Free to start
Brod is priced as a plan for a workspace, with room for a number of apps and people. Deploying inside it never adds a charge. You can also run Brod on your own server for free.
Brod is free to start. The free plan for a workspace includes:
Paused apps do not count.
10 people in the workspace. Guests invited to a single app do not count.
Shared by the apps' databases, key-value stores and files.
Sign-in, roles, database, secrets, rollback and logs for every app.
There is no charge per app or per deploy. Old versions of an app count toward storage. When a workspace runs out of storage, writes that grow the data fail; reads and deletes keep working.
Create a workspace to start.
The free plan is not a cut-down version of the platform. Every app in the workspace gets the same things:
The limits are on how many apps run, how many people are in the workspace and how much storage they use. See what Brod gives every app.
Neither is available yet.
Larger plans for bigger teams, with more apps and people.
List an app you built, and other teams install a private copy into their own workspace, with their own data and sign-in.
Brod is open source under AGPL-3.0. You can run it inside your company and change it freely. If you offer a modified Brod to others as a network service, you must offer them its source.
| Self-hosted | brod.sh | |
|---|---|---|
| Who runs it | You run it, on your server | The Brod team runs it |
| Limits | No plan limits on apps, people or storage | Free plan limits above |
| Data | Your data stays on your server | Data on brod.sh's servers |
| Backups and sign-up | Backups are yours to run | Anyone can sign up and create a workspace |
| Price | Free | Free plan today; larger plans not available yet |
Both run the same code. Self-hosting needs Docker with Compose and one environment variable, the admin's email address.
A server with 1 vCPU and 2 GB of memory is enough for a team with a handful of apps. See the production guide for DNS, HTTPS, email and backups.
git clone https://github.com/brodsh/brod && cd brod
cp .env.example .env # set BROD_ADMIN_EMAIL
docker compose up -d
docker compose logs brod # one-time sign-in linkLarger plans are not available yet, so there are no prices to show. The free plan is the only plan on brod.sh today.
No. Brod is priced as a plan for a workspace. Deploying inside it never adds a charge.
Any app that is not paused. Pause an app you are not using and it stops counting toward the 10.
No. Guests are people invited to a single app, and they do not count toward the workspace's people limit.
No. A self-hosted server has no plan limits on apps, people or storage. It is free under AGPL-3.0. You run the server and its backups.
On a self-hosted server, backups are the operator's job, and the production guide lists what to back up and how to restore. Rollback restores code versions, not data.