Everything an ISP needs, for less

• Fewer paid messages

  Bills, reminders and notices go as unlimited notices in the saRa app ($15 a month, or $10 on a yearly package, any size), popups in the customer portal and chat. Paid SMS is for the customers who need it.

  Saves: A reminder to 1,000 customers twice a month by SMS costs about Rs 7,800 a month¹. Every customer you reach in the app is one SMS fewer.

• WhatsApp with no platform fee

  Automatic WhatsApp messages from your own WhatsApp Business account. You pay Meta directly, with nothing added by us.

  Saves: Others charge a monthly WhatsApp fee, or a one-time fee to connect a gateway.

• PTA lookups built in

  NAT logs from your router, kept 400 days and sealed so any change shows. Look up which subscriber had a public IP and port at a given moment, keep the request register and print the letter.

  Saves: Others charge for a separate log server, leave the logs to a server you run yourself, or do not keep them.

• Choose Cloud: no server, no PC

  No hardware, UPS, batteries or electricity to pay for, and nobody to fix it at night. Daily backups are part of the hosting, and we install the updates.

  Saves: Running your own PC or server costs about $27 to $100 a month² before you pay for any software.

• Your logs, where you want them

  On Cloud, 400 days of PTA logs and the daily backups are on our disks. On On-premise they stay on your own server, and our optional PTA log cloud backup keeps an encrypted off-site copy for 400 days.

  Saves: About 240 GB of logs per 1,000 subscribers³. Others charge for a separate log server.

• Have an OLT? Add it too

  OLTs and ONUs in saRa: each ONU’s signal, weak ONUs flagged, PON ports and a network diagram from router to OLT.

  Saves: Included in every plan, with no per-OLT fee. Some others charge a monthly add-on per 10 OLTs.

• Fibre router details without an OLT

  Coming soon

  For each customer’s home router over TR-069: fibre signal (Rx and Tx), PPPoE, the device, WiFi, connected devices and diagnostics. Today saRa links the home router and customers change their WiFi from the portal.

  Saves: See a fibre customer’s line without an OLT or a site visit. Others charge per 1,000 devices for TR-069, or do not offer it.

• Staff location tracking

  Coming soon

  See where field and recovery staff are, in the saRa app. Today saRa keeps staff attendance and shifts.

  Saves: Send the nearest technician and spend less on wasted trips.

• Money control

  A cash book per branch with handovers, staff balances that must be topped up before staff can renew, reseller wallets with credit limits, and staff salary and advances.

  Saves: Cash cannot quietly go missing between the counter, the recovery officer and the branch.

• Unlimited staff and routers

  Every staff login, every router, branches, resellers and retailers, in every plan.

  Saves: Others limit staff or routers by plan, charge per router, or keep resellers to higher plans.

• One Android app

  Customers pay, chat and call you; staff and resellers renew and collect from the same app, with unlimited notices and messages.

  Saves: $15 a month for every size, $10 on a yearly package. Others offer an API and custom app work, or no app at all.

Choose Cloud and you need no server, PC or disks. Choose On-premise and you still get everything included, at a lower monthly price, on your own server.

saRa vs Others

What you need	saRa	Others
Hosted for you, nothing to install	Cloud plan, or on your own server	Often your own server
PTA NAT logs: 400 days, sealed, IP and port lookup, letter	Included; kept on our server (Cloud) or yours (On-premise)	A separate paid log server, your own server, or not offered
Pakistani payments: JazzCash, bank card, bank slips	Built in	A one-time fee to add a local gateway
WhatsApp messages	No platform fee	Monthly fee, or a gateway set-up fee
Customers change their WiFi in the portal (TR-069)	Included	Paid per 1,000 devices, or not offered
OLTs and ONUs	Included, no per-OLT fee	Often a monthly add-on
Staff logins and routers	Unlimited	Limited by plan, or paid per router
Branches, resellers and retailers	Every plan	Often higher plans only
Cash book, staff balances, salary	Included	Partly
Android app for customers and staff	$15 a month ($10 yearly), any size, unlimited notices	An API and paid custom app work, or none shown
30-day free trial	On your own data	Often without payments, SMS or OLT
Updates	Included	Included, or only with a yearly renewal
Backups	Cloud: daily, part of the hosting. On-premise: yours, or optional Database and PTA log cloud backups	Your job, on your own server
Installation and full support	Optional; installation free with the support package	Set-up included; custom work from $1,000
Fibre router details without an OLT (TR-069)	Coming soon	Paid per 1,000 devices, or not offered
Staff location tracking	Coming soon	Varies

Everything you need, per year

US dollars a year, at each size. For Others we count their plan plus what it takes to match what saRa includes. Lower figures than saRa’s are marked. The assumptions are in the notes.

