Questions about Harbor

Harbor is a platform where you describe an app, a website, or an agent in plain language and it gets built, hosted, and published at its own web address. You do not need to write code, install anything, or set up a server.

What you get back is a real project — actual source code running on real hosting, not a prototype or a mockup. It comes with a live URL you can share the moment it finishes building.

Startup is Harbor as you find it: sign up, build, and pay with credits as you go, with everything running on Harbor’s cloud. It is for solo builders, founders, and small teams.

Enterprise is for companies that need more control. Harbor runs either on our cloud, set up for your company, or inside your own cloud. It adds the Dashboard for overseeing every app and agent, connections to your internal systems, and help from our team. Enterprise pricing is agreed with you directly — talk to us.

Harbor is for anyone who needs software that does not exist yet. On Startup that is mostly founders, small teams, and solo builders who want a working product without hiring developers. On Enterprise it is companies giving their teams a safe way to build the internal tools and agents they keep waiting for.

Experienced developers use it too: they build locally in their own editor and use Harbor for hosting, accounts, payments, and distribution.

No. You describe what you want in ordinary language and Harbor builds it, then you refine it by asking for changes in the same way.

You are never locked out of the code, though. Every project can be downloaded as source at any point, so "I do not code" can become "my developer took it from here" without starting over.

A first build usually takes two to five minutes, and you can watch it happen. Harbor plans the project with a strong model first, builds it, then runs a review pass and a compile check before it tells you it is done.

Changes after that are faster — usually under a minute, because it is editing an existing project rather than creating one.

On Startup, Harbor has a free plan with 100 credits a month, and paid plans at $19, $49, and $199 a month for 500, 1,200, and 5,000 credits. You can also buy credits outright without a subscription, starting at $25 for 500. New accounts get 100 extra credits to start, and no card is needed.

Enterprise is priced by agreement, based on where it runs and what your company needs — contact us rather than choosing a plan.

A credit measures the actual AI work a build consumed, so a simple project costs far less than a complicated one. Harbor charges on tokens used rather than a flat fee per build, which means a small change costs a small amount.

For scale: a small app build is typically around 8 credits, and a heavy change to an existing project is around 44. Purchased credits do not expire, and a build that fails costs you nothing.

On Harbor’s cloud. Hosting is included on every Startup plan, including the free one, and every published project gets its own address on harbor.it.com immediately.

You can also connect a custom domain you own, so the finished thing lives at your address rather than ours.

Yes. You can set a one-time unlock price for any app, and Harbor takes a 2% platform fee on top of Stripe's own processing fees. Payouts go to your own connected Stripe account.

If your app uses AI, you can also sell prepaid usage credits to your visitors so their usage is billed to them instead of to you.

Your choice of two. Harbor can run on our cloud, set up and operated for your company, or be installed inside your own cloud so your data and applications stay within your own boundary.

Everything your teams can build is the same either way. The difference is whose infrastructure it sits in and who operates it.

Enterprise pricing depends on where Harbor runs, how many teams use it, and the support you need, so it is agreed with you directly rather than published. Use the contact form or email [email protected] to start that conversation.

A choice of where Harbor runs, the Dashboard — one place to see every app and agent, who owns it, what it connects to, and what it costs — and help from our team getting your first teams building.

Your apps and agents can connect to the systems you already run, and each one reaches only what it has been given.

Yes. Plenty of companies try Harbor on a Startup account first. When you are ready, talk to us and we will move what you have built across — every app keeps its source code, so nothing has to be rebuilt.

Not yet. Installed in your own cloud, Harbor still calls an external AI model provider. A version that runs entirely on models hosted inside your own network, Safe Harbor, is in development — you can register interest through the contact form.

Yes. You own your code, your content, your data, and your customers, and you can take all of it with you at any time.

This is written into the Terms rather than left to interpretation. Harbor hosts and builds; it does not acquire a claim on what you make.

You can download your full source as a zip at any time, push it to your own GitHub repository, or pull it to your machine with the Harbor CLI. No plan, no permission, no support ticket.

This is a deliberate product rule: every way into Harbor has to have a door out. A project you export is an ordinary web project — you can host it anywhere, hand it to a developer, or keep building on it without Harbor.

Your source code remains yours and exportable regardless of your plan. Credits you have purchased outright do not expire.

Harbor is designed so that leaving is a decision you make about hosting, not a hostage situation about your work.

The main difference is what happens after the build. Harbor is not only a place to make an app — it is a place to run it, charge for it, and put it to work: every project gets hosting, user accounts, a database, payments, and a public listing if you want one.

Two things follow from that. Backend features — user accounts, a database, file uploads, email, scheduled jobs, and AI calls — are things you ask for, not third-party services you wire up. And agents sit alongside apps, so the jobs around your software can run on their own too.

What Harbor does not try to be is a general-purpose cloud IDE. If you want a full Linux environment to run arbitrary backends in, that is a different category of product.

Yes. The Harbor CLI and MCP server let you build a project on your own machine — in Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code, or anything else — and publish it to Harbor hosting without spending Harbor credits.

The command is `npx harbor init` to start a project and `npx harbor publish` to deploy it. You still get the hosting, the listing, accounts, payments, and a custom domain; you just did the building yourself.

Yes. Harbor can import an existing project from a GitHub repository, a zip file, or a single HTML file, and adapt it so it builds and runs on Harbor hosting.

If the project has a server and a database behind it, Harbor can also rewrite that backend onto its own accounts, data, and AI primitives, so something that needed a server to run can be hosted as a static site.

An agent is software that does a job on its own — every morning, when an email arrives, or when you press a button — instead of waiting for someone to open it. You describe the job in a sentence, such as summarising yesterday’s orders or chasing unpaid invoices.

An agent can only use the tools you allow, and anything it cannot undo — sending, paying, deleting — waits for your yes.

Yes. "Sign in with Harbor" gives your app real user accounts without you building authentication, and a built-in database saves each user's data as well as shared data.

Your app only ever sees the display name and picture a person chooses — never their email or password.

Harbor apps can use AI, store and query data, accept file uploads, send email to their own users, run scheduled jobs, take payments, and connect to tools like Slack, Notion, GitHub, and Airtable. Each is something you ask for in plain language rather than a service you sign up for separately.

The AI calls include a research mode that genuinely searches the web, so an app can answer questions about current information rather than inventing it.

Every published project can be listed in Harbor's public Explore gallery, where people browse by category and search. Listing is optional — you can keep a project unlisted and share the link privately instead.

You can also share any project as a template, letting other people clone it as a starting point while your own live version stays untouched.

Every first build is compiled and checked before Harbor tells you it is finished, and if it does not compile, Harbor fixes it and checks again. A build that still fails is reported to you plainly rather than presented as done.

Before that, a panel of review agents looks at the finished project against the original brief, and a stronger model acts as a final gate. It is not a guarantee of perfection, but "it said it was done" and "it was checked" are different things, and Harbor does the second one.