How is usage billed?
Salus Cloud runs on prepaid credits: start with your free starter credit, then top up as you go. Credits pay for the compute, memory, storage, data transfer and managed databases your apps use, metered by app, project and environment. Builds aren’t charged: your plan sets how many run at once. Your balance can go below zero, so treat it as a payment balance rather than a spending limit.
How much free credit do I get?
Get $5 in credit when you create your organization, and up to $20 more as you connect your code, connect your AI assistant and make your first deploy: up to $25 in all. No card needed, and credits don’t expire. Each step pays once per organization and once per person. Credit pays for what your apps use once they run. Builds aren’t charged.
Are the people who use my apps billed?
No. You pay for builders and admins, and for what your apps use. Everyone who uses what you build is free and needs no Salus account: colleagues opening an internal tool, customers loading a public site, clients calling your API. This website runs on Salus, publicly, on one builder’s seat.
What counts as a builder?
A builder or an admin: someone who builds, deploys or administers inside your Salus organization. Everyone who uses what those people ship is free, however many of them there are.
Do AI agents need their own seat?
No. An agent acts on behalf of the builder who runs it, with that builder’s access, so it never uses a seat of its own. It can do only what that builder’s role allows, and your organization sets the roles. What it deploys runs on the same prepaid balance, and builds aren’t charged.
Where do my workloads run?
Hobby and Pro run on shared, multi-tenant Salus Cloud, in the cloud and region you choose for each environment. Enterprise adds a choice: stay on multi-tenant Salus Cloud, or deploy into a dedicated, isolated environment in infrastructure you own. That second option is BYOC.
Is Enterprise the same as running in my own cloud?
No, they are separate choices. Enterprise is the plan: governance, support and contract terms. BYOC is where you run it: a dedicated environment in your own cloud account, private cloud or on premises, priced per cluster on top of Enterprise. You can start on Salus Cloud and add your own cloud later.
Can I control who can reach what I deploy?
Yes. Each deployment can be served publicly or kept internal-only, and roles at the organization, space and project levels decide who can view, change and deploy it.