The advantages of the paid Saas to me would be: 1. Time. If it can be deployed to accessed much faster, or changed/updated faster than I can myself, it's worth

The advantages of the paid Saas to me would be: 1. Time. If it can be deployed to accessed much faster, or changed/updated faster than I can myself, it's worth the cost 2. Support. SAAS offerings usually have support that would reduce the need to debug everything myself 3. Convenience: The SAAS may be more easily accessible via the cloud portal, wouldn't require that I store and maintain things myself, and overall reduces the overhead in that regard.