CaveCMS
Pricing

Free for people.
Paid for business.

Free for personal, hobby, and non-profit use. Free for thirty days to evaluate it commercially. Then a single licence fee for the businesses, agencies, and SaaS companies that ship on top of it.

Source on GitHubFair source

Personal & Hobby

Free

Forever. No card. No key.

For personal sites, family blogs, school projects, portfolios, side projects, charities, non-profits, government bodies, and educational research. Run it for as long as you like.

  • Self-host on any computer or server
  • Every template, theme, and section
  • AI writing partner (beta) on every section
  • Modify the source as freely as your own
  • Unlimited pages and visitors
  • Source is open and auditable on GitHub
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Hosting costs about a coffee a month on Hetzner or DigitalOcean.

Commercial Trial

Try it commercial
30 days

Free for any business use.

Run CaveCMS for a business, a paying-customer site, a SaaS, or any revenue-generating purpose, free of charge for thirty days. Use it in production. No card required.

  • Everything in Personal & Hobby
  • Use commercially for thirty days, no questions asked
  • No credit card to start the trial
  • Upgrade any time during or after the thirty days
  • Your data stays on your servers, nothing to migrate
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The trial begins the day you install CaveCMS for commercial use.

Commercial

Contact

Single fee. Unlimited sites.

For businesses, agencies, and freelancers running CaveCMS past the trial. One license covers every commercial site you build or operate.

  • Everything in Personal & Hobby
  • Unlimited commercial sites under one license
  • Use for client work, internal tools, SaaS, e-commerce
  • Email support direct from Derrick
  • Priority on features you sponsor
  • Quiet thanks in the release notes (opt-in)

Pricing posted at v1.0 launch. Early sponsors are grandfathered in.

Every plan includes all templates, themes, and sections, plus the AI writing partner and the HTTP API your agent can drive.

Why this licence

Honest about the
way this works.

CaveCMS is open and auditable on GitHub. Personal use is free forever. Commercial use funds the project so it keeps shipping. That arrangement has a name now: fair source, and it powers Plausible, Sentry, and Cal.com.

Built by one person.

After twelve years and hundreds of sites in WordPress, Derrick Siawor wrote CaveCMS solo, in Accra, Ghana. Commercial licences are how this stays a project rather than one that vanishes.

Free for the community.

Personal sites, charities, schools, and side projects get the full product, with no expiry and no key. The way it should be.

Fair source, not extractive.

The licence is "fair source", same family used by Plausible, Sentry, Cal.com. Source open and auditable; commercial use funds the maintainer.

Questions

The honest
answers.

The full licence text is on GitHub. The plain-English summary lives on the Prosperity Licence's own homepage.

Read the full LICENSE.md→The Prosperity Licence in plain English→

In plain English: anything that is not directly making someone money. Your portfolio site, a family blog, a charity, a school project, a non-profit, a government department, an academic research site: all noncommercial. Your company's product site, your SaaS dashboard, a site you build for a paying client: those are commercial. If you're unsure, send a quick email and we will give you a straight answer.

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Related

Features

SEO, security, redirects, backups, an AI writing partner, and a real HTTP API your agent can drive. All built in, not bolted on as plugins.

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License

Prosperity Public License 3.0.0: free for personal and non-profit use forever, a single fee for commercial use. Fair source.

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Get started

Four steps to a real CaveCMS site on your own server. About twenty minutes, most of it spent picking a domain.

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Still wondering? Email a real person.