VM pricing

Suji is prepaid, hourly, per-VM. You pick a VM size, your credit balance ticks down every hour, you stop or destroy whenever you want. There are no plans, no tiers, no commitments. For the conceptual overview see Billing & credits. This page is the pricing reference.

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VM sizes

Monthly figures are 24/7 equivalents (730 hours). A VM that runs 8 hours/day costs roughly a third of the monthly figure.

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What’s free

• Inbound traffic: never billed.
• App installs: apps share the VM’s resources at no extra cost.
• Cloudflare Tunnel ingress + HTTPS: built in.

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What’s billed beyond the VM hour

• Outbound traffic over the monthly quota: most users never hit the quota; surcharge details on the VM’s Network tab.
• Snapshot storage: per GB-month, prorated. Small VMs typically cost a few cents/month for a couple of snapshots.
• Detached volumes: same rate as snapshot storage.

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Resizing & multi-VM

• Resize between sizes any time. New rate kicks in at the resize moment, billed to the minute.
• Multiple VMs: each VM bills independently. Run a Small VM all month and spin up a Large one for a one-off workload, pay for what runs.
• Stop a VM: powers down the OS but does not stop the bill. The cloud provider keeps the disk and IP reserved while stopped, so the hourly rate continues. Use Stop for ops/maintenance, not to save money.
• Destroy a VM: charges stop entirely. Take a snapshot first if you want to come back. Manual snapshots are kept until you delete them while your balance stays above €0; at €0 every snapshot and volume enters a 7-day retention window (kept if you top up in time).

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Comparing to subscription pricing

Coming from a “€X/month” SaaS? The mental model is:

• The €/month figure above is the most you’d pay if the VM ran 24/7.
• Running a smaller VM, fewer VMs, or destroying VMs you don’t need directly reduces the bill. (Stopping a VM does not, a stopped VM bills the same as a running one.)
• Adding or removing apps doesn’t change the bill, only the VM size matters.

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