Start near free. Grow when you do.
One flat number per month, taken straight off a posted rate card — not a sales call. Start on the static tier for pocket change, attach a database when you need one, and move to dedicated compute the day your workload asks for it.
Why the entry tier is priced in pocket change
A small static site costs us a rounding error in bytes to serve. The$5/mo rate isn't for the traffic — it's for everything wrapped around it.
Serve a handful of pages off a global edge network and the actual infrastructure cost is close to nothing. What the Static Starter rate buys instead is the managed layer most hosts leave you to assemble yourself: a TLS certificate that renews before it expires, DNS that just resolves, a deploy pipeline already wired to your repo, nightly backups you'll never have to script, and a human who reads the quote form and replies — not a support queue.
That's why the rate card starts at $5/mo instead of a one-time template price: it's a real number for a real service, not a teaser that turns into surprise billing the month your traffic ticks up.
Get a quote →Or see the rate card framed for your situation onwho it's for.
The rate card
Utilities publish their rates, so we do too. One number per month, everything included — no per-request billing, no egress arithmetic, no invoice archaeology.
| Code | Service | Specification | Sized for | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Static hosting | ||||
| ST-STARTER | Static Starter | One site · global edge · TLS · deploys from git | Fair use: ~100 GB transfer/mo | $5flat |
| ST-PRO | Static ProPopular | Multiple sites & environments · staging · redirects/headers | Fair use: ~500 GB transfer/mo | $15flat |
| Dedicated compute | ||||
| DD-S | Dedicated S | 2 vCPU · 1 GB RAM · 40 GB SSD · static IP | Small APIs, background workers | $29/mo |
| DD-M | Dedicated MPopular | 2 vCPU · 2 GB RAM · 60 GB SSD · static IP | Production apps with a database | $59/mo |
| DD-L | Dedicated L | 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 80 GB SSD · static IP | Heavier workloads, multiple services | $99/mo |
| Custom | ||||
| CU-0 | Custom | Bespoke stack — designed to the workload | Fixed monthly quote within 24h | Quoted |
| Code | Database | Specification | Retention | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DB-STARTER | DB Starter | Shared-tier Postgres · 1 GB RAM · 10 GB storage | Daily backups · 7-day retention | $12/mo |
| DB-STANDARD | DB StandardPopular | Postgres · 2 GB RAM · 40 GB storage | 7-day PITR | $25/mo |
| DB-PLUS | DB Plus | Postgres · 4 GB RAM · 100 GB storage | 30-day PITR | $49/mo |
- TLS certificates
- DNS management
- Daily backups
- Monitoring & alerts
- Security patching
- A human who answers
No setup fee for CustomLabs build clients. Cancel any time — final month includes a full, documented handover of the stack. Rates subject to change with 30 days' notice.
Size it yourself.
Read your own meter instead of waiting on a quote. Pick a base plan, add what you need, and the rate updates live — send it straight to the form when you're done.
That's the rate card. Billing shows what a month actually looks like once you're on it, and The hours ledger runs the same arithmetic on your own time instead of your bill.
Add what you need, drop what you don't
Every add-on is a flat monthly line, priced the same way as the base rate — no metered surprises.
Additional static site
+$10Another site on the same account, same edge network.
Staging environment
+$12A second environment to test changes before they ship.
Extended backup retention (30-day)
+$8Daily backups kept for 30 days instead of 7.
Agentic iteration — CodeHerder
+$25Brief a change in plain language, an agent opens a PR, the same pipeline ships it.
Straight answers on price.
The questions that come up once someone actually looks at the rate card.
01Am I locked in?
No. Every stack is defined as code and fully portable; export or a documented handover is free, any time.
02What do I have to manage?
Nothing. No consoles. TLS, DNS, daily backups, monitoring, and patching are included, and a human answers.
03How does pricing work?
One flat number per month, everything included — no per-request billing, no egress arithmetic.
04Why is the entry tier so cheap?
Serving a small static site costs us a rounding error in bytes. The $5/mo rate isn't for the traffic — it's for the managed layer wrapped around it: TLS, DNS, a deploy pipeline, backups, and a human who answers.
05Can I attach a database to any plan?
Yes. Any managed database tier can sit alongside a static or dedicated plan — add its rate to the base plan and that’s the total, no bundling or migration required.
06What counts as fair-use transfer?
Each plan lists a transfer allowance sized well above normal traffic for that tier. Most sites never come close. If usage is consistently over it, we reach out before anything changes — never a surprise invoice. See Billing for the numbers and the exact sequence.
Ready to see your own number?
Tell us what you're running — one fixed monthly rate, within a business day.