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Your first project, with every feature. No card needed.
- 1 project
- Its staging copy and branch previews don't count
Deploy to a server you own.
ox is a deployment platform: you connect a GitHub repo and ox deploys it to your own Ubuntu server with systemd and Caddy, no Docker. Your app gets a web address with HTTPS, a database if it needs one and daily backups, and every push goes live.
In beta, and our own apps run on it. Free for your first project.
Works with the code you already have
- Next.js
- React
- Nuxt
- SvelteKit
- Astro
- Vite
- Node.js
- Express
- Hono
- NestJS
- Bun
- TypeScript
- Yarn
- Python
- Django
- FastAPI
- Flask
- uv
- Go
- Rust
- PHP
- Static sites
- Postgres
- Redis
- Qdrant
- Neo4j
- Hugging Face
One server can run all your apps.
Hosting sites bill you for each app, each database, each background job and each test copy. A few small projects can cost more than your phone bill. One cheap server runs them all. The hard part was always the setup, and ox does the setup.
3 small apps on a hosting site
- 3 apps$21–60
- A database$15–25
- A cache$10
- A background job$7–20
- Test copies$10+
Each month$63–125
The same 3 apps with ox
- Your server$5–24
- ox Pro$10
- Database and cacheIncluded
- Background jobsIncluded
- Test copies, backupsIncluded
Each month$15–34
Rough prices for small apps. Yours will be different. With one app, ox is free.
The server work, done for you.
ox handles builds, HTTPS, databases, restarts and daily backups for every project.
See all features~/my-app $ git push
Plan your week
Less busy.
More done.
Plan your week, together
Less busy.
More done. With friends.
New version live in 41 seconds
Visitors served1,204
Visitors dropped0
Database backupsOn your server, and in your S3 bucket if you add one
- Today, 3:00 am42 MBRestore
- Yesterday, 3:00 am41 MBRestore
- Monday, 3:00 am41 MBRestore
- Checked it's a complete backup
- Loaded into a spare database
- Swapped it in and restarted the app
my-appBranches
- mainmyapp.comLive
- stagingstaging.myapp.comLive
- new-loginnew-login.preview.myapp.comBuildingLive
Own databaseOwn web addressDeleted on merge
my-appVersions
- Version 14 2 min agoErrors going upLive
- Version 13 YesterdayGo backLive
- Version 12 MondayGo back
Back on version 13 in 4 seconds
Get this app ready for ox.
Reading package.json, prisma/schema.prisma, .env.example
# ox.toml
domains = ["myapp.com"]
[services]
postgres = {}
[cron]
emails = { schedule = "@daily", run = "npm run emails" }Done. Before you deploy, add STRIPE_KEY in ox.
Live in three steps.
After that, you just push.
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Step 1Sign in with GitHub
Your first sign-in creates your account. There's no password to remember.
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Step 2Paste one command on your server
Rent a fresh Ubuntu server, from about $5 a month. The command ox gives you locks it down and sets it up, so you won't need to log in to it again.
curl -fsSL https://deploywithox.com/install/… \ | sudo bash -
Step 3Pick a repo and press Deploy
ox reads your code and shows what it will run before anything starts. From then on, every push goes live.
Let your AI write the setup.
A simple app needs no setup. A bigger one, with background workers,
scheduled jobs, saved files or a build ox can't guess, needs a short
ox.toml. Copy our guide into your coding AI. It reads
your code and writes that file. ox checks it before every
deploy, so a mistake stops the update before your live site is touched.
Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Windsurf and any AI that can read your files.
# a Django app with a worker and a nightly job
domains = ["myapp.com"]
[app]
health = "/healthz"
[workers]
worker = "celery -A app worker"
[cron]
digest = { schedule = "@daily", run = "python manage.py digest" }
[services]
postgres = {}
redis = {}# once: approve it in your browser
$ ox login
# deploy and wait for the result
$ ox deploy myapp --wait --jsonAlready set up for you.
Things you'd normally wire up yourself, or pay extra for.
- HTTPS on every web addressIt turns on by itself and renews by itself.
