# Pricing

You pay per second from the moment a machine is assigned to your sandbox, through `ready` and `sleeping`, until a stop begins. Time spent saving isn't billed, and every plan dollar comes back as machine time.

Read current prices from the API rather than remembering them:

```sh
harebox rates
```

| Size | vCPU / RAM / disk | Shared, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| `small` | 2 / 4 GB / 51 GB | $0.01782 |
| `default` | 4 / 8 GB / 51 GB | $0.03564 |
| `large` | 8 / 16 GB / 111 GB | $0.07128 |
| `xlarge` | 16 / 32 GB / 251 GB | $0.198 |

| Default size, per hour | Price |
|---|---|
| Shared, the default tier | $0.03564 |
| Spot, which can be preempted: the same price | $0.03564 |
| Reserved, one year paid up front: the same price | $0.03564 |

Custom sizes up to 8 vCPU and 16 GB cost $0.004455 per vCPU and $0.0022275 per GB of RAM, per hour on Shared. Larger ones cost $0.0061875 and $0.00309375, so every preset costs the same as the same custom size. `xlarge` and custom sizes above `large` need the Team plan or larger, and run on dedicated threads: 1:1, never shared.

Every tier costs the same for a given size, and there's no regional uplift: HareBox runs in one region, the EU, at one price; it launches in France, at Roubaix and Gravelines. You don't choose a site: HareBox places each sandbox, and `location` on the sandbox says where it runs.

## Plans

A plan is a monthly price paid by card. Every plan dollar comes back as machine time at list rates. Included time expires at the end of the month; it doesn't carry over.

| Plan | Per month | Running at once | Starts per minute / hour / day | Templates included |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Build | $20 | 100 | 12 / 60 / 200 | 10 |
| Team | $100 | 300 | 30 / 210 / 840 | 50 |
| Scale | $500 | 1,000 | 65 / 420 / 1,680 | 250 |
| Fleet | $2,000 | 2,000 | 90 / 600 / 2,400 | 1,000 |

- **Seats.** Each seat costs the plan price and adds its included time. Below Fleet, a seat adds 20% of the plan's limits; on Fleet it adds the full limits.
- **The wallet** pays for use beyond the plan. Payments of $200 or more get a bonus of 2% to 25%.
- **Extra starts.** Starts past the included number cost $0.03, $0.05 or $0.07 each from the wallet, depending on how far past you are. Above six times the included number, or three times in a minute, a start fails. Send `placement: "queue"` to wait for a free slot instead of paying.

## What's free

Egress. Stopped disks for 14 days. A public IPv6 address and outbound IPv4 on every sandbox.

## What costs a little

| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Saved template versions above your plan's number | $0.056 each a day |
| Credentials proxy | $1 for each day it's on, plus $1 per 1,000 requests |
| Archived disk, after 14 days | $0.012 per GB each month |
| Static IP while stopped | $1.00 a month |

See the [sizes](../reference/sizes.html), the [free trial](trial.html), and [lowering your bill](../guides/cost-optimization.html).