Comparison
A competent SPFx developer can build you a decent org chart. That is not the question worth asking. The question is who keeps it working through the next five years of SharePoint Framework versions, Node upgrades, Fluent UI changes and Graph API deprecations, long after the person who wrote it has moved on to something more interesting.
The maintenance figures are counted from our own repositories, not estimated. No day rate is quoted, because yours is not ours to guess.
| Glow Cloud Kit | Building in-house | |
|---|---|---|
| Getting the first one | Installed and configured this afternoon | Weeks of a developer's time, then testing |
| Getting the other 17 | Included. They are already built | Each one is another project |
| Keeping up with SPFx | Ours to do. All 18 are on SPFx 1.23 | Yours, permanently. Every version, every Node bump |
| What that upkeep looks like | 765 commits across our repositories in the year to August 2026 | The same shape of work, on your team's time |
| Accessibility, dark mode, mobile, theming | Done, and re-done when SharePoint moves | Yours to build and yours to keep working |
| When it breaks | Reported to us, fixed in a release | Whoever wrote it, if they still work there |
| A genuinely bespoke requirement | We will not build your internal process into a product | This is exactly what building is for |
| Control of the code | Configuration is yours; the source is ours | Complete. You own every line |
| Cost | £99/mo for all 18, flat, cancel anytime | Developer time to build, then to maintain, at your rate |
Sometimes building is plainly right, and we would rather say so than win the argument.
The short version: the build is the cheap part and the visible part, which is why it is the part that gets estimated. The expensive part is the five years afterwards, and it does not appear on the business case at all.
In the twelve months to August 2026 we made 765 commits across these 18 apps. The header web part alone took 141 of them and is on its twenty-eighth revision. None of that was new features anybody asked for - most of it was keeping working software working. That is the bill you are quietly signing up for, and £99 a month is us signing it instead.
£99/mo for all 18, or £29/mo per part. 14-day free trial, a card is required to start, cancel anytime, no licence keys.
Weighing something else up? These cover the other ways teams solve this.
A focused, affordable ShortPoint alternative - 18 purpose-built web parts at a fraction of the cost, unlimited sites, self-serve, no tracking.
Plumsail prices its org chart by employee count - cross a band and the price steps up. Ours has no employee bands, and the whole kit costs less than one banded renewal surprise.
TeamOrgChart steps from $25 to $60 to $140 a month as you hire. Glow Cloud Kit - Org Chart is £29/mo at any headcount, or the whole kit for £99.
A native SharePoint social feed instead of a third-party embed - no iframes, no view limits, no vendor branding, and nothing tracking which staff read what.
Powell, Omnia and Staffbase sell a whole intranet platform, priced per user and quoted by a salesperson. One question decides it: are you replacing your intranet, or improving it?
Maintenance figures counted from Glow Cloud Solutions' own source repositories on 27 August 2026, covering the preceding twelve months across all 18 apps. They describe that period and are not updated continuously. Build effort varies enormously with scope, team and existing SPFx experience, so no estimate of it is offered here.