Pricing
Every account pays the same base fee, plus what its own app uses and a platform share on that usage. You start with €15 of credit, which pays your first invoices.
Operations for businesses: see the service levelsWork out the cost
Own apps, Managed Apps and app bundles combine freely. The base fee and the platform share count once for the whole account.
Own app
€5.49
net per month
Size
Storage areas
10 GiB planned · 10 GiB charged
Standard: One copy on a network drive. Low cost per usable GiB.
Own storage: Storage brought along. What is already paid for elsewhere is never charged.
Worked out as if the app ran around the clock. Measured use is charged, so never more than this.
Valid since 18 October 2026
Processing
€0.009356
per core-hour
incl. 19% VAT · net €0.007862
Memory
€0.00293
per GiB-hour
incl. 19% VAT · net €0.002462
Standard
€0.000118
per GiB-hour
incl. 19% VAT · net €0.000099
Backups
€0.000013
per GiB-hour
incl. 19% VAT · net €0.000011
The first 1024 GiB of outbound traffic each month are included. Inbound traffic is never charged.
Our prices follow what the infrastructure costs us. Every previous round is listed here, so its stability can be judged at a glance.
The account
There are no feature tiers. What lands on your invoice is decided by your usage, not by a package you have to pick up front.
One way in for you and your team, with roles, projects and invoices in one place.
You describe your goal, your AI assistant prepares the steps, and every change comes as a preview first. You bring the assistant yourself.
Your app is reachable over an encrypted HTTPS connection, without you administering a cluster.
Storage for your app, measured hourly and charged on the size you plan.
Running costs, balance and invoices are in the portal at any time, updated hourly.
A person usually answers within 24 hours on business days. Response time and availability are best effort; the status page shows measured availability.
Operated by gh0stservice
We operate an app from our catalogue for you, with backups, security updates and support. Managed Basic and Managed Business are service levels for a single app, not price tiers. The service fee is the sum of the service modules of your service level, and your app's resources are billed by the reserved amount. The service fee starts on the handover day, which is only after we have observed successful backups and carried out one restore.
We operate one app, back it up every day and give a first qualified response to critical incidents within 4 business hours.
€79.00 / month
We operate an application your company works with every day. The recovery point design target is 6 hours and is not a guarantee, and we give a first qualified response to critical incidents within 2 business hours.
€165.00 / month
Within the meaning of § 14 BGB. All prices are net plus VAT.
You choose the size of your app freely. Its resources are billed by the reserved amount, measured to the minute and invoiced monthly.
Counted from the handover day. After that you can cancel at the end of any month.
€120 net per hour during business hours, billed in 15-minute steps. For migrations you get a written estimate first.
Net per app and month. The service fee is the sum of the service modules of your service level. The base fee and the resources, billed by the reserved amount, come on top. What a module costs depends on the app. Open an app to see how its price adds up.
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Apps that are not in our catalogue are operated individually under an order form, with a one-off setup at a fixed price. Business hours are Monday to Friday, 09:00 – 17:00, excluding public holidays in North Rhine-Westphalia.
What the price buys
The honest comparison is not a server against gh0stcloud. It is a server plus the time it takes to run it.
| A server costs less. Running it does not. | A server of your own | gh0stcloud self-service | Managed App |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cluster, network, TLS certificates | You set them up and renew them | Included, renewed automatically | Included, renewed automatically |
| Operating system and platform updates | You apply them | We apply them | We apply them |
| Backups | You build and test them | You set them up yourself, for example with your database's own backup feature. The platform has no backup feature for them | We set them up, observe every backup and test the restore |
| Monitoring | You build it | Included, separated per organisation | We monitor your app |
| Updates of your application | You | You | We do. Released updates, new major versions included, in the daily maintenance window at the time you choose. We ask you only when an update needs an additional service, input from you or a different price |
| A fault at night | Yours to notice and fix | The platform restarts failed parts on its own. Your app is yours to look after. | The platform restarts failed parts on its own, and we respond in business hours. |
| What stays with you | Everything | Your app and its backups | Approvals and decisions |
If running servers is something you enjoy and your time is free, a server of your own is cheaper. For most teams, that time is the most expensive line on the bill.
Common questions
It lands on your account at sign-up and pays your invoices until it is used up or expires after 90 days. It appears on the invoice as a price reduction, not as a payment.
Yes. You can add credit at any time. Invoices are paid from it first; only if it does not cover the invoice do you receive an invoice to pay. Credit you paid for does not expire.
Compute, storage and traffic by usage, measured hourly, plus a platform share for platform services, network access and operations. The calculator quotes that share at its maximum, so your invoice is never above it. Operations, support and administration are added only when you explicitly agree to them.
The base fee and the platform features are the same. Individual is for one person. Company adds company and invoicing details for teams and businesses. Managed Apps are for businesses only.
With Managed Basic and Managed Business you pay the service fee per app and month, net plus VAT. It is the sum of the service modules of the service level and is listed with each app in the price list. On top come the base fee and the resources of your app: you choose the size freely and can change it at any time, and billing follows the reserved amount. Storage can be increased but not decreased. For some apps the service fee may be staged by size class. If you reduce the app, the size class stays until the minimum term ends. The service fee starts on the handover day, and the minimum term is 3 months from the handover day. Apps that are not in our catalogue are operated individually under an order form, and you hear the figure before it is incurred.
A person usually answers your support request within 24 hours on business days, on a best-effort basis. Self-service has no committed availability figure. We measure availability and publish it on the status page.
The platform is built to recover on its own first. When Falk Hähner is unavailable, Linus Stiehm takes over operations, and for specialist questions we bring in experienced operations engineers from our network. The page on how operations keep running has the details.
Yes. Self-service can be cancelled at any time with one month's notice, for individuals and businesses alike. A Managed App runs for at least 3 months from the handover day; after that you can cancel it at any time with effect from the end of a month. If it ends earlier, the service fees for the rest of the minimum term are due. We tell you that amount before you order. There is no exit fee, and paid credit you did not use is refunded.
Describe what you are planning in two sentences. You get an assessment from someone who knows operations.