# Local or Cloud

Same commands in both. Only where they run changes.

## Local

- Free. No account, no watermark.

- Posts and media in `~/.statuz`. Tokens in the OS keychain.

- Publishes straight to each platform.

- Bluesky and Mastodon need nothing. X and LinkedIn need your own developer app ([how
](/docs/accounts)).

- Your computer must be on. Posts more than an hour late are marked [missed
](/docs/scheduling#missed-posts).

- Personal computers only; VMs and headless servers are refused.

## Cloud

[statuz.cloud
](https://statuz.cloud/):

- Publishes on time, computer on or off.

- Orgs, teams and roles. Viewers look. Members write posts and change their own. Admins also change anyone's and run the team, keys and settings. Owners also hold billing.

- Web composer.

- No developer apps: Cloud uses Statuz's own X and LinkedIn apps.

- Photos bigger than a platform takes are shrunk for it as they go out; the original stays as it is. Videos and GIFs must fit.

- API keys for scripts, CI and agents, each with its own role: viewer, member or admin, never owner, so no key touches billing. A key also never does more than the person who made it can today.

- Each org has a time zone, for times like "tomorrow 9am" that come without one (agents, mostly). It starts as yours; change it in Settings or with `statuz cloud org update --timezone America/Sao_Paulo`.

- Holds the tokens, posts and media it needs to publish. See [Privacy
](/privacy).

### Prices

Per postBluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn$0.01X$0.03X with a link$0.30

- Extra seat: $5 a month.

- Prepaid credits, $5 minimum, expire after six months. Oldest spent first. Owners add them.

- Free: drafts, scheduling, edits, reads, agent calls, failed or cancelled publishes.

- A thread costs the sum of its posts.

Current prices: [Pricing
](/pricing) or `statuz cloud pricing`.

## Switch
Terminal
```
statuz use cloud
statuz use local
```

Same as `statuz config set --key target --value cloud`. The CLI, MCP and your agent all follow it. Local and Cloud posts are kept apart.

## Which one

- Local: your computer is on at post time and you want everything on it.

- Cloud: posts must go out while you sleep, or more than one person posts.

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