What our users are saying

Absolutely loving PythonAnywhere—it's been a total game changer for us! We're Python developers building AI apps, and we're using PythonAnywhere to host our Flask API app. The ability to install packages in the cloud as easily as we do locally has eliminated the days of debugging we used to face to get our scripts working in the cloud. We're genuinely impressed with the platform, and it's accelerating our development and capabilities tenfold. We'll definitely continue migrating more of our processes over to PythonAnywhere.

Eddie Baliviera, Caelus Labs

13 January 2025

I want to say that I am really enjoying working with PythonAnywhere and I appreciate how quick, easy, and cost effective it is to use it. Before yesterday, I had no clue what a Python script was. Now, with the help of your platform and ChatGPT 4 I have built a custom solution that incorporates a webhook to receive signals and logic that interprets them from TradingView charts and sends them along to my Alpaca account via API as trading signals. The paid solution I was contemplating ... is $97/month for up to 250 signals. Your solution is $12/month and it will handle an unlimited amount of signals (I probably could even get away with the $5 a month plan but tbh I would rather have the extra web workers, etc). IMO an excellent alternative to the "big box" solutions 99.9% of people will use.

Chris Isaac

27 August 2024

Let me start off by saying that the tech support at PythonAnywhere is second to NONE. The support team is very patient, helpful, and can help you out with whatever you need to get your project up and going. I am new-ish to Python, and needed to host an application that I developed for a non-profit. I had the application at a different host, but they stopped direct support of Python deployments - and that's how I came across PythonAnywhere.

I had a couple of issues in getting my Flask application up and running (100% user error!) - but the outstanding support team patiently helped me work through my wonky code and gave me the information I needed to make a basic Flask app work. I then had to create my own Virtual Environment - and again, it was PythonAnywhere support to the rescue. Again, they stayed with me through the process - and the combination of their support articles and hands-on email support allowed me to get the site fully up and running.

5 stars out of 5! I would HIGHLY recommend this to anyone wanting to get their Python app up and running with the least amount of hassle.

Bob Cusick

18 April 2024

PythonAnywhere is the perfect place for hosting projects. With a free plan, a user-friendly interface that even beginners can navigate effortlessly, and a variety of features available for a minimal fee in their paid services, it offers a seamless experience. Excellent customer support and prompt issue resolution contribute to a pleasant user experience. I highly recommend it! 10 out of 10.

Dmitry Korshunov

15 November 2023

Love your service! It really was spot on for our use-case and everyone is happy with it.

Marcus Sonestedt

9 November 2023

PythonAnywhere is the perfect fit for us as we want to scale up our SaaS product as more customers are arriving. The server is super easy to set up and there are plenty of blog posts for when you get stuck. It's clear that the service has been around for a while, as they optimized the whole experience of running a Python server, all for a good price.

Teun Kortekaas

5 September 2023

It's been my first year in learning Data Science and Programming, so I am still new to many concepts in the field. Recently, I have developed a dashboard that I wanted to deploy online. I was first offered another service, which didn't work after the whole day of me trying to use it. There were many things that had to be added to my project for the deployment to work, yet they were never mentioned in the service's guide. Then, I happened to stumble upon PythonAnywhere - even with my limited knowledge, I managed to get it to work in about an hour! The most helpful thing about PythonAnywhere was that it has a very clear guide on setting up your deployment, and I found it to be a very beginner-friendly service overall. I will recommend PythonAnywhere to anyone who is starting their journey in programming, should they desire to host their Dashboard online (or some other application)!

Evgenii Zorin, 25 years-old, Data Scientist / Analyst, Mexico

23 August 2022

In the past I've always set up VPS "from scratch" for my side projects using services like [a VPS provider]. For my most recent project, the idea of yet again setting aside a day or two for server configuration and all that just sounded miserable. So I started looking around for simpler ways to deploy my Django app. I'm so glad that I came across PythonAnywhere! It's seriously amazing how easy it was to get my app up and running with a custom domain, add an HTTPS certificate, etc. Your documentation is well written and thorough. Will absolutely recommend this to friends and for sure make use of pythonanywhere for future projects. Thanks for creating such an awesome service!

Adam Ploof

22 May 2022

PythonAnywhere Rocks! I'm reasonably technical but have almost no experience in Unix, Bash or shell. But my company needed a web app and I am proficient in Python. I built a functioning business app in Web2Py in short order, but then the question was how to deploy it. I looked at the Amazon and Google cloud services, and while they have incredible capacities, they are also really complex. Good if you have a complex app but this one isn't, I stumbled across PythonAnywhere and never looked back. From a working local Web2Py app to working cloud-based PythonAnywhere app in less than 30 minutes. -- no joke! But it's not just simple, it has backbone. As I learn more about the capabilities, I'm convinced PythonAnywhere can handle my more complex needs when they arise.

