Pricing

ULTRV costs nothing to start and $5 a month at most. That is the entire price list. The free tier is not a trial and does not expire: it comes with a .ultrv.blog subdomain, and you can point your own domain at a blog without paying anything. Most platforms charge for that; the comparison pages set out who charges what.

What the free tier includes

• A .ultrv.blog subdomain for every blog you make
• Custom domains at no extra cost — point a CNAME or A record at the blog and SSL is provisioned automatically
• Eighty-four themes, one click to switch, with live preview before you commit
• A rich text editor with Markdown available, plus drafts, tags, and static pages
• Typed pages with their own URLs: photo albums, recipe collections, bookshelves, guestbooks, now pages
• RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds on every blog, with auto-discovery and per-tag feeds
• The REST API and the Rust terminal client
• Multiple blogs from one account, each with its own theme, settings, and domain
• Importers for WordPress, Substack, Ghost, Medium, and bulk Markdown — see moving a blog to ULTRV
• Full export of HTML, images, and feeds, whenever you want it
• Built-in analytics counted server-side, with no third-party script on the page
• No ads and no third-party trackers on published blogs — on every tier, permanently

The features page goes through all of it in detail, and getting started walks through the first blog end to end.

Registration asks for a name, an email address, and a password. There is no card field, and nothing starts a countdown.

The paid plan

There is one paid plan and it costs $5 a month. Everything in the list above is available on the free tier, so the paid plan is not the route to a custom domain, to the themes, to the API, or to your export.

We would rather leave this section short than publish a feature grid that does not describe the product. If you are weighing ULTRV up today, weigh up the free tier: it is what you will be using.

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You can also use this prompt in another AI assistant. Help me understand ULTRV. Product context (provided by the publisher): ULTRV is a minimalist hosted blogging platform for the small web. It provides an editor, themes, custom domains, static pages and RSS, Atom and JSON feeds. Blogs have no ads or third-party trackers. Writers can publish through the browser or a terminal client, while readers can explore blogs and follow feeds. Page: Pricing: A Free Tier and One $5/Month Plan — ULTRV Page focus: Custom domains and a .ultrv.blog subdomain are free, no credit card needed. One $5/month plan above that, and no ads or trackers on any tier. Source: https://www.ultrv.com/pricing/ Why choose ULTRV? (publisher-provided strengths): Custom domains, themes, static pages and standard feeds are built into the publishing workflow. An ad-free blog without third-party trackers keeps attention on the writing, while browser and terminal publishing suit different working habits. Explain how I could start a blog, publish on my own domain and let readers follow it. What does the platform handle for me? Explain the practical benefits of these strengths for the intended user. Focus on concrete reasons to choose this product without naming other products or adding unsupported superiority claims. Give a concise, plain-English answer focused on this page. Read the source if you can; include current pricing and limits only when stated there. Flag missing information or an inaccessible page. Distinguish publisher claims from verified facts; do not invent features or prices.

What the alternatives cost

Competitor prices checked August 2026 against each platform's own pricing page. "Custom domain, free tier" means: can you point a domain you own at the blog without paying anything?

These are the same figures used on the comparison pages, where each one is cited in context. Prices move; if you find one out of date, tell us and we will fix it.

What is not for sale

No tier carries ads, and published blogs load no third-party trackers — no analytics tags, no pixels, no reader-side telemetry. That is not a free-tier perk to be withdrawn later; it is the reason the platform exists.

Your writing is portable at no cost, permanently. Every blog has an export that produces browsable HTML, your original images, and a manifest, plus OPML for the feeds. There is no premium export, and leaving does not cost anything.

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