Pricing
Free to learn. Fair to ship.
The CLI, the skill, and the code Quickback generates are free forever.
You only pay to compile your project once you're running a commercial product.
For personal projects
Free or near-free. Non-commercial use only.
Hobby
Free
Learn Quickback and ship one personal project. No credit card.
- ✓ 1 personal project
- ✓ 100 compiles / month
- ✓ 1 developer seat
- ✓ All security layers
- ✓ All compiler targets (Hono, RLS, D1, Neon)
- ✓ Public GitHub repos: compiles free
- ✓ Community support
- — Non-commercial use only
Hobby Plus
$5
/ monthMore room for the serious side-project hacker. Still personal use only.
- ✓ Up to 10 personal projects
- ✓ 200 compiles / month
- ✓ 1 developer seat
- ✓ All security layers
- ✓ All compiler targets (Hono, RLS, D1, Neon)
- ✓ Public GitHub repos: compiles free
- ✓ Community support
- — Non-commercial use only
For commercial products
Per-project pricing. Pay per product, not per person.
Commercial
$299
/ project / yearFor indie devs, startups, and agencies shipping real products. Pay per project, not per person.
- ✓ Unlimited developer seats
- ✓ 500 compiles / project / month
- ✓ Overage at $0.02 / extra compile
- ✓ Production SLA (99.9%)
- ✓ 90-day compile audit log
- ✓ Priority email support
- ✓ Spend caps + usage alerts
- ✓ Add projects as you grow
Enterprise
Custom
Regulated industries, compliance requirements, or self-hosted compiler. We'll tailor it.
- ✓ Everything in Commercial
- ✓ Self-hosted compiler
- ✓ SSO / SAML
- ✓ Unlimited audit log + export
- ✓ Custom SLA
- ✓ Security review + DPA
- ✓ Dedicated Slack channel
- ✓ Volume pricing on projects
What you're paying for
The CLI is free on npm. The generated Hono, Drizzle, and Better Auth code is yours. Pricing covers the hosted compiler service — not your runtime, not your database, not your traffic. Stop paying us tomorrow and your app still ships.
How compiles work
One unit. No surprises.
A compile is one CLI run that regenerates your API, migrations, and SPA assets. Schema edits, full builds, and SPA rebuilds all count the same — one run, one compile.
Schema change
1 compile
Edit a table, add a guard, tweak access. The fast path.
Full compile
1 compile
Regenerate API, migrations, and OpenAPI spec. What most CI runs.
Full + SPA rebuild
1 compile
Add CMS or Account SPA rebuilds. The heaviest path.
Compare plans
| Feature | Hobby | Hobby Plus | Commercial | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial use | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Projects | 1 personal | Up to 10 personal | $299 / project / yr | Volume pricing |
| Developer seats | 1 | 1 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Compiles / month | 100 | 200 | 500 / project | Custom |
| Overage rate | — | — | $0.02 / compile | Negotiated |
| Public repos: free compiles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| All compiler targets (Hono, RLS, D1, Neon) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| All security layers | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Production SLA | — | — | 99.9% | Custom |
| Compile audit log | — | — | 90 days | Unlimited + export |
| Spend caps + usage alerts | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Self-hosted compiler | — | — | — | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | — | — | — | ✓ |
| DPA + security review | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Support | Community | Community | Priority email | Dedicated Slack |
Pricing FAQ
The awkward questions
What counts as "personal" vs "commercial"?
If nobody is paying you for it, it's personal. Side projects, learning repos, open-source demos, unreleased prototypes. Both Hobby and Hobby Plus are non-commercial. The moment a project generates revenue or is shipped under a client engagement, it becomes Commercial and gets its own $299/yr slot.
What's the difference between Hobby and Hobby Plus?
Hobby is free, fits one personal project, and gives you 100 compiles a month — perfect for learning Quickback or shipping something small. Hobby Plus is $5/mo, allows up to 10 personal projects, and bumps you to 200 compiles. Both are non-commercial only — the moment any of those projects starts making money, it moves to Commercial.
Why per-project and not per-seat?
Because a compiler's value scales with how many products you ship, not how many developers you have. A two-person studio shipping five commercial apps pays for five apps. A ten-person startup shipping one app pays for one app. Seats are free because billing on headcount would punish teams and reward solo devs for under-hiring — that's not the signal we want.
What happens to my generated code if I stop paying?
Nothing. The Hono API, Drizzle migrations, and Better Auth config are standard TypeScript committed to your repo. They keep running on your infrastructure. You just lose the ability to recompile from your Quickback definitions until you come back. The app itself doesn't stop.
Is the CLI free?
Yes. @quickback-dev/cli on npm is MIT-licensed and free forever. It talks to the hosted compiler service, which is what Commercial plans pay for. Enterprise can run the compiler entirely on their own infrastructure.
My hobby project is starting to make money. Now what?
Congrats. Flip it to Commercial whenever you're ready — nothing about your project changes, we just start billing $299/yr for that project. No revenue threshold or audit; we trust you to make the call the day your first invoice goes out.
I'm an agency. How does this work for client projects?
Each client project is a $299/yr Commercial slot. Seats are free, so your whole team can collaborate. When the engagement ends, transfer the project to your client's workspace and they pick up the bill — no messy license handoff, no re-architecting.
Do you have an OSS discount?
Yes. Open-source maintainers can email us for a discounted Commercial plan.
Start free. Pay when it ships.
The CLI, the compiler access, and the generated code are yours from day one. Only start paying when your project stops being personal.