Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Tumblr, opened Spacefast to everyone on November 9, 2026. The new Spacefast AI app hosting service lets the AI assistant you already use publish a website or small app for you, with a free personal plan and paid tiers starting at $5 a month.
This matters because AI chatbots can now write a working app in an afternoon, but putting it online still means hosting, a database, a domain and sharing settings. Spacefast tries to remove that step, so people who are not developers can get a live link without touching a server.
At a Glance
- Spacefast is a new company spun out of Automattic and is open to anyone starting today.
- You connect it to an AI like ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor or Claude Code and ask it to publish your project.
- Each project gets hosting, a SQL database, file uploads, custom domains and saved versions.
- The Personal plan is free, Go costs $5 a month and Pro costs $15 a month.
What Spacefast Does
Spacefast is not an AI builder of its own. Instead, it gives your existing AI assistant the tools and infrastructure it needs to put a project online. According to Automattic, you ask your AI to publish to Spacefast and a link shows up in the chat a few seconds later.
Every project lives in its own Space. Spaces are private by default, and you choose who sees it: invited people, anyone with a private link or password, or the whole web. Each time you publish, Spacefast keeps a new version with its own permanent URL, so you can roll back if a change goes wrong.
Each Space also comes with a SQL database and file uploads, so a sign-up form or photo gallery can store data without extra setup. Automattic says built-in sign-in for app users is coming later. Visitors can leave comments right on a page, and that feedback can be passed back to your AI for fixes.
Which AI Tools Work With It
Supported assistants named by Automattic include ChatGPT, Claude, Muse, Grok Bot and Hermes, plus coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. You can also find Spacefast as a plugin for Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude and Grok Bot, and in the MCP directory on GitHub.
Developers who prefer the terminal get an API, a command-line tool and an MCP server. The company adds that risky agent actions, such as rolling back a site or changing DNS records, ask for your approval first.
A key point is that Spacefast bills for hosting, not for AI usage. You keep paying your AI provider as before, and if you switch assistants later, your projects stay in place.
Plans and Prices
Spacefast says every plan, including the free one, allows commercial use. Each plan includes a monthly usage credit, and usage past that amount is billed at the end of the month.
| Plan | Price | Included usage | Spaces and domains |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Free, no card | $1 a month | 20 |
| Go | $5 a month | $5 a month | 100 |
| Pro | $15 a month | $15 a month | 500 |
| Enterprise | Custom | By contract | Custom |
Go adds hourly database backups, a choice of datacenter and email support. Pro adds team roles and covers up to five members before charging $15 a month for each extra person. A $9 monthly Boost option gives a single busy Space more computing power on Go and Pro.
What This Means for You
If you have used ChatGPT or Claude to make a quick tool, landing page or dashboard and got stuck on how to share it, Spacefast is worth a look. The free plan is enough to test a few small projects, and private-by-default sharing lowers the risk of exposing something by accident.
Keep in mind that the free tier only includes $1 of monthly usage, so a project that gets a lot of traffic could start costing money. Also review what your AI wrote before you go public.
Be extra careful with pages that collect names, emails or uploads. A quick look at an online HTML editor can help you spot obvious problems in a page.
If you already run a blog or store on WordPress, Spacefast is not a replacement. It is aimed at small custom apps and pages your AI writes from scratch.
WordPress.com stays the home for full sites. You can read more about picking a home for a new project in our guide to the best platform to launch an AI tool.
How to Get Started
You can sign up at the Spacefast website, or simply ask your AI assistant to connect to Spacefast and publish your project. Automattic says no account is needed to try it, but you sign up to keep a Space online. Once a site is live, a website status checker can confirm it loads for others.
The service began as a side project during an internal Automattic build month, soft-launched in September and is now its own company led by founder and CEO Batuhan İçöz. Automattic says it runs on the same infrastructure that serves WordPress.com and Tumblr.
Conclusion
Spacefast gives people who build with AI a simple way to put their work online, with private sharing, version history and a database built in. The free plan makes it easy to try, but watch the usage limits and review anything your AI made before sharing it widely.
Sources
Primary source: Automattic’s Spacefast announcement. Plan details from Spacefast’s pricing page.
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