shiptiffin/tiffin

a database, auth, KV, file storage, email, jobs, analytics, error tracking and backups.
You and your coding agent run it through one CLI, one MCP server and one dashboard.
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shiptiffin.com
## Why
A few small apps usually means five services and five bills. Four small Next.js apps, each
with a database and sign-in, plus a cache, error tracking and analytics, cost about
$130 a month bought separately (Vercel Pro, Supabase Pro, Upstash, Sentry Team and
Plausible, at their own published prices in October 2026). The same setup on one ShipTiffin
box is about $29: $19 for the managed service plus about $10 for the smallest Hetzner
server. Run it yourself and you pay only for the server.
You also stop juggling: one dashboard instead of five, no keys to copy between services, and
your data in one place you control. Each project gets a hard limit on CPU, memory and its
share of the database, so a busy app can't slow the others or grow the bill.
One small app on a free tier can cost less. ShipTiffin pays off from the second app.
## Get started
Three ways to run it. Pick one.
### 1. Managed: ready in about 5 minutes
Go to shiptiffin.com/start, sign in, pay, and paste a
Hetzner Cloud API key. ShipTiffin builds the box in your own Hetzner account; the page
shows each step live. The key is used for that job and then forgotten, and every call made
with it is listed in your account. When it's ready, Open your dashboard signs you in.
Nothing to install.
$19 a month per box ($12 for the first 100 customers, locked for 24 months), plus the
server, which Hetzner bills you for: about $10 a month before VAT for the smallest, with
its IPv4 address and a 40 GB data volume.
You get updates, monitoring from outside the box, encrypted off-server backups every 6
hours (kept 30 days, with a key only you hold), a free name.shiptiffin.app address,
resizing from your account and support by email.
If you stop paying, the server and your apps keep running.
How managed boxes work.
### 2. Self-host on Hetzner (free)
Install the tiffin CLI (macOS or Linux; on Windows, inside WSL), make a Read & Write API
token in the Hetzner Cloud console, then:
bash
curl -fsSL https://shiptiffin.com/install.sh | sh
export HCLOUDTOKEN=... # Hetzner Cloud read & write token
tiffin up --provider hetzner --name shop --dry-run # what it makes, and the monthly price
tiffin up --provider hetzner --name shop # a few minutes
It makes the server, a 40 GB data volume, a firewall and an SSH key. Run tiffin up --name shop
again any time to update it.
### 3. Self-host on any Ubuntu server (free)
Any Ubuntu 26.04 server you can reach over SSH with passwordless sudo (24.04 also works):
bash
curl -fsSL https://shiptiffin.com/install.sh | sh
tiffin up --provider ssh --name shop --host root@YOURSERVERIP
Self-hosted, tiffin up ends by printing the dashboard's address and a one-time sign-in
link.
### Connect your computer and your agent
A box you made with tiffin up is already connected: every tiffin command on that
computer talks to it, and claude mcp add --scope user tiffin -- tiffin mcp connects Claude Code
(codex mcp add tiffin -- tiffin mcp for Codex).