Billing
How Appentic bills for usage.
Appentic bills per workspace, and all billing is usage-based. You pay for the compute, storage, and bandwidth your services actually consume. There are no seat fees, no monthly minimums, and no plans to upgrade. If you deploy a service, run it for three hours, and delete it, you pay for three hours.
This matches how most developers think about cost: services that aren't running don't cost anything, services that handle little traffic cost little, and spiky workloads are charged for what they actually used.
What gets billed
Your monthly invoice has five line items:
- Compute. Per vCPU-second and per GB-second of memory, summed across all web services, workers, and cron job runs.
- Database storage. Per GB-month of provisioned disk for PostgreSQL and the key-value store.
- Egress bandwidth. Per GB of outbound traffic. Ingress is free.
- Build minutes. Per minute spent building your services. Cached builds use fewer minutes than clean ones.
- Incidental fees. Things like one-off dataset exports, if you've requested any.
Things that are included at no extra cost up to reasonable limits: logs, metrics retention, deploy history, backups inside the default retention window, audit logs, and the interactive shell.
Viewing usage
From Settings → Billing, you'll see three panels:
- Current balance. Credits remaining on your account. See Credits for how credits are applied.
- Month-to-date usage. A live running total of what you'll be charged this month, broken down by line item. This updates throughout the day, so you can watch a new service's cost as you dial in its size and concurrency.
- Invoice history. Past months' invoices, downloadable as PDF for your own accounting.
Paying
Appentic charges the card on file at the end of each calendar month. If a charge fails, you'll receive an email with the reason and have seven days to update your payment method before services are suspended. Suspended services aren't deleted: they stop serving traffic, but their configuration and data are preserved so you can resume as soon as billing is healthy again.