Pricing · Half the license, hosting free
You are paying two bills to keep the same Business Basic system running: a runtime license that never ends, and a server closet that never gets younger. We halve the first and eliminate the second. That is the whole philosophy. Everything below is just the detail of how you start.
There is no rate card. There's a ratio.
Bring us the invoice
Half of what the incumbent runtime costs you today — hosting, backups and disaster
recovery included at no additional cost.
of what you pay now for the runtime license.
And hosting is free — included, not a tier and not an upsell. We run it, back it up and hold the disaster recovery plan at no additional cost. So the license halves, and the server in the closet stops being a line item at all.
01 The ladder
Start free. Pay for the assessment only when you want a plan and a fixed price. Pay for the platform only when you're running on it. Nobody has to talk to a salesperson to get to step one.
Full assessment Step two
Fixed fee
One-time, quoted up front, and credited in full toward your migration.
Managed cloud Flagship
Half the license.
Hosting free.
Priced per core and per named user, at half what you pay the incumbent for the runtime. Hosting, backups and disaster recovery are included at no additional cost — never a line item, never a tier, never an upsell.
Private cloud Dedicated
Half the license, dedicated
A dedicated, isolated tenant with resources reserved for you alone. Same half-price principle, same platform, nothing shared.
We don't publish a rate card, because the number is a ratio and not a figure — and that is a feature, not evasion. Find the line on your current invoice that pays for the runtime, send us a photograph of it, and the arithmetic takes about a minute. Tell us what you pay now; we'll charge half of it.
Access method is never a price lever here. Use one, use both, change your mind later; the invoice doesn't notice.
The same 80×24 screen, in a browser, with nothing to install. Box drawing, colors, the character-level field editor and the F-keys all behave. Branch offices and remote staff get on without a VPN, a terminal emulator install and a phone call to IT about the function keys.
Real shell access to your environment, the same way your staff have signed on for twenty years. Existing emulators, existing scripts, existing habits. Nothing about the way your team already works has to become a project.
02 Included
The things below are not add-ons, tiers, professional services engagements or "available on the enterprise plan". They are what the platform is. If it appears on this page, it is not on your invoice as a separate line.
We run the machines, patch them, monitor them and replace them when they age. No hardware refresh, no closet, no line item.
Snapshots, point-in-time restore, and a recovery drill somebody has genuinely run start to finish. Not a tape rotation and a hope, and not an extra charge.
Audit, mirror, differential testing and the cutover weekend are performed by us on the managed plans. The assessment fee is credited back in full against it.
SELECT straight against the
ERP's own keyed files, key-index aware — a lookup stays a lookup at 2 ms. No gateway
license, no nightly export, no charge.
New runtime versions land on your environment as part of the service, tested against the same differential suite that gated the migration.
Keep a mirror of your old system running alongside the new one for as long as you want reassurance. It is part of the plan, not a change order.
Tell us what you pay now. We'll charge half of it.
That isn't an opening position, it's the price. It also explains why there's no rate card on this page: the number is a ratio, and we have to see your invoice to halve it.
03 Pre-GA
This is the honest framing of what you would be buying today, and what you get for being early.
Status
A real distribution ERP runs on this engine end to end today — sign-on, menu, inquiry, maintenance and reports — and it is our own company's. But it is pre-GA, the gap list is published rather than buried, and you would be deploying it with a mirror running alongside for as long as you want one.
Design partner
Design partners keep the ratio they sign at. When we set general-availability pricing, it applies to people who arrive after you — not to your renewals. You took the risk of being early, so you keep the benefit of it.
Design partner
Not a support portal and not a tiered escalation path. You talk to the engineers who wrote the engine, and you get a say in which of the published gaps closes first. That access is worth more than a discount, and it is the thing that stops being available once there are a hundred customers.
Our own warehouse ships on this. If the engine gets a number wrong, we find out before you do — which is a rather different arrangement from buying pre-GA software off somebody who has never had to close a month on it.
04 Questions
Half of the line on your current invoice that pays for the runtime license — the per-user, per-seat or per-core charge you already hand over every year to keep the interpreter legal. Not half of your total IT spend, and not half of some list price we made up.
Show us the invoice. That is genuinely the whole pricing conversation, and it is why there is no rate card here: we can't halve a number we haven't seen.
Yes — included on the managed plans, not billed as a separate line, and never converted into one later. Hosting, backups and disaster recovery come with the runtime. Half the license and zero hosting is the offer.
The honest small print: it is included within a fair-use envelope on cores and named users, and that envelope is written into your order and sized from your assessment. It is a number you agree to up front, not a paragraph we point at afterwards.
They are priced per named user, on exactly the same principle: half of what the incumbent runtime costs you for that seat. Adding a warehouse doesn't change the ratio, and it doesn't trigger a renegotiation of the plan you're on.
Cores work the same way. If you grow into more compute, you pay for more compute — and the hosting for it is still included.
One: the full assessment, which is a fixed fee quoted up front. It is credited in full toward your migration, so if you go ahead it costs you nothing net.
The migration work itself — standing up the mirror, running the differential harness to zero differences, and the cutover weekend — is performed by us as part of the managed plans. The step before all of that, the compatibility report, is free.
Your programs and your data files are unmodified and they remain yours. Nothing was converted, re-encoded or transformed on the way in, so there is nothing to convert on the way out — leaving is a copy, not a project.
Ask at any time, not only at the end, and we hand back a complete copy of your programs and data files in their original on-disk format, not a proprietary export. That is written into our terms as an operative obligation with a deadline attached, rather than promised in a sales meeting.
No. Both are included, on every plan. So is SSH.
How your people reach the system is not a price lever here — it is the product. Charging extra for the browser terminal would mean charging your branch offices for the privilege of not installing a terminal emulator, which is precisely the kind of invoice we built this to get away from.
Annual or monthly, your choice, and it is stated on your order. It renews automatically for the same period unless either of us gives notice, and you cancel by giving at least 30 days' written notice before the end of the term you're in — by email, or from the account portal.
Price changes only ever apply on renewal, and we tell you at least 30 days before one starts. There is no multi-year lock, because the thing that keeps you here is supposed to be the invoice being half the size. Our terms say all of that in operative language.
Design partners
The compatibility report is free and automated, and it is the right first step whether or not the pricing ever works out. If you'd rather start with the number, send us the runtime line off your current invoice and we'll tell you what half of it looks like.
Or email hello@uniquebb.com with roughly how many programs and how many users you have. See also how the migration works and our terms.