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The direct competitor for Lightroom is capture one, which costs more than LR and Photoshop combined, but I think does a better job on the files. If you want free then you get what you pay for. Each manufacturer has their own RAW converter for free, and some are better than others. There are a bunch of others, but I can't say which is any good.
https://shotkit.com/best-alternative-to-lightroom/
I might get downvoted for this but I think a lot of people forget how expensive editing software was before subscription based services.
I think it depends how often you update either the subscription or the standalone.
If I bought DXO Photolab and kept it for 5 years without paying for an update then it'd come out far cheaper than 5 years of Adobe subscriptions.
But those subscriptions would bring me the latest version, where that Photolab license would only count for the existing version (which would be 5 years old at the end).