# What Nextly costs.

Nextly is MIT licensed and self-hosted.

MIT today, and no decision yet about paid offerings. [Read the licence](https://nextlyhq.com/license)

Installing Nextly needs no account and no licence key.

Updated 26 Oct 2026

## Questions

What you pay for

### Running costs

#### What do I pay for?

You pay for your own hosting and database, and for any service you choose to connect, such as media storage on S3, Vercel Blob or UploadThing, or email through Resend or SendLayer, each billed by its provider.

[Media storage](https://nextlyhq.com/docs/guides/media-storage.md) · [Email](https://nextlyhq.com/docs/guides/email.md)

#### Is there a hosted version?

No. Nextly is self-hosted.

You choose and pay for your own hosting and database. [Deployment](https://nextlyhq.com/docs/guides/deployment.md)

## Read more

- [What is Nextly?](https://nextlyhq.com/what-is-nextly)
- [What alpha means here](https://nextlyhq.com/stability)
- [Quick start](https://nextlyhq.com/docs/getting-started/quick-start.md)