You can now deploy BeeWare apps as web apps on
PythonAnywhere with a single command. Install the
pythonanywhere-briefcase-plugin,
run briefcase publish web static, done. There’s a
step-by-step tutorial if you want to
try it right now.
We’re restructuring our pricing for the first time since 2013. We’re combining the Hacker ($5/month or €5/month in the EU system) and Web Developer ($12/month or €12/month in the EU system) tiers into a new Developer tier ($10/month €10/month in the EU system).
These changes will start January 8 (EU) and January 15 (US). Free users who upgrade before the change will lock in the current Hacker rate of $5/month (€5/month in the EU system). This lets us invest in platform upgrades, better security, and the features you’ve been requesting.
Read about the broader changes to PythonAnywhere and guidance for free tier users here.
Read more…Starting in January 2026, all free accounts will shift to community-powered support instead of direct support and will have some reduced features. If you want to upgrade, you can lock in the current $5/month (€5/month in the EU system) Hacker plan rate before January 8 (EU) or January 15 (US). After that, the base paid tier will be $10/month (€10/month in the EU system).
If you’re currently a paying customer, you can learn more about the new pricing tiers and guidance for current customers here.
Read more…Check out the instructions on GitHub and connect your Claude Desktop, GitHub Copilot, Cursor or any similar tool supporting MCP to PythonAnywhere directly.
Read more…If you signed up for an account on PythonAnywhere after 25 March 2025, you’ll have Python versions 3.11, 3.12 and 3.13 available. Additionally, the underlying operating system for your account will be Ubuntu 22.04, rather than the 20.04 used by older accounts.
If you signed up before that date, you’ll be on an older “system image” – essentially the version of the operating system and the set of installed packages that you have access to. You can switch to the new system image from the “Account” page, but you may need to make changes to your code and/or virtualenvs to make everything work – there’s more information on that page.
This post has more details on what’s new in the “innit” system image. There’s a lot!
Read more…Are you so keen on PythonAnywhere that you’d like to work with us? We have an open role, and the recruitment team at our parent company Anaconda are looking for great people.
We’re looking for a senior engineer with lots of experience in backend stuff, but an interest in working across the full stack from obscure kernel wrangling, custom Linux container-based virtualization, Django and Flask on the mid-tier, up to TypeScript and React on the front end. There’s even a (tiny) bit of Lua thrown in there.
We’re an Extreme Programming team so you’ll be pairing with other team members from day one. All work is remote (bar occasional team meetups), and we can currently hire people based in the UK.
There’s more detailed information about the role on the official Anaconda jobs board, and you can also apply there. If you do, drop us a line at jobs@pythonanywhere.com too so that we can tell the recruitment team to pull you to the front of the queue :-)
As of today, we have migrated all of our US storage systems over to newer infrastructure. We’ll post again with more details about this migration once everything has had a week or so to bed in, but since we did the equivalent migration on our EU systems a few months back, we have had no issues at all there. So (touch wood) we’re feeling quietly confident :-)
PythonAnywhere has been around for over 10 years, and as our platform continues to grow with tens of thousands of users, we’re committed to keeping it in top shape. Part of this involves upgrading some of the older parts of our infrastructure, with a special focus on our file storage servers – some of the oldest systems we have.
Read more…Imagine there’s a PythonAnywhere user, homer8bc, with poetic
inclinations. He wants to serve his newest poem (he believes it’s quite
epic) as a static text page. He’s old school — he doesn’t believe in HTML,
and as for CSS? Forget it! His friend, S. Yodos, lives in Cyme, while
homer8bc resides on Ios island, so in-person communication is difficult…
On Thursday 5 September 2024 we performed some system maintenance. It appeared to have gone well, and was completed at the scheduled time (06:20 UTC), but unfortunately there were unexpected knock-on effects that caused issues later on in the day, and further problems on Saturday 7 September. This post gives the details of why we needed to perform the maintenance, what happened, and what we will do to prevent a recurrence.
Read more…Here is a slightly delayed (and short) run-down of the new stuff that we deployed recently.
The main change for this update is that we have updated the underlying OS running PythonAnywhere to Ubuntu 22.04. This is an LTS release so it will be supported for some time to come. This will not affect user environments, but it is setting us up for a new user environment that should be coming soon.
We have also:
