Pay-as-you-go pricing for every Cloider product
Cloider is pay as you go from prepaid funds: no plans to commit to, no upfront fees and no charge for idle machines. Every price below is live, a monthly rate for a 30-day month prorated to the second, and the same prices are served as JSON at cloider.com/api/pricing.
- $25 welcome credit, 14-day trial
- Free egress and requests
- Billed by the second
- No commitments
Every price in one place
| Product | What you pay for | Price |
|---|---|---|
| App Engine | Compute | $35 per compute unit per month |
| Kubernetes | Compute | $35 per compute unit per month |
| Kubernetes | Persistent volumes | $0.50 per GiB per month |
| Kubernetes | Load balancers | $10 per month each |
| Databases | Plan, by engine and size | from $3.99 per month |
| Object Storage | Data stored | $0.25 per GB per month |
| Container Registry | Image data stored | $0.50 per GB per month |
Always free
- Egress and bandwidth
- API and S3 requests
- Registry pushes and pulls
- Domains, DNS records and DNS hosting
- cloider.app subdomains with HTTPS
- App builds
Database plans
Every engine has six plans. A plan's price is charged per second while the database is Ready, and a paused database pays only for its storage.
| Plan | vCPU | Memory | Storage | Per month | Paused |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | 0.25 | 0.25 GB | 1 GB | $3.99 | $0.50 |
| Starter | 0.25 | 0.5 GB | 2 GB | $6.99 | $1.00 |
| Basic | 0.5 | 1 GB | 4 GB | $12.99 | $2.00 |
| Standard | 1 | 1 GB | 6 GB | $14.99 | $3.00 |
| Plus | 1 | 2 GB | 8 GB | $29.99 | $4.00 |
| Pro | 2 | 4 GB | 16 GB | $59.99 | $8.00 |
| Plan | vCPU | Memory | Storage | Per month | Paused |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | 0.25 | 0.25 GB | 1 GB | $3.99 | $0.50 |
| Starter | 0.25 | 0.5 GB | 2 GB | $6.99 | $1.00 |
| Basic | 0.5 | 1 GB | 4 GB | $12.99 | $2.00 |
| Standard | 1 | 1 GB | 6 GB | $14.99 | $3.00 |
| Plus | 1 | 2 GB | 8 GB | $29.99 | $4.00 |
| Pro | 2 | 4 GB | 16 GB | $59.99 | $8.00 |
| Plan | vCPU | Memory | Storage | Per month | Paused |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | 0.25 | 0.25 GB | 1 GB | $3.99 | $0.50 |
| Starter | 0.25 | 0.5 GB | 2 GB | $6.99 | $1.00 |
| Basic | 0.5 | 1 GB | 4 GB | $11.99 | $2.00 |
| Standard | 1 | 2 GB | 8 GB | $29.99 | $4.00 |
| Plus | 1 | 4 GB | 16 GB | $59.99 | $8.00 |
| Pro | 2 | 8 GB | 32 GB | $99.99 | $16.00 |
| Plan | vCPU | Memory | Storage | Per month | Paused |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | 0.25 | 0.5 GB | 2 GB | $6.99 | $1.00 |
| Starter | 0.5 | 1 GB | 4 GB | $12.99 | $2.00 |
| Basic | 1 | 1 GB | 6 GB | $14.99 | $3.00 |
| Standard | 1 | 2 GB | 8 GB | $29.99 | $4.00 |
| Plus | 2 | 4 GB | 16 GB | $59.99 | $8.00 |
| Pro | 3 | 6 GB | 24 GB | $89.99 | $12.00 |
What common setups cost per month
A small web app with a database
- An app averaging 0.25 vCPU and 512 MB: $8.75
- The smallest PostgreSQL plan: $3.99
$12.74 per month
A Kubernetes staging cluster
- Pods requesting 1 vCPU and 2 GB in total: $35.00
- 10 GiB of persistent volumes: $5.00
- One load balancer: $10.00
$50.00 per month
Assets and backups in a bucket
- 50 GB stored for the month: $12.50
- Downloads and requests: free
$12.50 per month
A Kubernetes cluster's control plane also uses a little CPU and memory, billed as compute.
Estimate your own setup
Live prices for a 30-day month. Running resources are billed by the second, storage by the data you keep, and egress and requests are free.
1 unit is 1 vCPU or 3 GB of memory, whichever is larger, at $35.00 per month. You pay for the 10% you use on average, not the idle 90%.
- Compute 1 × 0.01 units$0.35
No per-app fee. Builds aren't billed. Images are stored in your registry.
How billing works
- Usage is paid as it happens from prepaid funds: your credits first, then your balance, which the account Owner tops up.
- Every price is a monthly rate for a 30-day month (720 hours), and usage is counted to the second.
- Apps and clusters pay in compute units of 1 vCPU or 3 GB of memory, whichever is larger, for the larger of each container's request and its use.
- A paused cluster pays only for its volumes, a paused database only for its storage, and a paused app nothing.
- A deleted resource costs nothing from the moment it is deleted, and the Usage page keeps showing what it cost for 60 days.
- Prices have effective dates, so a change applies from its date onward and never to usage already done.
- One invoice a month records what the month before cost, with every resource on its own lines.
Pricing questions
Is there a free trial?
Yes. Sign up with Google or GitHub and claim the $25 welcome credit from the dashboard, which starts a 14-day trial. Usage during the trial is metered like any other, so the Usage page shows what your setup really costs.
What is a compute unit?
The unit apps and Kubernetes clusters are billed in: 1 vCPU, or 3 GB of memory, whichever gives the higher number. A workload using 0.5 vCPU and 1 GB is 0.5 units, one using 0.25 vCPU and 3 GB is 1 unit. So a CPU heavy workload pays for its CPU and a memory heavy one for its memory, never both.
Do I pay for idle servers?
No. There are no machines or node pools to pay for. Each running container is billed for the larger of its resource request and its actual use, so set requests close to what your workloads really use.
What happens when my funds run out?
Cloider emails the account Owner 7 days and 1 day before the funds run out at the current usage. When they do, clusters, databases and apps are paused, while buckets and registry projects keep working. After 14 days without a top-up, the resources are removed. Adding funds before then makes the account active again.
Are there egress, bandwidth or request fees?
No. Data transfer out, API and S3 requests, registry pushes and pulls, DNS hosting and cloider.app subdomains with HTTPS are free.
Do I need a plan or a commitment?
No. Cloider has no account plans, no upfront fees and no limit on how many resources an account runs. What you can run is limited only by your funds.
More answers in the documentation, or contact us.