23blocks is 20+ production-ready backend API blocks — auth, CRM, files, forms, products, search, and more — going fully open source on July 31, 2026. Run them yourself on your own infrastructure with our deployment recipes, or let us deploy and maintain them for you. Either way, the code is yours, and there's a real way out.
Prices and quotas change constantly, so we won't quote them here. What doesn't change is how the platform is built — and that's what determines whether you're ever locked in.
| Structure | Typical proprietary BaaS | 23blocks |
|---|---|---|
| Source code | Closed, proprietary | Open source — every block, from July 31, 2026 |
| What you get | Low-level primitives — a database, an auth service, object storage — that you assemble yourself | Full backend blocks — auth, CRM, files, forms, products, search, ready to call |
| Where it runs | Only on the vendor's infrastructure | Shared platform, your own infrastructure, or both at once |
| Exit path | Export your data and rewrite against a new backend | Graduate to your own infra with the same code — no rewrite |
| Adoption model | Usually all-in on one vendor's stack | Per-block — adopt one, several, or all 20+ |
| What you pay for | The software and the infrastructure, bundled | Only for running the platform — never for the software itself |
Not primitives to assemble. Full blocks, open code, and an infrastructure path that's always yours to take.
Auth, CRM, files, forms, products, search, and more — ready-made API blocks, not a database and a bucket you have to wire together yourself. Adopt one or all of them.
Every block's code goes open source. Read it, audit it, fork it. No black box between you and what runs your data.
Buy our deployment recipes — the same production-grade infrastructure playbooks we use — and run the open-source blocks on your own cloud account, your own way.
Start on the shared platform for speed. Outgrow it, or want to be big from day zero? Move to infrastructure you own with a reversible migration and no code rewrite.
We'll deploy and maintain 23blocks on your own cloud account — updates, monitoring, and support included. Same open-source code, same infrastructure ownership, none of the operational burden. That's 23blocks in a Box.
Open source and self-hosting aren't free of trade-offs. Here's when we'd tell you to look elsewhere.
We'd rather you pick the right tool than force-fit 23blocks. If none of the above apply — and you care about owning your code, your infrastructure, and your exit path — that's exactly who we built this for.
Yes. As of July 31, 2026, all 20+ backend blocks are open source — the exact code that powers the shared platform. Read it, audit it, fork it, run it.
Yes. Run the open-source blocks yourself with our deployment recipes on your own cloud account, or have us deploy and maintain a dedicated copy for you — that's 23blocks in a Box.
23blocks ships complete backend blocks — auth, CRM, files, forms, products, search — instead of low-level primitives like a database, an auth service, and object storage you assemble yourself. And unlike Firebase, the code is open source with a real exit off the shared platform.
It can be hybrid. Run some blocks on the shared platform and others on your own infrastructure at the same time — a supported, deliberate choice, not a workaround.
Start free on the shared platform, run it yourself with our recipes, or have us deploy it on your own cloud. The code is always yours — and so is the exit.
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