# Pricing

> Self-hosting slivingdoc is free and open source. The hosted service is free to start, then $1 a month for each extra space, 100 MB of storage, or 250,000 requests a month.

Canonical URL: https://www.slivingdoc.dev/pricing/

Full site index: https://www.slivingdoc.dev/llms.txt

Self-hosting is free. The hosted service at slivingdoc.dev is cheap on
purpose: a free tier with no card, then $1 a month for each step you add.

## Self-hosted

$0. Run the open-source CLI and MCP server against your own
S3-compatible bucket, with your own credentials. See
[Set up a bucket](/docs/guides/bucket/) and the
[Quickstart](/docs/quickstart/).

## Hosted, free

$0 a month, no card needed:

- 1 space
- 100 MB of storage
- 250,000 requests a month

[Sign in](/login) with GitHub or Google to get a space and a token.

## Hosted, more

Add as many of each as you need, at $1 a month each:

| Add                           | Price      |
| ----------------------------- | ---------- |
| 1 more space                  | $1 a month |
| 100 MB more storage           | $1 a month |
| 250,000 more requests a month | $1 a month |
| 1 opt-in feature              | $1 a month |

The first opt-in feature, a browser editor, is coming soon and is not sold
yet.

## How billing works

- Monthly only.
- You choose fixed caps; nothing is metered. You are never billed more
  than you picked.
- Your account page marks a limit at 80% and shows a banner once it is
  reached.
- When storage is full, new commits are refused and pulls keep working.
- Over the request limit, commits are refused and reads continue, slowly,
  until the month resets.
- A token reaches one space only.
- Text files only.

## Connect the CLI or MCP server

Sign in, create a space and a token on your [account page](/account/),
then point the CLI or MCP server at it: set `SLIVINGDOC_TOKEN` to the
token, the bucket to your space (`SLIVINGDOC_BUCKET`, or `--bucket`), and
the endpoint to `https://api.slivingdoc.dev` (`--endpoint`).

## Questions

**What counts as a request?** Every call your tools make to the hosted API
counts; one pull or commit makes several.

**What happens at the limit?** Your account page shows when you are close. At the
storage limit, new commits are refused and pulls keep working. At the
request limit, commits are refused and reads continue, slowly, until the
month resets. You are never billed for going over.

**Can I lower my caps?** Yes, down to what you use.

**Can I self-host instead?** Yes, and it is free: the same CLI and
MCP server, against your own bucket. See
[Set up a bucket](/docs/guides/bucket/).