- Databases, ready to usePostgres and Redis, plus Qdrant and Neo4j for AI apps. The connection details just show up.
- Background jobs and timersRun a worker all day, or a task every night.
- Apps kept apartEach app runs on its own and can't read the others' files. A memory limit stops one busy app from slowing the rest.
- Errors in plain wordsIf something's wrong, ox stops before touching your live app and tells you how to fix it.
- Live logsWatch your app, your jobs and every update as they happen.
- AI models, downloaded for youList a Hugging Face model and it's on the server when your app starts.
- No DockerYour app runs straight on the server. Nothing extra to learn or fix.
How ox compares.
You get the ease of a hosting site and pay for a plain server, plus $10 a month for ox Pro once you run more than one project.
| Question | Hosting sites | A server on your own | ox on your server |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 small apps, each month | $63–125 | $5–24 | $15–34 |
| Time to put an app online | Minutes | A weekend, if it goes well | Minutes |
| Site stays up while it updates | Yes | Only if you build it | Yes |
| Daily database backups | Often costs extra | You write the script | Included |
| Test copy for each branch | Often costs extra | Hard to set up | Included |
| You own the server and data | No | Yes | Yes |
Tested on real servers before every release.
We rent brand-new servers, deploy an app in every supported stack, and put apps through updates, failed builds, backups and reboots. Here is our latest full run.
We moved our own apps, databases and all, onto ox using only its dashboard. Nobody had to log in to the server.
Saurav Sharma, builds ox. Lazy Planner runs on ox.36 of 36stacks went live
- No visitors dropped during an update
- A failed build leaves the live app running
- The ox agent uses 40 MB of memory or less on an idle server
- Removing ox leaves only its security setup and swap file, checked file by file
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Free for one project. $10 a month for all of them.
Every feature is in both plans. The only difference is how many projects you run. Your server is billed by your cloud company, as it would be anyway.
ox Pro
$10a month, or $80 a year
Every project you have, on every server you connect.
- No limit on projects
Upgrade from Settings when you need a second project.
Every plan includes
- Push to deploy, with no downtime
- HTTPS that renews by itself
- The services your app declares, set up and connected for you
- Daily backups of your services' data, and restore
- A staging copy, and branch previews when you turn them on (3 at once by default)
- Background jobs and nightly tasks
- Live logs and plain-words errors
- Alerts, uptime checks and webhooks
- Undo to a recent version: ox keeps the last 3
- The CLI and the AI setup guide
- You pay your cloud company for the server, from about $5 a month, and ox $10 a month, or $80 a year (4 months free). No seats, build minutes or bandwidth fees.
- ox emails you 4 days before each renewal. Cancel any time and keep ox Pro to the end of the month or year you paid for. A full refund of your first payment within 14 days, from Settings.
- If a payment fails or you leave ox Pro, your apps keep running and their backups keep going. Only the first project keeps deploying; the others pause deploys, alerts and webhooks until you upgrade again.
- Prices are in US dollars. Tax is added at checkout where the law asks.
Coming next.
None of these are ready yet.
- ox writes the setup for youRight in the dashboard, with no AI tool needed. You check it before anything runs.
- A home for AI agents and botsRun them all day, with a log for every task they do.
- Invite your teamLet others help run your apps.
Questions.
What is ox?
ox Cloud, at deploywithox.com, is a deployment platform: you connect a GitHub repo and ox deploys it to your own Ubuntu server with systemd and Caddy, no Docker. It is not Open-Xchange's OX App Suite or OX Security, which are unrelated products.
What does ox store, and what stays on my server?
ox keeps only what it needs to run your account. Your app and its data stay on your server.
ox keeps:
- Your GitHub login, name, picture and email.
- The servers and projects you add, and a short record of each run.
- For a failed run, its last 40 lines of output, with secrets hidden.
- Usage numbers for the charts: one-minute points for 24 hours, then 15-minute points for 30 days.
- A log of who did what in your account, with the IP address it came from, kept for 12 months.
- Your settings, like which alerts you want.
