Free
$0/ month
- Monthly usage credit
- $1
- Limit per replica
- 1 vCPU · 512 MB
- The limit isn’t billed; you pay only for actual usage.
- Runtime log retention
- 3 days
Billed on actual usage
Pay for what you use.
Polyer measures the CPU, memory and storage each service actually uses every minute and bills only that, not a server size. A small project usually costs just a few dollars a month.
Hobby
$3/ month
- Monthly usage credit
- $3
- Limit per replica
- 4 vCPU · 4 GB
- The limit isn’t billed; you pay only for actual usage.
- Runtime log retention
- 7 days
Pro
$10/ month
- Monthly usage credit
- $10
- Limit per replica
- 8 vCPU · 8 GB
- The limit isn’t billed; you pay only for actual usage.
- Runtime log retention
- 30 days
Paid plan fees include equal usage credit for the billing period. Applicable, unexpired gifts offset usage first under their grant rules, followed by included plan credit and wallet credit. On subscription channels that support usage billing, any remaining usage is billed through your subscription. Subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel renewal. The plan fee is not a spending cap; workspace spending limits still apply.
One verified account receives $1 per fixed 30-day Free cycle in its personal workspace, for as long as the account stays open. Unused allowance does not roll over. No card is required for Free. Extra workspaces require their own Pro subscription, confirmed when you choose to pay.
What does a month cost?
Billed on actual use, not limits, so a small project usually costs just a few dollars a month.
Personal project
A blog, bot or personal API
A few thousand visits a day
- Website / frontend$1.08
$1.08/ month
Free plan: its $1 monthly credit covers most of it, so you pay about $0.08.
Estimate this setupSide project
Frontend, API and a database
Tens of thousands of requests a day
- Website / frontend$1.08
- API / backend$1.84
- Postgres / MySQL$1.54
$4.46/ month
Hobby plan: its $3.00 fee counts as credit toward this.
Estimate this setupSmall product
Web, API, worker, database and Redis
Hundreds of thousands of requests a day
- Website / frontend$1.08
- API / backend · Medium$4.40
- Worker / bot$1.36
- Postgres / MySQL$1.78
- Redis$1.08
$9.70/ month
Pro plan: its $10.00 fee is included credit that covers this.
Estimate this setupRequest volumes assume about 10–20 ms of CPU per request; real numbers depend on your app.
Estimate your project
Add the services your project runs and how busy each one is. The estimate assumes that use for 30 days and leaves out egress and backup storage. Your actual bill follows each minute’s use: more when busy, less when quiet.
$4.46/ month
- Free$3.46after its $1 creditover its per-service limit of 1 vCPU · 512 MBallows up to 3 services
- Hobby$4.46includes $3.00 of usageover its per-service limit of 4 vCPU · 4 GB
- Pro$10.00includes $10.00 of usageover its per-service limit of 8 vCPU · 8 GB
Billed on usage, not on server size
A VPS bills the size you rent for the whole month, busy or idle. Polyer measures the CPU, memory and storage each service actually uses every minute and bills only that.
| Compared | Traditional VPS | Polyer |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay for | The size you rent | CPU, memory and storage measured every minute |
| While a service is idle | Full price | CPU charges fall with CPU use; memory is billed on what the service holds |
| After a service stops | Full price until the server is deleted | No CPU or memory charges; volumes are billed on the data they keep |
| Disk | The disk size you choose | Space actually used on the volume |
| CPU and memory size | A fixed size you pay for; outgrowing it means resizing the server | A ceiling each service can use up to; the ceiling itself is not billed |
A service’s CPU and memory setting is a ceiling, not a size
New services start at their plan's per-replica limit: Free 512 MiB / 1 vCPU, Hobby 4 GiB / 4 vCPU, Pro 8 GiB / 8 vCPU. Usage can grow within that limit without a resize or restart. You pay for actual usage, including idle memory; unused headroom is not billed. Replicas are billed on their combined usage. Adding credit does not change your plan.
Example: a service limited to Pro: 8 vCPU · 8 GB that averages 0.1 vCPU and 256 MB of memory costs about $1.80 over 30 days at base-region prices. Billed at its limit like a VPS, it would cost $96.00.
Resource unit prices
Base-region prices; regional multipliers apply to resource charges. CPU, memory, volumes and database backup storage are metered every minute and public egress per GB. The monthly column is the same rate over a 30-day billing month, for comparison.
| Resource | Unit price | Per month (30 days) |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | $0.000185 / vCPU / min | $8 / vCPU |
| Memory | $0.0000926 / GB / min | $4 / GB |
| Persistent volume | $0.00000139 / GB / min | $0.06 / GB |
| Database backup storage | $0.000000231 / GB / min | $0.01 / GB |
| Public service network egress | $0.02 / GB | — |
Private service-to-service traffic within the same project environment and network ingress are free. Public outbound traffic is billed, including connections through public database addresses.
Regions
US Central (St. Louis)
1× base resource prices
Account resource limits
Free workspaces have fixed limits; topping up credit does not change them. Hobby and Pro lift the counts once the subscription is paid. Per-service ceilings and regional capacity still apply.
| Limit | Free | Hobby | Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Projects | 1 | No workspace cap | No workspace cap |
| Services | 3 | No workspace cap | No workspace cap |
| Per-service ceiling (each replica) | 1 vCPU · 0.5 GB | 4 vCPU · 4 GB | 8 vCPU · 8 GB |
| Replicas per service | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Volume size | 5 GB | 50 GB | 50 GB |
| Workspace reservations | No workspace cap | No workspace cap | No workspace cap |
These limits cap what you can configure and are not billed themselves; charges always follow measured usage.
Billing questions
Am I charged for a service’s CPU and memory limit?
No. The limit only caps how much a service can use. You are billed for the CPU and memory it actually uses each minute, so a quiet service costs far less than its limit would suggest.
Is the estimate my final bill?
No. CPU and memory charges follow actual usage, and the total also includes storage and network use. The estimate assumes constant resource use for 30 days.
Are third-party costs included?
Application licenses, paid APIs and external services are separate from Polyer resource billing.