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ERPNext

Full ERP (accounting, CRM, HR, inventory) — free forever

provisional — pending verificationGPL-3.0self-hostable

Arete score

4.5 / 5

Autonomy5

Return5

Efficiency3

Transparency5

ἀρετή “AH-reh-tay” — excellence: a thing being good at what it’s for. Mean of the four principle scores. How we score →

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~ Provisional — seeded estimate by a human researcher; full rubric pass pending. Working notes ↓

Why it's listed

ERPNext is listed in erp & business management because it competes on utility: full erp (accounting, crm, hr, inventory) — free forever. It's built by an independent, bootstrapped team — no growth-at-all-costs pressure, no ad-tax passed to you. Licensed GPL-3.0; pricing: free (ce) / paid cloud. Its resource footprint is reasonable for what it does, though not featherweight. This entry is provisional — the scores are seeded estimates pending our full manual rubric pass, and the verification date will appear here once complete.

Facts

License: GPL-3.0
Pricing: Free (CE) / paid cloud
Funding model: Bootstrapped OSS (Frappe)
Self-hostable: Yes — deploy difficulty: hard
Replaces: NetSuite, QuickBooks
Verification: Provisional — scores are seeded estimates pending manual verification

Evidence notes

Frappe publishes finances openly

Recorded during the rubric pass — every score must carry evidence a stranger could re-check.

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