Free tier
Deploy free, today
- 10 app deploys free per account
- 3 of them can carry a full backend stack (database, runtime, payments)
- $5 of platform usage included before anything is charged
- 5 published services free per owner
Pricing
Start free. Pay for what your apps actually use.
No subscriptions, no seats. Deploy free, hold one Aev balance for every API and app, see a cost quote before anything spends, and let your end users pay for their own usage.
Aev
One balance for everything
Aev is the single prepaid balance behind every model call, deploy, database, and app on SettleMesh. 1 USD = 100 Aev, topped up by card via Stripe. No per-product wallets, no expiring bundles.
Usage-based
Cost-plus, quoted up front
Every metered call is billed at platform cost plus a published markup — never a subscription. Ask for a quote before running anything expensive (POST /v1/billing/quote), and read every charge back from your ledger.
End-user-pays
Your users fund their own usage
Apps you deploy can bill the signed-in end user's own Aev balance instead of yours. You ship the app; your users pay for what they consume; your earnings settle to your balance automatically.
When free runs out
You get a top-up prompt — never a surprise bill
When your free allowance is used up, calls that would cost money return a clear top-up prompt instead of silently charging or failing. Your balance is the only hard limit: no overage fees, no invoices arriving later. Add Aev when you choose to.