About Smallware
Smallware runs the small applications a team actually works in — claim intake, equipment checkout, purchase approvals, client review, field inspections. Somebody describes one to the coding agent they already use, and Smallware provides everything the description leaves out.
- Product
- Managed hosting for Pylon applications
- Built in
- Dallas, Texas
- Runs on
- Pylon, MIT licensed and open source
- Free tier
- One app, no credit card
- Pricing
- $25 solo, $99 for a team, per organization
What Smallware does
A working internal application is mostly the parts nobody wants to write. Smallware provisions those with the app: a database, sign-in with email or company accounts, organizations and roles, row-level rules about which records each person can see, file uploads that obey the same rules, server-side logic, scheduled jobs, search that stays current with the data, and a live URL at your-app.smallware.run or a domain you own.
Operating it is included rather than bolted on. Every deploy is a version you can roll back to, logs stream live, the database is backed up daily and restorable in one click, and an audit log records who changed what.
Who builds it
Smallware is built by Pylon, a small team in Dallas, Texas. Pylon also publishes the open-source framework of the same name — the one every app deployed here runs on. The framework is free and MIT licensed; Smallware is the hosted service that runs it for you, and it is what pays for the framework's development.
You can read the framework's source, file issues against it, or run it yourself: pylonsync.com and github.com/pylonsync/pylon.
What it costs
- Free. One application on a real URL, with 100,000 requests and 75 machine-hours a month. No credit card. Past the monthly budget the app sleeps until the month rolls over; upgrading wakes it immediately.
- $25 per organization per month. One person, unlimited applications, custom domains, company sign-in, audit log, backups.
- $99 per organization per month. The same, for a whole team. There is no per-seat fee, so adding the person who approves one request a month costs nothing.
Usage above what a plan includes is metered by the second and shown per application in the dashboard. Nothing is throttled and nothing stops working. The full breakdown is on the pricing page.
Leaving
An application deployed here is a plain Pylon application — not a fork, not a wrapper, and not tied to anything proprietary. Pylon runs as a single binary on any server you like, so the exit is downloading your code and running it somewhere else. We would rather be the easiest place to run it than the only one.
Getting in touch
Support, sales, privacy, and legal addresses are on the contact page. For anything else, email [email protected] and a person will answer.