jamwt•3mo ago

Hey all, we now officially have a pay-as-you-go plan! We just launched the new Convex Starter plan, which is available immediately. The plan is a true pay-as-you-go, scale-to-zero plan, meaning that after registering a credit card, you only pay for extra resources beyond the free allotments. No seat fees. This is an especially good fit for builders who primarily use Chef. As your projects mature, it may make sense to upgrade to Convex Pro to get better scaling prices, beefier hardware, and production features. If you don’t need those features, then you’re absolutely welcome to stay on Convex Starter/Free forever. Full details here: https://news.convex.dev/introducing-the-new-convex-starter-plan-pay-for-only-what-you-need/

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Introducing the new Convex Starter Plan: Pay for only what you need

Pricing was one of the most challenging decisions when launching Convex GA two years ago. At the time, we had a general idea about who we were serving, what value we'd provide them, and what a fair price was to charge for that value. But we didn't have many actual

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jamwtOP•3mo ago

Happy to answer any questions about plans and pricing here

kamal.panara•3mo ago

It's going to be as useful to existing convex devs as much as vibe coders/chief users. i really wanted this, since I'm coming from firebase background.

glucinater•3mo ago

Curious to how you guys ended up implementing this: are yall making a new db per for pay as you go account, taking instantdbs approach and storing all the accounts in a big database (https://github.com/instantdb/instant?tab=readme-ov-file#architectural-overview), or something else

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jason•3mo ago

love the indie friendly pricing

nipunn•3mo ago

No changes to how Convex cloud is implemented! There's a whole distributed system running in the background to take advantage of the economies of scale. Starter (pay as you go) ends up having similar resource allocation as the free plan, but without limits.