Open Books: running everything costs about US$1.10 a month
Open Books lists every service CodeNav runs, who runs it and what we paid, from the company's bank records. The total is £0.81 a month, and it is the domain.
Open Books opened during the Day One keynote on 19 October 2026. It is one page that says what we run, who runs it, and what it costs, and it stays up to date: when anything changes, the page changes.
What we run
We don’t put everything with one provider. Each job goes to a service that leads at it, at the size we actually need:
| Job | Service | What runs there |
|---|---|---|
| Servers and databases | Oracle Cloud | Boxly, CodeNav Account, codenav.dev and the status page |
| Network and files | Cloudflare | DNS and the CDN in front of every site; file storage for Unpanel releases and the Day One stream |
| Amazon SES | The email our products send | |
| Code | GitHub | Our source code, including Unpanel, which is open source |
What it costs
From the company’s bank records, 5 February to 10 October 2026:
| Service | What we paid | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Oracle Cloud | Nothing. The only charges were card checks, refunded. | £0.00 |
| Amazon SES | Nothing. One €1 card check, refunded. | £0.00 |
| Cloudflare | Nothing on a recurring basis. | £0.00 |
| codenav.dev domain | £9.72 a year | £0.81 |
| Total | £0.81 (about US$1.10) |
Not included: the tools we build with (editors, AI assistants), fixed company fees such as registrations, and marketing. Those are costs of running the company, not of running the products.
Why publish it
Every product we make has one rule: it should not waste anything, not your time, your machine or your money. Open Books is that rule applied to us, with the numbers to check it against. The same figures, to 30 September 2026, are in the interim report on the company record, with a digest anyone can verify.