Automattic’s Spacefast prices AI-built app hosting by team member

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce and Tumblr, launched Spacefast on 9 November as a separate company that puts websites and apps built with AI tools online. According to the launch release, it works with ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and Codex and runs on WordPress.com’s infrastructure, which Automattic says handles more than 15 billion page views a month.

Automattic soft-launched the product in September to gather feedback, TechCrunch reported. Batuhan İçöz, Spacefast’s founder and chief executive, built the first version on his own during Radical Speed Month, an internal initiative that gave Automattic staff time to focus on one project. He joined Automattic through its acquisition of Texts.

A user asks their AI agent to put the work online and gets a private link back in the chat. Spacefast is available as an official plugin on Claude, ChatGPT and Grok Bot, and offers an API, command-line tool and MCP server for other agents. Hosting, a custom domain and a database are included, and the release lists support for stacks including Vite, TanStack Start and Next.js.

Speaking to TechCrunch, İçöz said that for enterprises “the problem right now is IT sprawl”, with marketing teams publishing landing pages on services such as Lovable and looking to consolidate with a company that understands enterprise needs. Customers bring their own AI subscriptions: Spacefast “works with the AI people already pay for, so they only pay to publish and run what they build,” Automattic says.

Plus costs $15 a month for 10 members

Spacefast’s pricing page, checked on 9 November, lists four plans. Free includes 20 spaces, custom domains and a built-in database. Go costs $5 (£4) a month and adds unlimited spaces and a $5 usage credit. Plus costs $15 (£11) a month for 10 members, charges $5 a month for each further member and carries a $15 usage credit shared across the team. Enterprise is priced on request and adds single sign-on, SCIM provisioning, subteams and audit logs.

Reviewers, commenters, agents and app users do not count as seats. Usage beyond the credit is metered in gigabytes and CPU seconds. Automattic’s announcement describes the team tier as a Pro plan at $15 a month per member; the figures here follow the pricing page.

Lovable, the service İçöz named, prices its plans by the credits they include. According to its pricing page, every Lovable plan allows unlimited workspace members, who draw on one shared pool of building credits.

Each teammate can use a different AI assistant

Automattic pitches Spacefast at teams: “Most AI builders start with one person building alone. Spacefast starts with the team, including teams where one person uses Claude, another ChatGPT, and another Cursor.” Work lands in a shared space where colleagues can find it, comment on a page and ask their own assistant to act on the comments.

Spaces are private until shared, by link or password. Owners choose what an agent can access, with approval checks for sensitive actions, and files from any version and an app’s data can be exported at any time. Enterprise plans are arranged through WordPress VIP, Automattic’s enterprise hosting arm, and Automattic tells VIP and Pressable customers: “There’s no new vendor to approve.”

TechCrunch reports that people and organizations have used Spacefast for internal mockups, slideshows and websites built around offers.

Login and email features are in private beta

App authentication and transactional email are listed as private beta. Automattic says built-in authentication, transactional email and shared team knowledge, which would hold a team’s playbooks, past decisions and brand context, arrive in the next few weeks.

Figma, Canva and Notion have launched products that combine AI building, mockups and presentations, TechCrunch notes. İçöz told the outlet he expects some early users to leave, because some may not want to make apps at all.