Start a business for $0.
Build it. Launch it. Find your first customers. Every plan comes with everything you need to run a real business — not just an app.
We fund the cost of running your product.
The infrastructure behind your product is included in your plan. No separate stack of vendors to manage — no bill from us for keeping it alive.
The jobs you never have to do
On your own stack, someone — usually you — is the ops team. On Stencil, these simply aren't your jobs. All of it is included in your plan — work that would otherwise be your first ops hire, or your nights. That hire alone costs more than most companies' entire Stencil bill.
Continuous, replicated, and restore-tested — not a cron job you hope works.
Patches applied as they ship, across every layer of the stack.
Monitored around the clock. The 3am page goes to us, not you.
Traffic spikes absorbed automatically — no capacity planning. (Spoiler: it’s really hard.)
Upgrades roll out with zero downtime. No windows to plan, no customers to warn.
Frameworks and libraries kept current so nothing quietly rots.
Certificates issued and renewed automatically, forever.
PCI, chargebacks and fraud screening handled inside the payment stack.
Be the best partner a tech founder has ever had.
Every number on this page follows from that. Start free, upgrade only when you need more — and the business platform is included on every plan, because your product succeeding is the whole point.