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Free or paid: one product launch page with a coding agent
For a single static launch page, hosting is free on any static host and your agent does the editing. The real choice is the starting point. These are the free and paid options on Plate, and when each is enough.
The short answer
If one of the 5 free projects fits your page, use it: it costs nothing and your agent adapts it the same way as a paid one. Pay for Plate Pro when a Pro project is clearly the better starting point for the brief. Plate Pro is $49.50 once (launch price; regularly $89), no subscription, with v1 updates; free projects need only a Google sign-in.
Free on Plate
- Atelier Rook: A small architecture studio's site drawn as its own seven-sheet drawing set: a fixed board of three layers (site plan, section, structure/light study over it, floor plan) redraws itself as you scroll, ending on the practice and a contact sheet with a mailto and a downloadable issue register.
- Hollow Lane Nursery: A plant nursery's single-page site built around one canvas-drawn campion that grows through six stages as you scroll, alongside three sales benches of fifteen authored plant drawings, a sketch map and an order list you fill from the benches and take as a mailto or a .txt download.
- Daybay: A body-camera firefight in a sunlit concrete bay.
- Lookout: A one-room stay above a dam whose page scrolls through a real day: seven registered photographs of one hill, crossfaded as the camera turns to follow the sun.
- Sillage: A fragrance site with no scroll: one fixed frame, a photographed bottle you press, and live air over the top of it.
In Plate Pro
- Meniscus: A fragrance house whose whole page sits under a live fluid.
- Tide: A product site for an invented bedside sleep-sound orb that runs from dusk to dawn as you scroll.
- Perihelion: A planetarium studio site that is one live-rendered flight: scroll moves a probe along an authored path through a ringed gas giant, a terminator crossing, a nebula volume and a lensed black-hole disc, drawn by one WebGL2 shader.
- Meridian: An expedition outfitter's site told as a 48-second film that scrolling advances: four Poly Haven worlds sampled live by a raw-WebGL camera, whip pans and blink cuts between chapters, two shots per crossing, film slates with the facts, a route drawn across every world and completed as a map.
- Murmur: A voice-and-hearing research lab whose site is a murmuration: 409,600 WebGL2 points form the wordmark, a synthesised voice, its spectrogram, an ear and the lab's mark across four scroll chapters.
- The Observatory: An atmospheric-data studio's website that is one authored night: scrolling advances an hour from 18:36 to 06:00, driving a live WebGL2 shader sky, three instrument panels and a case study, all read from one keyframed model.
- The Gazette: A fictional weekly culture paper's website, played as a single issue: a sticky cover slides beneath a pushing contents spread, a pinned feature turns like a real four-page fold, and the back cover is the issue's own ending.
- Riot Grain: A record label's release site drawn entirely by code: canvas letter bodies fall and settle under a hand-written Verlet physics solver, a pointer shove scatters and resettles them, and the tracklist, marquee, countdown and pre-order locker are all assembled from the same content file.
- Patchbay: A desktop synthesiser's front panel, rebuilt as a website: two oscillators, a filter, an envelope and a delay run on the Web Audio API behind a real 17-key playable keyboard, with an owner's manual and an engraved serial plate.
What you pay for either way
- Hosting: nothing. Every Plate website is static and runs on any static host.
- A domain: optional, typically about US$10–15 a year.
- Your coding agent's plan: separate from Plate.
When neither is right
If you only need a plain page with a form and no motion, a free starter or a site builder is simpler. Plate is for when the page should feel finished and distinctive, and you want your agent to keep it that way.