Fjord is generally available

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Fjord is generally available today. It is managed Forgejo hosting: you get a real Forgejo forge, run and kept online by us, without the part where you babysit the server, the runners, and the backups yourself.

If you have ever self-hosted a forge, you know the shape of the work. The install is the easy part. The ongoing part, upgrades, disk that fills up at the wrong moment, runners that drift out of date, the backup you hope you never have to test, is the unglamorous work that never really ends. Fjord takes that on so you can spend your time in the repository instead of under it.

#What you get

• A managed forge. Your own Forgejo instance, provisioned and operated for you. Repositories, issues, pull requests, wikis, releases, the whole forge.
• CI runners. Every forge runs CI on a shared runner pool we operate, so you are not standing up and patching your own. Team and Pro can attach a dedicated Linux runner as a paid add-on when you want capacity of your own.
• Drop-in Actions. Forgejo Actions is Actions-compatible, so most existing workflows run with little more than a move into place.
• Pages. Publish static sites straight from your forge.
• Backups. Nightly backups on Team and Pro, encrypted before they leave your instance and held in a store of their own. Starter forges are not snapshotted. The retention window and the rest of the detail are on the operations page.
• A native CLI and a mobile app. fj drives your forge from the terminal; Fjord Mobile drives it from your pocket.

You sign in with a Fjord Account (OIDC), the same identity across the web forge, the CLI, and the app.

#The tiers

Fjord is billed per forge, not per seat, so on a team-owned instance growing the team never changes the bill. (We wrote up why that is the model.) Three tiers:

• Starter, $19/mo. A single-user forge for public repositories, on the shared runner pool, with community support. The place to get going.
• Team, $49/mo. Public and private repositories, team-owned with no per-seat billing; nightly encrypted backups; OIDC single sign-on and custom domains; email support (about two business days). “Team” is the tier, not a per-head charge.
• Pro, $149/mo. Everything in Team, with more storage, room for more dedicated runner add-ons, and priority stewardship (about one business day).

Dedicated runners are an add-on, not part of a tier. Every plan runs CI on the shared pool; Team can attach one dedicated Linux runner and Pro up to three, and each one is a recurring charge on top of the plan price. Starter does not offer the add-on.

See the pricing page for the current, authoritative rate card, including what a dedicated runner costs.

#What GA does and does not mean

GA means the forge, the runners, the backup pipeline, billing, and support are live and open to anyone. It does not mean Fjord is old, and a careful buyer should know where the edges are before committing a team’s code to it.

• Support has response targets, about two business days on Team and about one on Pro. Those are targets, not a contractual uptime SLA.
• Backups run nightly and there is a written restore procedure. We have not published a drill proving a full restore end to end, and we are not going to imply a recovery track record we have not shown you. That write-up is the next thing we owe you.
• Your data exports in Forgejo’s own format, so leaving is a supported operation rather than a negotiation.

How the platform is actually built and run is written up on architecture, operations, and security; current uptime is on status. If something on the list above is a blocker for you, ask before you buy. Support reaches me.

#Start today

Prefer to move an existing project? Start with the GitHub-to-Fjord migration guide.