Free, and we mean it.
Devani is open-source and self-hosted. There's no Pro plan we're holding back, no premium templates locked behind a paywall, no "free for the first site, $29/month after that." The whole CMS, every feature, forever — free.
What's free, and why.
It helps to be specific. Here's what costs nothing, what might cost a little, and how the project keeps the lights on.
The CMS itself
Free, open-source, MIT-licensed. Editor, blog, SEO, forms, deployment, backups — every feature, no tiers.
The integrations
Tonta, AltText, and Pinpic all have generous free tiers. Most sites pay nothing. Heavy users pay for extra capacity, not for access.
Hosting
You pay your host — that's the one cost we can't make free. Vercel, Fly, and Cloudflare have generous free tiers for small sites; a VPS runs about $5/month.
Sustainability
The project is funded by the paid tiers of the integrated services and by contributions from agencies and individuals. No VC, no exit pressure, no reason to enshittify later.
The plugins, itemized.
Here's roughly what a comparable WordPress setup actually costs per year. Nothing in this list is shocking — it's just what a normal "professional" WordPress site needs to behave.
- Page builder (Elementor Pro, Bricks, Beaver Builder) — $59–99/year
- SEO plugin (Rank Math Pro, Yoast Premium) — $99/year
- Forms plugin (Gravity Forms, WS Form) — $59/year
- Backups (UpdraftPlus, BlogVault) — $70/year
- Image optimization (ShortPixel, Imagify) — $30/year
- Security plugin (Wordfence, Solid Security) — $30/year
- Estimated total — ~$346/year, plus hosting
Free isn't a trick.
It's just what open-source software looks like when it's built honestly.