NAME

billing — show the plan, pay for one, set the overage cap

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Each account has a plan. Its limits are for the whole account: the sum of all its VMs, stopped ones included. The traffic quota counts every VM of the account in and out over the calendar month (UTC), removed VMs included.

A new account starts on a 14-day trial.

Prices are per month. Checkout shows reais in Brazil and US dollars elsewhere. Payments go through Stripe; chroot.dev never sees the card.

A subscription runs on calendar months (UTC): the first charge covers the rest of the current month, prorated, then each month is charged on day 1.

With a subscription, use past the plan is billed at the end of the month instead of being refused or slowed:

traffic

US$ 0.02 or R$ 0.10 per GiB past the quota, in whole GiB.

disk

US$ 0.10 or R$ 0.50 per GiB-month past the plan's disk, measured each hour, up to twice the plan's disk.

The overage stops at a cap per month, US$ 10 or R$ 50 unless changed with billing cap. Past it, traffic is no longer billed and the VMs drop to 1 Mbit/s each way until the month ends. On the trial and on a free plan there is no overage: past the traffic quota the VMs run at 1 Mbit/s, and the disk stays at the plan's.

When the trial or a free plan ends, or a payment is 7 days late, the account is suspended: its VMs are stopped and cannot be started or created until it is paid. Nothing is deleted. Emails go to the account's address 3 days before a trial or a free plan ends, when a payment fails, and when the account is suspended or active again.

The commands are as follows:

billing

The plan, where it comes from (trial, free or subscription) and when it ends or renews, this month's traffic and disk against the plan, and, with a subscription, the overage so far and the cap.

billing plans

The plans, their prices and the overage.

billing subscribe plan

Print a link to the Stripe Checkout page for plan. With a subscription already, change it to plan at once; the difference is prorated on the next invoice.

billing portal

Print a link to the Stripe billing portal: card, invoices, billing address, and cancelling, which takes effect at the end of the paid month.

billing cap amount | default

Set the most the overage may cost in a month, in the currency of the subscription, or go back to the default.

EXAMPLES

See the plans and subscribe to p1:

$ ssh chroot.dev billing plans
$ ssh chroot.dev billing subscribe p1

Days left on the trial:

$ ssh chroot.dev billing --json | jq '(.until - now) / 86400 | floor'

Allow up to US$ 25 of overage a month:

$ ssh chroot.dev billing cap 25

SEE ALSO

stat(1), whoami(1), costs(7), terms(7)