Confida – Self-Hosted Whistleblowing Portal vs. renting SaaS
Self-hosted whistleblowing channel that tracks the EU Directive's 7-day and 3-month clocks.
The subscription math
Whistlelink — rented
EUR 79/month (0-49 employees tier; billed annually)
[1]
Break-even:
2 months
of Whistlelink equals the one-time price (competitor bills in EUR — approximate).
Assumption: EUR not USD. Scales to EUR 99/mo at 50-149 staff - the realistic tier for the orgs the EU Directive actually covers.
Savings calculator
SaaS figures use the cited plan price above (see the sources below);
per-seat plans scale by the seat count from the same cited price. This is arithmetic, not a quote.
Also in this category
FaceUp [2]
No public price - quote-gated (verified)
Confirms the category's SaaS pricing is often hidden; Whistlelink is the visible-price anchor.
Why owning beats renting here
- One payment. No per-month, per-seat, or per-location fees — the license is perpetual.
- Your data stays on your server. Customer records never live in someone else's cloud.
- No plan ceilings. Records, users, and usage are limited by your hosting, not a pricing tier.
- It keeps working if the vendor doesn't. Self-hosted software can't be sunset out from under you.
Fair trade-offs: you host it, you back it up, and updates are yours to apply — see the
product page for honest limitations.
Sources
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Whistlelink — price checked 2026-07-05 —
source
“0-49: '79' EUR ... 50-149: '99' EUR ... 'Complete package for every organisation'”
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FaceUp — price checked 2026-07-05 —
source
“Starter - 'Get a Quote' ... Professional - 'Get a Quote' ... no specific dollar amounts or currencies are listed”
Competitor prices change — always confirm on the linked page. We only
print figures we could verify on the date shown.