VBWD Releases v26.7.0: A Free Self-Hosted Full-Stack Platform for Building SaaS and Marketplaces

VBWD v26.7.0 is free for individual developers and for SMEs whose annual sales stay below the value of 6.7 BTC — one backend serving web, iOS and Android, deployable as compiled instances in any combination.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — July 13, 2026
VBWD announced today, July 13, 2026 the general availability of VBWD v26.7.0, a self-hosted, full-stack platform for building subscription products, SaaS, booking aggregators and marketplaces. The release is free for individual developers and for small and medium-sized businesses whose VBWD-attributable annual sales stay below the value of 6.7 BTC, under the platform’s Business Source License 1.1.
The release targets two audiences that have historically been priced out of owning their own commerce infrastructure: solo developers and enthusiasts building on the side, and SMEs and agencies that want a subscription-and-marketplace stack they can run themselves without paying a percentage of revenue to a hosted platform. VBWD's licence keeps the software free in commercial production up to the 6.7-BTC threshold, and converts to the permissive Apache-2.0 licence on a fixed future change date.

What VBWD is

VBWD is a source-available platform that provides the parts of a commercial web product that are the same for everyone and costly to rebuild: user accounts and authentication, tiered subscription billing with multi-currency support and tax handling, a full invoice lifecycle, a token and credit system for metered usage, a built-in content-management system, multi-provider payments, an admin backoffice, and a plugin architecture for everything domain-specific. It is built on Python and Flask with PostgreSQL and Redis on the backend, and Vue 3 and TypeScript on the frontend, and it is designed to run on a small self-hosted server so operators keep ownership of their code, their database, and their users' data.

What ships in v26.7.0

Out of the box, v26.7.0 ships subscription billing with plans, trials, upgrades and cancellations; a unified pricing model with per-line tax that reconciles across discounts and refunds; a token economy for usage-based and AI billing; multi-gateway payments through swappable provider plugins including Stripe, PayPal and YooKassa; a CMS with layouts, widgets and per-entity SEO; outbound signed webhooks; and a growing catalogue of plugins spanning e-commerce, bookings, datasets, two-sided marketplaces with vendor payouts, GitHub-gated software distribution, and AI features — including chat and LLM bots grounded in the operator's own content and a Model Context Protocol server that makes an instance callable by AI agents.

iOS, Android and Web on one backend

VBWD is built around a single backend API that serves every client surface. The same server powers the web applications and the native iOS and Android clients, so an operator maintains one source of business logic, one billing engine, and one data model rather than reimplementing accounts, subscriptions and payments separately per platform. New client surfaces consume the same API contract, which keeps behaviour consistent across web and mobile and removes a common class of drift between a company's website and its apps.

DevOps-first: compiled instances, deployed in any combination

The platform is designed for operators, not just developers. VBWD separates cleanly into a backend and two independent frontends — a user-facing application and an admin backoffice — each of which can be built as a compiled, self-contained instance and deployed independently. Operators can run the backend with both frontends, run frontends against a shared backend, scale each component on its own, or compose them across environments in whatever combination a deployment requires. Because the components ship as compiled instances configured through the environment rather than the image, the same artifacts move cleanly from a laptop to a single small VPS to a multi-node setup, which is what makes a self-hosted platform practical to operate over time.

Availability and licensing

VBWD v26.7.0 is available immediately from the project's website and public code repositories. Use is free — including in commercial production — for individuals and for businesses whose VBWD-attributable annual sales remain below the value of 6.7 BTC, measured at the year's average BTC/USD exchange rate. Organisations above that threshold require a commercial licence. Non-production use, including development, testing, evaluation and education, is unlimited and always free, and each release converts to the Apache-2.0 licence on its scheduled change date.
"The goal with v26.7.0 is that a solo developer or a small business can own their entire commerce stack — web, mobile, billing and data — on hardware they control, and pay nothing until the software is genuinely making them money," said Daniil Tkachev, creator of VBWD. "The licence draws the line at real scale, not at getting started."

About VBWD

VBWD is a self-hosted, source-available full-stack platform for building SaaS products and marketplaces, with subscription billing, a plugin system, a built-in CMS, multi-provider payments, and AI capabilities on a single backend that serves web and native mobile clients. It is licensed under the Business Source License 1.1 with a Bitcoin-denominated free-use grant and an Apache-2.0 change licence. Learn more at vbwd.cc, read the documentation, and review the architecture and available plugins.

Resources for editors

- Website and documentation: vbwd.cc
- Source code and plugins: github.com/VBWD-platform
- Product demos: video 1 and video 2
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/vbwd https://redrobot.online/2026/07/13/vbwd-releases-v26-7-0-a-free-self-hosted-full-stack-platform-for-building-saas-and-marketplaces/