Billing

Understand how Replicas billing works across plans, seats, and API usage.

Billing

Replicas has two billing surfaces:

• Per-seat subscription: covers interactive workspaces (Dashboard, Slack, Linear, GitHub, GitLab, CLI).
• Metered API/Automation usage: priced per active minute and tier, separate from seats. Calls that don’t pass an explicit size keep the legacy $0.0166/min rate.

You only pay while a workspace is awake. Workspaces auto-sleep after 1 hour of inactivity and accrue no charges while sleeping.

Plans

Plan	Price	Interactive	API/Automation	Included minutes	Repos	Sandbox (CPU / disk / memory)
Hobby	Free	1,200 min, one-time grant	1,200 min, one-time grant (separate bucket)	None	3	2 vCPU / 20 GB / 8 GB
Developer	$120 / seat / mo	Unlimited	Size-based: $0.008 (small) or $0.016 (large) / min; $0.0166 / min when size is omitted	5,000 / cycle	10	2 vCPU / 20 GB / 8 GB
Team	$300 / seat / mo	Unlimited	Size-based: $0.008 (small) or $0.016 (large) / min; $0.0166 / min when size is omitted, higher rate limits	15,000 / cycle	Unlimited	4 vCPU / 32 GB / 16 GB
Enterprise	Custom	Unlimited	Custom rates, SOC 2	Custom	Unlimited	Custom CPU / disk / memory

Automations and warm pools are available on every plan; the public API is Developer and above. Live pricing: tryreplicas.com/pricing.

Hobby buckets are seeded once at signup and do not refill monthly. When a bucket is exhausted, that bucket’s workspaces are terminated; the other bucket is unaffected.

Repository cap is enforced inclusive of repository set membership; a repo in two repository sets consumes three slots toward the cap.

Team and Enterprise extras. Team and Enterprise customers get a shared Slack channel with the Replicas team for direct support and a dedicated forward-deployed engineer (FDE) included with the plan. The FDE runs a 60-minute onboarding call to learn your stack and codebase end-to-end, then sets up your environments for you or alongside you. Team workspaces are auto-upgraded to the higher CPU/disk/memory tier shown in the plan table. Book a session to get started. Enterprise customers can also request custom sandbox CPU/memory/disk limits beyond the standard tiers.

Seats

A seat is one unique user (by email) who creates a workspace from an interactive surface (Dashboard, Slack, Linear, GitHub, GitLab, or the CLI, which authenticates as you). Seat totals are reconciled at the end of each billing period and added to the next invoice.

Metered API & Automation usage

Minutes from the public API and Automations are tracked separately from seats:

• Paid plans include a per-cycle quota (Developer 5,000 min, Team 15,000 min) before overage applies.

• Overage is priced per active minute and tier:

  size	Compute	Rate
  small	2 vCPU, 8 GB memory, 20 GB disk	$0.008 / min
  large	4 vCPU, 16 GB memory, 32 GB disk	$0.016 / min
  omitted	Org’s sandbox tier (legacy)	$0.0166 / min

  Pass size on POST /v1/replica or set workspace_size on an automation to opt into per-tier pricing. Calls that don’t set a size inherit the org’s sandbox tier and are billed at the legacy rate. Charges are rounded up per minute.

• Mixed fleets bill correctly; a workspace charges at the rate of the size it was created with. e.g. an automation set to small always costs $0.008/min even if you also have large workspaces running.

• Personal automations attach workspaces to the owner’s user account, but the workspace source remains Automation and minutes stay in this metered bucket.

• No charges while a workspace sleeps. Workspaces auto-sleep after 1 hour idle and are deleted after 7 days asleep.

• Metered totals are added to the next invoice.

Programmatic and automated use of Replicas is allowed only through the public REST API (with an organization API key) or Automations. Driving interactive surfaces from scripts or headless browsers is prohibited under our Terms of Service.

Examples

• Teammate opens the dashboard or runs replicas create → counts as a seat, no metered charge.
• CI pipeline hits the API with "size": "small" for a 25-minute workspace → 25 metered minutes at $0.008/min (≈ $0.20).
• Nightly Automation with workspace_size: "large" runs for 90 minutes → 90 metered minutes at $0.016/min (≈ $1.44).
• Legacy API caller that doesn’t set size, 25-minute workspace → 25 metered minutes at the org-tier rate of $0.0166/min (≈ $0.42).

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