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Stacklumen pricing.

Starting prices for client work, and the plans for the software it runs on. The software is priced as you see it; every engagement is quoted in a written proposal after a real conversation.

$3,000
website builds, from
$15,000
custom apps, from
$99.99/mo
Agency, for the Hub, Terminal and StackIDE
3 business days
to a written proposal

Change your plan

Agency plan
For the agency
Stacklumen Base $29.99/mo $299.90/yr
Site plans
CMS site plan $15/mo $150/yr
Basic site plan $18/mo $180/yr
Premium site plan $30/mo $300/yr
Billing
New total $0 a month a year

One subscription and one invoice for the agency. Viewers and client guests are free, and every site stages free.

Billing in the Stacklumen Hub: the agency’s plan, Stacklumen Base and the add-ons beside it, a site plan for a site on its own domain or one whose CMS your own code reads, and one total.

Pick your engagement. Every one starts from a published price.

Six ways to work with us: one-off builds, the two migration offers, an ongoing retainer, or a white-label partnership.

Website builds

From $3,000

Custom marketing sites with hand-rolled animation systems and CMS architecture, built in Terminal. Ships in 2–6 weeks.

  • Custom design + production build
  • GSAP timelines, Lenis smooth scroll
  • CMS architecture and migrations
  • Lighthouse 95+ baseline at handover
  • 60 days post-launch support

Custom apps

From $15,000

Production applications on Next.js or Astro. Auth, billing, admin tooling, infrastructure as code.

  • Next.js or Astro + TypeScript
  • Supabase / Postgres + Stripe billing
  • Auth, admin tooling, observability
  • Edge deployment with previews and rollbacks
  • Knowledge transfer + 60-day support

Retainers

From $1,800 /mo

Permanent engineering capacity. A direct Slack channel and a no-expiration hour pool.

  • 20 hours/month, no expiration
  • Same-day Slack response on business days
  • CMS work, A/B tests, feature additions
  • Quarterly performance + SEO review
  • 30-day cancellation, no contracts

Framework upgrade

Flat $300

An older site built on code embeds, or a dated site on another builder, moved onto the Stacklumen Framework — native, editable and measurable.

  • Navigation, footer and key sections rebuilt as native elements
  • Custom functionality moved to Astro
  • One-to-one URL and redirect map
  • SEO and reporting wired in
  • 30-day post-migration support

Full migration

From $4,200

Modernize without losing equity. Schema preserved, redirects mapped, Core Web Vitals tuned. You keep the rankings.

  • Another builder or CMS → our stack
  • Pre-migration SEO audit and baseline
  • Comprehensive 301 redirect mapping
  • CMS data transfers and content restructuring
  • Zero-downtime deployment

White-label partnerships

From $6,000 /mo

Your brand, your client relationship — our engineering behind the scenes. NDA-protected by default.

  • NDA + white-label by default
  • Direct Slack between teams
  • Site builds, custom code, app development — any mix
  • Small partner roster keeps response time real
  • Equity and revenue-share options on request

Every engagement is officially quoted before any commitment. Read the terms

One plan for the agency. Stacklumen Base on its own.

The agency is the customer. Free or Agency covers the Hub, Terminal and StackIDE for the whole team, in every workspace, on one invoice. Stacklumen Base is its own product, bought beside either plan, and the add-ons go on the same invoice. Prices are in US dollars and exclude tax.

Billing in the Hub: the agency’s plan and when it renews, its editor seats, workspaces and site plans in use, and the next invoice.

Free

$0 No card needed

Build and stage without paying. One editor, one workspace.

  • 1 editor seat and 1 workspace
  • Up to 50 live staging sites in Terminal
  • 1 GB of files across the agency
  • The Hub for your projects and team
  • The free set of Stacklumen Base components, copied into Terminal
  • 10 Stacklumen Base tool runs a month
  • 10 designs in the Stacklumen Base designer
Start free

Agency

14-day trial
$99.99 /mo or $83.32/mo billed yearly

For a team running client work: clients, the CRM, the Hub and Terminal, with room to add people and workspaces.

