Kaneo Cloud is introducing paid plans

[andrejsshell]

Hey everyone, Andrej here. Some news I want to share directly before you see it on the pricing page.

What's changing: Kaneo Cloud (the hosted version at cloud.kaneo.app) is introducing paid plans: Personal at €4/month and Team at €5 per user/month, both with annual discounts and a 14-day free trial. Full details at kaneo.app/pricing.

When: the pricing page is live today, and checkout goes live next week. Until then nothing is charged and trials haven't started. To be clear about the cutoff: accounts that exist as of today's announcement are the ones that keep free access for 12+ months. If you sign up between now and checkout launching, you'll start on the regular 14-day trial once billing is live.

What's not changing: Self-hosted Kaneo stays MIT licensed and free forever. Every feature, including SSO. No open-core games, no features moving behind a paywall. If you run Kaneo on your own server, this announcement changes nothing for you, today or ever.

If you're already on Kaneo Cloud: you keep free access for at least 12 months from today, and I'll give at least 6 months notice before anything about your account changes. If you ever want to leave, full data export and a self-hosting
migration path are always available. You signed up when Cloud was free; I'm not pulling that out from under you.

Why: when I started Kaneo Cloud, I hoped to keep it free for everyone. Running it responsibly turned out to cost real money: servers, backups, monitoring, and a lot of unpaid weekends. Charging for the hosted convenience is what makes the project sustainable, and it's what funds continued development of the open-source version everyone gets for free. On top of that, people like @randoneering and @tinsever have been helping me a ton for development and I'd like to be able to reward them financially or anyone who is interested in building the future of Kaneo.

Questions, concerns, or "wait, what about X?", reply here or message me on Twitter.