Pay once, or let us run it.
Tiers follow your studio’s revenue and funding over the last 12 months.
Self-hosted
Run Qwest on your own server, on your own network. How it works →
- Under $100K revenue and funding
- Any number of people
- A year of new features and bug fixes; keep the last version forever
- Renew for $49/year to keep them coming
- New features and bug fixes for as long as you pay
- $1M–$10M: $5,000/year for 50 people, then $100 each
- Keep the last version if you stop paying
- Upgrading from Indie? Your $149 is credited
Hosted
We run it for you.
- Under $100K revenue and funding
- Unlimited projects
Made for game developers, and only them.
General-purpose tools have to answer to marketing teams, lawyers, HR and sales all at once. Qwest only has game teams to answer to. Every feature we build, every update we ship and every support reply we write is about making games: playtests, Steam, builds, dialogue, launch dates. Nothing in it is there for someone else’s job.
Everything Qwest does, priced the other way
The tools a game team usually stacks up to cover the same ground, at their list prices. Set your team’s size and how you’d pay.
| In Qwest | Instead of | List price, monthly · yearly | Your team, a month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Docs | Notion Plus | $12 · $10 per person | $60 |
| Graphs and boards | Miro Starter | $10 · $8 per person | $50 |
| Objects, your game’s data | Airtable Team | $24 · $20 per person | $120 |
| Tasks, milestones, calendar | ClickUp Unlimited | $10 · $7 per person | $50 |
| Reviews: video, images, audio | Frame.io Pro | $15 · $13 per person | $75 |
| Playtest forms | Typeform Basic | $39 · $28 per team | $39 |
| Community page and roadmap | Canny Pro | $99 · $79 per team | $99 |
| Creators’ tracked links | Bitly Core, yearly only | $10 · $10 per team | $10 |
| Steam market data | Gamalytic Professional | $75 · $67.50 per team | $75 |
| The stack, for your team | $578a month$6,936a year | ||
 Qwest Indie, self-hosted, everything above and more | $99once$49a year to keep updates coming, if you want | ||
| Qwest Studio, self-hosted, for $100K–$1M revenue: 25 people, then $40 each a year | $83.33a month$1,000a year | ||
| Qwest Indie, hosted | $50a month$600a year | ||
List prices in USD on Oct 1, 2026, from each company’s pricing page, for the plan closest to what Qwest does. They change, and some grow with use: Canny by tracked users, Typeform by responses and seats. Qwest’s AI runs on your own key, so neither side counts it; the Discord bot is free either way. Names belong to their owners, and we’re not affiliated with them.
Questions
Something else? Write to hello@qwest.dev.
What does “keep the last version forever” mean?
Your license never stops working. When your year of updates ends, you keep running the last version it covered, and can renew to get newer ones.
Does Qwest need to be on the internet?
No. It runs fully on a server your team is connected to, like a studio network or a VPN, without being published to the web. The license is activated once over the internet, and that can be done from another device.
Do I have to use AI?
No, it’s 100% optional: if you don’t want it, it’s one checkbox away. If you do, bring your own key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Mistral, OpenRouter, xAI, DeepSeek, Groq or any OpenAI-compatible provider. Nothing goes to a model you didn’t pick.
Who counts as a person on Studio?
Owners, admins and members of a workspace. Guests, like contractors, publishers and playtesters, are free.
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