Pay as you go
$0/ month
No monthly subscription fee. Just pay for what your apps use.
Start with usage- No monthly subscription fee
- Usage billed monthly
- Bring your own coding agent
- Review changes before they run
A little to start.
Room to keep going.
Pay for what you run. Or choose $20/month Pro with $20 of usage included.
Your agent handles the setup. You stay in control.
Pro
Usage included$20/ month
Includes $20 of usage each month. Only pay extra for usage above $20.
Start with Pro- $20 of usage credit each month
- Only pay extra above your credit
- Bring your own coding agent
- Review changes before they run
All prices in USD, before tax.
Questions
about pricing
When do I add a payment method?
Every workspace starts on pay as you go. You can choose Pro for $20/month, including $20 of infrastructure usage. Before deploying paid resources, the owner adds a card securely through Stripe.
Is pay as you go free?
There is no monthly subscription fee. You pay for the compute, object storage and transfer your apps use or reserve.
What will my app cost?
Your bill follows the resource prices below. Compute starts at $3 per month for 1 vCPU and 1 GB of RAM. Object storage costs $0.014/GB per month, with free reads, writes and direct downloads.
Is my coding agent included?
Bring your own coding agent. Your agent or model provider bills you separately from Canter hosting.
Compare hosting costs.
Compute from $3/month. Object storage at $0.014/GB. Free reads, writes and downloads.
| Cost | Canter | Railway Compute + Buckets | AWS EC2 + S3 Standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly subscription | $0 pay as you go · $20 Pro | $5 Hobby · $20 Pro | $0 |
| Monthly usage credit | $20 with Pro | $5 Hobby · $20 Pro | None, before promotional credits |
| Compute & memory | $3/month · 1 vCPU + 1 GB RAM | $20/vCPU + $10/GB RAM per month | $11.73/month · t3.micro + boot disk + IPv4¹ |
| Object storage | $0.014/GB per month | $0.015/GB per month · Buckets | $0.023/GB per month · S3 Standard |
| Object writes | $0 · included | $0 · included with Buckets | $0.005 per 1,000 requests |
| Object reads | $0 · included | $0 · included with Buckets | $0.0004 per 1,000 requests |
| Object downloads | $0 · direct object egress | $0 · direct bucket egress | $0.09/GB after the shared 100 GB allowance² |
USD, before tax. Monthly figures use 720 hours. Compute scales in 1 vCPU / 1 GiB bundles, using the larger of allocated CPU or memory. Storage uses decimal GB. Storage rows compare object storage. Competitor prices checked September 15, 2026.
¹ Canter compute includes a public IPv4 address and local disk; memory includes system overhead. AWS uses Linux on-demand t3.micro in US East (N. Virginia), with 2 burstable vCPUs, 1 GiB RAM, an 8 GB boot disk and one public IPv4. CPU performance differs. Railway bills actual CPU and RAM consumption; reserved capacity and measured consumption produce different bills.
² S3 Standard rates shown for US East (N. Virginia), with the shared AWS 100 GB monthly transfer allowance. Direct object downloads are separate from app traffic. Promotional credits and commitment discounts are excluded.
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