Pricing

This page describes the ElfHosted pricing model. It used to be a complicated, over-engineered process of measuring app resource usage, picking the average of the top 20%, and calculating a per-day rate per app, which was expected to vary over time.

Nobody understood it, and it was very hard to report on!

Rather than being an AWS-like provider of bare-metal resources, ElfHosted has grown more of a full-service PaaS, with heavy investment in UX, community building and support (ElfVengers, merch store, AI bot, etc).

In July 2024, we rolled out the following, simplified model, based on app tiers.

1. Standalone apps: $9/month
2. Complex apps: $19/month
3. Starter pack bundles: $29/month
4. Hobbit bundles: $39/month
5. Ranger bundles: $59/month

Since the bundles / periods are now standardized, users will be able to upgrade / "cross-grade" and have the store automatically prorate the current subscription.