Hosting Options
Compare free self-hosting with hosted Rustume Cloud access: the same product capabilities, with different operational responsibility.
Rustume does not reserve functionality for a paid tier. You can deploy the open-source connected application yourself, including synchronization, sharing, history, and API access. Rustume Cloud charges for a ready-to-use hosted deployment: sign in, synchronize resumes, and let the service operate the infrastructure.
Capability and operations comparison
See Hosting Economics for what hosted billing funds and how rate limits protect service capacity without gating product features.
| Feature | Self-hosted OSS$0 | Rustume CloudHosted access |
|---|---|---|
| Resume builder and all templates | ✅ | ✅ |
| Multiple resumes | ✅ | ✅ |
| Cloud sync | Configure and operate | Ready after sign-in |
| Public pages and protected sharing | ✅ | ✅ |
| Version history | ✅ | ✅ |
| API keys | ✅ | ✅ |
| Deployment and upgrades | You operate | Managed |
| Database, backups, and monitoring | You operate | Managed |
| Rustume-hosted account | - | ✅ |
What hosted access pays for
A hosted subscription funds operation of the ready-to-use Rustume Cloud service: application hosting, managed storage, synchronization availability, backups, observability, security updates, and billing support. It does not provide feature entitlements beyond those available in self-hosted deployments.
Billing
Paddle acts as Merchant of Record for hosted-service checkout, invoicing, and applicable tax handling. Billing state controls access to the Rustume-operated deployment only; it is not a feature entitlement system for the application.
Read next
- Cloud Overview explains hosted versus self-hosted connected use.
- Cloud Storage covers account-backed persistence.
- Subscription Management covers hosted billing lifecycle.