Pricing

Ornithopter offers multiple plans of support and hosting: Free, Starter, Team, and Business.

No per-user or per-ballot pricing! No member limits! Rest easy with surprise-free billing knowing you’re covered.

We also offer support for self-hosting (pay what you like).

Compare plans or scroll to our Pricing Guide

Free Plan

For experimentalists. Easily try out new features without having to set up your own linux server.

  • Base Price: Free!
  • In-Software Limits
    • Founded Groups: 1 group, no subgroups on the free plan. Swap to paid for unlimited!
    • Decisions/Year: 4 decisions per year. Swap to paid for unlimited!
    • Instance GUI Admin: Us.
  • Infrastructure
    • Uptime SLA: None
    • Hosting: Shared
    • Domains Enabled: No (you can still publish to your own servers)
    • Included Server Size: Shared
  • Support
    • Ticket SLA: None
    • Domain & Publishing Support Tickets: +$20/month
    • SSO Support Tickets: +$70/month
    • Action & Integration Support Tickets: +$150/month

Starter Plan

For visionaries. Get going on the small scale.

  • Base Price:
    • Monthly: $10/month
    • Yearly: $100/year (save 16%!)
  • In-Software Limits
    • Unlimited Groups, Sub-Groups, and Decisions!
    • Instance GUI Admin: Us.
  • Infrastructure
    • Uptime SLA: None
    • Hosting: Shared
    • Domains Enabled: YourGroup.ornithopter.me
    • Included Server Size: Shared with 10 customers.
  • Support
    • Ticket SLA: 7 days.
    • Domain & Publishing Support Tickets: Included!
    • SSO Support Tickets: +$70/month.
    • Action & Integration Support Tickets: +$150/month.

If you need additional 1/10ths of a server, they’re $7.5/month for starter-size. Other plans have full size servers!

Team Plan

For movements. Your domain, your space.

  • Base Price:
    • Monthly: $75/month
    • Yearly: $750/year (save 16%!)
  • In-Software Limits
    • Unlimited Groups, Sub-Groups, and Decisions!
    • Instance GUI Admin: You!
  • Infrastructure
    • Uptime SLA: 95% with 1 to 1 credits.
    • Hosting: Isolated (you can allow-list IPs)
    • Domains Enabled: one editor domain, one publishing domain.
    • Included Server Size: 1 CPU, 1GB RAM, 50GB Disk.
  • Support
    • Ticket SLA: 3 days.
    • Domain & Publishing Support Tickets: Included!
    • SSO Support Tickets: Included!
    • Action & Integration Support Tickets: +$150/month

Need extra servers for different groups? They’re $10/month for team-size! Default limit of 10 per customer.

Business Plan

For deliberative bodies. Build decisions into your process!

  • Base Price:
    • Monthly: $220/month
    • Yearly: $2200/year (save 16%!)
  • In-Software Limits
    • Unlimited Groups, Sub-Groups, and Decisions!
    • Instance GUI Admin: You!
  • Infrastructure
    • Uptime SLA: 98% with 2 to 1 credits.
    • Hosting: Isolated (you can allow-list IPs)
    • Domains Enabled: 10 domains per server (default limit)
    • Included Server Size: 2 CPU, 2GB RAM, 70GB Disk.
  • Support
    • Ticket SLA: 1 day.
    • Domain & Publishing Support Tickets: Included!
    • SSO Support Tickets: Included!
    • Action & Integration Support Tickets: Included!

Need extra servers for different groups? They’re $20/month for business size! Default limit of 10 per customer.

Not what you’re looking for? You can also self-host and use pay-what-you-want pricing for support.

Pricing Guide

Why Ornithopter?

Ornithopter manages software upgrades, migrations, backups and restores, firewalls, antivirus, and logging. We offer documentation for doing it yourself if you want to.

You’re also well connected with one of the developers of Bivouac, so your feedback helps improve the software for everyone.

What do I need?

How Many Servers Do I Need?

Bivouac is a program that runs an editor, which your users access on their browsers. The program has some “administrator” user(s). As long as multiple sub-groups are okay having the same admins, you’re probably okay using one server. If you need to experiment with new settings, you probably want a separate server.

Bivouac will listen on an editor domain (like YourGroup.ornithopter.me for the Starter plan). Bivouac can publish to as many domains as you like. Ornithopter offers complementary publishing hosting for a limited number of domains depending on your plan. If you have a full domain you want to use, the Team plan is good, if you don’t care the Starter plan (YourGroup.ornithopter.me) is probably fine.

Why The Different Plans?

How our plans are differentiated:

  1. The Free plan limits the groups and decisions you start.
  2. Some infrastructure features are only available on isolated servers.
  3. In-software features are available on all plans, it’s just support that’s extra.

How the tiers work:

Need help selecting a plan? Reach out to us at sales@ornithopterhosting.com.

Let us help you take flight!

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