Managed Windmill Hosting — production-ready from $15 a month
Open-source platform for scripts, workflows, and UIs. Deployed on your own dedicated instance in AWS, Azure, or GCP, kept patched, backed up, and monitored by ManageStacks — standard Windmill, no lock-in.
Windmill is an open-source platform for building internal tools from scripts, workflows, and UIs in TypeScript, Python, Go, and SQL — deployed and fully managed by ManageStacks on AWS, Azure, or GCP with automated SSL, monitoring, and daily backups.
What does Windmill do, and why do teams deploy it?
Windmill is an open-source developer platform that turns scripts into shareable workflows and internal UIs. It supports TypeScript, Python, Go, Bash, SQL, and GraphQL as first-class languages, with each script automatically getting a generated UI, API endpoint, and scheduling capability. Workflows are built by chaining scripts together in a visual flow editor with branching, loops, and error handling.
Windmill is built for engineering teams who need to ship internal tools fast without maintaining a separate frontend. Its app builder lets you create dashboards, forms, and approval flows that connect directly to your scripts and workflows. With fine-grained permissions, audit logging, and a built-in secret manager, Windmill is production-ready for teams of any size.
- Polyglot script execution in TypeScript, Python, Go, and SQL
- Visual flow editor with branching and error handling
- Auto-generated UIs and API endpoints for every script
- Low-code app builder for dashboards and internal tools
- Fine-grained permissions and audit logging
- Built-in secret manager and variable system
Open-source platform for scripts, workflows, and UIs
What does managed Windmill hosting cost?
Flat per-app pricing, in your chosen AWS, Azure, or GCP region. No per-user pricing — a busy deployment costs the same as a quiet one.
Starter
Staging and internal tools. Dedicated instance, TLS, daily backups, managed upgrades.
Standard
Production workloads. Adds monitoring, staging environment, region choice, priority support.
Business
High-traffic and compliance workloads. Adds a high-availability replica and same-day support.
24×7 SRE retainer
Round-the-clock on-call across every hosted application, for teams that need a pager answered at 3am.
When is self-hosting Windmill the right answer instead?
“Managed hosting is not always the correct call.”
Self-host when a platform team already runs the infrastructure and on-call rotation to operate Windmill at genuinely low marginal cost. Self-host when compliance requires an air-gapped or on-premises deployment that no hosted option can satisfy. And self-host when the deployment depends on heavy customisation with a fast internal build-deploy loop, because an internal release process will beat any managed change process.
For everyone else — teams whose engineers have better things to do than shepherd upgrades — managed hosting is cheaper than the hours it replaces.
Which cloud should Windmill run on — AWS, Azure or GCP?
For most workloads, the choice of cloud matters less than proximity: run Windmill in the same cloud and region as the applications and data it talks to, because every request between them adds a round trip. The underlying compute performs equivalently across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
In practice, an existing cloud footprint decides it. All plans support all three clouds, and moving regions later is a scheduled migration, not a rebuild.
Deepest managed-service catalog, default when there's no existing footprint
Best fit for teams already on Microsoft 365 or Entra ID
Strongest for data/analytics-adjacent workloads
Every plan supports AWS, Azure, and GCP — region choice included.
Common questions about Windmill on ManageStacks
How long does it take to deploy Windmill on ManageStacks?
Under 5 minutes. ManageStacks provisions Windmill with its PostgreSQL backend, worker nodes, SSL, monitoring, and backups automatically — no Docker Compose setup required.
Can I scale Windmill workers on ManageStacks?
Yes. You can adjust the number of dedicated worker nodes through the ManageStacks dashboard to handle increased script and workflow execution load.
Does ManageStacks handle Windmill version upgrades?
Yes. We test each new Windmill release for stability before making it available. You can apply updates with one click or enable automatic updates, including database migrations.
Run Windmill without carrying the pager
Subscribe through your AWS, Azure, or GCP marketplace. We handle provisioning, SSL, monitoring, backups, updates, and security. From $15/mo.