Spacefast: what it is, pricing and how to use it
2026-11-09 · 4 min read
Spacefast is a hosting service from Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, for websites and apps built by an AI agent. You connect it to the AI you already use, ask that AI to publish your project, and get a live link back in the chat. It opened to everyone on November 9, and there is a free plan.
The launch post from @SpacefastHQ pitches it as "everything your agents need to build and launch your ideas." The same post says it works with Claude, ChatGPT and other bots, comes with databases, storage and domains, and keeps every project private until you share it. The team also promised to ship something every day for 30 days, with $10 of usage credit to users for any day they miss.
Founder Batuhan İçöz, posting as @batuhan, put the bigger idea this way: "We are closer than ever to a world where building software is democratized."
What Spacefast does
Spacefast has no AI model of its own. Automattic's announcement says it charges for infrastructure and not AI credits, so you keep paying Anthropic, OpenAI or whoever runs your model. Spacefast supplies the hosting, custom domains and SQL database underneath.
That makes it different from Cursor Build Live Apps or ChatGPT Sites, where the builder and the host come from one vendor. Spacefast will take a project from any of them.
Each project lives in a "Space" with its own address and version history. Every publish creates a new version, and you can roll back without rebuilding. It runs on the same infrastructure as WordPress.com, which Automattic says serves over 15 billion page views a month.
Spacefast pricing
These numbers come from Spacefast's own pricing page on launch day. Some news write-ups from the same day list slightly different tiers, so check the page before you plan around it.
| Plan | Price | Spaces and domains | Included usage | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | $0, no card | 20 | $1 a month | 1 member, 1 GB disk per Space |
| Go | $5 a month | 100 | $5 a month | Hourly backups, email support |
| Pro | $15 a month | 500 | $15 a month | Up to 5 members free, team roles |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Contract | SSO, SLA, log drains |
The pricing page says every plan allows commercial use. Usage past the included amount bills at the end of the month, and spending caps are available on Go and Pro.
How to use Spacefast
A few days before launch, @SpacefastHQ summed up the workflow in one line: "just tell your fav ai what you want." In practice there are four ways in.
- In a chat app, add the official Spacefast plugin to Claude, ChatGPT or Grok Bot, build something, then say "put it on Spacefast." The AI replies with a link.
- In a terminal, run
npx spacefast publishfrom the project folder. It returns an address likequiet-sun.space.fast. - With no tools at all, drag a folder or zip file onto drop.fast.
- With Git, connect a repository at git.spacefast.com. Pushes to
maingo live and other branches get preview links.
New Spaces are private, and the URL alone does not let anyone in. You invite specific people, create a share link, set a password, or make the Space public. Search indexing is a separate switch.
You can publish once without an account. Claim that Space quickly, though: the site says unclaimed Spaces normally expire about 33 hours after the last publish.
What an early tester ran into
Developer Casey Burridge tried it with Claude Code in October, while Spacefast was still a preview. He went from first file to a live, database-backed tracker in about 15 minutes without writing code himself.
He also hit problems. Claude Code's safety checks refused the paste-a-link setup, so he connected through the plugin with a browser sign-in instead. Scheduled jobs got only about five seconds per run, and he filed a bug on the scheduler. That was a month ago and some of it may be fixed, but I'd expect rough edges.
Two pieces are still missing. Built-in sign-in for your app's own users and transactional email are due "in the coming weeks," according to the press release. Until they arrive, a customer portal with logins is a stretch.
My read
For a small business, the appeal is that the AI-made things already sitting in chat windows can go somewhere, like a quote calculator or a report for a client. Spacefast gives those a real address on your own domain for $0 to $5 a month, and it doesn't care which AI built them. If you run Claude Code, start with the plugin route, since that is the one Burridge got working.
I would not move a main business website here yet. The product is weeks old, launch-day reports disagree on the paid tiers, and TechCrunch notes Automattic has been through board turmoil and layoffs this fall. Use it for small tools and internal pages first.
Hosting was never the expensive part of a tool like this. Picking which ones are worth building takes longer. If you want help with that, New Face Design offers a free process audit that maps where automation would save you time.