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Pay-per-use meters compute by the hour, per active workspace, drawn from a prepaid wallet that never expires. Idle costs nothing — no seats, no monthly minimum, no lock-in.
Pay-per-use billing

Pay-per-use — a prepaid wallet, whole-hour metering, and a full ledger.

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The base rate

The base workspace (½ vCPU · 512 MiB) bills at roughly $0.0274 / hr — the monthly base rate divided across the hours in a month. Extra vCPU, RAM, and disk are metered on top (see Add-ons).
Whole-hour billing. A full hour is deducted from your wallet upfront at the start of each hour a workspace runs. Keep at least an hour of balance topped up so tasks don’t stall. There’s no partial-hour refund when a task closes mid-hour.

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Estimating extra resources

The Pay-per-use card includes a live “Extra resources — metered hourly” calculator. Add extra whole vCPUs and RAM in 0.25 GB steps and it shows the resulting workspace hourly rate — the base plus the metered extras:
  • Extra vCPU — about $0.0082 / hr per ½ vCPU
  • Extra RAM — about $0.0055 / hr per 0.25 GB
The actual amount of extra CPU/RAM for a given workspace is chosen per task when you create it, and billed only while that pod runs.

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Funding your wallet

On the Pay-per-use card you fund the wallet with a one-time Stripe payment:
1

Accept the Terms & Conditions

Required on the billing page before any funding or switch.
2

Pick an amount

Presets of **5/5 / 10 / 20∗∗,orenteracustomwhole−dollaramount(minimum20**, or enter a custom whole-dollar amount (minimum 5).
3

Pay on Stripe

You’re redirected to a one-time Stripe payment. Your balance is credited on return.

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Monthly add-ons on pay-per-use

Some things are monthly, not hourly — most notably backup storage & log retention (1.99/mo,includes2.5GiB,then1.99/mo, includes 2.5 GiB, then 0.50/GB). These are deducted from your wallet each month and renew automatically while active. The billing card shows them as a separate “from wallet · renews monthly” figure so they’re never confused with the hourly meter.
If your wallet runs dry, in-flight hours can’t be charged and new tasks are blocked until you top up. Task and pipeline creation require at least one prepaid hour of balance.

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Audit trail

Every deduction is recorded in a ledger (visible under Recent activity on the billing page): top-ups, hourly usage, backup renewals, and pool charges — so you can always see where your balance went.