Before any prices

The editor is free. Forever.

Every line of canvist (the editor, its server, every binding) is released into the public domain under the Unlicense. No licence keys, no watermarks, no per-seat editor fees. You only pay if you want canvist to run the servers for you.

canvist Cloud plans

Billed per monthly active document (MAD). Add-ons work on any paid plan.

Preview pricing. Not final; published after real cost benchmarks.

  1. Hobby

    Side projects and prototypes.

    $0/ month

    1,000 MADs included

    • 1,000 monthly active documents
    • Hard cap: hosted features pause, the editor never goes read-only

  2. Builder

    A product with real users.

    $29/ month

    10,000 MADs included

    • 10,000 monthly active documents
    • $2 per 1,000 MADs over
    • Warnings, never automatic upgrades
    • Free for OSI-licensed projects

  3. Scale

    Collaboration at the centre of your app.

    $349/ month

    150,000 MADs included

    • 150,000 monthly active documents
    • $1.50 per 1,000 MADs over
    • Warnings, never automatic upgrades

  4. Enterprise

    Custom limits, contracts and support.

    from $2,000/ month

    Custom MADs

    • From $2,000 a month, billed annually
    • Custom MADs and negotiated overage

OSI-licensed open-source projects get Builder free. Companies with fewer than 5 people get 50% off for the first year. Annual prices are per month, billed yearly.

What would you pay?

Drag to the number of documents people open or change in a month. A document edited by a hundred people still counts once.

Scale$349per month
  1. Hobby–
  2. Builder–
  3. Scale–
  4. Enterprise–

Preview prices. Overage is billed per started 1,000 MADs.

Questions

What is a monthly active document?
A document with at least one sync session or API mutation in the billing month. It tracks what canvist Cloud actually spends (memory for each loaded document), and it counts the same on the web, desktop, mobile, Flutter, React Native and Lynx.
What happens when I go over?
Hobby has a hard cap: hosted features pause until the next month, and the editor never goes read-only. Paid plans warn you and bill the overage. Nobody is moved to a bigger plan automatically.
Do I need a plan to use the editor?
No. The editor, its server and every binding are free and in the public domain. Plans only pay for canvist running Sync, Convert and History for you.
Can I run it all myself?
Yes. canvist publishes the exact binary it runs, with a guide. Self-hosting is a first-class path, not a trial.
Why are these prices marked preview?
They are provisional. They will be published as final only after canvist Cloud measures real memory per document and hosting cost per MAD.