- Your plan and its Dodo Payments subscription, never your card number.
- Tokens and keys, encrypted or stored only as a hash.
- Sign-in codes for
ox login, with the IP address that asked. - ox's own server logs, which can name your account and hold IP addresses, kept up to 5 weeks.
- A copy of its own database every hour. The newest 24 copies stay on ox's own server, and the newest 168 copies (7 days) in a storage bucket ox owns.
Stays on your server:
- Your code, builds and releases.
- Your variables and secrets. ox shows them to you but keeps no copy.
- Your databases, files and uploads.
- Backups of your services. A copy goes to your own S3 bucket only if you add one.
- Your app's logs. ox reads them only when you ask to see them.
The privacy policy has every detail, and the security docs say it in short.
Does my app's data ever leave my server?
Only to do what you ask. Logs you open, rows you browse in Explore, and backups you download pass through ox to your screen. Your variables pass through ox when you view or save them, when ox copies them to a new staging copy or preview, and when it checks which ones a refused deploy still needs. ox does not save them.
Your server also sends ox its health, its usage numbers and the output of each run while it runs. Your code goes from GitHub straight to your server, with a short-lived, read-only token for that one repo (a repo with private submodules also gets one for just those repos). Alert emails go out through Resend. You choose which: a failed run or backup, a crashing process, a site or server that stops answering, high memory or CPU, a nearly full disk, or a finished deploy. Each says what happened, and for a failed run the start of its error.
ox has no analytics and loads no third-party scripts. It never reads your app's data for its own use.
What is a server, and where do I get one?
A server is a computer in a data center that you rent by the month. Companies like Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr and Linode rent them for about $5 to $24 a month. Pick a fresh one running the latest Ubuntu LTS. We test every release on servers with 4 GB of memory.
How do I sign up?
Sign-ups are open: sign in with GitHub. Your first sign-in creates your account, and there's no password. Your first project is free, with no card.
How much does ox cost?
Free for one project, with every feature and no card. ox Pro is $10 a month, or $80 a year (4 months free), for every project, on every server you connect. A project's staging copy and previews don't count. You pay your cloud company for the server, as you would anyway, and there are no seats, build minutes or bandwidth fees. ox emails you 4 days before each renewal. Cancel any time and keep ox Pro to the end of the month or year you paid for, with a full refund of your first payment within 14 days, from Settings or with ox plan refund. If you leave ox Pro, your apps keep running.
Do I need to know Linux or Docker?
No. You paste one command on your server once, and everything after that happens in the dashboard. ox doesn't use Docker, and you won't need to log in to the server. If you can push code to GitHub, you can use ox.
How does ox reach my server?
Through a connection your server opens. The small ox agent on it dials out to ox over an encrypted connection, so the agent needs no open port and ox holds no SSH key. Every command ox sends is signed, and the agent refuses anything unsigned, old or repeated. It only answers ox's fixed list of requests, so there's no way to run an arbitrary command through it.
Can my AI agent deploy?
Yes, with the ox CLI. Run ox login once and approve it in your browser. Then your AI can run ox deploy myapp --wait, read ox logs and check ox services. Every command takes --json and exits with an error when something fails.
What happens if an update fails?
Your live app keeps running. ox checks everything it can before it changes anything. If a step still fails, ox tells you which step, why, and how to fix it.
Which languages work?
JavaScript and TypeScript (npm, Yarn, Bun, Deno), Python (uv, pip, Django, FastAPI), Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Java (Spring, Quarkus), .NET, Elixir (Phoenix) and plain websites. ox reads your project files to pick the right versions.
Can I leave?
Yes. Your server and your data were always yours, your database backups are standard pg_dump files, and your variables live on your server. When you delete your account, ox removes only its agent from each server (or tells you the one command to run there), and your apps, databases and Caddy keep running with nothing managing them. Deleting a project instead removes its app and database, and sudo ox uninstall deletes everything ox created on the server, backups included, so download what you want to keep first. Uninstall leaves the security settings and the swap file in place. How to leave lists what to copy.
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