apps
What it costs to self-host
One page per app, with the machine that runs it, the drives it needs and what it costs — to buy once, and every month. Every figure is computed by the same engine as the builder, at today's catalogue prices.
ImmichYour photo library, with faces, search and phone auto-backup — without the storage bill.photosJellyfinStream your own films and series to every screen in the house. No ads, no catalogue roulette.mediaNextcloudFiles, calendar and contacts synced across your devices, on your disk.filesVaultwardenBitwarden-compatible password manager. Tiny, boring, and it never phones home.passwordsHome AssistantRun your smart home locally — it keeps working when the vendor's cloud goes down.homeAdGuard HomeNetwork-wide ad and tracker blocking. Every device, no app to install.networkPaperless-ngxScan once, find anything. Full-text search over every document you own.docs*arr stackSonarr, Radarr and Prowlarr working together to keep your library organised automatically.downloadsqBittorrentHeadless download client with a clean web UI.downloadsJellyseerrLet the household request films and shows without ever touching the server.mediaUptime KumaKnow a service is down before the family tells you.monitoringGrafana + PrometheusGraphs for everything: temperatures, disk wear, power draw, container health.monitoringMinecraft serverA private world for you and your friends. RAM matters more than cores here.gamingTailscaleReach your home lab from anywhere without opening a single port.network
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Price several of them togetherOne app rarely stays alone. The builder sizes the machine for the whole list at once.