Koito Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Koito hosting and keep your listening history, charts and statistics on a server you control. xCloud runs the pinned Koito v0.3.2 image as a single container with an embedded SQLite database, generates the admin password, mounts a persistent data volume and publishes the dashboard and ListenBrainz-compatible API over HTTPS in minutes.

Deploy your Koito

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No technical skills needed
No lock-in, cancel anytime

What is Koito?

Koito is a self-hosted scrobble server and listening-history dashboard. Music players and scrobblers send it what you listen to through a ListenBrainz-compatible API, and it turns that history into charts and statistics for your top artists, albums and tracks, fetching artist and album artwork automatically.

It keeps your history on a server you control rather than a third-party service, and it can import past history from Last.fm, Spotify, ListenBrainz, Maloja and Koito exports. It is released under the MIT license.

From Sign-Up to a Live Scrobble Server In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting a scrobbler normally means a container, a data volume, a first-boot password, a domain and a certificate before the first listen. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Koito from the OneClick catalog. 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 official Koito image, pinned by immutable digest, as a single container with an embedded SQLite database — no separate database to run. We mount the koito_data volume, generate the admin password, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Scrobble
Open your HTTPS Koito URL and sign in as admin with the generated password from the installation credentials. Then open Settings, API Keys, copy a key, and set your scrobbler's ListenBrainz URL to https://<your-domain>/apis/listenbrainz/1 with the key as the token.

Everything Koito Does, On Your Own Server

Koito runs in full here: a scrobble endpoint, listening charts and imports on your own domain, with the data on a volume you own.

ListenBrainz-Compatible Scrobbling
Any ListenBrainz-compatible client can submit listens through a single API URL and API key.
Charts And Statistics
See top artists, albums and tracks over a day, week, month, year or all time, with automatic artist and album artwork.
A Login Gate On By Default
Statistics are hidden from signed-out visitors by default, and scrobble submission always requires an API key.
Import Your History
Bring in exports from Last.fm, Spotify, ListenBrainz, Maloja and Koito by placing the files in the import folder of the data volume.
Embedded SQLite
There is no separate database container; the database, image cache and import folder all live on the koito_data volume.
History That Survives A Restart
Listening history, API keys and the admin account were still present after an xCloud Restart in QA.

Everything You Need To Run Your Scrobble Server 24/7

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

Koito v0.3.2 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Admin password generated for you
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Koito

Own your listening history
Keep every scrobble, chart and statistic on your own server instead of a third-party service, with the data in a single volume you can back up.
Collect scrobbles from the players you already use
Point any ListenBrainz-compatible client at one API URL with an API key, and see each listen land on the dashboard.
See your top artists, albums and tracks
Browse charts and statistics with artist and album artwork filled in automatically, without running a separate database.
Move your history across
Import exports from Last.fm, Spotify, ListenBrainz, Maloja or Koito through the data volume's import folder, then keep scrobbling to the same place.

Koito Screenshots

Koito dashboard showing all-time statistics, an activity heatmap and top artists, albums and tracks with artwork

A Koito artist page with play counts, top tracks and last played listens

A Koito monthly rewind summarising top artist, album and track with minutes listened and plays per day

Koito vs Alternatives

Last.fm: A hosted scrobbling service. Koito keeps your history on your own server, and it can import Last.fm exports from the data volume's import folder.
ListenBrainz: An open scrobbling service whose API Koito is compatible with, so clients that submit to ListenBrainz can submit to your own Koito instead.
Maloja: Another self-hosted scrobble server. Koito can import Maloja exports, so you can move an existing history across.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Koito sits alongside a media server and other music tools.

$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. Koito itself is licensed by its maintainers under the MIT license.

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Self-managed hosting

Ready To Own Your Listening History?

Koito 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.

How do I scrobble to Koito?

Create or copy an API key in Settings, API Keys, then point a ListenBrainz-compatible client at https://<your-domain>/apis/listenbrainz/1 using the key as the token.

How do I sign in?

Open your HTTPS Koito URL and sign in as admin with the password generated at install, shown in the protected installation credentials. Koito has a single administrator account.

Can anyone see my listening history?

Not by default: the login gate hides statistics from signed-out visitors. Artwork images are always served publicly. Setting KOITO_LOGIN_GATE to false makes your statistics public.

What runs alongside Koito?

Nothing; it is one container with an embedded SQLite database.

Can I import my history?

Yes. Copy export files from Last.fm, Spotify, ListenBrainz, Maloja or Koito into the import folder of the data volume and restart the app; there is no upload page.

How do I change the admin password?

From Koito's settings page. The username and password values are only read on the very first start, so editing them in the environment values does not alter an existing account.

Why does Koito log image-lookup errors?

Koito logs harmless image-lookup errors for items without artwork. Logging is set to warn by default, which also keeps the first-boot admin password out of the container logs; at info level it is printed there.

Does Koito need internet access?

Yes, outbound internet access is needed for artwork and metadata lookups.

What should I back up?

The koito_data volume, which holds the database, image cache and import folder, and also password hashes, sessions and API keys, so keep backups private.

Backups in xCloud

What survives a restart?

Listening history, API keys and the admin account on the koito_data volume — they were still present after an xCloud Restart in QA, because it is a persistent named volume.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Koito?

No. The template pins Koito v0.3.2 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release, existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up first, read the upstream release notes, then bump the image tag and digest together on your own schedule. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 6 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 1 CPU core, 512 MB of RAM and 2 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 11 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline as your history and image cache grow.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Koito?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Koito project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source Koito project.

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.