About
One platform, one CLI, one bill.
A small app needs a database, an API, a frontend and usually a backend. Assembling that from Supabase, Vercel and Netlify means three dashboards, three usage meters and three invoices, none of which you can predict before the month is over. PocketBase Cloud is all four in one place, at one flat monthly price, with nothing metered.
The parts underneath are deliberately boring: stock PocketBase, ordinary containers, one machine in a region you picked. Somebody still has to own that machine, the TLS certificate, the backups and the 3am restart. This is that somebody — without becoming a platform you then have to escape from.
Who builds it
This is a small team rather than a company with a support tier chart. That is a real trade-off and worth knowing before you pick a host: you get people who answer directly on Discord, and you do not get a 24/7 on-call rota. Both facts are on this page on purpose.
What this platform commits to
Nothing here is ours to lock you into
What runs on our servers is stock PocketBase — the same single Go binary you can download and run on a laptop. There is no fork, no proprietary layer, no dialect of the API you would have to unpick later. Your backup restores onto any PocketBase, anywhere.
Run PocketBase unmodified
Priced per compute, not per instance
Pro is a flat $20/month for a dedicated 2-core compute, and you run as many PocketBase instances, backends and frontends on it as it will hold. There is no per-instance charge, no per-request meter, and no invocation billing on hooks. The bill does not move because your app got popular on a Tuesday.
One flat Stripe price; no usage meters on the Pro plan
The CLI is open source
The tool you would run in CI, that touches your project files and holds your credentials, is public. Read it before you pipe it into a shell.
github.com/pocketbasecloud/cli
How the business works
Subscription revenue, and nothing else. Free is $0 but still requires a Stripe subscription — that is there to attach a real payment method to an account and make abuse expensive, not to bill you. Starter is $5/month and Pro is a flat $20/month that includes a dedicated 2-core compute.
There is no usage meter waiting to surprise you: hooks are not billed per invocation on any plan, bandwidth is not metered per gigabyte, and running a second instance on a Pro compute costs nothing extra. The honest limit is physical — a 2-core compute holds what a 2-core compute holds.
We do not sell data, and there is no analytics product hiding behind the hosting. The full list of third parties that see any part of the service is on the security page.