BudgE Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

BudgE hosting on xCloud gives you a self-hosted envelope budgeting app for budgets, accounts and transactions, on a server you control. Deploy BudgE from the OneClick catalog and xCloud starts the pinned LinuxServer.io image, generates the JWT secret, mounts a config volume that holds the SQLite database and publishes it over HTTPS. Registration is open until you close it, and upstream calls BudgE alpha software, so evaluate it before relying on it.

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What is BudgE?

BudgE, pronounced budgie, is an open source budgeting-with-envelopes personal finance app. Its README lists multi-user support, envelope budgeting with monthly rollover, transaction management, bank and credit card account management with payment handling, tracking accounts, export of transactions and CSV import. Self-hosted BudgE is a self-hosted envelope budgeting app, a free alternative to YNAB-style tools. Upstream warns it is still under active development and is considered alpha. It is licensed under GPL-3.0.

On xCloud this template deploys BudgE 0.0.9 as the LinuxServer.io image, pinned by digest, behind HTTPS on your domain. The budge_config volume holds the SQLite database and logs. There is no administrator role: every registered user gets private budgets. Goals, reports, payee management and multiple budgets per user are planned upstream, not shipped, and there is no bank syncing.

From Sign-Up to Your First Budget In Just 3 Easy Steps

A BudgE setup normally means a container, a signing secret, a data volume, a domain and a certificate before you can assign your first envelope. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account, pick BudgE from the OneClick catalog and choose your domain and target server. There are no extra fields to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the LinuxServer.io BudgE container, pinned by immutable digest, as a single service with nothing else to run beside it, generate a 64-character JWT signing secret, mount the budge_config volume that holds the SQLite database and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Register And Close Sign-Up
Open your HTTPS BudgE URL and register your own account right away; there is no default admin. Then set REGISTRATION_DISABLED=true in the Environment editor and Save & Redeploy to close public sign-up, and start assigning money to envelopes.

Everything BudgE Does, On Your Own Server

BudgE 0.0.9 runs here as upstream ships it: an envelope-budgeting app you own, with its database on a volume you control.

Envelope Budgeting
Assign money to envelopes with monthly rollover, in the style of Aspire Budgeting, budgetzero and Buckets.
Bank, Credit Card And Tracking Accounts
Keep standard bank accounts, credit cards with payment handling and tracking accounts in one place.
CSV Import And Export
Import transactions from a CSV file and export an account's transactions when you need them elsewhere.
Multi-User, Separate Budgets
Each registered user gets their own private set of budgets, so a household can share one instance.
Generated Signing Secret
Sessions are signed with a generated 64-character JWT secret rather than an upstream default.
SQLite On A Persistent Volume
Accounts, budgets, payees, transactions and balances live in budge.db on the budge_config volume and survive an xCloud Restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your Budgeting App 24/7

Managed hosting for BudgE, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

BudgE 0.0.9 deployed instantly
LinuxServer.io image pinned by digest
Generated JWT signing secret
Data on a persistent volume
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With BudgE

Budget with envelopes on your own server
A household assigns each month's money to envelopes, rolls what is left over into the next month, and keeps the SQLite database on a server they rent.
Import a bank's CSV export
A user exports transactions from their bank as CSV and imports them into an account in the browser, instead of typing each one, noting that very large files may hit the JSON body limit.
Give each family member a private budget
Several people register their own accounts on one instance, and each gets a separate, private set of budgets, with no shared owner or household administrator.
Track credit cards and tracking accounts
A user keeps bank accounts, credit cards with payment handling and tracking-only accounts together, so balances and envelopes reflect the whole picture.

BudgE Screenshots

BudgE account view showing a transaction in a bank account

BudgE showing the same data after an xCloud Restart

BudgE vs Alternatives

YNAB: YNAB is a hosted budgeting service. BudgE is GPL-3.0 software on a server you rent, with data in a SQLite volume you control, but it is alpha and lacks goals, reports and bank syncing.
Actual Budget: Actual Budget is a separate envelope-budgeting app with its own OneClick page. This page makes no comparison between the two; BudgE is the alpha option with a small SQLite footprint.
Firefly III: Firefly III is a separate self-hosted finance manager with its own OneClick page and its own approach. Pick BudgE when you want envelope budgeting with monthly rollover and a small footprint.
Budget Board: Budget Board is another self-hosted budgeting app with its own OneClick page. BudgE is built around envelope budgeting, and its README lists reports and goals as planned rather than shipped.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for BudgE hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if BudgE sits alongside other finance and productivity apps.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. BudgE itself is licensed by its maintainers under GPL-3.0.

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Ready To Run Your Own Budgeting App?

BudgE on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Is BudgE free?

Yes. BudgE is open source under GPL-3.0, with the licence file linked from this page at the pinned 0.0.9 tag. xCloud bills for the Cloud VPS under it, not for BudgE, and the software adds no per-user fee. Packaging comes from LinuxServer.io, and there is no paid tier.

Can you run BudgE with Docker?

Yes, and this BudgE Docker hosting template does it for you: the LinuxServer.io lscr.io/linuxserver/budge image, pinned by digest and built for amd64 and arm64, runs as one container on your own server, not in a BudgE cloud account, with HTTPS in front of port 80.

How much RAM does BudgE need?

BudgE's manifest floor is 1024 MB RAM, one CPU core and 5 GB disk, and the data is a small SQLite file. This page sells the 6 GB tier, many times the floor. Very large CSV imports may exceed the backend's default JSON body limit.

Is BudgE ready for serious use?

Upstream says BudgE is under active development and considered alpha until more tests can be written. This page therefore does not call it production-stable. Keep backups, try it with a copy of your data first, and expect missing features such as goals and reports.

Does BudgE support bank syncing?

No. Upstream's current features are envelope budgeting, transaction management, account management and CSV import; goals, reports and payee management are planned, and bank syncing is not listed. You add transactions by hand or import a CSV file read in the browser.

Can I import transactions from CSV into BudgE?

Yes. Upstream lists CSV transaction import, and the template notes that files are read in the browser and imported as JSON requests, so unusually large imports may exceed the backend's default body limit. Split a big file into pieces if an import fails, and check balances afterwards.

Can more than one person use BudgE?

Yes, with limits. Upstream lists multi-user support, and every registered user gets a separate, private set of budgets. There is no administrator, owner or shared household role, and multiple budgets per user are only planned, so a couple cannot share one budget here.

Can anyone register on my BudgE server?

Yes, until you close it. Public registration is open to anyone who can reach the site, so create your account right away, then set REGISTRATION_DISABLED=true in the Environment editor and redeploy. QA also saw unauthenticated API calls return an error and the API docs reachable, so this page claims no hardened API.

How do I back up BudgE?

Include the whole budge_config volume in your backup: it holds the budge.db SQLite database and the logs. Stop BudgE or use an application-consistent snapshot before copying the database, keep an off-server copy, and test a restore with the same image version.

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How do I upgrade BudgE?

Upgrades are not automatic. The template pins BudgE 0.0.9 to an immutable image digest, and existing installs stay on it until you change it. When a newer template version is published, back up the whole budge_config volume, review the upstream release notes, then adopt that version. Never use docker compose down -v on an install that holds data.

What is the JWT secret and should I share it?

It is a generated 64-character application secret, shown in the credentials panel, that signs sign-in tokens. Do not share it and do not change it casually, since a new value signs everyone out. Keep it with your backup so that a restored install keeps working.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.