Whether you're a 5-person studio wrapping up your first short film or a 200-person production house juggling three simultaneous series, Kitsu grows with you at every stage.
Most studios start small. They cobble together spreadsheets, shared drives, and chat threads. And it works, until it doesn't.
Kitsu is designed to be adopted early and stay useful forever: small teams get a clean setup that doesn't require a dedicated pipeline TD to maintain. Large productions get the depth they need: multi-project dashboards, granular permissions, custom workflows, and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
The platform scales in every direction:
As studios grow, the real challenge is managing several productions at once without losing visibility.
Kitsu gives producers and supervisors a cross-project view so nothing falls through the cracks: track progress, spot bottlenecks, and reallocate resources across productions without switching between tools or exporting data into a spreadsheet.
When you land a new project, you spin it up inside the same system your team already knows.
Scaling is about reliability.
Kitsu offers three deployment paths depending on where your studio is:
| Stage | Option | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Early | Self-hosted | The full power of an open-source solution |
| Lean | Cloud (SaaS) | Up and running in minutes, no ops overhead |
| Growing | On-Premise | Full deployment on your own servers, managed by CGWire |
You move between these as your needs evolve. CGWire's ops team handles the transition.
Kitsu is open source. Your data is yours, the codebase is auditable, and you're never dependent on a vendor's pricing decisions or roadmap pivots.
The platform has been tested at scale. We help studios in 50+ countries run Kitsu in production today, from boutique agencies to large-scale studios.
Kitsu can scale with you.
How much time are you losing right now by managing production in tools that weren't built for it?