How much does it cost to run a service?
Services bill on two tiers: a provisioned rate for keeping instances warm, plus an active rate while they're processing requests. The default size (0.25 vCPU, 0.5 GB) is $5.11/month per instance plus $0.05 per active hour; sizes go up to 2 vCPU / 4 GB at $40.88/month plus $0.40 per active hour. Bulk discounts apply when active compute exceeds 30% of monthly capacity; contact us for pricing. Build & Deploy is billed separately: standard builds are $0.01 per build-minute (rounded up, capped at 30 minutes, so at most $0.30 per build) and smart builds that run automatic configuration detection are $2.00 each. Every build runs on a high-performance 4 vCPU, 8 GiB build instance with Docker-in-Docker support, a versioned artifact, managed rollout, health verification, and rollback for eligible failed service updates.
New accounts get a $10 welcome credit that covers the default configuration free through your first month; it expires at the end of that first billing month, so any unused balance doesn't carry over.