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Read your bill like a log.

Every line on a Basalt invoice traces back to events you sent. Check usage from the CLI any day of the month, set a cap, and never meet a surprise on the first.

~/acme-billing · zsh
Scale plan
$ basalt usage --month october
✓ events ingested · 1.42B
✓ included in Scale · 1.00B
✓ overage · 420M × $0.18 per 1M · $75.60
$ basalt invoice preview
✓ Scale plan · $249.00
✓ seats, views and queries · $0.00
✓ total due Nov 1 · $324.60
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$ basalt usage --forecastCopy
The numbers

Eight numbers behind the price.

01Free tier
10M events

Ingested at no cost every month, on every account.

02Included in Scale
1B events

Covered by the $249 base before any overage applies.

03Overage
$0.18per 1M

For every million events past the included volume.

04Seat fees
0any plan

Invite the whole company. People are never billed.

05Annual discount
20%

Off Scale when you pay for the year up front.

06Free trial
14days

Of Scale with no card, then you choose a plan.

07Time travel
30days

Of history to query on Scale, 365 days on Enterprise.

08Regions
38on Enterprise

Pick any of them, or run Basalt inside your own cloud.

Prices in US dollars, before tax. Usage resets on the first of each month.

How billing works

Four steps, no surprises.

Step
Live
01

Ingest

Events land in your sources. Retries and replays we deduplicate are never counted.

Step
Hourly
02

Meter

Usage per source and workspace updates every hour in the dashboard and the CLI.

Step
80% · 100%
03

Alert

Email and chat alerts as you near your included volume, plus an optional hard cap.

Step
Monthly
04

Invoice

One invoice on the first, with every line traced to the events behind it.

FAQ

Questions about the meter.

No. Events rejected by schema checks and duplicates removed by exactly-once delivery are never metered.

Each row change is one event, whether it is an insert, an update or a delete. Snapshots during setup are free.

Yes. Upgrades apply at once and are prorated by day. Downgrades take effect at the next billing cycle.

Most Enterprise agreements start around $3,000 a month and include volume rates, dedicated cells and a named engineer.

Yes. Registered nonprofits and maintainers of open-source projects get Scale at half price. Write to sales to apply.

Get started

Set your data in stone.

Free up to 10M events a month. No card, no sales call. Your first pipeline is live in about four minutes.

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