Billing model
Box charges in credit seconds — one second of a box in an active state costs one credit second. 1 dollar = 100,000 credit seconds (~27.8 hours of active box time per dollar.What counts as billable
A box accumulates credit seconds while in any of these states:provisioned · cloning · ready · idle · running
Not billed: archived (stopped), provisioning, archiving, error
Stop a box to pause billing:
Plans
Base subscription — $20/month
- 2,000,000 credit seconds included (~23 days of continuous uptime)
- Monthly refresh — unused seconds from your subscription do not carry over
- 7-day free trial included (see below)
Extra credit pack — $20 one-time
- 2,000,000 additional credit seconds
- Carries over month-to-month — never expires
- Purchase as many packs as you need from the dashboard
Free trial
- 7 days from first sign-up
- Full access to box creation during the trial
- Trial limits apply (see table below)
- If the trial ends without a paid subscription, your account freezes until you complete checkout
Limits
Active box limits
Creation rate limits
Box TTL
Set a custom TTL at creation: