self-host

Community Edition means you run PCI scope. Cloud and Self-Host Enterprise are Contact Us. The 500+ global enterprises line is Juspay production experience, not a Hyperswitch-customer logo wall.

No public hosted twin like ntfy.sh. Android-first client, not a public pub-sub host. Distinct from ntfy (public ntfy.sh + dual license) and Apprise (CLI fan-out, no inbox).

Bitcoin and Lightning to your wallet — not card rails, not a PSP. Distinct from Polar (MoR cards) and Hyperswitch (card orchestration). You operate a node. Network miner fees still exist.

Commerce OS, not invoices and not card rails. Cloud From $29/mo is not a $0 hobby hatch — self-host is the free path. Distinct from Polar/Hyperswitch (payments) and from Lago (metering).

Ruby commerce + REST/OpenAPI + Next.js storefront — not Medusa MIT Node OS. Solidus (BSD sibling) omitted: same Spree-fork slot. Distinct from Medusa.

Symfony + API Platform PHP headless — not Medusa MIT Node OS and not JS. Distinct from Medusa and Spree. Plus is commercial; do not invent rates.

SMB invoices/estimates/expenses/portal + Stripe on your server — not Kill Bill/Lago subscription orchestration or usage metering. Crater cut re-opened as InvoiceShelf. Distinct from Kill Bill and Lago.

Loud: installer may bundle optional SA commercial modules — pitch core only. Classic PHP cart, not headless Node (Medusa) and not Magento (HOLD). Distinct from Medusa, Bagisto, Sylius, Spree.

Self-hosted mail delivery SMTP+HTTP API — not Resend hosted tx email, not Plunk Node email, not Listmonk newsletter app. You own deliverability and IP reputation. Distinct from Resend, Plunk, and Listmonk.

AGPL. S3-compatible for small/geo-distributed self-host — not SeaweedFS/Ceph/MinIO-scale. SeaweedFS omitted once this publishes. Stretch: object store outside core remit, kept for the free forever self-host bar.

ee/ needs LICENSE_KEY even self-hosted (SSO+, versioning, rotation, dynamic secrets) — authentik enterprise pattern. Stretch: secrets remit. Distinct from authentik (IdP) and from Vault-scale ops.

Forever-OSS Redis-protocol fork lane, not Redis but faster. Redis gem is already live — this is the license/governance fork, not a performance twin. Do not invent managed free tiers.

Vault-engine / IdP-secrets lane, not Infisical app-secrets DX. Infisical already shipped — this is the engine/compat fork, not the developer-secrets UI. Do not invent Cloud free tiers.

Not Inngest/Trigger.dev — different durable-execution shape. Cloud is credits-then-paid ($1k/90d style credits, then paid) — never free forever. Local temporal server start-dev is not production. OSS self-host is the $0 hatch.

Vs Kill Bill/Lago/Polar: hosting webshop + provisioning (Pterodactyl/cPanel, WHMCS importer) — not generic subscription metering or Polar MoR. Cloud is $5/mo paid. Self-host is the $0 path.

Vs InvoiceShelf/Inkvoice: Symfony/PHP freelancer+SMB invoicing (quotes→invoices, payments, API/MCP). LOUD: solidinvoice.co leads with 14-day Cloud trial / from $9/mo — free path is self-host ONLY.

Control server only — not a userspace WireGuard client replacement. Not associated with Tailscale Inc as a product. You operate DERP/coordination yourself; MagicDNS/feature parity lags Tailscale SaaS at the edges.

Self-host only — not GitHub Actions managed UX. Smaller plugin ecosystem than Actions/Drone-era commercial. You own runners, secrets, and forge OAuth. Distinct from GitHub Actions and Buildkite hosted.

LOUD: NOT OSI open source — ELv2 forbids offering it as competing hosted SaaS. Hosted Pro from ~$14/mo (2026 pricing). Vs Lago/Autumn: client invoicing, not usage metering/MoR. Attribution stays unless white-label.

Only serious OSS Figma-class design; not Excalidraw whiteboards. LOUD: Cloud Unlimited from ~$7/editor (capped ~$175/mo). Self-host means you own Docker/backups/upgrades. Ecosystem/plugins thinner than Figma marketplace.