Usage-based: how building blocks are measured and billed

On the usage-based plan you pay € 10 a month base (everything in Website) plus what you use, at the rates on /rates. Those rates follow the price list of our European cloud partner, including the VAT we cannot reclaim, plus our markup. You pay no VAT on top.

Building blocks: containers of any size (with keep-warm), your own Postgres server, cache, file storage, scheduled jobs, extra domains. Before you switch one on you see a cost card with the meters, the rates, the minimum per month and an example. Switching off is deleting; data of databases and storage stays 30 days as a backup.

Measuring: containers are measured per minute (allocated compute and memory while an instance runs, requests, outbound traffic). Database servers and cache count per hour they exist; storage per GiB per day. Every day is a line in your portal, rounded up to whole cents per day and per meter, with a CSV export.

Spending cap: every site has a cap, default € 50 a month, adjustable up to € 250 yourself. At 80% you get an email; at 100% your containers are paused (databases and storage stay). Raise the cap and everything starts again.

Settling: weekly or monthly, on the SEPA mandate from your first payment. Minimum € 10 per direct debit (below that it carries over). You get an email with the exact amount and date at least one day before every debit.