Pricing
How It Works
Synodes uses consumption-based pricing — pay only for what you run. No monthly plans, no minimums, no commitment. You get 5 free container-hours every month (worth ~$0.25) to try the platform. After that, you're billed by the second for container runtime and by the GB-month for database storage.
Rates
| Resource | Rate | Billing Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Container runtime | $0.05 | Per hour · billed per second |
| Turso database storage | $0.25 | Per GB-month · prorated |
Cost Examples
| Scenario | Container-Hours | Database Storage | Estimated Monthly Bill |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light experimentation | 10 h | 0.5 GB | ~$0.38 |
| Hobby developer | 40 h | 2 GB | ~$2.50 |
| Small team | 200 h | 20 GB | ~$15.00 |
| Production agent fleet | 1,000 h | 50 GB | ~$62.50 |
Estimates shown before the 5 free hours. Actual bill based on per-second container runtime and prorated DB storage.
What Counts as a "Sandbox Hour"?
You're billed for the time a sandbox is in the Running or Starting state. Stopped sandboxes don't accumulate runtime — only storage (for snapshots). Deleting a sandbox stops all billing immediately.
Example: a sandbox with 2 CPUs and 4 GB RAM that runs for 30 minutes = 0.5 container-hours. At $0.05/hour, that's $0.025 for the run — billed as-you-go, no overage calculations, no plan limits to track.
BYO Infrastructure
You can also deploy Synodes regions on your own cloud infrastructure using the open-source Helm chart. You pay for the underlying compute (EC2, GCE, etc.) directly to your cloud provider. The consumption rates above apply when you use the hosted platform at app.synodes.io — self-hosted regions are free under the AGPL-3.0 license. Learn more about providers.