UpgradePilot
Why people use UpgradePilot — and whether to choose the free app or Cloud
Why teams use UpgradePilot at all
Customizations are safe
Template changes are only auto-applied where your code never touched the member; everything else is a flagged conflict.
It runs the real tools
Real dotnet, npm, git and codemod CLIs — versions and transforms are checked, not guessed.
You can see why
Each agent result has a confidence score, an explanation and citations.
No lock-in
Apache-2.0 open source. The free app and Cloud run the same agents.
It ends in a pull request
Normal code review, normal CI, plus a rollback plan.
It covers the whole stack
ASP.NET Zero, ABP, .NET, React, Next.js and mixed repos.
Which plan fits you?
The boundary is delivery mode, not capability — nothing is held back from the free tier.
Solo developers & consultants
Upgrading a client’s or their own app now and then.
- Free forever and fully featured — nothing is held back.
- Bring your own LLM key and pay only for what you use.
- Apache-2.0: read the code before you run it on someone else’s repo.
Small product teams
One or two repos, a few engineers, upgrades a few times a year.
- Run it in your own process, with local SQLite session storage.
- Same agents Cloud uses.
- Community support via GitHub Issues and Discussions.
Security-conscious organizations
Policies that restrict where tooling runs.
- Self-hosted: the pipeline and session store run on your machines.
- You choose the LLM provider and credentials.
- Auditable open-source code.
Agencies & software houses
Many client repos on different framework versions.
- Upgrades scheduled and tracked across repositories.
- Concurrent sessions rather than one run at a time.
- Metered LLM billing — no per-client API key juggling.
Growing engineering orgs
Several teams, shared visibility, deadlines.
- Multi-tenant organizations and roles.
- A dashboard to start, track and review sessions.
- Priority support. SSO/SAML, audit logs and extra Git connectors are on the roadmap.
Start free, move to Cloud later
Because both plans run the same agents, there is no migration project: try the open-source CLI on one repo, and talk to us if you later want hosting, scheduling or team features.
Cloud’s enterprise SSO/SAML, audit logs, usage analytics and extra Git connectors (GitHub Enterprise, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps) are on the roadmap, not shipped yet.
Read the open-core boundary for the precise split between open source and Cloud.