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title: Metis Cloud
description: Get your own Metis Suite instance, hosted for you. Learn what Metis Cloud gives you and what you bring.
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Metis Cloud runs a Metis Suite instance for you. An instance is one private Metis Suite, with its own address, accounts, settings and data. You buy and manage it in the Metis Cloud console at [console.trymetis.email](https://console.trymetis.email).

You pick an address and a plan, and you pay. Metis Cloud then sets up your instance, for example at `acme.metis-suite.app`, and you become its owner. Inside the instance, you and your team use Metis Suite as the [User Guide](/guide) describes. As the owner, you also manage it from the owner dashboard, which the [Self-Hosting Guide](/self-hosting) covers. This tab covers the console and what is different on a Cloud instance.

## What Metis Cloud gives you

- **A private instance at its own address.** The address ends in `.metis-suite.app`. You choose it once, and you cannot change it later.
- **A choice of two plans, Personal and Team.** Both include the same AI each month. See [Plans and prices](/cloud/billing/plans-and-prices).
- **Included AI.** Your instance comes with AI models that Metis Cloud provides, so you do not need an AI provider of your own. As on any instance, AI stays off for each mailbox, calendar and drive until its owner turns it on. The console shows how much of this month's credit is used. See [Included AI](/cloud/your-instance/included-ai).
- **Nightly backups.** Metis Cloud backs up every running instance each night.
- **Updates when you choose.** You start an upgrade from your instance's owner dashboard, and you can undo the last one.
- **A copy of your data.** You can download an export of your instance while it is running or stopped. See [Export your data](/cloud/your-instance/export-your-data).

## What you bring

- **Your own accounts.** You connect your own mail, calendar and drive accounts inside the instance, as on any instance.
- **A mail service, if you want your instance's own email sent through your own service.** Sign-in links, password resets and invites from your instance appear on the console's **Mail** tab until you set up your own SMTP server or Resend. See [Instance mail](/cloud/your-instance/instance-mail).
- **Your own AI provider, if you want one.** You can switch to your own provider at any time. Its traffic does not use the included credit.

To see everything that works differently on a Cloud instance, read [How Cloud differs](/cloud/your-instance/how-cloud-differs).

**[Get started](/cloud/get-started)**

Create your account, create an instance, finish setup and learn your way around the console.

**[Your instance](/cloud/your-instance)**

The Overview, instance mail, included AI, what differs on Cloud, exports and deleting an
instance.

**[Billing](/cloud/billing)**

Plans and prices, billing periods, your card, cancelling, invoices and missed payments.

**[Account](/cloud/account)**

Sign in, passwords, two-factor authentication, your profile and deleting your account.