Budget Board Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Budget Board hosting on xCloud gives you a self-hosted personal finance tracker for accounts, budgets, transactions, goals and net worth, on a server you control. Deploy Budget Board from the OneClick catalog and xCloud starts the pinned client and API images beside a private PostgreSQL, generates the database credentials, mounts a persistent volume and publishes it over HTTPS. There is no administrator, and registration stays open until you close it.

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What is Budget Board?

Budget Board is a simple app for tracking monthly spending and working towards financial goals. Its README says the author created it as a self-hosted alternative to the now-shut-down personal finance app Mint, and lists accounts and assets, transactions, monthly category budgets, CSV import, SimpleFIN and LunchFlow sync providers, auto-categorization, automatic rules, financial goals and trend charts. Self-hosted Budget Board is a self-hosted personal finance tracker. The licence is AGPL-3.0.

On xCloud the template deploys Budget Board v3.8.2 as separate client and API images and a PostgreSQL 16 container, all pinned by digest, behind HTTPS. The budget_board_postgres volume holds users, accounts, budgets, transactions and any bank-sync tokens. There is no administrator account, registration is open until you set DISABLE_NEW_USERS=true, and mail and OIDC are unset.

From Deploy To Your First Budget In 3 Easy Steps

A budget app with its own database, certificate and persistent storage takes a while to assemble by hand. This is the same result without the setup.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Budget Board from the OneClick catalog. Choose a domain — there are no other fields to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Budget Board v3.8.2 client and server images and PostgreSQL 16, pinned by digest, mount the budget_board_postgres volume, generate the database credentials and publish the app over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Register And Start Budgeting
Open your HTTPS URL and register your account; first boot takes about a minute. Then set DISABLE_NEW_USERS=true and redeploy to close sign-ups, and add your accounts, transactions or a CSV import.

Everything You Track, In One Budget On Your Own Server

Budget Board covers accounts, budgets, transactions and goals in one self-hosted app, with your financial data kept in PostgreSQL on your xCloud server.

Accounts And Net Worth
Track checking, savings and credit cards alongside property and other assets, with net-worth reporting.
Monthly Budgets
Record and categorise spending, set per-category budgets and watch actuals against them month by month.
CSV Import And Rules
Bulk-import transactions from CSV, then let automatic rules on description, amount and date categorise them for you.
Goals And Trends
Set savings or debt-payoff goals and chart spending trends by date range, account and category.
Private Sign-In
Local username and password, with optional two-factor authentication or your own OIDC provider.
Optional Bank Sync
Add SimpleFIN or LunchFlow provider tokens in the app for automatic sync. Set up and priced by you, not verified in our QA.

Everything You Need To Run Your Your Finances, Your Server

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

Budget Board v3.8.2 deployed instantly
Official pinned image digests
Private PostgreSQL 16, generated credentials
You create the first account in the app
Free SSL certificate
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Budget Board

Track monthly spending against category budgets
A household sets monthly budgets per category, records or imports transactions, and sees spending against each budget, with the data in a PostgreSQL volume on a server they rent.
Import a CSV export from your bank
A user imports transactions in bulk from CSV files, then tidies categories with automatic rules, instead of connecting a bank. CSV import is the path this page treats as verified.
Work towards savings goals
A saver sets a financial goal, such as a deposit or paying off a debt, and tracks progress alongside the rest of their accounts and net worth in one place.
Sign in with your own identity provider
A self-hoster who already runs an OIDC provider connects it, or turns on two-factor sign-in, and closes public registration once their own account exists.

Budget Board vs Alternatives

Mint: Upstream's README says Budget Board was created as a self-hosted alternative to the now-shut-down app Mint. Here the data sits in PostgreSQL on a server you rent, and bank sync is optional with providers you supply.
Actual Budget: Actual Budget is a separate envelope-budgeting app with its own OneClick page. This page makes no comparison; Budget Board budgets by monthly category limits rather than envelopes.
Firefly III: Firefly III is a separate self-hosted finance manager with its own OneClick page. Budget Board lists goals, trend charts and auto-categorization as current features in its own README, on a 512 MB manifest floor.
BudgE: BudgE is a separate envelope budgeting app with its own OneClick page, which upstream calls alpha. Budget Board lists goals, trend charts and sync providers as current features.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

A longer transaction history and more accounts to track.

