Pricing without a decoder ring

Four flat tiers, published in three currencies. Each app draws its monthly price from your prepaid balance by the hour. Every price on this page is the whole price: no metered tasks, no per-seat multipliers, no bandwidth bill.

Plans and prices

Prices exclude GST/VAT where applicable. Drawn hourly from your prepaid balance, cancel any time.

Lite

$1.50/mo
  • 1 vCPU
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 5 GB NVMe

Lightweight tools: bookmarks, feeds, uptime checks, password vaults.

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Power

$3.90/mo
  • 2 vCPU
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 20 GB NVMe

Busy teams and heavier workloads with room to breathe.

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Scale

$6.30/mo
  • 3 vCPU
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 40 GB NVMe

The most demanding apps in the catalog, at full stride.

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Extra storage+25 GB NVMe per block, stackable on any tier
$1.20/mo per block
Best value, save 25%

Apps hosted in Poland cost 25% less. Pick our Warsaw region when you deploy and each tier draws $1.10 (Lite), $1.70 (Standard), $2.90 (Power) or $4.70 (Scale) a month, and extra storage is $0.90 per block. The price is locked on the app when you create it.

Every tier includes

  • Daily backups with one-click restore
  • Automatic HTTPS + custom domains
  • SFTP access to your data
  • AI + human support, app-level scope
  • Resize up or down, prorated
  • No bandwidth charges for normal use
  • Automatic updates, tested first, with rollback

In the panelPlatform features

What your apps can do beyond the plan itself, all managed from the panel. Bringing an app from another host? See moving to CoreHost.

Per-app firewall

Limit who can reach an app to the IP addresses you choose. It is off by default, so nothing changes until you turn it on.

Find it in the Firewall tab on the app page.

  • An IP allowlist for each app
  • An "Add my IP" button, so you do not have to look your address up
  • "Allow Cloudflare" and "Cloudflare only" modes for apps behind Cloudflare
  • Covers the app's address, its custom domain and its direct port

Backups to your own S3 storage

Daily backups stay included with every app. This adds a second copy in a bucket you own, so you are never relying on us alone.

  • Works with AWS S3, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, Wasabi and other S3-compatible storage
  • Encrypted and incremental, using restic
  • Run it on a schedule, or press "Back up now"
  • One-click restore, plus a recovery kit so you can restore it yourself

Automatic app updates

Every app can stay current without you watching for releases, with checks around each update.

  • Each update is tested on a copy first
  • A backup is taken before every update
  • Automatic rollback if the updated app fails its checks
  • An "Update now" button when you would rather not wait
  • A notice ticket when a security update is available

Auto top-up

Keep your prepaid balance topped up without having to remember. Apps draw from it by the hour, so it is worth never letting it run dry.

Turn it on or off any time in Billing.

  • Tops up from your saved card when your balance falls below an amount you choose
  • Adds an amount you choose each time
  • Off again whenever you like

Move your apps in

Bring an app from PikaPods, a VPS or a home server. Deploy the same app, copy your data across over SFTP or with the app's own import screen, or ask us to move it with you in a ticket.

The guided move costs nothing extra: you pay the normal hourly price while the app runs.

  • SFTP and a browser file manager for your data
  • A backup of the new app before you upload, so you can go back
  • Written steps for PikaPods and for particular apps
  • Your old app is never touched

Apple Pay, Google Pay and Link

Top up your balance with the wallet you already use, as well as by card.

  • Apple Pay, Google Pay and Link are available for top-ups
  • A wallet shows up at checkout when your browser and device support it

Start free with $5 credit

Create an account and get $5 of service credit, no card needed. On the Lite tier that is roughly two months of a real running app, long enough to trust it with real work before you top up.

Cancel any time

Cancel in the panel whenever you like. Cancelling deletes the app and stops its hourly draw straight away, and any unused balance stays on your account. Download a backup or take an SFTP copy first if you want to keep the data.

The honest mathsAgainst the subscriptions they replace

Entry paid tiers of the SaaS each app most commonly replaces, checked July 2026. Several of these have free tiers that may be all you need. If so, use them. The comparison below is for when you have outgrown them.

App on CoreHostTypical SaaS equivalentTypical SaaS priceOn CoreHost.io
ActivepiecesZapier (Professional)US$19.99/mofrom US$3.90/mo
NocoDBAirtable (Team)US$20/user/mofrom US$2.30/mo
Actual BudgetYNABUS$14.99/mofrom US$1.50/mo
Uptime KumaBetter Stack / Pingdom-class monitorsfrom ~US$10/mofrom US$1.50/mo
GiteaGitHub (Team)US$4/user/mofrom US$2.30/mo
VaultwardenPassword manager (family plan)~US$5/mofrom US$1.50/mo

One CoreHost instance serves your whole team; there is no per-seat multiplier. A fair note in the other direction: SaaS includes someone else clicking the admin buttons inside the app. We manage the platform and help with the app, but the app's settings are yours to drive.

Fine print, in plain wordsBilling questions

Start with one app

Pick the subscription you resent most. That is usually the right first app.

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