Self-hosting is free. $4.99/month adds public access. Live App bills only when your Mac can't serve.
Live App is on standby. Your Runners run on the Mac you own, visitors reach them through the plan's URLs and ports, and serving costs nothing — no matter how popular they get.
Your Mac went offline or quit the app, so our platform serves instead. That — and only that — is metered, by the hour your Runners' replica actually serves, plus replica storage.
HTTPS URLs for your web Runners and up to 2 reserved TCP/UDP ports — game servers and databases included.
Hit a limit? The next create is blocked with a clear reason and a plan upgrade — nothing running ever gets killed mid-month.
Your Mac goes offline, the cloud replica takes over. Billed only while it is actually serving — dormant protection (24/7 sync) is free.
Real numbers: a 48-hour outage on a 4 GB Runner costs about $0.48. A whole month failed over, about $7. Storage is billed 24/7 from the moment Live App is enabled, pro-rated hourly.
Your Runners use the available memory, storage, CPU and internet capacity of the Mac you already own — we never resell it to you in 2/4/8 GB slices. The 4 GB entry cap on Runner VMs is a plan limit you can upgrade, not rented hardware.
Only when the cloud replica is serving traffic: your Mac is offline, you forced a failover, or failback is pending. The moment your Mac takes over again, the meter stops. Sync and dormant protection run 24/7 and cost nothing beyond storage.
No — and we say so plainly. UDP-only Runners (Bedrock, Valheim) cannot be served by the cloud fallback. Live App on them protects your data only: replica storage and sync. The fallback serves HTTP(S) ports.
The next create, enable or port reservation is refused with a clear reason and a one-click plan upgrade. A limit never kills a running Runner or disables Live App mid-month.
No — the free cap is 10 GB per account, aggregated across your Runners for the first two months after Live App is first enabled. Beyond 10 GB, the standard storage rate applies.
No. Public access to your Runners works with your Mac serving on its own. Live App is an optional add-on for when your Mac goes offline.
If you run a large public server that needs data-center uptime or specialized DDoS protection, a managed game host may be a better fit. UrlyUp's edge is no tiers plus keeping your data — for people who own a capable Mac.