Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, launched Spacefast on November 9, 2026. The press release calls it "a new company" that gives "your AI a head start" on building apps and websites, then puts the work online. You keep using the AI you already have, such as ChatGPT, Claude or a coding agent, and Spacefast supplies the hosting, the database and the share link.
What Spacefast is
Spacefast's homepage puts it plainly: "Spacefast is not an AI builder." It connects to the assistant you already use. The press release names the ChatGPT and Claude apps, personal assistants like Muse, Dots, Claude Duet, Grok Bot, Instinct, OpenClaw and Hermes, and coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. If you are new to these tools, our explainers on what a coding agent is and on vibe coding cover the basics.
You ask your agent to put your work online and get "a private link in the chat." Your team can comment right on the page, and, in Automattic's words, "your agent turns those comments into fixes."
The homepage says each thing you make gets its own "Space." According to the release, Spacefast includes:
- Deployment and hosting, your own domain, and a database
- Starter templates such as a portfolio, a menu or a landing page
- Support for stacks including Vite, TanStack Start, Next.js and Astro (the homepage also lists PHP, and says runtime features depend on the deployment path)
- Private Spaces you share only with people you choose
- File downloads from any version and data export at any time
The release says Spacefast runs on WordPress.com's infrastructure, which it says "handles more than 15 billion page views a month." WordPress VIP and Pressable customers can connect Spacefast to the site they already run.
In his launch post, founder and CEO Batuhan İçöz adds detail: a MariaDB database for each Space, comments and live cursors on pages, versions and rollbacks, built-in source control with GitHub support, Spacefast CI with pull request previews, and domains "at cost with no DNS lock-in."
How it connects to your AI
The release says Spacefast is available as an official plugin on Claude, ChatGPT and Grok Bot "and more," with an API, CLI and MCP (Model Context Protocol, a standard way for AI apps to call outside tools) for other agents.
Spacefast's agent docs list three ways to connect a coding agent:
- A vendor plugin, for clients with a marketplace (the docs name Claude Code, Codex and Factory Droid)
- A universal
npxinstaller, with targets that include Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot and VS Code - The Spacefast CLI, by running
sf setup agent
The docs say agents call Spacefast API operations through MCP "within the permissions you approve." For a recent look at how Claude Code handles MCP tools, see our post on Claude Code 2.1.319 and background MCP tasks.
What agents can and can't do
The release says you "choose what your agent can access and do, with approval checks for sensitive actions." The permissions docs spell this out. The "Agent access" level can create and publish sites, manage domains and DNS, create teams and use Spacefast tools. The docs say it cannot delete sites, manage team members, change billing or mint credentials.
The same page says every agent credential is refused some actions, including inviting or removing members, changing a member's role, accepting a team invitation, and approving or denying an approval request. When an agent hits something risky, the docs say "it stops and asks," and the request lands on an Approvals page in the dashboard. The docs say only these actions prompt: publishing over a live site, deploying, rolling a version back, buying a domain and changing DNS. Routine publishing does not.
Pricing
Spacefast's pricing page lists four plans. Prices are per team, per month, in US dollars before tax.
- Personal: $0, no card required. Includes $1 of usage each month, plus 20 Spaces and 20 custom domains.
- Go: $5 a month. Includes $5 of usage each month, 100 Spaces and 100 custom domains, and hourly database backups. The press release says Go adds "unlimited spaces," but the pricing page lists 100.
- Pro: $15 a month. Includes $15 of usage each month, 500 Spaces and 500 custom domains, and team roles. The pricing page says "Free up to 5 members, then $15/month each." The press release describes Pro as "$15 a month per member."
- Enterprise: custom pricing, with SSO, SAML and SCIM.
A Boost add-on costs $9 per Space a month on Go and up. The page says plans and Boost bill at the start of the month, and usage beyond what a plan includes bills at the end of the month. Go and Pro let you set a spending cap, which starts at twice your plan price.
What is still coming
The release says built-in app authentication, transactional email, and shared team knowledge (such as playbooks, past decisions and brand context) are "coming in the next few weeks." İçöz's post lists more under "Coming soon": transactional emails, object storage, video streaming, design systems, custom skills, e-commerce, payments and monetization with ads.
İçöz built the first version on his own during Radical Speed Month, an internal Automattic initiative, according to the release. He joined Automattic through its acquisition of Texts. Automattic later made it its own company. "Spacefast is the companion for you and your AI, so building is better, faster, and more fun," İçöz said in the release.
