HumHub is open source, so anyone can host it, and several companies do. The offers differ in one thing above all: how much of the running is done for you. This page lists every way to run HumHub, what each one takes off your hands, what it costs, and when it is the right choice.
Facts read on each provider's own pages in October 2026, linked from each heading. Prices as published, in the provider's currency.
Each option is the right one for someone. Here is who, in our experience of hosting HumHub since 2017.
An organization with a technical person who has time for it, rules that require its own infrastructure, or a wish to modify HumHub itself. Cheapest in cash, most expensive in hours: the task list says which.
Companies that want the company that develops HumHub, a larger team than CUZY, behind their platform: the Professional Edition modules (Advanced LDAP, SAML single sign-on, SOLR search, News), onboarding workshops, an enterprise contract, and the option of an on-premise installation with their own code. What HumHub's offer has that CUZY does not.
A developer or a small club that wants HumHub on a machine of its own at the lowest price and accepts administering HumHub (modules, configuration, upgrades of the application) itself.
Organizations without an IT team that want HumHub run by people who build its modules: the region of their choice, every CUZY module, support by the developers in English or French, a flat price with unlimited members, and custom modules and themes on Business. What is included.
A HumHub installation is a database and an uploads folder. Every option above lets you take both away, so the choice is never final: start small, move when the community grows. CUZY imports a self-hosted or hosted instance and exports yours once a day.
The software is the same Community Edition everywhere (the Professional Edition adds modules, not a different core). Spaces, streams, wiki, files, calendar, the mobile app and the marketplace are the same on a €5 server and on managed hosting.
What CUZY does not offer: the Professional Edition modules, on-premise installation, workshops. Plans and prices · What HumHub costs, all in.
Its pricing page (October 2026) sells SaaS hosting together with the Professional Edition license: €144 a month for up to 100 users, which brings the Professional Edition modules and the support of the company that develops HumHub, a larger team than CUZY, with on-premise installation and your own code upload as the alternative. The Community Edition is run by you, or by a third-party host such as CUZY, which hosts it with every CUZY module and without the Professional Edition modules.
Yes. A HumHub installation is a database and an uploads folder; any host that gives you both lets you leave. CUZY imports a self-hosted or hosted instance from a database dump and the uploads, and subscribers download a complete export once a day to go the other way.
To try HumHub with a small club, yes. Updates stay your job (the installer applies them when you click), backups follow the host's policy, and the queue and cron jobs HumHub relies on run only if the host allows them. Most communities that grow move to a server of their own or to managed hosting, which the export makes easy.
In cash, self-hosting on a small server; in hours, managed hosting. The task list of the self-hosted comparison says what those hours are, and the HumHub pricing guide adds the software, the modules and the hosting for a 100-person organization.
A community of your own in about two minutes, every CUZY module included, no card. If you prefer your own server later, the export goes with you.
