What each one covers
| Google Workspace + Slack + Notion + Trello | Beskos | |
|---|---|---|
| Mail on your own domain | Included | Included |
| Calendar and invites | Included | Included |
| Contacts with custom fields | Limited | Included |
| Team files | Included | Included |
| Chat with channels and threads | Included | Included |
| Video meetings with recording | Included | Included |
| Edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint | Included | Included |
| Wiki / knowledge base | Included | Included |
| Kanban boards | Included | Included |
| AI assistant included | Paid add-on | Included |
| Desktop folder sync | Included | Included |
| Own domain with DKIM and DMARC | Included | Included |
| Source you can read | Not available | Included |
| Run it on your own server | Not available | Included |
| Data in the European Union | Limited | Included |
| Provider subject to EU law | Not available | Included |
| Managed service, nothing to host | Included | Not available |
| All in the same app | Not available | Included |
Where Google Workspace + Slack + Notion + Trello is better
- Each piece is best-in-class, with years of polish and integrations for everything.
- A huge ecosystem of third-party apps, bots and extensions.
- If one piece stops fitting, you swap just that one without touching the rest.
Where Beskos wins
- No invoice at all: one login and one admin console, on a server you already pay for.
- The links between mail, tasks, files and meetings ship working — they aren't a project.
- AI with context on all of it, because all of it lives in the same place.
- No seat count, so the bill does not grow with the team.
In short
If your team already lives inside four tools and you are fine paying for that, the stack works. If you are assembling it now — or you are done reconciling four invoices and four consoles — Beskos does the same work for the cost of running it.
Read it before you believe any of this
Every row above is a claim about software you can download. The code is public, so the table can be checked rather than trusted.