Free to use. Built to last.

Hylo's full coordination platform is free — for every group, forever. Paid products exist for groups that need more capacity or hands-on support, and every dollar sustains an open-source commons.

Hylo

Free forever

The full platform. Every feature that matters for community coordination. No credit card. No expiration.

Groups & subgroups
Nested groups, peer groups, cross-group coordination
Discussions
Threaded conversations with topics and tagging
Chat
Real-time chat rooms within any group
Events
In-person and virtual, with RSVPs and calendar sync
Requests & offers
Mutual support infrastructure with completion tracking
Projects
Coordinated work with tasks, roles, and timelines
Proposals & decisions
Polls, proposals, quorum, structured decision-making
Agreements & roles
Shared governance documents and role-based stewardship
Map & place
Geographic groups, member map, place-based organizing
Member directory
Profiles, skills, location, interests
Custom post types
Configure the content types your group uses
Mobile apps
iOS and Android, full-featured
Notifications
Customizable — email, push, in-app, digest
Public commons
Discover groups, share across the network
File sharing
Limited storage for documents, images, and resources. 50 MB max per attachment.
Moderation tools
Flagging, steward controls, community agreements
Unlimited members
No cap on group size
Unlimited groups
Create as many groups and subgroups as you need

This isn't a free trial. It's the product. We believe coordination infrastructure should be accessible to every community, regardless of budget.

Need hands-on help building your community?

Technology alone doesn't make a community thrive — stewardship does. Hylo's team offers direct support for groups at every stage: onboarding workshops, strategy sessions, ongoing coaching, and even dedicated community management. We've spent years learning what makes online communities come alive, and we bring that experience to your group.

Support Call
$300
A focused hour on your group's challenges
Pollination
$2,500
Full onboarding and launch support
Seed
$100/mo
Ongoing connection and priority support
Blossom
From $1,000/mo
Hands-on community building
Learn more about stewardship support →

Hylo Pro

Est. $60/month per group
Coming Soon

For groups that need more capacity. Everything in Hylo Free, plus tools for organizations operating at scale.

Expanded storage
Go well beyond the free storage. More space for files, images, documents, and media — share what your community needs without worrying about limits.
Video streaming
Host and stream video directly within Hylo. Meetings, workshops, and community events without needing a separate platform.
Priority support
Faster response times from the Hylo team when your group needs help. Direct access for technical and stewardship questions.
API access & integrations
Connect Hylo to your existing tools and workflows. Build custom integrations, automate processes, and extend the platform to fit your stack.
Custom colors
Choose colors for your group UI that match your branding. Make Hylo feel like home for your community from the moment members arrive.

One price, every member included. Coming soon.

Hylo Whitelabel

Custom
Coming soon

Some organizations need Hylo's coordination infrastructure under their own brand — their domain, their identity, their experience. Hylo Whitelabel is configured for your organization.

Your community gets the full power of Hylo's coordination tools — groups, governance, mutual support, map, cross-group coordination — inside an environment that looks and feels entirely like yours. Your brand, your colors, your domain.

Full visual customization — your brand, your themes
All Hylo platform features
Ongoing updates from core platform development
Setup and migration support from the Hylo team
Optional: custom feature development (priced separately)

Hylo Assistant

Est. $20/month per group
Coming soon

An AI steward that knows your group — its history, its people, its purpose — and helps you take care of it.

Every group steward knows the feeling: a new member joins and nobody welcomes them. A request goes unanswered for three days. A conversation that needed moderation slipped by. Someone posted something harmful at 2am and it sat there until morning.

Stewardship is the work that makes communities live or die, and most of it is invisible, repetitive, and easy to fall behind on. The Hylo Assistant is designed to carry that load alongside your stewards — not replacing human judgment, but making sure nothing falls through the cracks.

The Assistant has full context on your group: every conversation, every decision, every agreement, every member's history. It uses that context to help stewards stay on top of what matters, surface what needs attention, and give every member a way to navigate the group's collective knowledge.

Full-context RAG across your group
The Assistant can search and reason across your group's entire history — posts, discussions, decisions, agreements, files. Members can ask it questions and get answers grounded in what your community has actually said and decided.
Google Drive and document integration
Connect your group's Google Drive (and other document sources) so the Assistant can reference shared documents, meeting notes, and resources alongside Hylo content. Your group's knowledge lives in many places — the Assistant brings it together.
Community health and growth guidance
The Assistant helps stewards understand what's working and what isn't — engagement patterns, unanswered requests, quiet members, conversations that need follow-up. Not analytics dashboards, but actionable guidance.
Proactive moderation support
The Assistant monitors for content that may need steward attention — potential code of conduct issues, heated conversations, flagged posts — and surfaces them to your moderation team promptly. Stewards make the decisions.
How this aligns with our values: The Hylo Assistant works for your group, not for Hylo. It doesn't optimize for engagement, doesn't track behavior for advertising, and doesn't make decisions on behalf of your community. It's a tool that helps stewards do their work more effectively — the same work they'd do manually, with better context and fewer blind spots. All AI interactions are transparent to stewards. Your group's data stays within your group. And the Assistant follows the same agreements your community does.

Add the Assistant to any Hylo group — Free, Pro, or Whitelabel. Join the waitlist to be notified when it launches.

How this works

Hylo is a non-profit commons. There are no investors expecting returns. There are no shareholders demanding growth. The platform stays free because paid products and community contributions cover the cost of development, hosting, and the small team that maintains everything.

When a group pays for Pro, Assistant, Whitelabel, or stewardship support, that money goes to three places: compensating the people who build and maintain Hylo, funding platform development that benefits every group (including the free ones), and keeping the infrastructure running. Hylo is built to sustain a commons.

100% open source — always
501(c)(3) non-profit — no shareholders
Paid products fund the free platform
Compare options
Hylo Free
Free forever
Hylo Pro
Est. $60/mo per group
Hylo Assistant
Est. $20/mo per group
Hylo Whitelabel
Custom
Groups & subgroups
Cross-group coordination
Discussions & chat
Events
Requests & offers
Projects
Proposals & decisions
Map & place
Mobile apps
Unlimited members
Unlimited groups
Storage 1 GB Expanded 1 GB Custom
Video streaming
Priority support
API access
AI group knowledge (RAG) Available
Document integration Available
Growth & health guidance Available
Moderation awareness Available
Custom domain
Custom branding
Dedicated instance Custom
Custom development Available

Start for free. Grow from there.

Every group on Hylo starts with the full platform at no cost. If you need more capacity or hands-on support down the road, we'll be here. For now — bring your group and see what becomes possible.