Bee
What HivePaaS runs without a key.
Free
forever, no key needed
- 2 nodes
- 2 users
- 20 apps and 20 functions
- 2 previews at a time
- Sign-in with GitHub, GitHub App, GitLab and Gitea
- No key, no time limit
- Every HivePaaS feature, below
Open source, Apache 2.014-day Hive trial, no card
Start free.
Grow when you need to.
HivePaaS is free and open source, and Bee, its free plan, never runs out. A license key lifts Bee's limits for one installation — and no plan, limit or expiry ever stops what runs.
Comb
A small team on a few nodes.
$4.99/ month
billed monthly
$4.00/ month
$47.99 billed yearly
- 5 nodes
- 5 users
- Unlimited apps, functions and previews
- Every sign-in provider, with Google, Microsoft and OpenID Connect
- One installation per key
- Renewed keys arrive by themselves, or by email
- Every HivePaaS feature, below
Hive
14-day trial, no cardA growing team, with room to scale.
$12.99/ month
billed monthly
$10.42/ month
$124.99 billed yearly
- 10 nodes
- 10 users
- Unlimited apps, functions and previews
- Every sign-in provider, with Google, Microsoft and OpenID Connect
- One installation per key
- Renewed keys arrive by themselves, or by email
- Every HivePaaS feature, below
Colony
Larger teams and clusters.
$24.99/ month
billed monthly
$20.00/ month
$239.99 billed yearly
- 25 nodes
- 30 users
- Unlimited apps, functions and previews
- Every sign-in provider, with Google, Microsoft and OpenID Connect
- One installation per key
- Renewed keys arrive by themselves, or by email
- Every HivePaaS feature, below
Apiary
Many nodes or users, or several installations.
Let's talk
quoted for you
- Nodes and users set for you
- Several installations per key
- Invoices instead of cards
- Support terms
Prices in USD. Taxes are calculated at checkout from your location; Paddle is our merchant of record. A yearly price is 20% off twelve monthly ones.
A key is for one installation. HivePaaS shows its installation ID in System → License, and the portal asks for it when you subscribe or start the trial. Running HivePaaS already? Upgrade there opens the portal with the ID filled in. New to it? Install it free, then start the trial from the same page.
Every Plan
Every plan includes every feature, Bee too
A plan sets how many nodes, users, apps, functions and previews you may have, and which sign-in providers. Nothing else.
Deploy
- From Git, a Docker image or Docker Compose
- Pull request previews
- Functions
- App Store, 300+ templates
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, Valkey and ClickHouse
Run & scale
- Autoscale and metrics
- Logs and a web terminal
- Scheduled jobs
- Health checks and rollbacks
- Clusters of nodes, with volumes and networks
Protect
- Backups to S3, Backblaze, Cloudflare R2 or MinIO, and restores
- Image vulnerability scanning
- Domains with automatic SSL, wildcards too
- Secrets and environment variables
- Two-factor sign-in, roles and audit logs
Integrate
- REST API and CLI
- MCP, for AI assistants
- Notifications by email, Slack, Discord, Telegram or webhook
Compare
Every plan, side by side
Every plan has every feature. A plan sets how many nodes, users, apps, functions and previews one installation may have, and which sign-in providers it may add.
| Plan | Bee | Comb | Hive | Colony | Apiary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly USD, before tax | Free | $4.99 | $12.99 | $24.99 | Quoted |
| Yearly 20% off | — | $47.99 | $124.99 | $239.99 | Quoted |
| Nodes Servers in the swarm | 2 | 5 | 10 | 25 | Set per key |
| Users Active or invited | 2 | 5 | 10 | 30 | Set per key |
| Apps Previews and system apps not counted | 20 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Functions | 20 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Previews at once Pull request previews | 2 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Sign-in providers For the dashboard | GitHub, GitHub App, GitLab, Gitea | All | All | All | All |
| Installations per key | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Set per key |
| Free trial | — | — | 14 days, no card | — | — |
| Works offline The key is checked locally | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Online renewal Optional; sends the key and installation ID | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Our Promises
A plan never holds your apps hostage
Nothing stops
A limit only stops creating
Nothing that runs is ever stopped, scaled down or deleted: not over a limit, not on a downgrade, not when a license expires. A paid key keeps working 30 days past its period, and then only creating more stops.
Offline
Keys work offline
A key is checked against public keys built into HivePaaS, so a server with no internet access is licensed like any other. Renewed keys come by email; fetching them online is optional, and sends only the key and the installation ID.
Apache 2.0
Open source stays open source
HivePaaS is Apache 2.0, the code of its limits included. A license is a key that lifts the free plan’s limits for one installation, and it pays for the work on HivePaaS.
FAQ
Plans and billing, answered
Something else on your mind? Ask on Discord or read the documentation.
What counts as an app, a node and a user?
An app is any app you deploy, from Git, an image, a template or a compose file. A pull request preview, the databases cloned for it, HivePaaS's own system apps and functions are not counted as apps; functions have a limit of their own. A node is every server in the swarm, whatever its state: removing one frees its place, draining it does not. A user is everyone active or invited, since an invitation holds a seat; a disabled user does not count.
What happens when I reach a limit?
Only creating stops. On Bee, with 20 apps, creating another one is refused, with a prompt to upgrade, and everything you already have keeps running. An installation that is over a limit, such as one set up before plans existed, keeps everything it has and can add more of that kind once it is under the limit or licensed.
What happens when a license expires or I cancel?
Nothing that runs is stopped, scaled down or deleted. A paid key keeps working for 30 days after the period paid for, with a banner, and the installation then falls back to Bee's limits, which only stop creating. A trial has no grace: it ends on day 14.
Does HivePaaS need the internet to check a key?
No. A license key is checked offline, against public keys built into HivePaaS, so it works on a server with no internet access. Each renewal emails you the new key to paste in. If the server can reach the internet, HivePaaS fetches renewed keys by itself: once a day it sends the key and the installation ID to portal.hivepaas.com, and nothing else. That check can be turned off. How renewal works →
Can I move a license to another server?
Yes. A key is for one installation, named by its ID, and rebuilding a swarm gives it a new one. Move the license to the new ID in the portal, up to 10 times in any 365 days. The key left on the old installation runs out on its own.
Is the trial a subscription?
No. The 14-day Hive trial needs no card and charges nothing; when it ends, the installation is on Bee again unless you buy a plan. Start it from System → License in HivePaaS, or on the portal with your installation ID. There is one trial per installation and one per account.
Can I change plans or cancel?
Yes, from the portal at any time. An upgrade is charged now, for the rest of the period, and a downgrade bills from the next one; the new key comes at once. Cancelling stops the renewals, and the key works to the end of the period paid for.
Can I get a refund?
Yes. Any payment is refunded in full on request within 14 days. Paddle, our merchant of record, handles refunds: ask through paddle.net, with the email address you paid with. The license is then revoked: no new keys are issued for it, and the key you have runs out on its own. Refund policy →
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