name: BookStack Plans and Pricing
description: BookStack is fully free and open-source software released under the MIT license. There are no paid tiers, no per-seat pricing, and no enterprise SKU for the self-hosted software itself. Costs are limited to the infrastructure you choose to run it on.
url: https://www.bookstackapp.com/
plans:
  - name: Self-Hosted (Free)
    description: Download and run BookStack on your own infrastructure at no software cost. Requires a web server (Apache/Nginx), PHP, and a MySQL/MariaDB database.
    price: 0
    currency: USD
    period: free
    features:
      - Full REST API access
      - Unlimited users
      - Unlimited books, chapters, pages, shelves
      - WYSIWYG and Markdown editors
      - Full-text search
      - Role-based access control
      - LDAP, SAML2, OIDC, and OAuth2 authentication
      - Webhooks and outbound integrations
      - Diagrams.net integration
      - Audit log
      - Image gallery
      - File attachments
      - Export to PDF, HTML, plain text, Markdown
      - ZIP import/export
      - Multi-language support
notes:
  - The MIT license allows commercial use, modification, and redistribution.
  - Managed hosting is available from third-party providers such as Elestio (from ~$11/month) and Stellar Hosted, but these are not official BookStack offerings.
  - Donations to the project are accepted at https://www.bookstackapp.com/donate/