Usage-Based Billing
Plash charges you only for the resources your applications actually consume.
How it works
- Usage-based billing: You pay for the resources your apps consume
- Required subscription: $5/month gives you $5 in credits
- Additional credits: When you need more than $5/month, you prepay for extra credits
- Monthly reset: Subscription credits reset to $5 each month; prepaid credits roll over
- Payment priority: Subscription credits are used first, then prepaid credits
- Daily billing: Costs are calculated and deducted from your credits once per day
- Automatic protection: Apps stop if both credit balances go negative or your subscription becomes inactive
Viewing your usage and costs
Usage dashboard
View detailed usage for each app in your dashboard. Click “View usage” to see daily breakdowns of:
- vCPU core minutes
- Memory GB minutes
- Disk GB minutes
- Egress GB transferred
- Daily costs
Billing center
Monitor your finances in the billing center:
- View your account balance
- Manage your subscription
- Purchase additional prepaid credits
- View your payment history and billing settings
Account protection
Your apps automatically stop if:
- Both credit balances go negative, OR
- Your subscription becomes inactive
This prevents unexpected charges and keeps you in control of costs.
What we track and charge for
Plash monitors four types of resource usage and charges based on actual consumption:
- CPU: $0.028 per vCPU core-hour: Processing power your app uses
- Memory: $0.014 per GB-hour: RAM your app uses while running
- Storage: $0.15 per GB-month: Disk space your app files take up
- Egress: $0.02 per GB: Data your app sends to users (downloads, web pages, API responses)
Our pricing is setup in a way that most apps should stay well within the $5/month credit allowance.
Questions or issues?
If you have questions about billing or run into any issues with your account, email us at support@answer.ai and we’ll help you out.