A CRM That Grows With You: Getting Started with Twenty

Salesforce costs can escalate quickly -- $25 per user per month for the most basic plan, then add-ons for automation, analytics, and integrations. For a growing business, a CRM should not be a line item that expands with every new hire. Twenty offers a different approach: a fully open-source, self-hosted CRM that you own and customize.

What Makes Twenty Different

Twenty is not a stripped-down CRM. It provides objects, views, workflows, and AI agents as building blocks that you can extend with TypeScript code. Define your own data models -- deals, contacts, support tickets, project milestones -- and the UI adapts. Twenty composes views from these objects, so your team sees exactly what they need, nothing they do not.

Built on NestJS and PostgreSQL with a React frontend, Twenty is a modern, well-architected stack that any developer can extend. It supports Docker Compose for self-hosting and includes a CLI for scaffolding custom apps.

Why Self-Host Your CRM

Customer data is among the most sensitive information a business holds. Self-hosting your CRM means that data lives on your infrastructure, governed by your access policies and your backup regime. There is no risk of a SaaS provider mining your contact lists or changing their privacy terms. For businesses in regulated industries -- legal, medical, financial -- this data sovereignty is non-negotiable.

Twenty has 54,000 GitHub stars and a rapidly growing contributor community. VPS1 deploys Twenty as part of our managed CRM services. Learn more on our Twenty CRM software page.