# Pricing

ElfHosted is a subscription-based **app hosting** service. You pay monthly per app or per bundle. Storage is bring-your-own, so the size of your media library doesn't change the price you pay each month. Almost everything starts on a [$1, 7-day trial](</trial/>).

[Browse the store](<https://store.elfhosted.com/>) [Flex plans](<https://store.elfhosted.com/product-category/flex/>)

## Where to start

Pick the row that matches what you want to do. Each one has a $1, 7-day trial.

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| If you want to... | Start with | Price |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Stream in Stremio or Nuvio, with sources and provider accounts handled for you | [AIOStreams *(with Debridge)*](<https://store.elfhosted.com/product/aiostreams/>) | $9/month *(moves to $12/month for new subscriptions on 1 January 2027)* |
| Watch the same streams in Jellyfin apps like Infuse and Swiftfin, with a profile for everyone in the house | [AIOMagic Bundle](<https://store.elfhosted.com/product/aiomagic-bundle/>) *(includes AIOStreams, [JellyStreams](</app/jellystreams/>), AIOMetadata and provider accounts)* | $18/month |
| See your debrid library in the Plex apps | [Rex](<https://store.elfhosted.com/product/rex/>) *(Zurg included)* | $9/month |
| Back up your phone's photos and videos | [Immich](</app/immich/>) | [See the store](<https://store.elfhosted.com/product/immich/>) |
| Run your own personal AI agent | [OpenClaw](</app/openclaw/>) or [Hermes](</app/hermes/>) | See the [AI agents](</ai-agents/>) page |
| Run everyday apps: passwords, recipes, notes, RSS, dashboards | [Flex](<https://store.elfhosted.com/product-category/flex/>) | $9/month for 4 apps, more tiers for 10 or 18 |
| Run a full media server with library automation | [Personal media stacks](<https://store.elfhosted.com/product-category/personal-stacks/personal-media-stacks/>) | From $24/month |

Not sure? Start with the smallest thing that does the job and add to it later. Subscriptions stack, and most apps can be added one at a time.

## How pricing works

ElfHosted has two product buckets:

| Bucket | What it is | How it's priced |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Individual apps** | Single managed app (*Plex, Jellyfin, Radarr, Komga, Audiobookshelf, etc.*) | Monthly subscription per app, typically $9/month with a $1, 7-day trial |
| **Bundles / personal stacks** | Pre-configured combinations of apps that work together (*player + Arrs + debrid, or player + Arrs + Usenet*) | Single monthly subscription that's cheaper than the same apps bought individually |

Both include the ElfHosted platform: SSO, automation, monitoring, [ElfBot](<https://docs-internal.elfhosted.com/app/elfbot/>) config backups, and the homer/homepage dashboards. **Storage is not part of the subscription**: see below for how that works.

## Bundles vs individual apps

For most users, **a bundle is cheaper and easier** than buying the same apps individually. Bundles also pre-configure apps to talk to each other (*Radarr knows about Decypharr, Decypharr knows about Real-Debrid, the player knows about the symlink mount*), so you avoid most of the connect-apps wiring.

Pick individual apps when:

- You want a specific single app and don't need the rest of a media stack.
- You're augmenting an existing bundle with a single extra app.
- The combination you want isn't covered by a standard bundle.

Pick a bundle when:

- You're starting fresh and want a working stack within minutes.
- You want pricing that's cheaper than the sum of the apps inside it.
- You want pre-wired connections between the apps so you can skip most of the per-app config.

## Bundle tiers, briefly

Bundle tier names are themed (*Hobbit, Ranger, Wizard*) and roughly map to bandwidth. The store pages have the current pricing and the trial terms for each:

- **[Stremio addon bundles](<https://store.elfhosted.com/product-category/stremio-addons/>)** wrap one or more managed Stremio addons with sensible defaults. The [AIOMagic Bundle](<https://store.elfhosted.com/product/aiomagic-bundle/>) adds [JellyStreams](</app/jellystreams/>), so the same library plays in Jellyfin apps. See the [Stremio Addons Guide](</stremio-addons/guide/>) for picks and rationale.
- **[Flex plans](<https://store.elfhosted.com/product-category/flex/>)** let you run any four, ten or eighteen apps from the [Flex collection](<https://store.elfhosted.com/product-category/flex-collection/>) for one flat monthly price, swapping them whenever you like.
- **[Single-app subscriptions](<https://store.elfhosted.com/>)** for everything else, from Immich to Grimmory to Vaultwarden.
- **[Personal media stacks](<https://store.elfhosted.com/product-category/personal-stacks/personal-media-stacks/>)** combine a player (*Plex / Jellyfin / Emby*), an automation layer (*Radarr / Sonarr or SeerrBridge*), and a storage layer you connect (*Real-Debrid, Usenet, or both*).

