Mambu alternative
Mambu rents you a core on its platform and charges more as you grow. Fiter gives you one you own, with no license, wherever you choose.
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Mambu, Technisys, Temenos and Galileo charge you to use a core that is never yours. With Fiter you pay no license, choose where it runs and own the code.
License, code, data, lock-in and support: on every criterion that defines the real cost of your core, Fiter leaves you in control. The others keep it.
| Criterion | Fiter (Apache Fineract) | Mambu | Technisys | Temenos T24 | Galileo Financial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| License model and cost | Fiter advantage: Zero license fees. Apache 2.0: no charge per account, per customer or per transaction. Your portfolio grows and your core cost stays put. | SaaS subscription: you pay every year to use the platform, and the cost grows with your business. | Proprietary license plus maintenance and services. Every module and every change is negotiated with the vendor. | Proprietary license and annual maintenance, with a cost structure designed for large-scale banks. | Platform as a service under contract: you pay for a card and digital banking ecosystem even if what you need is a core. |
| Open source or proprietary | Fiter advantage: Open source. Your team, your auditors and your regulator can review every line that processes your portfolio. | Closed source. You can’t see or audit the code that processes your portfolio. | Closed source. Your team can’t see or audit what processes your portfolio. | Closed source. Your team can’t see or audit what processes your portfolio. | Closed source. Your team can’t see or audit what processes your accounts. |
| Deployment options | Fiter advantage: Wherever you decide: AWS, Azure, GCP, local cloud or on-premise. You meet your regulator’s requirements without asking anyone’s permission. | SaaS operated by Mambu: you pick the cloud and region, but the vendor controls the platform, its versions and its changes. | Options are set by the vendor and its contract, not by your infrastructure strategy. | On-premise, cloud or Temenos SaaS: always under Temenos license and terms. | On the vendor’s infrastructure. You don’t choose where your core runs. |
| Data ownership and portability | Fiter advantage: Your data, in your database, on your infrastructure. Query it, export it and back it up whenever you want. | Your data lives on a third-party platform. Getting it out depends on their tools and your contract. | The vendor controls the data model and the tools to get your data out. | Your data is tied to a proprietary model only the vendor fully knows. | Your accounts and transactions live on the SoFi Tech Solutions platform. |
| Vendor lock-in and exit cost | Fiter advantage: Zero lock-in. The code is yours forever: you can switch service providers without switching cores. | Stop paying and you have no core. Leaving forces a full migration to another platform. | Switching cores means another license, another vendor and another migration from scratch. | Years of customizations on closed code: the more you invest, the more expensive the exit. | Core and cards with the same vendor: changing one piece forces you to take apart the rest. |
| Support model | Fiter advantage: Direct access to the team that implemented your core, with 24/7 support tiers available. Not an anonymous global help desk. | Global vendor headquartered in Amsterdam. Your operation is one of many customers worldwide. | Part of SoFi, a US financial group, since 2022. Is your market still its priority? | Swiss vendor with a global partner network: support often reaches you through layers of integrators. | US company, now part of SoFi. Your support depends on a US financial group’s priorities. |
| Community and roadmap | Fiter advantage: Apache Software Foundation, with Fiter on the PMC: we vote on where the product goes. No acquirer can change its direction. | Mambu sets the roadmap according to its global commercial priorities. | SoFi Tech Solutions decides the roadmap. Who decides the roadmap of your core? | Roadmap set by Temenos for its portfolio of large global banks. | Roadmap set by SoFi Tech Solutions. |
Mambu rents you a core on its platform and charges more as you grow. Fiter gives you one you own, with no license, wherever you choose.
See the Mambu comparisonTechnisys has already changed owners and answers to SoFi today. Fiter gives you a core nobody can buy or redirect.
See the Technisys comparisonTemenos sells you a core built for global banks, license and integrators included. Fiter gives you the core you need, with no license.
See the Temenos T24 comparisonGalileo ties your core to its card platform. Fiter gives you your own core that connects with the processor you choose.
See the Galileo Financial comparisonApache 2.0 means zero license fees: you don’t pay per account or per transaction. With a subscription or licensed core, every new customer adds to the bill. With Fiter, growth doesn’t cost you more.
Fiter has members on the Apache Fineract PMC. When your portfolio needs something the core doesn’t do, we don’t open a ticket with a third party: we propose it, vote on it and build it.
Banks, fintechs, credit unions and microfinance institutions already run on Apache Fineract with Fiter, including Islamic finance (Murabaha). If your product isn’t standard, we configure it on the same core.
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