Pricing & deployment

Free forever.
Managed when you want it.

stoa is free and complete. The managed edition removes the hassle — it never withholds capability.

Self-host
Free
Open source · run it yourself
$0forever

The full engine, free — nothing held back.

The full engine — nothing held back
Private by default — you own your data
Bring your own model key, or run fully local
Unlimited brains & documents
Self-hosted MCP — connect any agent
Cited chat + maintained wiki + graph
Managed
Managed
We host it — hassle removed

First access & special pricing for people who join the waitlist.

No spam — opt out anytime.

Everything in Free, hosted for you — plus:
Zero-ops hosting of self-hosting
Always-on, remote MCP server — reach your brains from any agent or tool, fully hosted, behind auth
1-click sharing — invite collaborators you trust to access and jointly build out a brain, complete with a full audit trail
An online portal to reach your instance from anywhere, securely, from any device
Private by design
Your data — never retained, never shared.
Always on, , continuous backup
Per-tenant encryption
Maximum privacy & managed inferenceOptional add-on
By default, you bring your own model key.

Rather not think about model providers? Let us run your for you — pay-per-use, with full cost guardrails — so no one, not even the model provider, can see your data. It's a no-human-access architecture: the infrastructure itself enforces the privacy, built on confidential computing.

Self-hosting

Two deployment flavors

Prefer to run it on a server? We publish guidance and one-command quickstarts for two reference setups — pick the one that fits, and grow into the other later.

Light
One small box.
~$25–30/mo*cloud infra

Great for one person, or just trying stoa on a server of your own.

A single small cloud instance
The app, Postgres + pgvector, and storage on one host
Enough for personal use and light document volume
Production
Scaled & always-on.
~$60–110/mo*cloud infra

For teams and always-on access, with room to grow.

Managed database + object storage, separated from the app
Scales out under real load
Backups and higher availability for a shared brain

* Cloud-infra estimates for the self-hosted path — excludes model token usage.

These are our opinionated reference deployments — there are many more permutations, other cloud providers, and configs you can self-host on. Take them as a starting point, not a ceiling.

See how we derived these numbers
Teams & enterprise? Shared brains, SSO, and support for your org.
Start free — pay nothing to begin.

Self-host today, or get early access to managed.

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