Two tiers. Both useful on day one.
The whole engine is free and self-hosted — schedules, warehouse, MCP, and audit all run on your own server, and Pro gates no capability. The honest part: most people never need Pro. Pro — or your own DDNS — only matters if you want your server reachable on the public internet: to receive inbound webhooks, expose a public reception endpoint, or reach it from outside your own network. No public access needed? Stop at Free.
Free
The complete product. No capability caps, at any tier.
- Free marketplace forever — every recipe and pack
- The whole engine on your server — warehouse, MCP host, audit
- Schedules, auto-run, reactive, and housekeeping
- Remote triggers — Slack, Telegram, and email, server-direct
- Web-chat tabs + free-pool API keys + 2 BYOK slots
- Unlimited paired Bridges and webclients per server
- Full, signed, exportable audit log
- Marketplace publishing with a free account
Pro
Only for public reachability — a recued.net address + auto HTTPS that put your server on the internet, run for you. Skip it if you don't need public access.
- Everything in Free — Pro adds convenience, never capability
<handle>.recued.netsubdomain — auto-updated DNS keeps your server reachable- Automatic HTTPS certificate (ACME DNS-01), issued and renewed for you — no certbot
- Cost recovery, not a margin
- Cancel any time; your server and data are untouched
Self-host
The free do-it-yourself path to everything Pro provisions.
- Run your server on Mac, Linux, a Pi, or a $5 VPS
- Bring your own DDNS provider — same reachability, no Pro
- Bring your own certbot / Caddy — same auto-renewing HTTPS
- Set your own publisher handle — same marketplace publishing
- SQLite warehouse + content-addressable filesystem
- One-click marketplace templates (DigitalOcean / Hetzner)
- AGPL on GitHub
Pricing FAQ
Do I actually need Pro?
Pro is a small reachability bundle for putting your server on the public internet: a recued.net address, automatic DNS updates as your IP changes, an auto-renewing HTTPS certificate, and a switch to pause and resume your server's DNS. You only need it if you want to receive inbound webhooks, expose a public reception endpoint, or reach your server from outside your own network — if you don't, Free is the complete product, and you can still publish to the marketplace with your own publisher handle. The pause/resume switch temporarily takes your recued.net address out of DNS, so your server can't be discovered or reached there until you switch it back on (handy for travel, downtime, or going quiet) — it pauses your address, not your subscription. Every Pro piece has a free do-it-yourself path.
Why $5.99 and not free?
Pro runs two pieces of cloud infrastructure for you — a DDNS subdomain and ACME certificate issuance — on infrastructure we pay for monthly. $5.99/month is honest cost recovery plus a modest margin; the price moves only if our infrastructure cost moves. Both have a free do-it-yourself path.
Do I have to use the cloud?
No. Your server is the full product self-hosted — schedules, warehouse, MCP, the lot, all running locally. The cloud only gives your server a name and a certificate and hosts the marketplace — it never runs your recipes, routes none of your traffic, and never decrypts your data. Bring your own DDNS, certificate, and publisher handle and you never touch it.
What does Pro cost on top of my AI bill?
Pro is just the cloud-convenience bundle. AI bills go to whichever provider you bring (BYOK) or to nobody (web-chat tabs and free-pool keys). Recued never sees the AI provider invoice.
Is there a free trial?
Sign in for free and run on the free tier — it is the complete engine, not a trial. Add Pro when you want a recued.net address, an auto-renewing certificate, and a reserved handle without setting them up yourself. No credit card required up front.
Is there an annual discount?
Not at launch. We will revisit if traffic justifies it. The price ladder is anchored to infrastructure cost, not to user-acquisition campaigns.
How do cancellation and refunds work?
Paid subscriptions are processed by Paddle as merchant of record. You can cancel through the Paddle receipt or billing portal, and refund requests are handled under the Billing & Refund Policy.