Pricing & billing

Is Karakeep free?

Yes. Karakeep is free and open source to self-host, with unlimited bookmarks. The hosted cloud has a 50-bookmark free tier and a Pro plan at $4/month or $40/year.

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Yes, with a catch about where it runs. Karakeep is free and open source when you self-host it, with unlimited bookmarks and storage. If you would rather not run a server, the hosted Karakeep Cloud has a free tier capped at 50 bookmarks and a Pro plan at $4 per month or $40 per year. As of 2026-11-09 those are the numbers on Karakeep’s own pricing page.

What each Karakeep option costs

Option Price Limits
Self-hosted Free Unlimited bookmarks and storage; you supply the hosting
Cloud Free $0 50 bookmarks, 100 MB storage
Cloud Pro $4/month or $40/year 50,000 bookmarks, 50 GB storage, AI-powered tagging, full-text search
Corporate Custom per seat Everything in Pro plus single sign-on, user management and a custom domain

Karakeep also states a 7-day money-back guarantee on paid plans, and your data stays available for 30 days after cancelling. You can export bookmarks at any time.

The real cost of the free option

Self-hosting is free in software terms, not in effort. You run it with Docker on your own machine or server, so you carry the hosting bill, the updates and the backups. The AI features, automatic tagging and summaries, run through an OpenAI-compatible API key you provide or a local model such as Ollama. A key from a paid provider is a usage cost, and a local model needs hardware that can run it.

In return you get a capable tool: automatic tagging, full-page archiving, search that includes semantic and hybrid modes, browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Safari, and iOS and Android apps. It was formerly called Hoarder, and the project now lives at karakeep.com.

How Marqly compares

Marqly is not self-hostable, so it suits a different person. If you want a hosted app with no Docker and no API keys, Marqly has a free plan that holds up to 100 bookmarks, with search across all of them and no card required. Pro is $72 per year or $9 per month and adds unlimited bookmarks, AI summaries and tagging, and semantic search by meaning. There is no free trial; the free plan is how you try it.

The honest summary: if you want ownership, a self-hosted server and the lowest possible price, Karakeep wins. If you want a hosted AI library that is already running, Marqly is the simpler path, and it costs money once you outgrow 100 saves. Karakeep Cloud sits between the two, with a hosted option at a lower monthly price than Marqly Pro.

For Marqly’s own limits, see is Marqly free and Marqly free vs Pro.