SaaS Cancellation

Should You Cancel Your Expensive SaaS and Build It Yourself? Seven Tests for the AI Era

For IT heads, corporate planning teams, and CFOs who opened a SaaS renewal quote and thought "we could build this for less," here are seven tests for deciding whether to cancel a SaaS you already pay for and build a replacement in-house: price increases and currency exposure, per-seat pricing growth, how slowly the data and features change, legal and accounting complexity, the number of integrations, who will maintain it, and the cancellation and migration terms. It does not hide the evidence on the other side, including public guidance that favors SaaS and research showing AI-assisted development can be less stable. The first article in a five-part series.