7 Python Libraries That Replaced My Paid Subscriptions

I used to pay for 7 different SaaS tools. Then I discovered that Python libraries do the same thing for free. Here's every subscription I cancelled and what replaced it. 1. Pandas → Replaced Excel ($14/mo) I was paying for Microsoft 365 mainly for Excel. Pandas does everything Excel does, but programmable. import pandas as pd # Read any format df = pd . read_csv ( " sales.csv " ) # or .xlsx, .json, .sql, .html # Pivot tables pivot = df . pivot_table ( values = " revenue " , index = " month " , columns = " product " , aggfunc = " sum " ) # VLOOKUP equivalent merged = pd . merge ( orders , customers , on = " customer_id " ) Saved: $168/year 2. BeautifulSoup + Requests → Replaced ScrapingBee ($49/mo) import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup resp = requests . get ( " https://example.com " ) soup = BeautifulSoup ( resp . text , " html.parser " ) prices = [ el . text for el in soup . select ( " .price " )] For 90% of scraping tasks, you don't need a paid service. Saved: $588/year 3. Mat