## What's *not* in the price

- **Bring-your-own debrid accounts.** [Real-Debrid](<https://fnky.nz/support-me-when-you-buy-real-debrid>), [TorBox](<https://fnky.nz/support-me-when-you-buy-torbox>), and similar services are paid directly to the upstream provider with your own account.
- **Bring-your-own Usenet accounts.** Usenet provider subscriptions are separate. [AIOStreams *(with Debridge)*](<https://store.elfhosted.com/product/aiostreams/>) and the [AIOMagic Bundle](<https://store.elfhosted.com/product/aiomagic-bundle/>) are the exception: they include third-party TorBox and Usenet accounts, so there's nothing else to sign up for.
- **Storage.** ElfHosted hosts apps, not your library. You attach your own storage by configuring an rclone-compatible cloud (*Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, S3, or a [Hetzner Storage Box](</what-is/storagebox/>) for best latency to ElfHosted's Falkenstein infrastructure*). Your data stays portable and your monthly ElfHosted bill is the same whether your library is 200 GB or 20 TB.
- **Excess egress on the larger streaming tiers.** Each bundle has a fair-use bandwidth budget. Most users never reach it; very high traffic users size up to a tier with more headroom.

## $1, 7-day trial

Almost every app and bundle has a [$1, 7-day trial](</trial/>). The handful that don't are the larger streaming bundles, where users typically [start on a smaller bundle](<https://store.elfhosted.com/product-category/personal-stacks/>) and upgrade once they've validated the setup. ElfHosted operates a [no-refund policy](</legal/refund-policy/>), so the $1 trial is the standard way to confirm a product fits before committing.

## Common questions

### Can I cancel at any time?

Yes. Cancel from [My Account](<https://store.elfhosted.com/my-account>); the cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. See the [trial page](</trial/>) for the cancellation flow.

### Do I need to pay separately for SSO, monitoring, and backups?

No. SSO, [ElfBot](<https://docs-internal.elfhosted.com/app/elfbot/>) config backups, health monitoring, and the homer/homepage dashboards are included with every subscription.

### Are there discounts for paying annually?

Yes. Most subscriptions can be billed every 3, 6 or 12 months instead of monthly, at 5%, 10% and 20% off respectively *(a few products differ; the price and saving for each term are shown on the product page)*. Longer terms are billed up front. To move an existing subscription to a longer term, see [change your billing term](<https://docs.elfhosted.com/how-to/change-billing-term/index.md>). Referrals and [ElfPoints](</how-to/earn-elfpoints/>) earned through community contributions are a separate way to reduce costs over time.

The longer terms also stack with the [10% Bitcoin saving](<https://docs.elfhosted.com/how-to/spend-elfbuckz/#save-10-by-topping-up-with-bitcoin>). Top up $100 of ElfBuckz for $90 in Bitcoin, then spend it on a yearly plan at 20% off: a $9-a-month app costs $108 a year paid monthly, $86.40 on the yearly plan, and $77.76 when those ElfBuckz were bought with Bitcoin, which is 28% off. Cryptocurrency payments sit outside the [refund policy](<https://docs.elfhosted.com/legal/refund-policy/index.md>).

### How does ElfHosted compare to other managed hosts?

PikaPods, NodStack and Elestio sell the same idea in different shapes: per-app billing, capped tiers, or a dedicated VM per service. Which works out cheapest depends on how many apps you run and which ones. We've [compared the prices side by side](</guides/apps/self-hosted-apps-without-a-server/>), including the cases where one of them is the better buy.

### How does ElfHosted compare to running this on my own hardware?

Running this stack on your own hardware costs the hardware plus electricity (*24/7 uptime adds up*), plus your time on initial setup, monitoring, recovery, and updates. ElfHosted trades those for a monthly subscription. If your time is worth more than the subscription, the math usually works out in ElfHosted's favour. The [Run Plex without a home server](</guides/media/plex-without-home-server/>) guide has a full cost breakdown for the Plex case specifically, and the [migration guide](</migrate-to-elfhosted/>) covers the practical move from unRAID, TrueNAS, Synology, or Docker.

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