Bill T

7 January 2022

I just wanted to say that I love your service. We use pythonanywhere at work to run our internal site / database and also to update our IP Phones. I keep a free account for different personal projects that are low overhead but require some level of serverside programming. I like that I can do actual work here as well as creative projects from the same UI.

Erich Pfister

2 August 2021

I've been a mentor for student app development challenges for the past 4 years. Invariably, the apps that my students dream up exceed the ability of their app development environment, so we utilize APIs to help extend the functionality of our apps.

Sometimes we can find existing APIs that fit our needs and other times we need to create our own solutions. In practice, we've found the development of our API solutions to be quite a bit simpler than finding a hosting solution for our APIs. We struggled for days trying to understand the setup of AWS's Lambda and EC2 solutions. Google's Cloud Run using Docker offered a similar complexity barrier.

It was quite a relief to stumble upon PythonAnywhere (from a Reddit post) and to discover we could host our endpoint within just a few hours! The PA interface, documentation and customer support made this all very easy! Kudos to your team and thank you so much for your wonderful solution, we look forward to using you again during next year's app dev competition season.

Brad Hontz

18 March 2021

It just f'ing works!! Beautiful! Thank you!

I was following Django tutorials to get something I needed done quickly, and when it came to deployment into production, they talked about Heroku, AWS, etc. And it just looked like a lot of intricate alterations would be needed. And I remembered hearing someone on a RealPython podcast, talking incidentally about working at PythonAnywhere, and how everyone there just lived and breathed Python and Django, and it was meant to be streamlined for Python folks. True to his words: no muss, fuss, and bother -- I just collect up statics, and did a bit of WSGI, working in a familiar bash shell with virtual environments, straight up upload and unzip, clear guidance on web app configuration web UI, tweak settings.py to allow host, and... presto: users hitting my web UI and developers hitting my REST API!

And.... 100% free -- no credit card involved. If we decide to crank up the volume, and have to move to paid accounts, PythonAnywhere is where it will be at.

Doug

28 November 2020

I teach large worldwide online courses that cover Python, Django, and PostgreSQL. Many of my students have computers that can't install any software. Other students use phones or iPads to take the course. By using PythonAnywhere beginner accounts in those courses there is nothing to install and everything works in a browser. PythonAnywhere is a great resource that lets me teach these these courses to over 100,000 students around the world for free. For my PostgreSQL students, I simply tell them to get an account and type 'psql' - literally everything they need is pre-installed. And they are learning to use Linux as well - which is an important skill for anyone learning to program.

Chuck Severance

25 October 2020

Thank you so much, I've had to deal with a lot of different customer service reps this week and you're the first one that's been legitimately helpful.

Enoch Lindeman

22 October 2020

I just launched my first-ever Django project, and I'm so happy that I chose Python Anywhere. Deployment was as smooth as I possibly could have hoped for. I'm sure deployment is always a complex endeavor, but I felt very comfortable navigating the Python Anywhere site, running bash consoles, getting my code from github, executing various scripts that I needed to run in the django/python shell to populate my db, and so on.

I also love that I can store my static and media files here -- other services require an attachment to S3 buckets etc, which is just one more headache to deal with.

In short: Python Anywhere absolutely rules! Keep up the great work and the great service!

Michael H

6 August 2020

If you are mainly using Python, Pythonanywhere.com is an extremely simple framework to get even an intricate application up and running and achieve early validation of your value proposition without wasting too much time on the infrastructure. On top of that, Pythonanywhere is very affordable and has great support. The service charges a monthly flat-fee that can be easily customized, scaled and upgraded.

Markus Rummel, AI Endurance, in this case study

18 April 2020

The deployment process for a django website has never been easier. It's really neat and intuitive - so impressed with it.

Nitish Sahni

17 April 2020

I spent three days trying to deploy to [a competitor] but it was the wrong solution for my needs. I had to convert a lot of code and was getting charged for the pleasure of uploading 1.1 GB of open source to support a 150 line Flask app. At least I knew which PA package to upgrade to. PythonAnywhere also provided a fixed price for my needs. It saved me a lot of money. I like that very much. So will other CTOs.

Zak Moore, CTO - Time And Emotion

14 April 2020

I spent several hours beating my head against mod_wsgi on my server before I finally got frustrated and gave up. It only took me 20 minutes on your platform to pull and stand up the site and everything just seems to work. Amazing product.

