Appsmith
Indicative from-price range
Indicative from-price range for self-hosting Appsmith on 1 server: about $24 to $112 per month (USD), as of 2026-10-19, for the reference workload (Concurrent builders: 10; Concurrent app users: 100; Peak app request concurrency: 50). From-price by provider, each the cheapest server in that provider's own shortlist: $24 on DigitalOcean (basic-2vcpu-4gb, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, fra1); $49 on Google Cloud (e2-standard-2, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, us-central1); $63 on Amazon Web Services (c9g.large, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, us-east-1); $64 on OVHcloud (rise-1, 6 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, eu-west); $66 on Microsoft Azure (D2as_v7, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, eastus); $66 on Hetzner (AX41, 6 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-central); $262 on Servers.com (dl-01, 8 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-west).
Reference workload
- Concurrent builders: 10
- Concurrent app users: 100
- Peak app request concurrency: 50
Methodology
This range is generated automatically from public provider price lists. It has not been reviewed by a person, it is not a quote, and it may differ from the total the calculator chooses for your own workload with its AI step. Method: the calculator's offer shortlist for the reference workload (the same ranking it builds before the AI step, up to 12 offers across providers; 12 here) is priced at its monthly list price in USD. The low end is the cheapest of the per-provider from-prices below and the high end is the median server of the combined shortlist, each multiplied by 1, the smallest baseline topology (single-node-app-platform). The from-price for each provider applies the same method to that provider's own shortlist (the calculator's ranking restricted to that provider), so it is the cheapest server that ranking offers there, not a recommendation. Prices are taken from the price snapshot dated 2026-10-19; prices quoted in EUR are converted with the ECB reference rate dated 2026-10-19. Servers with fewer than 2 vCPU or less than 4 GB RAM are not priced. Only server rental list prices for the product's own servers are counted: dependencies, licences, support, traffic charges, taxes and setup fees are not included.
Price sources
- Amazon Web Services: https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/current/us-east-1/index.json
- DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets
- Google Cloud: https://cloudbilling.googleapis.com/v1/services/6F81-5844-456A/skus
- Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.com/_resources/app/data/app/live_data_en_EUR.json
- Microsoft Azure: https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices
- OVHcloud: https://eu.api.ovh.com/1.0/order/catalog/public/eco?ovhSubsidiary=FR
- Servers.com: https://www.servers.com/products/scalable-bare-metal
Size Appsmith for your own workloadMarkdown versionFor AI agents (llms.txt)
Appsmith is an open-source low-code platform for building internal tools, admin panels, and dashboards by dragging in widgets and wiring them to APIs, databases, and GraphQL sources. Developers can drop into JavaScript inside the builder wherever the visual tooling falls short.
What gets deployed with it
- PostgreSQL HA Cluster — required First dependency target for persistent application metadata and state.
Baseline topologies
| Topology | Minimum nodes | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| single-node-app-platform | 1 | appsmith |
| app-cluster-plus-db | 2 | appsmith, appsmith |
What drives the cost
- Concurrent builders
- Approximate number of people simultaneously editing apps, queries, or workflows.
- Concurrent app users
- Approximate number of end users simultaneously using deployed internal apps.
- Peak app request concurrency
- Expected peak number of concurrent application or API requests handled by Appsmith.
Where it runs
bare_metal, dedicated, cloud_vm
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