Why a zero-cost CRM is worth building

The economics of free-tier infrastructure for small teams and side projects.

Most CRM tools charge $25–$150 per seat per month. For a five-person team, that is $1,500–$9,000 per year — before integrations.

OrbitCubs CRM ships with the same workflows on a stack that costs $0 to operate at small scale. Firestore on the free tier handles 50,000 reads per day. Firebase Authentication handles sign-in. Google Drive (your account, not ours) holds your file uploads. Cloudflare Workers (free tier) host the few server-side proxies needed for OAuth.

The catch is that this stack assumes a small or mid-sized team. If you have hundreds of users hitting the system every minute, you will outgrow the free tier — and at that point, paid options make sense again.

For everyone else: a free CRM that respects your data is the missing tier.

Published 2026-04-22 by OrbitCubs Team.

OrbitCubs CRM — Why a zero-cost CRM is worth building