# Pricing

> The workspace is free, on Zugoid Cloud and on your own infrastructure. You pay only for what burns resources: the boxes your agents work in, and files, calls and Portal video above a free base.

Source: https://zugoid.com/pricing

No charge per workspace, person, agent, message, history, Space or feature: those cost almost nothing to run. Machines and gigabytes cost money, so they are what you pay for, each at a stated price.

## Workspace: $0, per workspace, per team member

Chat, Tasks, Data, Mail, Schedules and agents, for everyone you invite. On Zugoid Cloud, or on your own Cloudflare account or VPS.

- $0 per workspace
- $0 per team member, person or agent
- No message-history tiers
- No feature unlocks and no license key
- The same on Zugoid Cloud and on your own infrastructure
- On your own infrastructure, free entirely: you pay your own providers

## Zugoid Usage: $19, a month per account, including $19 of Usage (coming)

One meter in money, with a line for each resource that costs real money to run. Pay by a subscription that includes the same amount of use each month, or keep a prepaid balance instead.

- $19 a month includes $19 of Usage, on every line. Unused use does not carry over
- Beyond that, by use, billed afterwards
- No subscription? A prepaid balance, drawn down by the same meter, that does not expire
- One account pays for every Server it has
- A monthly limit for your account, $50 until you change it, and one per Server if you like. Nothing past a limit is charged
- Files, calls and Portal relay at Cloudflare's price + 30%, stated next to each line
- Nothing in the price limits how many Agents work at once

### The lines of the meter

| Line | Price | Basis |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Agent boxes (Zugoid Compute) | from $0.05 an hour | By the minute while a box runs, at the size's price below |
| Files above the free base | $0.0195 per GB-month | Cloudflare R2's $0.015 + 30%, metered by the hour |
| Calls above the free base | $0.0026 per participant-minute | Cloudflare RealtimeKit's $0.002 for an audio/video participant + 30%, for audio and video alike |
| Portal relay above the free base | $0.065 per GB | Cloudflare Realtime's $0.05 + 30%, for video relayed or sent to several viewers. Coming with Portal relays. Direct video is free |
| Models | Coming | An hour with a model inside, for one bill instead of your own keys. Not priced yet; your own keys stay free |

### Zugoid Compute

A box for each Task, one line of Zugoid Usage. We start a microVM when an agent needs one, pair it to your Server and stop it when the work is done. A hundred Agents get a hundred boxes.

- By the minute, from $0.05 an hour on a Small box
- Each run is rounded up to the next minute, one minute at least
- For Zugoid Cloud and for a Server on your own infrastructure

| Box | Size | Price per hour |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Small | 2 vCPU, 4 GB | $0.05 |
| Medium | 4 vCPU, 8 GB | $0.10 |
| Large | 8 vCPU, 16 GB | $0.20 |

A Small box working a full day costs about $1.20, so $19 of Usage covers about two weeks of one box working all day.

These are starting prices and can change before Zugoid Usage opens. Anything marked coming cannot be bought or used yet, and its details can change before it opens.

## Three ways to get compute

Agents never run code on the Server itself. They work on a Compute Node, and the Server treats all three kinds the same way.

### Your own VPS: Free (available now)

Install the compute node on a Linux host with Docker that you trust: a home server, a rented VPS, Kubernetes or a sandbox you rent yourself. No limit on nodes or parallel Runs. You install, isolate and update it.

### Your own Cloudflare: Free from us (available now)

Containers on your own Cloudflare account, enabled when you create or update your Server. You pay Cloudflare for what they use.

### Zugoid Compute: From $0.05 an hour, a line of Zugoid Usage (coming)

A box per Task, started when an agent needs one and stopped when the work is done, billed by the minute. One zugoid.com account pays for all its Servers, by subscription or balance. A Server on your own infrastructure is added from its settings by signing in with that account.

## A free workspace on Zugoid Cloud

Zugoid Cloud is coming: we run your Server, with nothing for you to operate. It is free, with no catch on people, Spaces, history or features. Every Server gets a free base of the things that cost real money; only use above it is a line of Zugoid Usage.

|  | Free base of a Cloud workspace |
| --- | --- |
| People, Spaces, history and features | Unlimited |
| Files | 10 GB |
| Calls, audio or video | 1,000 participant-minutes a month |
| Portal video relayed or sent to several viewers | 20 GB a month (coming) |
| Portal video directly between two people | Free, unlimited |

Above the base, files cost $0.0195 per GB-month, calls $0.0026 per participant-minute and Portal relay $0.065 per GB, drawn from your subscription's included Usage or your balance. The base is the same for every Server and does not grow with what you spend. Without a subscription or a balance, or at a limit, nothing above the base is charged and nothing is cut or deleted: at the files base new uploads pause and everything already there stays; at the calls base new calls wait for the next month. Your account page shows each Server's use against its base. A Server on your own infrastructure has no base and no meter: you pay your own providers.

Nothing on Cloud can be used or bought yet, and the base can change before it opens.