$59.99per month

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200 GB NVMe SSD
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Cloud VPS 24 GB

Budget Board alongside other self-hosted apps on the same box.

$84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision and keep online. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Budget Board itself is open source under AGPL-3.0.

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Ready To Own Your Financial Data?

Budget Board on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision and keep online. Deploy faster. Keep your data on your own server.

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 Budget Board free?

Yes. Budget Board is open source under AGPL-3.0, with the licence file linked from this page at the pinned v3.8.2 tag. xCloud bills for the Cloud VPS under it, not for Budget Board, and the software adds no per-account fee. Bank-sync providers you connect may charge their own fees.

Can you run Budget Board with Docker?

Yes, and this Budget Board Docker hosting template does it for you: the official client and server images and PostgreSQL 16, all pinned by digest, run under Docker Compose on your own server, not in a Budget Board cloud account. Only the client is published, over HTTPS on port 6253.

How much RAM does Budget Board need?

Budget Board's manifest floor is 512 MB RAM, one CPU core and 5 GB disk. A fresh install measured about 190 MB idle and 250 MB in use across PostgreSQL, the .NET API and the client. Imports, history and concurrent users need more. This page sells the 6 GB tier.

Does Budget Board sync with my bank?

Optionally. Upstream lists SimpleFIN and LunchFlow sync providers, which you configure inside the app by adding your own provider tokens, and the tokens are stored in PostgreSQL. This page does not claim bank sync works out of the box, because it was not exercised in QA; CSV import is the verified path.

Can I import transactions from CSV into Budget Board?

Yes. Upstream lists transaction CSV import for bulk entry, and the proxy accepts request bodies up to 50 MB. Import with synthetic data first, check categories and balances, and then use automatic rules to tidy new rows. Auto-categorization trains a model on your own categorized transactions.

Does Budget Board support two-factor authentication or OIDC?

Upstream lists local sign-in with two-factor authentication and OIDC login. This template leaves mail and OIDC unset: enabling OIDC needs OIDC_ENABLED plus the issuer, client ID and client secret together, and do not set DISABLE_LOCAL_AUTH=true until OIDC already works, or you may lock yourself out.

Can anyone register on my Budget Board server?

Yes, until you close it. There is no seeded administrator, and every registrant gets an isolated user, so register your own account promptly, then set DISABLE_NEW_USERS=true in the Environment editor and redeploy. The session cookie is issued without the Secure flag, which this page notes as a known limitation.

How do I back up Budget Board?

Include the complete budget_board_postgres volume in your backup: it holds users, accounts, budgets, transactions and any bank-sync tokens. Stop writes or use PostgreSQL-native backup tools, keep an off-server copy, test a restore with the same image versions, and never run docker compose down -v on an install you intend to keep.

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How do I upgrade Budget Board?

Upgrades are not automatic. The template pins v3.8.2 and PostgreSQL 16 by immutable digest, and catalog re-syncs change only future installs. When a newer template version is published, back up the budget_board_postgres volume, read the upstream release notes, keep the generated database credentials, then adopt that version. Migrations run on API start when AUTO_UPDATE_DB is true.

Is Budget Board a Mint alternative?

Upstream says it was created as a self-hosted alternative to the now-shut-down app Mint, with accounts, budgets, transactions, goals and trend charts. This page makes no feature-parity claim, and other self-hosted tools such as Actual Budget exist, so test with your own data before moving.

What runs alongside Budget Board?

A .NET API container and a PostgreSQL 16 container, both private with no host ports, behind the nginx client that serves the app and proxies /api/. Only the client port is bound to localhost and published over HTTPS. Swagger stays off, and demo mode is off.

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.