Full-stack app for under $5/mo

Pricing that makes sense for indie developers

Nano databases from $2/mo. Containers from $1/mo. No $50/mo minimums, no surprise bills. Start free, pay only for what you use — per second.

Free

$0/month

Everything you need to launch your side project. No credit card required.

  • 1 PostgreSQL database
  • 1 container service
  • 1 GB storage
  • 5 GB egress
  • Custom domains & SSL
  • Secrets management
  • Metrics & alerting
  • 30-day log retention

Pay-as-you-go

$0base + usage

Scale without limits. Pay only for the resources you consume.

  • Unlimited databases & services
  • Per-second billing
  • Scale-to-zero support
  • NVMe storage from $0.10/GB
  • S3 storage from $0.015/GB
  • Priority support
  • Everything in Free, plus more

See what you'll actually pay

No hidden fees, no gotchas. A full-stack nano setup — database, container, storage, backups, and SSL — costs under $5/mo. That's 6-10x cheaper than Railway, Render, or Heroku.

With scale-to-zero, your dev and staging environments cost literally $0 when idle.

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Detailed pricing

All resources are billed monthly. On-demand services use per-second granularity.

ResourcePriceUnit
Database compute$4.00per vCPU / month
Database memory$2.00per GB RAM / month
Database storage (NVMe)$0.10per GB / month
Service compute (always-on)$4.00per vCPU / month
Service memory (always-on)$2.00per GB RAM / month
Service storage (NVMe)$0.06per GB / month
Service compute (on-demand)$4.00per vCPU / month (per-second)
Service memory (on-demand)$2.00per GB RAM / month (per-second)
Log ingestion$0.10per GB
Object storage (S3)$0.015per GB / month
Egress$0.05per GB

Included free with every plan

No extra charges for the essentials. Every account gets these features at no cost.

Custom Domains

Point your own domain to any service or bucket. SSL included.

Secrets Management

Encrypted environment variables injected at runtime.

Metrics & Dashboards

CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics with built-in charts.

Alerting

Configurable alerts for resource usage and uptime.

30-Day Log Retention

Search, stream, and filter logs across all your services.

Automatic Backups

Daily database backups with point-in-time recovery.

Start building for free

No credit card required. Deploy your first app in under a minute.

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