OpenBudgeteer Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy OpenBudgeteer hosting and keep your budget on a server you control instead of a bank-linked app. xCloud runs the pinned OpenBudgeteer 1.11 image with a private MariaDB and Redis, generates the administrator password, sets your regional number, date and currency culture, mounts three persistent volumes and publishes the app over HTTPS on your domain. Sign in, create an account and fill your first buckets.

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What is OpenBudgeteer?

OpenBudgeteer is a bucket budgeting app. Upstream says it is based on the Bucket Budgeting Principle and inspired by YNAB and Buckets, with a .NET core and a Blazor Server front end. It offers accounts, categories, transactions, recurring payments and reports in the browser. Self-hosted OpenBudgeteer is the alternative to a subscription budgeting service for people who want their records on their own server, under the AGPL-3.0 licence.

On xCloud it is OpenBudgeteer 1.11 pinned by digest, with private MariaDB 11.8 and Redis 8.2 containers that publish no host ports. MariaDB holds accounts, buckets and transactions, Redis holds settings and sign-in state, and a third volume keeps the data-protection keys. You choose the administrator username and culture at install, and xCloud generates the password.

From Sign-Up to a Live OpenBudgeteer Workspace In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting a budgeting app normally means a container, a database, a cache, generated credentials, a domain and a certificate before a single bucket exists. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick OpenBudgeteer from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server, confirm the administrator username, and choose your preferred culture.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the OpenBudgeteer 1.11 image with private MariaDB and Redis services, generate your administrator credentials, mount the persistent volumes and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Set Up Your Budget
Open your HTTPS URL and sign in with the generated administrator credentials shown by xCloud. Create your first account, bucket categories and transactions.

Everything OpenBudgeteer Does, On Your Own Server

OpenBudgeteer runs in full here — a self-hosted bucket-budgeting workspace, on infrastructure you control.

Accounts And Transactions
Track your own accounts and every transaction against them, entered and managed inside OpenBudgeteer.
Bucket Budgeting
Organize spending into bucket categories so every dollar has a job, the same envelope-style approach behind bucket budgeting.
Reports Over Your Own Data
Review reports built from your accounts and transactions, without handing that data to a bank-linked third party.
Generated Administrator Credentials
Sign in immediately after provisioning with administrator credentials xCloud generates during installation.
Regional Formatting, Set At Install
Pick a regional number, date and currency culture during setup so figures display the way you expect from day one.
Three Volumes, Fully Persistent
Budget records, application settings and sign-in state each persist across a restart, in one coordinated backup boundary.

Everything You Need To Run Your Budgeting Workspace 24/7

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

OpenBudgeteer 1.11 deployed instantly
Immutable app, MariaDB and Redis images
Administrator credentials generated for you
Private MariaDB and Redis, no public port
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With OpenBudgeteer

Give every dollar a job in a household budget
Split income into buckets for rent, groceries and savings, then check each month's spending against them on a server only your household uses.
Keep freelance money separate from personal
Record accounts and transactions for a business and for yourself in one private workspace, then read the reports without sharing the data with a hosted service.
Leave a subscription budgeting service
Move to a budgeting app you run yourself, with the same envelope-style approach upstream says YNAB inspired, and no per-month software fee.
Budget in your own number and date format
Pick English (US or UK), German or French culture at install so amounts, dates and currency appear the way you write them.

OpenBudgeteer vs Alternatives

YNAB: A hosted budgeting service, and one of the two apps upstream names as inspiration for OpenBudgeteer. OpenBudgeteer is the open-source, AGPL-3.0 option that you run on your own server.
Actual Budget: Actual Budget has its own OneClick page. Its page describes a local-first envelope budgeting app with optional end-to-end encryption and optional bank imports, while OpenBudgeteer works on server-side MariaDB records.
Firefly III: Firefly III has its own OneClick page. It is a personal finance manager built around budgets, tags, rules and recurring activity, where OpenBudgeteer is organised around buckets.
Buckets: The other app upstream names as an inspiration for OpenBudgeteer's Bucket Budgeting Principle; OpenBudgeteer is a web app you open in a browser from your own domain.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More history and buckets, alongside other services on the same box.

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Cloud VPS 24 GB

OpenBudgeteer alongside a whole self-hosted stack.

$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, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. OpenBudgeteer itself is free under the GNU AGPL v3.

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OpenBudgeteer 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.

Can you self-host OpenBudgeteer with Docker?

Yes, upstream documents a Docker and MariaDB quick start, and this template is OpenBudgeteer Docker hosting assembled for you: the app image, MariaDB 11.8 and Redis 8.2 pinned by digest, three named volumes and HTTPS on your domain, making your own OpenBudgeteer cloud with no compose file to write.

How much RAM does OpenBudgeteer need?

The template declares 1024 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 5 GB of disk as its floor for the app, MariaDB and Redis together. The 6 GB plan is the entry rung here, leaving headroom as your transaction history grows; a personal or household budget stays small.

Is OpenBudgeteer free?

Yes. OpenBudgeteer is open source under AGPL-3.0, so the software costs nothing to run. The only bill is the dedicated Cloud VPS that hosts it, which you can cancel whenever you like, with the unused balance refunded as described in the cancellation terms.

Is OpenBudgeteer an alternative to YNAB?

It follows the same envelope-style idea: upstream says OpenBudgeteer is based on the Bucket Budgeting Principle and inspired by YNAB. It is a different, open-source application, so check that its accounts, buckets, transactions and reports cover how you budget before moving over.

Does OpenBudgeteer sync with my bank?

No. This template connects to no bank or aggregator. You create accounts, bucket groups and buckets inside OpenBudgeteer, then record transactions by hand or import them, so nothing about your balances leaves your own server unless you take it out.

Can I import transactions into OpenBudgeteer?

Yes. The template's README says that after signing in you create an account, add bucket groups and buckets, then record or import transactions. Check the upstream documentation for the import formats it accepts before you plan a migration from another budgeting tool.

How do I sign in to OpenBudgeteer?

Use the administrator username you chose at install, admin by default, and the generated password from xCloud's Credentials panel. Then create your first account and buckets. The template's README describes this built-in administrator login as the sign-in, set from the install form.

How do I change the OpenBudgeteer password?

Not by editing one value. OpenBudgeteer hashes the password into Redis on first login, so update APPSETTINGS_AUTH_PASSWORD in the Environment editor, delete the auth:password_hash key for this install from Redis, then sign in with the new password. Keeping the generated one is simpler.

Which regional formats can I choose?

At install you pick a culture that controls number, date and currency formatting: English (United States), English (United Kingdom), German (Germany) or French (France). The default is en-US. It sets how figures display, so choose the one that matches how you write amounts.

How do I back up OpenBudgeteer?

Back up openbudgeteer_db, openbudgeteer_redis and openbudgeteer_keys together. MariaDB holds accounts, buckets and transactions, Redis holds settings and sign-in state, and the key volume keeps existing sign-in cookies valid after the containers are recreated. Test a restore once.

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How do I upgrade OpenBudgeteer?

OpenBudgeteer stays on pinned 1.11, with its MariaDB and Redis images, until you move to a newer template version. Read the upstream release notes and back up all three volumes first. Nothing upgrades itself, and a catalogue re-sync leaves existing sites alone.

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.