  • 5 editor seats and 3 workspaces included
  • Clients, client guests and the CRM
  • Unlimited staging sites in Terminal
  • Extra seats $18/mo each, or $15/mo billed yearly
  • Extra workspaces $50/mo each
  • Client payments, $20/mo: invoices and retainers your clients pay by card
  • Stacklumen Base Free, as on Free
Choose Agency

Stacklumen Base

$29.99 /mo or $24.99/mo billed yearly

Sold on its own, on Free or Agency: the whole library for your team, bought once for the agency.

  • Every Stacklumen Base component, for Terminal
  • 1,000 tool runs a month per workspace
  • Unlimited designs in the Stacklumen Base designer
  • Templates one by one, $59 to $149, never part of a plan
  • Not part of the Agency plan or its trial
Add Stacklumen Base

Agency add-ons.

Client payments
$20 a month, on Agency
Numbered invoices with reminders and receipts, and retainers charged each month, quarter or year, paid by card in your client's portal or from the invoice, straight into your own Stripe account. Stacklumen takes 0.5% of each card payment from the date the new prices take effect, and nothing before it.
Extra editor seat
$18 a month, on Agency
One more editor, counted once across every workspace. Viewers and client guests never take one.
Extra workspace
$50 a month, on Agency
One more workspace, with its own members, clients and sites, on the same plan and invoice.

The plans side by side.

What you get Free Agency
Price Free $99.99 a month, or $999.90 a year
Editor seats 1 5, then $18 a month each
Workspaces 1 3, then $50 a month each
Hub Projects and team chat Clients, client guests and the CRM, with no limit on clients or leads
Terminal Up to 50 live staging sites Unlimited staging sites
Files 1 GB across the agency 2 GB of site files and 10 GB of client files in each workspace
StackIDE Included during the private alpha Included during the private alpha
Stacklumen Base Stacklumen Base Free; Stacklumen Base $29.99 a month Stacklumen Base Free; Stacklumen Base $29.99 a month
Client payments Not offered $20 a month, with 0.5% of each card payment
Advanced analytics $10 a month a site $10 a month a site
Site plans From $15 a month a site From $15 a month a site
Agents (MCP) Free Free
Trial — 14 days, no card; not Stacklumen Base or Client payments

Always free.

Viewers
Free on every plan
Read-only members never take a seat.
Client guests
Free on Agency
Someone at a client company, seeing only the work shared with them, its chat and its approvals. No seat, however many you invite.
Staging
Free for every site
Every Terminal site has its free staging address, with a small badge and no search indexing.
Agent connections (MCP)
Free on every plan
Connect any AI agent that supports MCP to every product on your own plan, with or without Stacklumen Base: no AI key, no model usage billed by us.

Stage free. Pay one site at a time.

Every site built in Terminal publishes to its free staging address, on every plan. A site that goes out on its own domain takes Basic or Premium, and a site whose CMS your own code reads can take the CMS plan for its Content API keys, each billed one site at a time on the agency’s one invoice. Pages that show CMS content take Premium.

To bill your own client, a site’s settings send them a pay link for the site. With Client payments on the Agency plan they can pay it by card, straight into your own Stripe account, and you can send numbered invoices and retainers for any work; or they pay you the way you already invoice, and you mark it paid.

Terminal's site settings for Lumen Dental: bill the client for the site's plan, add app routes to the same bill, write a note, and create a billing request. Beside it, the page the client's pay link opens, itemised as the bill changes.

Bill the client

New bill Mints a pay link for the plan below — send it to whoever pays for this site. One open bill per site.
Add to this bill
App routes $15/mo
Total: $18/mo
An open bill is out (below). Cancel it or mark it paid to send a new one.
Requests Every bill this site has been sent, newest first.
openpaidcancelled Basic site + App routes $18/mo due · just now · link works until Dec 1

Staging

Free every site

Every site gets its free Stacklumen address. Pages that show no CMS content publish there the moment you press publish.

  • A small “Made in Terminal” badge
  • Not indexed by search engines
  • Up to 10,000 CMS items and 200 collections
  • Every deployment kept and rollable

CMS

$15 /mo per site, or $12.50/mo billed yearly

Content API keys, for a site’s CMS read from your own code.

