Billing

Lizard has one self-serve plan, Pro. It costs $19 a month and comes with $19 in monthly credits. The credits cover apps, Sandboxes, Managed Postgres, Managed Redis, Managed Object Storage, Persistent Volumes and outgoing traffic. Once you use your credits, you pay as you go at the published rates.

Manage your plan on the Billing page in account settings or with lizard billing. The plan belongs to the workspace owner. Usage in every workspace you own counts toward your plan, and members add no seat fee.

Pro

Pro renews each month until you cancel. Unused monthly credits do not carry over to the next month.

Monthly credits and overage

Each month starts with $19 in credits, and usage draws from them first. Usage above $19 is overage, charged at the same rates.

Lizard charges overage as it builds up, not in one bill at the end of the month. When unbilled overage reaches $20, Lizard charges your card. Each paid charge raises the next step: $100, then $200, $400 and $1,000, and $1,000 after that. The steps start again at $20 each month. When the month ends, any overage not yet charged goes on one final invoice. There is no spending cap.

The Billing page shows how much of your $19 you have used this month, the overage so far and your next charge.

Resource rates

Prices are in US dollars.

Incoming traffic is free. Apps, Managed Postgres and Managed Redis use these rates. Sandboxes have a flat hourly price for each size; see Sandbox sizes.

For example, one vCPU and 1 GB of memory used for one hour cost $0.0375192 in compute. Storage and outgoing traffic can add to that. See pricing for all rates and plan terms.

Trial

You can browse with a new account, but you need Pro to create apps, Sandboxes, databases or volumes. Pro starts with a 7-day trial and $5 in trial credits. You add a card to start it; Apple Pay works too. Nothing is charged when the trial starts. When it ends, Pro begins at $19 a month unless you cancel first.

Each account and each card gets one trial. If the account had one before, Pro starts at once and charges $19 that day. If the card had one, the trial does not start and nothing is charged; start Pro at $19 on the Billing page.

The trial includes every Pro feature, with lower limits until your first paid invoice.

When trial credits run out

• When you use all your trial credits, Lizard pauses running resources and blocks new ones. It keeps their data.
• To go on, choose Start Pro now on the Billing page or run lizard billing start-now. This ends the trial, charges $19 and starts your first paid month with $19 in credits. Paused apps and databases start again once the payment goes through.

Unused trial credits end with the trial. They do not move to the paid month.

Promo codes

A promo code can give a longer trial, up to 730 days, and more trial credits. It replaces the standard 7 days and $5. Redeem a code on the Billing page or with lizard billing promo <code>.

• Before the trial starts, Lizard saves the code and applies it when you add your card.
• During the trial, a code raises its length and credits to what the code gives. It does not add to what you already have.
• Codes work only before your first payment.
• Each account and each card can use one code.

Limits

Pro limits apply from your first paid invoice, including a Start Pro now payment. See Limits for Sandbox start rates and other limits.

Payment failures

If a charge fails, whether the monthly $19 or an overage charge:

• You cannot create new resources from the moment the charge fails.
• Running resources keep running for 72 hours, then pause.
• Paused resources keep their data.

Pay the open invoice on the Billing page. Once it is paid, Lizard lifts the block and starts paused apps and databases again. Resume paused Sandboxes yourself. Stripe retries a failed charge; if the last retry fails, Pro ends.

Cancelling

Cancel at any time on the Billing page, in the Stripe customer portal, or with lizard billing cancel. Pro stays active until the end of the current month or trial. Overage up to that date goes on a final invoice. Cancelling during the trial costs nothing.

Until the end date, you can undo the cancel on the Billing page or with lizard billing resume.

When Pro ends, Lizard blocks new resources and pauses running ones. It keeps their data. To use them again, start Pro on the Billing page. A second trial is not available, so Pro starts at once at $19.

Enterprise

Enterprise accounts pay as you go and get an invoice each month for the month before. Rates, limits and payment terms follow your contract. If you need more than Pro allows, ask us about Enterprise on the pricing page.

Idle apps and stored data

An app can use memory and CPU even when it has no requests. Stop the app to stop compute usage. You pay for Persistent Volumes and Managed Object Storage while you keep data in them, even when the app is stopped.

See storage and recovery before removing data. Read metrics to compare configured limits with measured use.

Updated October 12, 2026