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Billing & Plans

Appliku offers five pricing tiers to match different project sizes, from hobby projects to enterprise deployments. All plans include core PaaS features; higher tiers unlock more servers, advanced features, and priority support.

Plan Comparison

Feature Free Hobby ($10/mo) Growth ($18/mo) Business ($39/mo) Enterprise ($159/mo)
Servers 1 1 3 6 Unlimited
Applications 1 Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Deployments 3/week Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Custom domains No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Redis included Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Cron jobs No No Yes Yes Yes
Database backups No No Yes Yes Yes
Docker Swarm clusters No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sub-teams No No No No Yes
Priority support No No No No Yes

Free Plan Details

The free plan includes everything you need to try Appliku:

  • 1 server -- Bring your own or provision via cloud provider
  • 1 application -- Deploy a single project
  • 3 deployments per week -- Sufficient for testing and evaluation
  • Redis included -- Use Redis for caching, Celery, or sessions at no cost
  • Default subdomain -- Your app is accessible at your-app.applikuapp.com
  • Community support

Info

The free plan is a great starting point to evaluate Appliku with a real project. You can deploy a full-stack application with a PostgreSQL database and Redis -- the only limits are server count, application count, and weekly deployments.

Hobby Plan ($10/month)

Best for individual developers with personal or side projects:

  • Everything in Free, plus:
  • Unlimited applications on your server
  • Unlimited deployments
  • Custom domains with automatic Let's Encrypt SSL
  • Docker Swarm clusters for single-node cluster setups

Growth Plan ($18/month)

Best for growing projects that need reliability features:

  • Everything in Hobby, plus:
  • Up to 3 servers
  • Cron jobs for scheduled tasks
  • Database backups with scheduling
  • Docker Swarm clusters across up to 3 servers

Business Plan ($39/month)

Best for production workloads requiring scaling:

  • Everything in Growth, plus:
  • Up to 6 servers
  • More room for clustered production workloads

Enterprise Plan ($159/month)

Best for agencies, large teams, and mission-critical applications:

  • Everything in Business, plus:
  • Unlimited servers
  • Sub-teams for organizational hierarchy
  • Priority support with faster response times

Billing Management

Payments are processed through Paddle. To manage your subscription:

  1. Open the Appliku dashboard
  2. Go to your team settings
  3. Navigate to the Billing section
  4. View your current plan, update payment method, or change your plan

Subscribing

Only the team owner can start a subscription.

  1. Open Team settings > Billing.
  2. Find the plan that you want and click Subscribe.
  3. Appliku opens a payment page. The Paddle checkout opens on that page.
  4. Pay in the Paddle checkout. When the payment is complete, the page shows "This team now has an active subscription." Click Open Appliku dashboard.

The payment page opens through a payment link. Each link is for one team and one plan. A link is valid for 1 hour.

Let another person pay

The person who pays can be a different person, for example a colleague who has the company card. That person does not need an Appliku account and does not need access to your team.

  1. Open Team settings > Billing.
  2. Under the plan, click Send to the person who pays.
  3. In the dialog, click Copy.
  4. Send the link to the person who pays.

The payment page shows the team name, the plan and your name. The Paddle checkout shows your email. The person who pays can change the email in the checkout.

Warning

A payment link is a secret. Anyone who has the link can open the payment page for your team for 1 hour. Send it only to the person who pays.

Message What to do
"This payment link has expired." The link is older than 1 hour. Make a new link in Team settings > Billing.
"This payment link is no longer valid." The person who made the link is no longer the team owner, or the team was removed or is scheduled for deletion. Ask the team owner for a new link.
"This payment link is old or not complete." Reload the Appliku dashboard, open Team settings > Billing and click Subscribe again.
"This payment link is not valid." The link is damaged, for example cut in an email. Ask for a new link.
"This team already has an active subscription." No payment is necessary.

If a link is valid when the person opens it, the checkout stays open after the hour ends. An old link does not cancel a payment that is in progress.

Upgrading

You can upgrade your plan at any time. The new features become available immediately. Billing is prorated for the remainder of the current billing cycle.

Downgrading

When downgrading, ensure your current usage fits within the lower plan's limits (e.g., server count, feature availability). The downgrade takes effect at the next billing cycle.

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