Pricing
Simple pricing, in Rand
LaunchPad is the thin control layer. You always pay Hetzner and Backblaze directly for servers and storage — we never mark those up.
Free
Get your first app live.
R0 /mo ex VAT
- 1 connected server
- Deploy from GitHub with Kamal
- Self-hosted PostgreSQL
- Manual + pre-deploy backups
- Community support
Solo
For one developer running real apps.
R149 /mo ex VAT
- Up to 3 servers
- Scheduled automated backups
- Verified restores & rollbacks
- Server health & maintenance scans
- Email support
Team
For small teams sharing infrastructure.
R249 /mo ex VAT
- Unlimited servers
- Workspace members & roles
- Audit trail & step-up auth
- Preview environments
- Priority support
Plans and prices are proposed and may change before paid billing launches. Solo and Team are billed in Rand and exclude 15% VAT. Infrastructure (Hetzner servers from ~€4/month and Backblaze backup storage from ~$0.005/GB) is billed by those providers directly, in their own currency.
How LaunchPad compares
Platforms like Heroku, Render, and Railway bundle managed infrastructure into a single per-app bill, which is convenient but expensive at scale. LaunchPad takes the opposite approach: you run apps on your own cheap Hetzner servers and pay a small flat fee for the deploy-and-backup automation. For a typical small app this usually lands around 60% cheaper than an equivalent Heroku setup, rising to 70–90% on larger setups, while keeping you in full control of the underlying servers. See the cost breakdown on our home page.