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Pricing

Free to learn. Fair to ship.

The CLI, the skill, and the code Quickback generates are free forever.
You only pay to build 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 builds / month
  • ✓ 1 developer seat
  • ✓ All security layers
  • ✓ All build targets (Hono, RLS, D1, Neon)
  • ✓ Public GitHub repos: builds free
  • ✓ Community support
  • — Non-commercial use only

Hobby Plus

$5

/ month

More room for the serious side-project hacker. Still personal use only.

  • ✓ Up to 10 personal projects
  • ✓ 200 builds / month
  • ✓ 1 developer seat
  • ✓ All security layers
  • ✓ All build targets (Hono, RLS, D1, Neon)
  • ✓ Public GitHub repos: builds free
  • ✓ Community support
  • — Non-commercial use only

For commercial products

Per-project pricing. Pay per product, not per person.

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Commercial

$299

/ project / year

For indie devs, startups, and agencies shipping real products. Pay per project, not per person.

  • ✓ Unlimited developer seats
  • ✓ 500 builds / project / month
  • ✓ Overage at $0.02 / extra build
  • ✓ Production SLA (99.9%)
  • ✓ 90-day build audit log
  • ✓ Priority email support
  • ✓ Spend caps + usage alerts
  • ✓ Add projects as you grow

Enterprise

Custom

Regulated industries, compliance requirements, or self-hosted builder. We'll tailor it.

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  • ✓ Everything in Commercial
  • ✓ Self-hosted builder
  • ✓ 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 build service — not your runtime, not your database, not your traffic. Stop paying us tomorrow and your app still ships.

How builds work

One unit. No surprises.

A build is one CLI run that regenerates your API, migrations, and SPA assets. Schema edits, full rebuilds, and SPA rebuilds all count the same — one run, one build.

Schema change

1 build

Edit a table, add a guard, tweak access. The fast path.

Full build

1 build

Regenerate API, migrations, and OpenAPI spec. What most CI runs.

Full + SPA rebuild

1 build

Add CMS or Account SPA rebuilds. The heaviest path.

Compare plans

FeatureHobbyHobby PlusCommercialEnterprise
Commercial use——✓✓
Projects1 personalUp to 10 personal$299 / project / yrVolume pricing
Developer seats11UnlimitedUnlimited
Builds / month100200500 / projectCustom
Overage rate——$0.02 / buildNegotiated
Public repos: free builds✓✓✓✓
All build targets (Hono, RLS, D1, Neon)✓✓✓✓
All security layers✓✓✓✓
Production SLA——99.9%Custom
Build audit log——90 daysUnlimited + export
Spend caps + usage alerts——✓✓
Self-hosted builder———✓
SSO / SAML———✓
DPA + security review———✓
SupportCommunityCommunityPriority emailDedicated 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 builds 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 builds. 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 builder'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 rebuild 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 build service, which is what Commercial plans pay for. Enterprise can run the builder 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.

Beta pricing — early adopters keep their rate

Start free. Pay when it ships.

The CLI, the build service, and the generated code are yours from day one. Only start paying when your project stops being personal.

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