Pricing
Describing an app and reading the plan Chovy writes for it costs nothing. You pay once, when you decide to build — and you will already know what is going to be built and what will count as finished.
Bring your own key
Your AI runs on your own provider key, so you pay only for Chovy — building, hosting, bandwidth, storage, domains and collaboration. From $20 a month.
$20/mo
or $200/year — two months free
Bring your own AI key
$45/mo
or $450/year — two months free
Bring your own AI key
$120/mo
or $1200/year — two months free
Bring your own AI key
Managed AI
Chovy supplies the AI. Each plan includes a monthly credit allowance; top up in packs of $10, $25, $50, $100 when you need more. From $50 a month.
$50/mo
or $500/year — two months free
$25 of AI credits a month, top up anytime
$150/mo
or $1500/year — two months free
$90 of AI credits a month, top up anytime
$400/mo
or $4000/year — two months free
$275 of AI credits a month, top up anytime
Own it, or scale it
$1,000 once
One app, hosted for life. Bring your own AI key; fair-use bandwidth and storage.
Get itCustom
Dedicated or isolated compute, SSO/SAML, an SLA, custom credit allowances and limits, invoicing, a security review, and dedicated support.
Talk to usEvery feature, by tier
| Bring your own key | Solo | Studio | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $20/mo | $45/mo | $120/mo |
| Live apps | 1 | 5 | 25 |
| AI | Your own key | Your own key | Your own key |
| Bandwidth | 25 GB/mo | 200 GB/mo | 1000 GB/mo |
| Storage | 2 GB | 20 GB | 100 GB |
| Custom domains | 1 | 5 | 25 |
| Collaborators | 1 | 5 | Unlimited |
| Staging environment | — | Yes | Yes |
| Version history | 30 days | 1 year | Unlimited |
| Support | Community | Priority |
| Managed AI | Launch | Growth | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $50/mo | $150/mo | $400/mo |
| Live apps | 2 | 8 | 30 |
| AI | $25 credits/mo + top-up | $90 credits/mo + top-up | $275 credits/mo + top-up |
| Bandwidth | 50 GB/mo | 300 GB/mo | 1500 GB/mo |
| Storage | 5 GB | 40 GB | 150 GB |
| Custom domains | 1 | 5 | 25 |
| Collaborators | 2 | 8 | Unlimited |
| Staging environment | — | Yes | Yes |
| Version history | 30 days | 1 year | Unlimited |
| Support | Priority | Priority |
Priced outside a plan
| What | How much | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Lifetime app | $1,000 · once | A one-time deal for one app, hosted for life. It covers the plan, the build, the checks, the fixes, a private build space, a live address, and 25 hours of agent work. Describing an app and reading its plan is free. |
| Credit top-up | From $10 · Managed plans | On a managed plan, when the month's included AI credits run out, top up in packs. Top-ups never expire and are used after the monthly allowance. Chat keeps working; only builds pause at zero until you top up or the cycle resets. |
| More agent time | $400 · per agent-hour | When an app has used its included hours, further work is metered by the hour an agent is actually working, never by the hour it sits idle. You see the hours before you approve more, the same as every other cost. |
| A team of agents | $400 · per agent-hour | For companies that want several agents running, not one app. Every agent is supervised by a person on our side and billed on the hours it is actually working, never on the hours it sits idle. Put that next to what a contractor hour costs you, then look at the clock. |
| A standing seat | $28,000 · per agent, per month | Reserve an agent for a month with 70 hours of its time at $400 per agent-hour. Past 70 hours the same hourly rate applies. |
| A pod | $2,800 · per hour | 7 agents and a person directing them, for an hour or for a quarter. This is the one to hold up against a contractor team: the same money, none of the hiring, and it does not stop at five o'clock. Write to us from the contact page and we'll set it up. |
| The AI that thinks | Included · or your own key | Use the model included with your workspace and there's nothing extra to pay. If you already pay OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or another provider, connect that account and pay them directly — we never see the bill. |
| Human help | Free · or quoted first | Inviting your own developer is free and unlimited. Asking the Profullstack team for hands-on help is scoped and quoted before any billable work starts — every time. |
Against the alternatives
| Route | Typical cost | Time to something you can open | What you are left with |
|---|---|---|---|
| An agency | $20,000 – $80,000 | 6 – 16 weeks | A finished app, and a dependency on them for every change |
| A contractor | $50 – $150 an hour | 3 – 10 weeks | Depends entirely on who you found |
| Hiring a developer | $8,000+ a month | Weeks, plus hiring | Capacity, and a management job you did not have before |
| A no-code builder | $30 – $300 a month | Days of your own work | Something inside their platform, that you cannot take with you |
| Chovy | $1,000 lifetime | Minutes to an address, then a first build | Your code, in your Git, on your own address |
Ranges are what these routes commonly cost, not quotes. The row that matters is the last column: three of these five leave you unable to change the thing without going back to whoever built it.
Not included, on purpose
These cost money in the real world, and spending yours without asking is not a feature. Chovy gets everything ready and hands you the decision.
Domains
Hosting
Third-party services
Any hour of human work
Yes — the code, the repository, and the domain are yours. If you stop using Chovy, all of it leaves with you.
You read the plan before anyone starts, and you approve each finished piece. Asking for changes is a normal step, not a failure — the button is right next to “Approve”.
No. You can invite one whenever you want, and they'll see the full history the moment they join.
Start with a 24-hour free trial. Then choose how you pay for AI: bring your own key and pay from $20/month for the platform, or let Chovy supply the AI with credits included from $50/month and top up when you need more. Both come in tiers that set how many apps, how much bandwidth and storage, how many domains and collaborators you get; annual billing is two months free. There is also a $1,000 lifetime deal for one app, and Enterprise for dedicated capacity. Describing an app and reading its plan is free; human help is quoted first.