Billing & Pricing

Billing Portal

You can manage all billing related issues through the billing portal, like:

• adding and updating the payment method for your team
• viewing and downloading invoices
• updating your billing address

To access the billing portal, navigate to the billing page and click on “Manage billing data”.

You will be redirected to our payment provider “Stripe” where you can carry out any of the tasks listed above.

Note

We do not store any payment data ourselves. This is handled by our payments provider Stripe in order to ensure secure handling of your payment data.

How Billing Works

Sliplane uses a straightforward pay-per-server pricing model.

Note

All prices are listed excluding VAT. VAT might be added depending on your billing address that you provide during checkout.

Per-Team Billing

Billing is managed on a per-team basis. Each team has its own separate subscription and billing information.

Per-Server Pricing

Unlike many platforms that charge per service, container, or resource, Sliplane charges per server. You can deploy as many services on a server as it can handle - your frontend, backend, database, and more - all for one fixed price.

Example: A typical small project with a React frontend, Node.js API, and PostgreSQL database can all run on a single Starter server (€9/month).

Per-Hour Billing

Sliplane bills by the hour, not by the month. Here’s what that means:

• We calculate the per-hour rate from the monthly price
• You’re billed for the exact time your server exists (from creation to deletion)
• If you keep a server for only 14 days, you only pay for 14 days

Billing is Time-Based, Not Usage-Based

Your bill is based on how long your server exists, not on how much you use it:

• An idle server costs the same as a busy server
• Paused or stopped services still incur server costs
• The only way to stop charges is to delete the server

When you see “usage based” in the billing portal, this refers to the hours your server has been running, not CPU or traffic usage.

Why Monthly Bills Vary Slightly

Since we bill per hour, and months have different lengths (28-31 days), your monthly total may vary slightly. It averages out to the advertised monthly price over time.

Example calculation for a Starter server (€9/month):

• Average month: 30.42 days
• Per-hour rate: €9 ÷ 30.42 ÷ 24 ≈ €0.0123
• 14 days = 14 × 24 hours × €0.0123 ≈ €4.15

Billing Cycle and Billing Threshold

Every customer has a billing threshold, starting at 2€. The first time your usage exceeds this amount, your payment method will be charged. After that, the threshold increases gradually.

We bill monthly at the end of a billing period or if your usage exceeds the billing threshold earlier.

The billing threshold can be reset if you change your payment method or if payments fail repeatedly.

How to Stop Billing

If you want to stop billing you have to delete all servers in your team.

Note that you might still get a final invoice for unbilled usage up to the point of deletion.

Server Pricing Tiers

Servers start at €9/month + VAT for the Starter configuration.

For the full list of server sizes and configurations, see our pricing page.

Bandwidth

Ingress and egress bandwidth are included with every server at no extra cost under our Fair Use Policy.

There are no hard bandwidth caps and we do not throttle your server.

If your server stays under 1TB of outbound traffic per month, you are clearly within fair use. If you expect or are already seeing more than that, please contact support so we can understand your use case.

Short bursts are usually not an issue; we look at sustained usage patterns.

Object Storage Pricing

Object Storage is billed separately from servers.

It costs €5 per month for each 250 GB block of average stored data across all buckets in your team. Prices are listed excluding VAT.

Sliplane does not charge for Object Storage ingress, egress, or API requests.

For details and examples, see Object Storage Pricing.

Common Scenarios

Here are some typical use cases and their costs.

Small Project

A typical small project with frontend, backend, and database:

• Setup: 1 Starter server (€9/month)
• Services: React app, Express API, PostgreSQL
• Monthly cost: €9 + VAT

Testing Environment

Spin up a server for quick testing:

• Duration: 3 days
• Server: Starter (€9/month)
• Cost: 3 days × 24 hours × (€9 ÷ 30.42 ÷ 24) ≈ €0.89

Multiple Environments

Running dev, staging, and production:

• Setup: 3 Starter servers
• Monthly cost: 3 × €9 = €27 + VAT

Summary

• Per-server pricing: Unlimited services per server
• Per-hour billing: Pay only for the time your server exists
• Free ingress and egress bandwidth: Included under our fair use policy

Questions about billing? Contact our support team.