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Installation, configuration, TLS/SSL, encryption, automated backups, 24/7 monitoring and OS & software updates — all handled for one monthly price.
Platform · Deploy anywhere
Saltcorn is MIT-licensed and self-contained. Evaluate it in seconds, hand it to a managed host, one-click it onto a cloud, or run it on a laptop, a Raspberry Pi, or an air-gapped server inside your own perimeter. No telemetry. No lock-in.
A permissive licence and a simple, high-performance server let you put Saltcorn wherever your data needs to live — from a throwaway evaluation instance to a hardened server behind your own firewall. Pick a point on the spectrum; the same application runs at every one.
Spin up a tenant on the free shared instance at createapplication.saltcorn.com — no install, no card, a working app under its own subdomain in under a minute.
It's the fastest way to see whether Saltcorn fits. When you're convinced, move to any of the hosted or self-hosted options below — your application comes with you as a backup or a pack.
For a hands-off production deployment you don't operate yourself, use a managed Saltcorn host. Elestio offers fully-managed Saltcorn as a service on a dedicated VM — from about $16/month, on the cloud of your choice (Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Amazon Lightsail, Linode, Vultr, Scaleway and more — nine providers across 100+ regions).
Installation, configuration, TLS/SSL, encryption, automated backups, 24/7 monitoring and OS & software updates — all handled for one monthly price.
SSH into your own dedicated instance to install a plugin, edit the config, or do anything else — managed convenience without giving up control.
Pick from nine cloud providers across 100+ regions, so your data lives where your compliance and latency needs require. See Elestio →
Launch Saltcorn — database included — from the DigitalOcean or Linode marketplace with a single click, from around $6/month and no command-line work. It's the route the Saltcorn team recommends for straightforward serious use.
Prefer a self-hostable platform? Ready-made templates on Easypanel, Railway and Coolify each deploy the official container onto your own server or account in a couple of clicks — the instance is entirely yours.
Anywhere Node.js and PostgreSQL go, Saltcorn goes. Ship the official container, orchestrate a cluster, or install straight from npm — and because it phones nothing home, it runs perfectly sealed inside your own network.
Run the official saltcorn/saltcorn image directly, or orchestrate it under Kubernetes with reference configurations for production hardening.
npx saltcorn-install sets up a working server — and PostgreSQL on Debian/Ubuntu — in a single step. Tested from 1 GB VMs upward.
No telemetry, no external services required — so Saltcorn runs fully offline where data must never leave the perimeter. The answer for government, finance and regulated deployments.
One build runs from a Raspberry Pi or a developer laptop up to a multi-core Linux server. On the desktop you can even run it on SQLite (Mac / Windows / Linux) to build an application locally, then back it up and restore into production.
A single server can host many applications at once — each tenant is an isolated application on its own subdomain, backed by a separate PostgreSQL schema. And multi-node deployments coordinate through PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY, so you scale horizontally without adding a message broker.
Deploying anywhere only matters if you're free to. Saltcorn has been MIT-licensed since 2020 — the licence, the code and your data are all yours.
The whole platform is free and open source. Run one instance or a thousand — there's no per-seat cost and nothing to unlock.
Your application and its data stay exactly where you put them, with no telemetry leaving your systems and no vendor able to hold them hostage.
The entire platform is on GitHub, so you're never stuck behind a vendor's roadmap — extend it, patch it, or fork it. View the source →
Evaluate in a minute, or self-host the MIT-licensed platform on your own hardware today — free, open-source, no telemetry, no lock-in.
The Saltcorn team can stand up, secure and scale your deployment — on your cloud or inside your perimeter.