We have acknowledged that it has been a challenge to explore the full potential of open web services and Open Source Cloud with the constraints applied on the free tier. That is why we are introducing a new usage based token model and removed limits on the free tier.
With this change you can build a solution consisting of multiple open web services, for example Site Analytics with Umami that uses a PostgreSQL database for data storage. Try this out for free for a limited time and then upgrade to a paid tier if you want to continuously run the solution.
How does it work?
- Every instance of an open web service that you launch consumes 10 – 160 tokens per day running. Amount of tokens varies depending on the type of service.
- When you sign up and create a team you get 300 tokens that you can use. This is your starting balance.
- When you upgrade to a paid plan you get an additional 300 tokens that you can immediately use.
- On paid plan your team receives a daily refill of tokens and amount of tokens varies depending on paid plan tier.
- If you run out of tokens you can’t create any new service instances.
Example
To illustrate this with an example we will create a PostgreSQL database instance and a Umami site analytics instance. These two instances consumes each 10 tokens per day.
That means that in total your team will consume 20 tokens per day.
As a new team with a starting balance of 300 tokens that means you can run this solution for 15 days before you are out of tokens.
If you then upgrade to the first paid tier (Personal) you will get an additional 300 tokens added to your balance, and also you receive 20 new tokens each day. This means that for only the price of the Personal tier you can run this solution as long as you are on this plan or higher. And the extra 300 you received you can evaluate 2 more open web services for 15 days.
We believe this gives you plenty of room to start exploring building solutions based on open source as open web services, without you having to manage the cloud infrastructure behind it. And as always you can bring this home or to your own cloud infrastructure at any time as they are all made of unmodified open source available on GitHub.
