Plans & billing

What’s free

Building is free, permanently and without an account. The free tier gives you the whole editor: every block, component, theme token, animation, symbol, and the AI builder with your own model. You can export a static ZIP or deploy to GitHub Pages as often as you like. Support on the free tier is community support; paid plans add email support.

Without an account, Swebsy is local. Your project lives in your browser and is not sent to a Swebsy server unless you deliberately turn on a hosted feature. Deploying or using an external integration sends the data that operation needs to its provider.

Create a free account and verify your email, and the Free plan adds a first taste of the hosted side — no card, no trial:

• Swebsy Hosting for one site at yourname.swebsy.site, with SSL. Free sites always carry the “Made with Swebsy” badge, and are limited to 20 publishes a day.
• Cloud sync with 100 MB of cloud storage.

What’s paid

Paid plans add the rest of Swebsy’s hosted side — the parts that cost us storage and bandwidth to run:

• More published sites on Swebsy Hosting, with badge removal
• Custom domains — your own hostname with a managed certificate
• Version history — automatic snapshots plus named checkpoints you can restore
• Hosted forms — form submissions collected by Swebsy
• More cloud storage

	Free	Starter	Pro
Monthly	$0	$9 / month	$19 / month
Annual	$0	$69 / year	$149 / year
Published sites	1	3	10
Storage	100 MB	10 GB	100 GB
Cloud projects	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Custom domain + SSL	No	Yes	Yes
Form submissions	—	500 / month	5,000 / month
Version history	—	Yes	Yes
Badge removal	—	Yes	Yes
Support	Community	Email	Priority

Annual billing is charged once a year and works out around 35% cheaper than paying monthly — $5.75 and $12.42 a month respectively.

The plan picker, with the annual saving applied. Pro is the plan the free trial runs on.

“Cloud projects” are unlimited, but the project data they store counts toward your storage limit like everything else.

The Pro trial

Pro offers a 14-day trial that does not ask for a card. It runs on the Pro plan with reduced caps, so it is enough to evaluate the workflow end to end but not to run a business on:

• 1 published site (not 10)
• 2 GB storage (not 100 GB)
• 50 form submissions (not 5,000)

The Swebsy badge stays on trial sites; badge removal comes with a paid plan.

Your email address must be verified before a trial or a subscription can start. When the trial ends without a payment method, the subscription simply cancels — you are never charged by surprise. The account moves to the Free plan that day: a trial that never converted gets no grace period, so subscribe before it runs out if you rely on a custom domain or hosted forms. Your newest site that meets the Free rules (Swebsy badge on, no password fields) stays live on its swebsy.site address; custom domains stop working. Everything local keeps working, and export is always available.

Start your free trial → Studio walks you through creating an account and verifying your email, then starts the trial.

Subscribing

1. Click your avatar → Account settings, then open Billing.
2. Click Upgrade….

3. Choose Monthly or Annual, then click the plan you want. Annual billing is charged once a year at the lower effective monthly rate.

4. Complete payment on Stripe’s checkout page. You return to Swebsy afterwards.

Expected result

Account settings → Billing shows your plan name and a Manage subscription button in place of Upgrade…. Usage shows your storage and published sites.

Payment, invoices, and card details are handled entirely by Stripe. Swebsy never sees your card number.

Managing or cancelling

Account settings → Billing → Manage subscription opens the Stripe customer portal, where you can switch plans, change your payment method, download invoices, and cancel. Changes take effect in Swebsy as soon as the portal reports them — there is nothing to refresh on our side.

Storage: what counts

Your storage number is measured live from what you actually have stored, not from a running tally, so it is always current. Three things add to it:

Counts toward storage	Notes
Uploaded assets	Images, video, fonts, and other files in cloud-synced projects
Published site files	The files served for each live site, plus retained previous versions for rollback
Project data	Each cloud project, plus its retained snapshots

Project data is compressed before storage, so it is usually a small share of the total. Assets are normally the bulk of it.

Individual limits apply on top of the plan total: a backed-up file may be up to 95 MB on every plan (SVG files up to 2 MB), a single published file up to 10 MB, and a published site up to 500 files. A file over a limit stays in your site in this browser; Swebsy names it and says it isn’t backed up.

Warnings and the hard stop

At 80% you get an email and a banner on the home page. At 100% the banner turns red and new uploads and publishes are refused with a “storage limit” error — existing sites stay online and keep serving.

To free space, remove unused images and files from your projects or upgrade the plan. Two things delay the number going down: an asset held by a snapshot stays until that snapshot ages out of version history, and after its final reference disappears it remains protected for 24 hours before the next daily cleanup can remove it.

Unpublishing takes a site offline but deliberately retains its deployments for rollback and later republishing, so it does not free deployment storage.

Deleting a site from My Sites does not reduce cloud storage: it removes the local copy only, and the cloud copy is retained. See Cloud sync.

When a payment fails

Nothing happens immediately. Stripe retries a failed payment for up to about two weeks, and you keep every cloud feature during that window. You will get email from Stripe about the failure — update the card through Manage subscription and the retry succeeds.

When a subscription ends

Cancelling a paid subscription starts a 30-day grace period. (A trial that lapsed without converting does not — see The Pro trial.)

The 30 days are the window to get your data out

During grace you keep full access: sync, publishing, rollback, and your live sites and custom domains all keep working, and a banner shows the exact date it ends. Resubscribing before that date is completely seamless. The one exception is attaching a new custom domain, which needs an active plan.

The grace period is granted once every 12 months, and only to a subscription that was actually paid for. If you cancel again within a year of a previous cancellation, cloud access ends the day the subscription does.

During grace, My sites carries a banner with the exact date access ends.

On the day the grace period ends, the account is on the Free plan:

• One site stays live on its swebsy.site address; custom domains stop working. The newest site that meets the Free rules (Swebsy badge on, no password fields) is kept. Any other published sites go offline, and visitors get an offline page.
• Free plan limits apply. Cloud sync continues within Free’s 100 MB of storage. You can still sign in, list your cloud projects, and download them, but you cannot save checkpoints or restore an old version, and hosted forms stop accepting submissions.
• Local sites are untouched. Everything in your browser keeps working, including export and third-party deploys.
• Nothing is automatically deleted today. Your project data, assets, and past deployments remain available to read or download after grace.

Because deployments are retained rather than discarded, resubscribing lets you put a site back online from a version you already uploaded — no re-upload or rebuild. Retention is not a substitute for your own long-term backup; export important projects before grace ends.

Common issues

“Custom domains are on Swebsy’s paid plans” (or the same message for another feature) — you are signed in on the Free plan, which covers one site on swebsy.site but not custom domains, hosted forms, version history, more sites, or badge removal. Start a free trial, or subscribe from Account settings.

“Your subscription has ended. Resubscribe to keep using cloud features.” — the 30-day grace window has closed, or you had already used one in the past 12 months, and the account is on the Free plan. Resubscribing restores paid features over the data, which is still there.

“Resubscribe to add a new custom domain” — new hostnames need an active plan. Domains already attached keep serving until grace ends.

Trial won’t start — trials require a verified email address, and are once per account. Check for the verification email first.

Storage looks higher than the files I can see — retained previous deployments and retained snapshots both count. Publishing a smaller site does not immediately shrink the number, because the earlier versions are kept for rollback.

Subscribed but Swebsy still shows the free plan — reopen Account settings to refetch. If it persists after a page reload, the Stripe webhook may not have arrived; contact support with your Stripe receipt.