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. Managed Cloud is $125 per named user, per month — engine, hosting, backups and disaster recovery included, billed in the same unit you already buy seats in. And you will never pay more than half your current license, whichever way the arithmetic falls.
$125 per user, per month. Everything included.
The half guarantee
If half of what you pay today is less than our list price, you pay the half. You cannot
end up worse off by moving.
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. We can include it because the engine is cheap to run. We rewrote it in Rust: it is 3.4 MB and starts in 2.41 ms. The Java-based engine it replaced needed a virtual machine of roughly 306 MB and took 56.88 ms to start. So the license halves, and the server in the closet stops being a line item at all. A twenty-five seat shop runs $3,125 a month, or $31,250 a year with two months free — one invoice, nothing else to buy, no hardware refresh ever again.
01 The ladder
Start free. Pay $9,500 for the assessment only when you want a plan and a fixed price — and that comes straight back off your migration. Pay for the platform only when you are running on it. Nobody has to talk to a salesperson to get to step one, and nothing is switched off until you say so.
Full assessment Step two
$9,500
one-time
Fixed. No scoping call to find out the number, and credited in full against your migration — if you go ahead, it cost you nothing.
Managed cloud Flagship
$125
per user / month
Billed per named user — the same unit you already buy seats in, so the comparison with your current invoice is one division. Minimum ten users. Hosting, backups and disaster recovery included at no additional cost, and never more than half what you pay today.
Private cloud Dedicated
$195
per user / month
A dedicated, isolated tenant with resources reserved for you alone. Same half-price principle, same platform, nothing shared.
Annual billing is two months free: a twenty-five seat shop is $3,125 a month, or $31,250 a year. That is the whole invoice — no hosting line, no backup line, no disaster-recovery line, no hardware refresh, ever again. And the half guarantee sits over the top of it: find the line on your current invoice that pays for the runtime, send us a photograph of it, and if half of that is less than our list price, you pay the half.
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.
We rewrote the engine in Rust. It is one native binary, and the whole platform, engine plus browser terminal, is 4.4 MB. Our previous engine ran on a Java virtual machine, and that stack came to roughly 306 MB before it loaded a single program. Both were measured at default configuration on the same workload.
3.4MB
The engine, self-contained
About 90 times smaller than the ~306 MB our previous engine needed with its virtual machine. Five third-party dependencies in the whole engine.
2.41ms
Cold start, median
The same start took 56.88 ms on our previous engine, 23 times longer. Ten runs each, warmed, median reported, stdout discarded.
14–21x
Less memory than our previous engine
Measured across seven benchmark programs at default configuration, with byte-identical output on all seven. That is why hosting fits inside the $125.
The offer depends on this. Half the license with hosting free only works as a business if the engine underneath is cheap to run. Ours is, so hosting stays inside the price and does not turn into a meter the year after you sign.
How the migration worksTell us what you pay now. We'll charge half of it.
The list price is $125 per named user, per month. The half is the ceiling over the top of it: if half of what you pay today comes in lower, that is what you pay. You cannot end up worse off by moving.
03 Early customers
Every move is engineered against your own corpus by the engineers who wrote the engine, and nothing goes through a partner network. Custom work is the method here, not an exception. Here is what that means for you, and what you get for coming early.
Status
Fifty gigabytes of live ERP — sign-on, menu, order entry, inquiry, maintenance, reports and month-end close — on this engine, every trading day. It is our own company's, which is why you deploy with a parallel mirror running alongside for as long as you want one and the old system still standing behind it.
Your price
List is $125 per named user, per month, and the half guarantee sits on top of it: if half of what you pay today for the runtime comes in lower, you pay the half. Come in early and that price is locked for you — later increases apply to the people who arrive after you, not to your renewals.
Your engineers
Not a support portal, not a tiered escalation path, and nothing routed through a partner network. You talk to the people who wrote the engine, and early customers get first call on what gets built next — your reports, your print paths, your integrations, in your order. 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 ERP 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.
List is $125 per named user, per month. The half is the ceiling on top of it: show us the invoice, and if half of that comes in lower, that is what you pay instead.
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.
It stays free because it is cheap for us to provide, not because we are absorbing a loss to win your logo. The engine is 3.4 MB, it carries five third-party dependencies in total, there is no virtual machine underneath it, and on the same workload at default configuration it uses 14–21x less memory than the Java-based engine we ran before it.
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.
Early customers
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 tell us roughly how many programs and users you have, on the signup form or by email to hello@uniquebb.com. See also how the migration works and our terms.