Rob Kimball

9 April 2020

I'm a fresh grad that is currently looking for a job. As part of the technical assessment for a company I applied for, they asked me if I could deploy the project somewhere. [...] When googling the options I had, I found PythonAnywhere to be the easiest way to deploy. I was selected for the next part of the process[..] PythonAnywhere might have just helped me land my first non-internship job!

Roger

13 February 2020

After three days of going through sysadmin on linux and setting up apache or whatever would work I gave up. I got a free account on pythonanywhere and got it up and running in an hour. Including coffee break ofc. Thanks for your excellent documentation and support!

Jo Baute

13 December 2019

This site is super cool. I was able to migrate my flask app pretty smoothly. The tutorial system is really good. There's lots of functionality and it comes with most of the leg work out of the way. Keep it up!

carterandrews

15 October 2019

I would like to sincerely thank you for your service. I am a university professor in Pakistan and we are unable to host servers for our research. We have been using PA for hosting our programs in the field of biomedical informatics and data science. It has significantly improved our quality of research with a very limited budget.

Fayyaz

13 May 2019

Kudos to you all for a great infrastructure. Last month a blog post hit the front page of hackernews and the site didn't flinch despite getting a [...] tonne of traffic (for me).

Duncan Murray, https://www.lifepim.com

11 February 2019

Thank you for the wonderful platform! Our students really enjoyed working on the platform this semester.

Vasundhara

19 December 2018

We found the site absolutely amazing. We were a team at HackIllinois 2017 and we tried to use $BIG_SCARY_COMPETITOR and $BIGGER_SCARIER_COMPETITOR to host our project but your platform was literally one single button. All we had to do was copy and paste our code and we were on the road!

Purdue IEEE EMBS

27 February 2017

I'm a largely self-taught programmer, and PA has made the learning curve for developing a web app so much more accessible! Before I found PA I attempted to set up a VPS with [a competitor] but I found myself spending far too much time trying to learn how to manage the server and too little time actually developing anything. The set-up that PA has has allowed me to focus on my coding, to the extent that I have been able to successfully develop a fully-functional web app running the ticketing system for the [event] that I'm organising. I think you guys have a really really great product here, so I just want to say a big thank you for all the work that you've put into creating it!

mforcexvi

3 January 2017

Being a relative newbie at web development, my biggest fears were about hosting and getting things set up. When I talk to my friends, who host on other services, they tell me the horrors they had to go through. Compared to that, PythonAnywhere is like playing a game with 'Easy' difficulty and God Mode enabled.

George

10 June 2016

I must commend you on the work you've done to make PythonAnywhere easy to use. Everything was a breeze and my app was running online in an hour!

Aditya Medhe

11 January 2016

Just want to let you know you saved the day. I had at least two “rage quits” under my belt trying to deploy my site at other places, and then I found you! I was up in under an hour.

Cole Howard

11 December 2015

I was under the gun to come up to speed with Python and MySQL. I was hearing horror stories about setting up Python/MySQL on Windows so I decided to use your site instead and I truly enjoyed the experience.

Trevor David

10 September 2015

I came across PythonAnywhere for the first time & I was able to get up & running in few hours. I was able to accomplish all I want with in a day. Thanks a for developing this great platform.

Srinivas Annam

3 August 2015

Just wanted to let you know that as a complete novice to web development PythonAnywhere has been absolutely fantastic at getting me off the ground. Until yesterday I had never deployed a site, ever. PythonAnywhere let me deploy my first one in just under 10 mins.

Rob Treharne

11 June 2015

I've really enjoyed my time with PythonAnywhere, I learned so much and above everything else the customer service [is] truly astonishing. Harry, Glenn, and [Giles] do an amazing job and I will fully endorse PythonAnywhere when people approach me and want to start web development or want to host python projects.

Adam Wester

19 November 2014

I find it really easy working with pythonanywhere, absolutely hassle free, well done there! ... by providing such service you inspire me to just be creative without having to worry much about deployment.

Jatinder Pal Singh

6 October 2014

PythonAnywhere has been fantastic! I love the one-click web app setup. I am getting into a web-dev project at work at the moment. I just ran into the pain-in-the-neck that is apache configuration. Even with a sys-admin doing most of the work, it was still not fun. Then found that the enterprise LTS Linux distro uses an out-of-date Python and Flask stack, so my app didn't work. Really wanted to run around screaming obscenities. PythonAnywhere is a dream by comparison.

Geoffrey French

 

I'm driving a plan at my workplace to migrate our Django web properties from Amazon to PythonAnywhere. The level of abstraction you guys provide is unparalleled!

Rudi MK