This isn’t a crusade against paid software.
We built software we think is useful to MSPs, and we publish it as open source. That’s the whole story.
Commercial products pay for development, support teams, integrations, hosted infrastructure, testing and large ecosystems. If the product you’re paying for works well and earns its cost, keep using it. MSP Zero gives you another option, one tool at a time.
Free is the licence, not the sales pitch.
Every project is MIT licensed: no fee, no key, no paid tier. We aren’t trying to win a pricing war. These tools aren’t better because they’re free, and they don’t match mature commercial platforms feature for feature. Judge each one on whether it solves a problem you have.
Free does make a difference in two places. A new MSP can put documentation, firewall management, backup administration and remote support in place without per-seat fees while the business grows. And an established one can add a single tool where it fills a gap, without changing anything else.
Open source means you don’t have to wonder what’s inside.
These projects handle credentials, client documentation, firewalls, backups, infrastructure and remote access. For software in that position, being able to read the code matters. Open source doesn’t make software secure. It means you can inspect what you’re running, or have someone you trust do it.
Don’t just trust it. Verify it.
We don’t want you to trust MSP Zero because this website tells you to. Here is what you can check yourself.
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Read the source
Start with the parts that matter to you: how credentials are stored, what the installer does as root, what runs on a schedule.
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Check the change history
Every commit, release and changelog entry is public. See how often it changes, what changed recently, and how problems were fixed.
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Scan the dependencies
Each project declares its libraries in ordinary manifest files. A dependency scanner will list the ones with known vulnerabilities.
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Run static analysis
Point a static-analysis tool at the code for the classes of mistake it can find mechanically.
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Watch what it does on the network
Run it in a test environment and look at what it connects to. Each project page lists what the project says it needs to reach, so you have something to compare against.
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Get an independent review
Have a developer or security professional you trust look at it, and tell us what they find.
None of these is a security audit on its own. A clean scan proves only that the scanner found nothing it knows about, and a coding AI explaining a module is not a review. What source access gives you is the ability to look, instead of taking anyone’s word for it.
Built to be changed.
No two MSPs run the same way. Add a field, change a workflow, or connect a project to your PSA, RMM or accounting system. The MIT licence allows it. Do it yourself, pay a developer, or have a coding AI help with the work.
The project doesn’t disappear if we do.
If MSP Zero stopped tomorrow, your install would keep running on your server, your data would still be in your database, and the code would still be MIT licensed. Keep your own copy of the repository and any developer can maintain it, fix it or change it. Someone still has to keep it patched.
Help make it better.
Found a bug, or built something other MSPs could use? Open an issue or a pull request on the project’s GitHub. A fix one MSP contributes can end up in the software everyone else runs.
The goal isn’t to prove free software is better than paid software. It’s to make useful software available, give MSPs another choice, and build better tools together.