Pricing · Pillars of the platform

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Ship it. For free.

Coding, deploying, hosting, the database, the cloud functions, and the entire App Home distribution channel — all free. No credit card. No trial timer. No “free up to” asterisk on the line that matters.

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/ 01 · what’s included

Every layer you'd otherwise pay for. Free.

Most platforms hand you a “free tier” and charge for the parts that make it real — production database, traffic, distribution. We don’t.

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$ build
Vibe coding

Bring your own AI client — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor. We don’t provide the model; we expose the MCP interface they connect through. Unlimited projects.

Free· MCP interface, free
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● live
Deploy & hosting

Fully automatic — no deploy command, ever. The moment you finish building, your backend is live and stays online. Global edge, auto-SSL.

Free· unmetered bandwidth
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export async function post(req) { // runs on edge return { ok: true } }
Cloud functions

Serverless functions in 3 regions. Cold start under 50ms. Logs, retries, and a real REPL included.

Free· invocations · compute · egress
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Database

Managed Postgres per project. Migrations, row-level security, point-in-time restore. No row caps.

Free· storage · reads · writes
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Distribution

List on App Home, get a Pane install link, share with one URL. Editorial features included, no listing fee.

Free· no listing fee · revenue share
/ 02 · the bill that doesn’t show up

What you'd spend elsewhere for the same shipping product.

A typical small app: 10k users, ~200k function calls/day, modest Postgres footprint. Numbers below are entry-tier list prices.

Layer
openserve
Vercel
Supabase
App Store
Hosting & bandwidthedge · global CDN · 100GB/mo
free
$20 / mo
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Cloud functions~6M invocations · 3 regions
free
$20 / mo
$25 / mo
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Managed Postgres2 GB · backups · RLS
free
$15 / mo
$25 / mo
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Distribution channelstore listing · reviews · share link
free
— self-hosted
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$99 / yr + 15–30% cut
Monthly · for one shipping product
$0
~$55+
~$50+
$99/yr + cut

So how is it free?

Three deliberate choices. They mean the cheap-to-serve case is genuinely free, and a tiny minority of mature products eventually upgrade — that pays for the rest.

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Edge-native architecture
Functions and Postgres run on commodity edge — cold starts under 50ms, infrastructure cost per request approaches zero at our scale.
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Aggressive defaults
Smart caching, deduplicated builds, idle freezing. Most vibe-coded apps cost us cents per month to keep online.
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Tiny paid tier, later
Once you hit team-of-five scale or need dedicated compute, you'll see a price page. Until then — none of it.

Reasonable questions.

If yours isn't here, ask us on Discord or email [email protected].

Everything covered on this page is free, today, forever. A paid tier will exist eventually for teams that need dedicated compute, advanced compliance (SOC2, HIPAA), or single-tenant deployment — but it never makes the free tier worse. The free tier we ship is the same one we’d want to use ourselves.
Soft fair-use limits exist to prevent abuse (crypto miners, scrapers, content farms). For real apps with real users, we’ve never had to throttle anyone. If you’re approaching limits, we’ll reach out — usually it just means you need a dedicated region, which we’ll offer at cost.
Building and hosting stay free — you only share revenue once your app actually earns. App Home charges no listing fee and no upfront cost; we take a small cut of the money your app makes through it. If your app is free, you never owe anything.
Yes. One-click export gives you a tarball with all your source, a full pg_dump, and a Dockerfile that runs the whole stack anywhere. No lock-in is the whole point.
We’ve modeled it carefully. The cost-per-app of a vibe-coded weekend project is genuinely close to zero on modern edge infrastructure — fractions of a cent per month. The 1–2% of products that grow into businesses upgrade to a dedicated tier and cover the rest, in line with how most successful platforms work (GitHub, Cloudflare, Vercel — all free for the long tail).
We commit, in writing, in our terms of service: any project created on the free tier stays free at its current capabilities for its lifetime. New limits, if they appear, apply only to new projects. The pillar list on this page is the floor — it only goes up.

Ready when you are.
No card required.

Open a terminal, point your MCP client at openserve, and ship before the coffee goes cold.

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