Start free for 15 days. Then pay per product — $15 a month while it is still your own, $49 once real people depend on it. Deploys, backups, monitoring and security are in both, along with a matching allowance of monthly usage. Hobby is for you alone; Pro is how you bring other people in to work on it.
* Prices exclude VAT
Yes — 15 days on the full platform, no credit card needed to start. It’s one 15-day trial per account, shared by up to 3 products you build in it, and you can move to a paid plan whenever you’re ready.
One deployed product — its own web address, database and environments. You pay per product you run: $15 a month on Hobby, $49 on Pro, excluding VAT. Hobby is for one person; a product other people work on is Pro.
Hobby runs a real product in production on a softkiln.com address — deploys, backups, secrets, monitoring and a status page. Pro is for products other people depend on: it puts the product and its status page on your own domain, adds priority support, and private EU language models. Pro is also what lets you share a product: on Hobby only its owner works on it. The rule of thumb is the moment a client, a customer, an auditor or a colleague is looking at it, you want Pro.
Invite them to the product you want to share. Sharing is part of Pro, $49 a month per product excluding VAT, with no per-seat cost: invite as many people as you need, and each one gets access only to the products you give them, so a client sees only their own. A Hobby product is for its owner alone; inviting someone onto it makes it Pro.
Your monthly price for a product includes the same amount of usage — $15 on Hobby, $49 on Pro — covering compute, storage, bandwidth and backup storage. Most products never reach it. If one does, you pay only for what it uses above the allowance, at cost. Your dashboard shows the running total and a per-resource breakdown at any time, so it’s never a surprise on the invoice.
Continuous, automated security review on every deploy — OWASP Top-10 checks and dependency issues — returned as fix-ready findings. It is in progress and ships to Pro when it lands. What runs today is automatic secret scanning, which blocks a deploy that would expose credentials, and that is on every plan.
No — the prices above are exclusive of VAT. If your billing address is in Norway, 25% MVA is added and shown as its own line on the invoice, so $15 is billed as $18.75. Anywhere else, no VAT is added and the listed price is what you pay.
Yes. Plans are monthly with no lock-in — cancel whenever and you won’t be billed again.
No. Running the technical side is the product.