The Flamingo OpenFrame alternative for Windows-heavy fleets
OpenFrame is a serious product at a very aggressive price. Flamingo’s Gen 1 plan is $1 per device per month ($0.80 billed yearly) with unlimited technicians, and it bundles RMM, remote access, patching, a PSA, SIEM, MDM and documentation, plus two AI agents: Fae for end users and Mingo for technicians. Windows, Mac and Linux. The source is on GitHub and you can self-host it. If you want one bill for RMM and ticketing, OpenFrame deserves a hard look.
Your first 100 endpoints are free, forever. OpenFrame has a 14-day trial and no free tier, so a 100-device shop pays about $100/month there and $0 here, with every RFF feature switched on.
And RFF goes deeper on Windows. We capture a machine’s effective Group Policy, version it, and show drift in plain English, down to which GPO set each value. Deployments verify the end state instead of trusting an exit code, can run in the signed-in user’s context, and the uninstall engine finds silent switches instead of making you hunt for them.
Start free → · No credit card · 100 endpoints, every feature
Where the money actually lands
| Fleet size | OpenFrame Gen 1 (monthly) | RFF | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 endpoints | $25/mo | Free | RFF $25 cheaper |
| 100 endpoints | $100/mo | Free | RFF $100 cheaper |
| 250 endpoints | $250/mo | $449/mo (Starter) | OpenFrame $199 cheaper |
| 500 endpoints | $500/mo | $949/mo (Starter) | OpenFrame $449 cheaper |
| 1,000 endpoints | $1,000/mo | $1,949/mo (Starter) | OpenFrame $949 cheaper |
OpenFrame pricing per flamingo.run/pricing, October 2026: Gen 1 at $1.00/device/month, or $0.80 billed yearly, with 10M AI tokens a month included and more at $100 per 10M. RFF pricing per our pricing page: Free to 100, Starter $149/mo including 100 then $2.00/endpoint with no cap, MSP $149 base + $1.75/endpoint for multi-client fleets.
Under 100 endpoints RFF is free and OpenFrame isn’t. Past 100, OpenFrame is roughly half our price, and the gap grows with the fleet. If price per device is what decides it and the bundle covers what you need, OpenFrame wins that math.
Feature comparison
| RFF | Flamingo OpenFrame | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 100 endpoints, forever | 14-day trial |
| Price above free | Starter $149/mo inc. 100, then $2.00/endpoint | $1.00/device ($0.80 yearly) |
| Technicians | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Windows | Deep | Yes |
| macOS / Linux | Yes, new in October 2026 | Yes |
| PSA / ticketing | No. Alerts open and resolve tickets in your PSA by webhook | Yes, built in |
| AI agents | No | Fae (end users) and Mingo (technicians) |
| SIEM, MDM, documentation | No | Yes |
| Readable GPO baselines + drift | Yes | Not listed |
| Per-user-context deploy | Yes | Not listed |
| Uninstall engine (switch discovery) | Yes | Not listed |
| Self-host option | No, hosted only | Yes |
| Source code | Closed | On GitHub under Flamingo’s own license (not an OSI open-source license) |
| Public REST API | Yes, every tier including free | Yes |
Where OpenFrame wins: breadth and price. A PSA, SIEM, MDM and documentation in the same console at $1 a device is a lot of product, and the AI agents are aimed squarely at closing tickets before a technician touches them. You can also self-host it. RFF has none of the PSA, SIEM or MDM pieces and doesn’t claim to.
Where RFF wins: a free tier that never expires, and the Windows surfaces we wrap: readable Group Policy baselines with drift, deployments that check the end state, per-user-context installs, and an uninstall engine that finds the silent switches for you.
Questions people actually ask
OpenFrame is half the price. Why would we pay more? Under 100 endpoints you wouldn’t, because RFF is free. Above that, only if the Windows depth saves you more than the difference: Group Policy you can read and baseline, installs that verify, uninstalls that work. If it doesn’t, OpenFrame is the better deal and you should use it.
We need ticketing. Then OpenFrame, or a separate PSA, is the right call today. RFF doesn’t have a help desk. What it does do is open a ticket in your PSA when a check fails and close it when the check recovers, over a webhook, so the RMM side and the ticket stay in step.
Is it really open source? The code is public on GitHub, and Flamingo’s license lets you self-host it. It’s their own license (FLAMINGO AI Unified v1.0), not an OSI open-source one, and offering it as a managed service needs a commercial license from Flamingo. Read it before you build on it.
How mature are they? Both of us are young. Flamingo came out of stealth in October 2025 and has raised outside funding; RFF is a solo founder who spent years running a large Windows fleet. Neither of us has a decade of track record, so test with real machines instead of taking anyone’s word for it.
Can we run both? Yes, and it’s the honest way to decide. Put RFF on 10 machines you don’t lose sleep over, run OpenFrame’s trial next to it, and compare what each one actually tells you about those machines.
Comparing other tools?
We keep honest, side-by-side breakdowns of RFF against the tools teams usually weigh: