Automattic Built a Host for Sites Your AI Agent Deploys. Free Gets 20 Spaces, and Leaving Costs Code Changes if You Use Its Runtimes.
Spacefast is Automattic's new hosting platform built for sites and apps that an AI coding agent deploys, and as of today its official page lists a $0 Personal tier with 20 Spaces and 20 custom domains. It soft-launched in late September, and the launch coverage I found has older pricing than the site shows now. If you ship small sites for yourself or clients with an agent, it is worth a look. It is also worth one caveat before you put anything with a database on it.
What it does
Each project is a Space. According to the official docs, every publish creates a new immutable version, or reports that nothing changed, and one pointer decides which version visitors see. The Space overview has a "Roll back to" shortcut. Spaces are private by default.
You can publish several ways, all listed on spacefast.com: ask an AI through chat or MCP (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client), drag a folder or zip onto drop.fast with no account, connect a git repo where pushes to main go live and other branches get preview links, run npx spacefast publish, or use the HTTP API and dashboard. A Space published without an account can be claimed later. The page says unclaimed Spaces expire about 33 hours after creation or the last change, capped at 30 days. An early article said six hours, so I could not reconcile the two. Check before relying on it.
Supported projects on the official page are Next.js, TanStack Start, Astro, PHP, plus static HTML, presentations and games.
The pricing today
From spacefast.com on November 10:
- Personal, $0, no card: 20 Spaces, 20 custom domains, $1 per month of usage, and commercial use is listed.
- Go, $5 per month: $5 of usage, 100 Spaces, 100 domains, hourly database backups.
- Pro, $15 per month: $15 of usage, 500 Spaces, 500 domains, up to 5 members free, wildcard domains.
An earlier article described the $15 tier as having 10 editors and a 500 MB storage limit on the free tier. I could not confirm either on the official page, which says 5 members and lists no storage figure that I saw. I would go with the official page.
The lock-in line
The official page says static sites usually move to another host as they are. It also says apps built on Spacefast's own runtimes need code changes to leave, and that app data exports separately. That is an honest line to find on a vendor page, and I take it at face value.
It means the platform splits into two uses. A static site, a landing page or a throwaway demo is nearly free to move. An app that leans on Spacefast's runtime and database is a commitment, and version history is limited by plan, with retention details not given.
What I'd actually do
I would use it for output an agent generates and I might throw away: client mockups, preview sites per branch, small static tools, one-off landing pages. The free tier covers 20 of those with real domains. I would not put a paying customer's app on a runtime I cannot leave without rewriting, at least not while the product is a soft launch and signups may be limited. Matt Mullenweg himself reportedly said datacenter space is getting pricey and that VIP customers may get priority, per secondary coverage, so access could tighten.
A cheap test: publish one static site through the CLI, break it on purpose, roll back, and then download the files from a previous version and host them elsewhere. If that works in ten minutes, you have verified the part that matters.
Where this could be wrong
Plan limits and names have already shifted since launch, so this article will age too. The $0 tier's "commercial use" listing conflicts with an early report that it was for personal use only, and terms could change. And I did not read the runtime documentation, so my portability claim comes from the one official line, not from trying to migrate an app.
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