Free Web App & Static Site Hosting

The free plan is paused for new apps

Orbit's free plan is free forever rather than a countdown, and it never spins down when idle. It is currently closed to new deployments: apps already on it keep renewing, but a new app has to start on a paid plan from $0.99/month. Every plan runs your app as a real deployment on the decentralized Flux cloud rather than a throttled sandbox, and your first paid period is covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee.

What you can host

Orbit deploys straight from your repository and detects the framework automatically with Nixpacks, so you are not limited to static files. Every plan can host real applications:

• Static sites — React, Vue, Svelte, Vite, Astro, or plain HTML/CSS/JS built to a static output.
• Full-stack and backend apps — Node, Python (Django, Flask, FastAPI), Go, Ruby, Erlang, Elixir, Dart and more, running as real containers, not just static files.
• Any Git provider — deploy from GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket with no Dockerfile required.

Because every deployment is a genuine container rather than a function or a static bucket, long-running backends and server-side frameworks that other free tiers handle poorly work here too.

How hosting gets this cheap: the decentralized model

Traditional hosts pay for centralized data centers and recoup it with metered bandwidth. Orbit runs on the Flux network, thousands of independent nodes operated by many people worldwide, so your app is packaged into a container and scheduled onto that shared, permissionless infrastructure. That is what puts a real container with dedicated CPU and RAM at $0.99/month, with no single point of failure and no egress or bandwidth fees. It is the same architecture described in our guide to decentralized (web3) hosting.

What the plans cost

With the free plan paused, a new app starts on a paid plan. They all come with reserved CPU and RAM, and start at just $0.99/mo:

The free 7-day trial on paid plans is currently unavailable too. Every plan still comes with dedicated resources and the same no-egress-fees, no-lock-in model: you pay for the compute your app uses, nothing else, and your first paid period is covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Which plan to start on

Custom at $0.99/mo is enough to get a side project or a portfolio online. A busy production app benefits from the dedicated CPU and RAM on Standard or Pro, and moving up later is a one-click change with no migration and no redeploy dance: your repo stays the source of truth. If you are weighing Orbit against a centralized platform, see how it compares as a Vercel and Netlify alternative, a Heroku alternative, or a Render alternative.

Deploy your first app in one push

Connect a repository, and Orbit detects your framework, builds a container, and deploys it across the Flux network: you get a live URL in minutes, from $0.99/month. Add a Deploy to Flux button to your README so anyone can launch their own copy in one click. No servers to manage and no lock-in.