Plans & what counts
How agenthost counts what you host — sites versus apps — and what changes when you outgrow the free plan. Current prices live on the pricing page.
Two things are counted, and they're counted differently. That's the only part of the pricing that isn't obvious, so it's worth two minutes.
For current amounts, see the pricing page — the numbers live there so this page can't drift from them.
Sites
A site is one thing you put online that is only files — no code running. A landing page, a portfolio, a docs site, a built single-page app.
- Counted per site, not per page. A site with twelve pages is one site, not twelve.
- Counted once, when the site is created. Adding pages to it later is free, and so is redeploying it as often as you like.
- A useful number of them is free forever, with no card.
Apps
An app is anything with a server behind it — Node, Python or PHP. It runs all day waiting for visitors, which is the part that costs real money, so apps are priced per app per month.
- Apps need the paid plan. The free plan hosts static sites only — there are no apps on it at all, not even one, and not for a fee.
- You add them one at a time. There's no jump to a bigger tier because you needed a second one.
- Delete an app and the charge stops. The count follows what you're actually running, in both directions.
Which one is mine?
| What you made | Counts as |
|---|---|
| A hand-written HTML page | A site |
| A React/Vue/Svelte app you've already built | A site — it's just files once built |
| A form that emails you when submitted | An app (something has to receive it) |
| An API, a webhook receiver, a dashboard with data | An app |
| A page that only reads from someone else's API in the browser | A site |
The technical version: a site is an app on the static runtime. If your
agent deployed it with runtime: "static", it's a site.
What the paid plan adds
Apps are the first thing — nothing that runs code is possible on the free plan. Beyond them, three more things are only available on the paid plan:
- Your own domains — as many as you like, HTTPS set up for you. See Use your own domain.
- Private, invite-only apps — invite as many people as you want. See Make something private.
- More than one person on the account — each signs in with their own email, and people are free. See Work with teammates.
Projects are unlimited on every plan.
Billing questions
VAT is added at checkout. Everything runs in Europe, invoiced in euros. For anything else — an invoice query, a plan that doesn't fit, a nonprofit or a large deployment — get in touch rather than guessing from this page.