ProjectBook is open source. Self-hosting is free and unlimited, permanently.
The hosted version at projectbook.dev is free while we are in beta. No credit card, no trial timer.
A generous free tier, and a flat price per workspace.
Eventually the hosted version will have a generous free tier with a limit on the number of artifacts in a workspace, and a flat paid tier per workspace, not per seat, because charging per person punishes teams for collaborating, which is the whole point of the product.
We don't have exact numbers yet, and we'd rather set them by watching how real teams use ProjectBook than by guessing today. When we do set them, everything below still applies.
Commitments, not marketing.
Reading and exporting everything in your workspace will always be free, including if you exceed a limit or stop paying.
Self-hosters get 100% of the functionality. There is no "community edition" with pieces removed. What you are paying for on the hosted version is us running the infrastructure, not access to features.
If we introduce limits, workspaces created beforehand get grandfathered.
Self-hosted instances phone home to nobody.
One command gets you the whole stack.
docker compose updocker compose up gets you the whole stack.
Charge for what actually costs money.
Open-source products that gate features behind a paid tier tend to make the open version subtly worse on purpose. We'd rather the open project be genuinely complete and charge for the thing that actually costs money: running servers, backups, and updates so you don't have to.
"If you self-host and never pay us anything,
that's a success, not a loophole."