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You own your content stack
Forge is open source under AGPL. Your content, your data, your codebase — with no subscription, no vendor dependency, and a fixed cost that does not scale with your success.
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Your AI handles publishing through a structured API. Your team stays in the tools they already use.
Full control, zero risk.
Role-based access means your AI can only do what you allow. Draft content never leaks.
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Connect once. From that point, a conversation is all it takes to publish.
At some point, the platform you depend on changes its pricing. A feature moves to a higher tier. An acquisition happens. The API you built on gets deprecated. And you have to decide: pay more, rebuild, or migrate -- with all your content trapped somewhere you no longer control.
Forge is not that platform.
Open source, fixed costs
Forge is licensed under AGPL. The price is the server. forge-cms.dev runs on a single VPS at €3.49 a month. There is no pricing tier that unlocks features you need, and no vendor roadmap that decides what you can build.
Your data in a file you control
Content is stored in SQLite -- a single database file on your server. You can copy it, back it up, move it, inspect it with any SQL tool. It requires no managed cloud instance, no credentials to rotate.
If you outgrow SQLite, you switch to PostgreSQL by changing one line of configuration. Your application code does not change. Your content does not move.
Zero third-party dependencies
Forge core has zero third-party dependencies. Nothing in the request path touches infrastructure you did not provision. When something breaks, it is in your code or your server.
The exit is always open
Because Forge is open source and your data is in a portable database file, you are never locked in. You can fork it, self-host it indefinitely, hand it to another team, or migrate away. The code is public and the data is yours.
A platform that lets you leave freely is one you can trust to stay.
If you are also thinking about where your data lives physically, read Your data, your jurisdiction.
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Forge is open source and self-hosted. Get started in minutes.