Honest comparison

Here's what you pay now.
Here's what you'd pay us.

No sales tricks. We use the competitors' own published prices — and we link to every one of them so you can check for yourself. Move the slider, tick what you use, and see the real number.

Savings calculator

How much is your current setup costing you?

Tick the things your business pays for today. We compare against what those providers actually charge — at their best annual rate, not their most expensive one.

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What do you pay for today?

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Being straight with you: Google Workspace also includes Docs, Sheets and Meet, and Microsoft 365 includes Office. Our email doesn't bundle an office suite — most of our customers already have Office licences or use the free web versions. If your team lives in Google Docs all day, factor that in. We'd rather tell you now than have you find out later.

Line by line

The same thing, from both sides

Every price below is what the provider publishes. The links go straight to their pricing pages — check them yourself, they change from time to time.

📧 Business email — a team of 10

Google Workspace

Business Standard · $18.40 per user
$184/month
  • 2 TB storage per user
  • Docs, Sheets, Meet included
  • Price is per person, every month
  • Support via help centre
VS

TNC TV

Team email · $4 per mailbox at 10+
$40/month
  • 50 GB per mailbox
  • Works with Outlook and phone apps
  • Spam filtering and deliverability setup
  • A person answers, same day

Saving $144/month — about $1,728 a year for a team of ten.

☁️ File storage — a team of 10

Dropbox Business

Standard · ~$21 per user (annual billing)
$210/month
  • Pooled storage tied to licence count
  • Minimum 3 users
  • Cost rises with every person you hire
  • No server, file sync only
VS

TNC TV

Team file cloud · 1 TB flat rate
$24/month
  • Unlimited users — price never changes
  • No upload size limit at all
  • Desktop sync and mobile apps
  • You own the server it sits on

Saving $186/month — about $2,232 a year. This is the big one, because we charge for space, not for people.

☎️ Phone system — a team of 10

RingCentral

Core · $20 USD per user (annual) ≈ $27 CAD
$270/month
  • Auto-attendant and call queues
  • No automatic call recording on Core
  • 25 SMS per user per month
  • Price is per person, every month
VS

TNC TV

Hosted phone · $25 base + $8 per extra extension
$65/month
  • Auto-attendant and call queues
  • Call recording included
  • Voicemail to email
  • Number porting included free

Saving $205/month — about $2,460 a year. Calling minutes are billed separately by both providers.

Prices checked September 2026. USD converted at approximately 1.37. Providers change their pricing without notice — if you find a number here that's out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.

The obvious question

"If it's this much cheaper, what's the catch?"

Fair question. Here's the honest answer, in three parts.

👥

We don't charge per person

Big providers bill per seat because it scales their revenue with your headcount. We charge for the space and the server. Ten people or fifty, a terabyte costs the same. That single difference is most of the gap.

🏢

We're small

No sales floor, no Super Bowl ad, no eleven layers of management. You're paying for the technology and one technician — not a marketing budget.

⚖️

What you give up

No 24/7 overnight call centre, no office suite bundled in, and we're a small business rather than a multinational. If those matter more to you than the money, the big providers are a legitimate choice. We'd rather you know that up front.

Plain English

What all the words actually mean

Technology people are terrible at explaining things. Here's every term on this site, without the jargon.

Server / VPS
Think: a computer that never sleeps

A computer that lives in a data centre, is always on, always connected, and does a job for you — hosts your website, stores your files, runs your phone system.

You're renting a whole computer, not a folder on someone else's. That's why you can put anything you want on it.
Managed
Think: someone else does the chores

Unmanaged means you get a blank computer and everything after that is your problem — updates, security, backups, fixing it at 2am.

Managed means we do all of that. It's the difference between buying a car and having a driver.

Everything we sell is managed. That's most of what you're paying for.
A terabyte (TB)
Think: a very large filing cabinet

1 TB is roughly 250,000 photos, or 500 hours of video, or basically every document a small business will produce in a decade.

Most businesses under 20 people never fill 1 TB. If you're unsure, start there — we can make it bigger any time with no downtime.
Per-seat pricing
Think: paying rent per employee

When a provider charges "per user per month", your bill grows every time you hire someone — even if the extra person barely uses it.

Our storage and phone system are priced by capacity instead. Hiring someone doesn't automatically raise your bill.
Root access
Think: the keys to the whole building

Full control of your server — you can install anything, change anything, and nobody can stop you.

Most shared hosting doesn't give you this. We do, on every server plan, even if you never use it.
PBX / hosted phone
Think: the switchboard, but software

The system that answers your main number, plays "press 1 for sales", rings the right desk, takes voicemail and records calls.

It used to be a metal box in a cupboard. Now it's software on a server, which is why it costs a fraction of what it used to.
Migration
Think: movers, for your data

Moving your email, files and phone numbers from your old provider to the new one, without losing anything or having a gap in service.

This is the part people dread. It's included free with everything we sell, and we do it outside business hours if you'd rather.
VPN
Think: a private tunnel

A secure connection between your devices and your server, so staff working from home reach internal systems safely without those systems being open to the whole internet.

Also hides your browsing from the coffee shop wifi. Included free with every server plan.
Uptime
Think: how often it's actually working

"99.9% uptime" means it's down less than about 45 minutes a month. Most outages are seconds, during scheduled updates.

We monitor around the clock and usually know something is wrong before you do.
Over five years

Small monthly differences become large numbers

A team of ten paying for email, file storage and a phone system. Same services, both sides — just a different bill.

Google + Dropbox + RingCentral$664 / month
$39,840 over 5 years
TNC TV$129 / month
$7,740 over 5 years
$32,100
kept in the business over five years
That's a vehicle, a hire, or a very good year-end.

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