Cloud: saRa hosted by us, against Others

Subscribers	saRa Cloud	Others, hosted monthly plan with add-ons⁴	Others, licence on your own server⁵	Others, their cloud⁶
500	$150	$812	$419	$296 – $348
1,000	$250	$812	$519	$500 – $588
2,000	$460	$1,376	$519	$500 – $588
5,000	$990	$1,808	$669 Lower	$1,520 – $1,788

Up to 2,000 subscribers saRa Cloud costs less than every option, per year. Paid month by month, saRa Cloud at 2,000 is $58, $9 more than Others’ cloud at $49, while the yearly package ($460) stays lower than theirs ($500 to $588). At 5,000 it costs less than every hosted option once that option has what saRa includes. On paper a yearly licence on your own server ($669) or a bare hosted plan with no WiFi from the portal and no PTA logs ($768) costs less, and then you go without those, or run, power and repair the server yourself.

On-premise: saRa on your own server, against Others’ licences

Subscribers	saRa On-premise	Others, yearly licence⁷	Others, monthly licence with log server⁸
500	$90	$99	$153 – $180
1,000	$150	$199	$296 – $348
2,000	$190	$199	$296 – $348
5,000	$290	$349	$608 – $696
10,000	$490	$549	$1,190 – $1,368

On your own server, saRa costs less than Others at every size, before their renewal, gateway and other fees.

Notes

1. Example: 1,000 customers × 2 SMS a month × Rs 3.9, a Pakistani SMS provider’s branded-SMS price in November 2026.
2. Our estimate for a PC or server running all year in Pakistan: electricity at the 2026 commercial tariff with UPS loss, the PC spread over its life, disks for 400 days of PTA logs, UPS and batteries, an off-site backup and a few hours of someone’s time a month. Rs 7,400 to Rs 28,300 a month, about $27 to $100 at USD 1 = PKR 277.5. Prices of the PC, UPS and backup are our assumptions.
3. Measured on a live MikroTik: about 0.6 MB of compressed NAT log per subscriber per day. Your subscribers may use more or less.
4. The plan for that size × 12, WiFi from the portal (TR-069) for every subscriber at the per-1,000-device price, the WhatsApp add-on, and $320 a year for a server to keep PTA logs, which that offer does not keep (our lowest estimate, note 2). Without the log server it is $492 at 500 and 1,000, $1,056 at 2,000 and $1,488 at 5,000; without TR-069 as well, $348, $348, $768 and $768.
5. The first-year licence for that size plus $320 a year for your own server (note 2). It offers no WiFi changes from the portal and no WhatsApp; later renewals and set-up or customisation fees are not counted.
6. The monthly cloud plan for that size × 12, from a 15% yearly discount to the full price. It offers no WiFi changes from the portal.
7. Others’ published on-premise licence for one year. Both sides need your own server, so none is added. Not counted: its renewal after the first year, set-up, customisation and SMS gateway fees.
8. Others’ monthly on-premise licence × 12, from a 15% yearly discount to the full price, plus the separate log server for NAT (PTA) logs they charge from 5,000 subscribers ($9 a month at 5,000, $15 at 10,000). The two smallest plans have a 6-month minimum term. Not counted: one-time fees to add a local payment gateway or an SMS provider, and custom work from $1,000.
9. All prices in US dollars a year, excluding tax; saRa’s figures are its yearly package. SMS and Meta charges are paid by you to your providers and are not counted for anyone; neither are saRa’s optional extras (Database and PTA log cloud backups, installation, the saRa app, support package).