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Frequently Asked Questions

Direct answers to the most common questions about Faable. For details, follow the links in each answer.

What is Faable?

Faable is a European cloud platform that combines two products in one subscription: Faable Deploy, a zero-config platform that builds and hosts apps straight from a Git repository, and Faable Auth, a multi-tenant OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect identity server. It lets developers ship and secure full-stack apps and AI agents without managing infrastructure.

Is Faable hosted in Europe? Is it GDPR-compliant?

Yes. Faable is hosted in the EU — your apps and user identities stay in the EU. This is a core difference from US platforms that offer optional EU regions.

How much does Faable cost?

Faable uses one subscription covering both Deploy and Auth, with three platform tiers: Free (0 €), Hobby (15 €/month), and Pro (99 €/month). Each tier is a fixed monthly fee, and what the tier includes comes with it. Three things are metered above what a plan includes: egress on Pro (Free includes 10 GB/month and Hobby 50 GB/month, neither of them metered), recovery SMS on Hobby and Pro, and machine-to-machine tokens above 100 a month on Hobby and Pro. Plans apply per project. See the pricing page for full details.

Is there a free tier?

Yes. The Free plan costs 0 € and lets you run a real app end-to-end: up to 3 projects per account, apps on bi.xs (0.6 vCPU · 512 MB each), up to 50 successful deployments per day, 10 GB of egress per month, and Faable Auth included. A brand-new account starts with 2 projects and gets the third 48 hours after signing up. Upgrade to Hobby for more CPU and memory (1 vCPU · 1.5 GB per app), and unlimited deployments — and because plans are per project, moving one project to Hobby also frees a Free slot for another.

Can I deploy directly from GitHub?

Yes — from GitHub or gitlab.com. Connect your repository, push your code, and Faable detects your stack, builds it, and serves it at https://<app>.faable.link with free automatic SSL — no Dockerfiles, YAML, or servers to provision. See What is zero-config CI/CD? and Get Started.

Is Faable Deploy a PaaS?

Yes — Faable Deploy is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for full backend applications. It runs long-lived server processes — Django, FastAPI, Flask, Express, Next.js with SSR — in managed Linux containers, not just static sites or short-lived serverless functions. Builds, releases, autoscaling, SSL, the WAF, logs and custom domains are all handled by the platform; you only push code. Think of the Heroku/Render category of platform, hosted in Europe with authentication included in the same subscription.

What frameworks and stacks does Faable Deploy support?

Faable Deploy runs any stack that listens on the $PORT environment variable in a Linux container. It auto-detects Node.js (20, 22, 24) — including Next.js and Express — and Python (3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13) — including Django, FastAPI, and Flask — plus static frontends (Astro, Vite, Angular, Gatsby, CRA, Vue). Anything else deploys from your own Dockerfile. Your server binds to 0.0.0.0 on $PORT and Faable handles the rest. See the guides for Next.js, Express, Django, FastAPI and Flask, or the full build requirements.

Does Faable Auth replace Auth0, Clerk, or Keycloak?

For most use cases, yes. Faable Auth is a standards-based OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect identity server covering social login, passwordless (magic link and email OTP), RBAC and teams, custom domains, actions and webhooks, and first-class machine-to-machine tokens — with migration guides from Auth0, Clerk and Keycloak.

Enterprise SSO is available over OpenID Connect on Pro: each customer company signs in with its own Okta, Entra ID or Google Workspace, found by email domain — see Organizations and Enterprise SSO. SAML 2.0 works too: your tenant can be the SAML identity provider of any application that only accepts SAML, such as Slack or Notion (Pro). A customer’s identity provider has to connect over OpenID Connect — if yours only speaks SAML, Faable Auth is not the right fit yet. Two-step verification — authenticator apps, security keys and passkeys — is built in. See the comparison for the full feature-by-feature table.

How is Faable Auth priced — what is MAU?

Faable Auth entitlements are sized by monthly active users (MAU): the number of distinct users who authenticate in a calendar month. Free includes 15,000 MAU with no credit card; Hobby and Pro have no MAU limit. There is never a per-user line on your invoice, and no per-feature add-ons. Machine-to-machine tokens are the one usage line: 100 a month included on every plan, then €2.25 per 1,000 on Hobby and Pro. See Faable Auth pricing.

Does Faable include a Web Application Firewall?

Yes. Every Faable Deploy app sits behind an edge firewall, on every plan: Faable blocks scanner traffic for credentials, Git metadata, admin panels and known exploits, and you add your own rules by path, user-agent or query parameter. It filters requests by those three things; it does not inspect request bodies or detect SQL injection and XSS. It’s included rather than a paid add-on — see the WAF docs.

Are Deploy and Auth sold separately?

No. Both products are covered by a single Faable subscription — one platform fee unlocks Deploy and Auth together, with one support relationship. See pricing.

Where is my data stored?

All Faable data — application workloads and user identities — is stored in European datacenters under GDPR. This applies to both Faable Deploy and Faable Auth.

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