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.blogsubdomain, and you can point your own domain at a blog without paying anything. Most platforms charge for that; thecomparison pagesset 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 pagegoes through all of it in detail, andgetting startedwalks 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.

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 thecomparison 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 Prices move; if you find one out of date, tell us and we will fix it.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.

Frequently asked questions