  • Content API keys, read from your own code
  • Up to 10,000 CMS items and 200 collections
  • Pages stay on free staging, with no custom domain
  • Pages show no CMS content

Basic

$18 /mo per site, or $15/mo billed yearly

The site on its own domain, found by search.

  • Your own domain
  • No badge
  • Indexed by search engines
  • Pages that show no CMS content

Premium

$30 /mo per site, or $25/mo billed yearly

For a site that runs on its content.

  • Everything in Basic
  • Pages that show CMS content: collection lists and item pages
  • Content API keys, as on CMS
App routes
$15 per site / month
A Cloud app from your GitHub repository at a route of a Design site, such as /app or /portal. A Code site’s own deploy never needs it.
Advanced analytics
$10 per site / month
Visitors, visits, sources, campaigns, goals and funnels for one site, counted without cookies, on any plan. Every site keeps its free page counts without it.
Yearly billing
Two months free on everything
Plans, Stacklumen Base, site plans and add-ons all bill yearly for the price of ten months.
Custom domains
With Basic or Premium
Prove the domain is yours with one TXT record, point its DNS here, and the certificate is issued and renewed for you.

StackIDE is included. On every plan, during the private alpha.

StackIDE, the Stacklumen desktop app for Mac and Windows, comes with every account, Free included. It works on the sites and plans you already have: what you save in it reaches the site, and its Publish puts the site live on the same terms as the web.

A short demo of StackIDE, the Stacklumen desktop app, plays: the heading is rewritten and saved, and the Designer tab shows it live; the status bar's Publish button puts Northgate live, step by step.

StackIDE on a Mac: a heading rewritten and saved to the site, then the status bar’s Publish putting it live on its free staging address.
The app
Included during the private alpha
With every account, on Free and Agency alike: no seat, no add-on, nothing to buy for it.
Platforms
Mac and Windows
Apple silicon and Intel Macs, Windows on x64 and Arm. Mac builds are signed with a Developer ID and notarised by Apple.
Agents
Bring your own
It starts the agents you already use, on your plan with their maker. It never calls a model, so we bill no AI usage.
Cloud deploys
Free on staging Cloud credit on a domain
Open to every workspace, with nothing to ask for. Cloning and running a Cloud app on your computer cost nothing; what Cloud serves on a domain is paid from prepaid Cloud credit.

Estimate your project. A ballpark, not a quote.

Move the controls to see how scope shifts the price — then send a brief and we will confirm it in a written proposal.

Project type
CMS integration
Animation depth
Timeline
Ongoing support

What’s never extra.

These are part of every engagement, regardless of tier or budget. No upsells, no upgrade tiers.

Full source code

Complete handover. No license restrictions, no vendor lock-in.

60-day support

Bug fixes and technical questions for two months post-launch.

Documentation

Setup guides, architecture notes, and runbooks written for humans.

Training session

Live walkthrough and handoff call with the team you’ll hand it to.

Deployment

We handle the launch, the DNS, and the monitoring for the first week.

Performance audit

Lighthouse scores, Core Web Vitals, and a clean baseline at handover.

Common questions.

Money matters.

  • Do you offer payment plans?

    Yes. For projects over $10,000, we offer 50% upfront and 50% on delivery. For larger engagements, we structure milestone-based payments.

  • What if my scope changes?

    We provide a written change order with an updated timeline and price. Small adjustments are usually covered within the original scope.

  • Are there hidden fees?

    No. All costs are outlined in the proposal. Once live, your only ongoing cost is the all-inclusive hosting & maintenance plan, plus any optional third-party services you specifically request — domains, premium APIs, fonts.

  • Do you host and maintain my site?

    Yes. For all clients going forward, every site or app we deliver is hosted and maintained on one flat, all-inclusive plan — $100/month for small businesses (under 20 employees) and $300/month for medium businesses (20–500 employees). It covers hosting, tool and software costs, database upkeep, updates, security patching, and small changes — no separate host bill. Over 500 employees is a custom plan. Full detail on the Hosting page.

  • Can I cancel hosting?

    Yes, with 30 days notice. No long-term contracts. We earn the relationship month by month.