Pricing
Pick how you want to run it.
Run it in your own AWS account on Self-hosted, or let us run it for you on Fully managed. Every price is on this page.
The plans
Self-hosted
Your AWS account. Your infrastructure. Our tooling.
- Runs in your own AWS account, billed to you by AWS
- Deploy with one command or a push to GitHub
- Your app stays on: no cold starts
- Custom domain and HTTPS certificate, set up for you
- Rollback to a previous deploy in one click
- Autoscaling horizontal and vertical when traffic spikes
- Alerts for CPU or memory spikes
- Postgres databases when you need them
- Logs and metrics kept for 30 days
- Up to 8 GB RAM, 4 vCPU and 20 instances per app
- As many deployments as you like
- Queued builds
- Networking and load balancing included
Fully managed
You write production grade Django apps. We run it for you.
- Everything in Self-hosted
- Includes: 1x Nano with 0.25 vCPU, 512 MB RAM*
- Includes: 1x Micro Postgres database with 2vCPU, 1 GB ram 40GB disk*
- Includes: 1x Celery worker*
- Includes 1x Message Broker through SQS
- Includes: 5 GB file storage*
- Isolation in our AWS account, away from other customers
- High priority builds
- Priority support
Sponsored by Django Cloud
Building something for others? We’d love to help.
If you’re a student, an early-stage startup on AWS Activate, an open-source maintainer, a non-profit or a research project, we’ll cover your Self-hosted plan. Free for one project, $1 a month if you run more. Your voucher arrives by email right away.
- Everything in Self-hosted, covered by Django Cloud
- Free of charge for the 1st deployment
- Charged $1 a month for accounts with more than 1 deployment
- Students: 12 months sponsored, then you apply again
- AWS Activate participants: 12 months sponsored, then you apply again
- Open source, non-profit and scientific projects: free forever
- Your voucher arrives by email as soon as you apply
- AWS still bills you for what you run
- Fully managed is never sponsored
* Bigger servers, more servers, bigger databases and bigger file storage add to your total, see prices in the tables below.
What a server costs
Each running copy of your app is one server, so three Small instances cost three Small servers, and you can run 1 to 20 per app. On Fully managed a Nano is $10 and every other size is the AWS price plus $5. A bigger server replaces the Nano in your plan and adds the difference: a Small instead of a Nano adds $10. Another server is simply its price. The smaller sizes share a processor with other workloads and can briefly burst above their normal speed.
| Size | vCPU | RAM | Self-hosted: AWS bills you | Fully managed: per server |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nano | 0.25 (shared) | 512 MB | $7/month | $10/month |
| Micro | 0.25 (shared) | 1 GB | $10/month | $15/month |
| Small | 0.50 (shared) | 1 GB | $15/month | $20/month |
| Medium | 1 | 2 GB | $40/month | $45/month |
| Large | 2 | 4 GB | $80/month | $85/month |
| XLarge | 4 | 8 GB | $160/month | $165/month |
What a database costs
Managed Postgres, encrypted at rest. High availability adds a standby in a second zone that takes over if the main database fails, and doubles the price. On Fully managed, databases cost the AWS price with no surcharge.
| Size | vCPU | RAM | SSD | Per month | With high availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Micro | 2 | 1 GB | 40 GB | $15 | $30 |
| Small | 2 | 2 GB | 80 GB | $30 | $60 |
| Medium | 2 | 4 GB | 120 GB | $60 | $120 |
| Large | 2 | 8 GB | 240 GB | $115 | $230 |
| XLarge | 4 | 16 GB | 480 GB | $245 | $490 |
| 2XLarge | 8 | 32 GB | 960 GB | $490 | $980 |
Prices are the Amazon Lightsail list prices we last checked, in US dollars. AWS sets and can change them: see the AWS Lightsail pricing page.
What a small Django app costs
One Nano server and one Micro Postgres database are enough for a side project or an early product. Here is the monthly bill on each plan. Prices exclude tax.
| Self-hosted | Paid to | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Django Cloud subscription | Django Cloud | $10 |
| 1 Nano server | AWS | $7 |
| 1 Micro Postgres database | AWS | $15 |
| Total at list prices | $32 |
| Fully managed | Paid to | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Platform fee | Django Cloud | $4 |
| 1 Nano server | Django Cloud | $10 |
| 1 Micro Postgres database, at the AWS price | Django Cloud | $15 |
| Total | $29 |
A busier app: two Medium servers and a database
The same rules with a bigger setup. Nothing is free: every server and every database is its own line on the bill, and the platform fee is the only line that does not grow with them.
| Line | Self-hosted | Fully managed |
|---|---|---|
| Django Cloud fee | $10 | $4 platform fee |
| 2 Medium servers | $80 to AWS | $90 |
| 1 Micro Postgres database | $15 to AWS | $15 |
| Total | $105 | $109 |
For comparison, AWS charges $95 for those same servers and that database in your own account. On Self-hosted that is what AWS bills you, and the $10 is ours.
There is no separate AWS bill on Fully managed. Other server sizes are priced in the table above.
The total does not include a few cents per build (AWS CodeBuild in your account), snapshots, taxes or any AWS charges outside the items listed. AWS credits can reduce the AWS part on Self-hosted, as described below. This is a worked example, not a quote.
AWS credits
Start for free with AWS Activate credits
On the Self-hosted plan your app runs in your own AWS account, so AWS credits can pay for it. New AWS accounts can get up to $200 in credits, which is the amount most side projects can count on. Startups can also apply for up to $1,000 through AWS Activate, but AWS decides who qualifies and can change the terms.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What does the subscription cover?
On Self-hosted the $10 covers our part: builds, releases, rollbacks, the dashboard and the CLI. AWS bills you directly for the servers and databases. On Fully managed the AWS infrastructure is included: the $29 is a $4 platform fee, a Nano server and a Micro database, and a bigger server or database adds the difference.
Are AWS prices fixed?
No. AWS sets and can change its list prices. The AWS column on this page is the Lightsail list price we last checked; the AWS pricing page is the authority.
What else might AWS charge me on Self-hosted?
Builds run in AWS CodeBuild in your account and cost a few cents each. Database snapshots are billed at AWS storage prices, including the final snapshot kept when you delete a database. For anything else, such as data transfer, check the AWS pricing pages.
Can I pay less?
We make exceptions for students, open source projects, non-profit and scientific projects and startups in AWS Activate: Self-hosted is covered, and costs $1 a month once you have more than one project. You apply with proof and the voucher is emailed to you. See Sponsorship. Fully managed is never sponsored.
Can AWS credits pay for it?
On Self-hosted your app runs in your own AWS account, so AWS credits can apply. New AWS accounts can get credits and startups can apply for AWS Activate. AWS decides who qualifies and can change the terms.
What happens if a payment fails?
Stripe retries the card for a while. If the subscription ends up unpaid or canceled, new deploys are refused until you update your card. We do not stop apps that are already running.
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