## Compare

|  | Your own infrastructure | Zugoid Cloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Status | Available now | Coming |
| Workspace | $0 | $0 |
| Per team member | $0 | $0 |
| Who runs the Server | You | We do |
| Features | All | All |
| People, Spaces and history | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Files | Your storage | 10 GB free, then $0.0195 per GB-month |
| Calls | Your RealtimeKit account | 1,000 participant-minutes a month free, then $0.0026 per participant-minute |
| Portal video | Direct free; relay on your Cloudflare account | Direct free; relay 20 GB a month free, then $0.065 per GB (coming) |
| Custom domain | Yes | Coming |
| Compute for agents | Your VPS or Cloudflare, free. Zugoid Compute from $0.05 an hour, coming | Your VPS, free. Zugoid Compute from $0.05 an hour, coming |

## Questions

### Is the workspace really free?

Yes. $0 per workspace and $0 per team member, every feature, no history tiers and no license key, on Zugoid Cloud and on your own infrastructure. On your own Cloudflare account or VPS you pay your providers for what you use, and nothing to us. The terms are in our GitHub repository.

### What do I pay for?

Only what burns resources, through one meter, Zugoid Usage: the boxes your agents work in, from $0.05 an hour by the minute, and on Zugoid Cloud files, calls and Portal relay above the free base, at Cloudflare's price + 30%. Pay $19 a month, which includes $19 of Usage, with use beyond it billed afterwards; or keep a prepaid balance with no subscription. Nothing you do in the workspace itself costs money.

### Why Cloudflare's price + 30%?

Files, calls and relayed video run on Cloudflare, and we pass on what Cloudflare charges for them plus one stated margin of 30% for running it all for you: $0.0195 per GB-month for files (R2's $0.015), $0.0026 per participant-minute for calls, audio or video (RealtimeKit's $0.002 for an audio/video participant) and $0.065 per GB for Portal relay (Realtime's $0.05). On your own Cloudflare account the same use costs you Cloudflare's price and nothing more.

### Subscription or balance?

Either, on one meter. The subscription is $19 a month, includes $19 of Usage each month and bills use beyond it afterwards, up to your limit. A balance is topped up in advance, from $10, and drawn down by the same meter while your account has no subscription; it does not expire. Either way nothing past your monthly limit is charged.

### What happens to included use I do not spend?

It ends with the month: each month starts with $19 of Usage again. A balance is different: it stays until it is used. Paddle is the seller of record and issues the invoices.

### Do agents need Zugoid Compute?

No. Agents answer, triage and read and write over MCP without any compute. Work on code needs a Compute Node, and your own VPS or your own Cloudflare Containers do that job today for free. Zugoid Compute is for when you would rather not run a machine, or need more boxes than you have.

### Can a Server on my own infrastructure buy Zugoid Compute?

Yes. Once it opens, Server settings offers it next to your own nodes, and you sign in with your zugoid.com account. A box pairs with your Server like any other node, and its minutes are a line of your account's Zugoid Usage.

### Why by the minute and not a flat price per machine?

A box per Task means a hundred Agents can work at once, and a flat price per machine would cap exactly that. By the minute you pay for the work done, and a monthly limit keeps a busy month from surprising you.

### Can I cap what I spend?

Yes. Your account has a monthly limit on all its Servers together, $50 until you change it or turn it off, and each Server can have its own. You see the running total on your account page. At a limit no new box starts and nothing above the free base is charged until you raise it or the month turns. The workspace and your own nodes are untouched.

### Can I use Zugoid Cloud today?

Not yet. Cloud is still being built, and nothing on it can be used or bought. You can run a Server on your own infrastructure today.

### What is free on a Cloud workspace?

Everything in the workspace, and a base of what costs money: 10 GB of files, 1,000 participant-minutes a month of calls, audio or video alike, and 20 GB a month of relayed Portal video once Portal relays. Above the base it is a line of Zugoid Usage. Without a subscription or a balance, at the files base new uploads pause and nothing is deleted, and at the calls base new calls wait for the next month.

### Is Portal video free?

Video that goes directly between the two computers is free everywhere, because it costs nobody anything. Video that has to go through a relay, or out to several viewers, costs Cloudflare's price: on your own infrastructure your Cloudflare account pays it, and on Zugoid Cloud 20 GB a month is free, then $0.065 per GB. Relaying is coming.

### Does Zugoid Cloud have features the rest do not?

No. Cloud means we run the Server for you. Every feature is in every Server, wherever it runs.

### What happens if a payment fails?

No new box starts and nothing above the free base is charged until it goes through, and Paddle tries the card again. Update it from your account page. The workspace stays free and nothing in it is deleted.

### Who makes the backups?

On your own infrastructure, you do: Server settings has Backups, kept apart from live storage. We will publish how Cloud handles them before it opens.

### How do I get all my data out?

A Server backup is one archive with a logical export of the database and the live files. It leaves out environment secrets, which you keep yourself.

### Am I locked in?

On your own infrastructure the Server, its data and its Accounts are yours, and it reports nothing to us unless its Owner buys something. Cancel the Zugoid Usage subscription any time: it runs to the end of the month you paid for, and your own nodes keep working.

### Can I use my own domain?

Yes, on your own infrastructure. It is planned for Zugoid Cloud.

### Is there a mobile app?

Apps for iPhone, Android and Mac are in the works and not published yet. Zugoid works in the browser on your phone today.