Spala Pricing — Build Free, Plan Staging Upgrades
Build prototypes free on shared staging. Compare current project and organization isolation options, then export production with Deploy Anywhere.
Spala Packages and Pricing **Free forever for prototypes.** Build, preview, and export before choosing any paid infrastructure. **Start anywhere:** Website, template, or MCP. Spala.ai, a full-stack example, another Spala service, or the public MCP all continue into the same account and Projects flow. Every project starts on Shared Staging. The staging path is intentionally simple: **$0 Shared Staging → $5/month per project for Isolated Project Runtime → $49/month per organization runtime for Private Staging Runtime.** The live catalog currently marks the $5 and $49 options available for self-service checkout. They are staging isolation choices, not production plans. **Deploy Anywhere now** is included. Export the compiled backend and run it on your own provider. Spala-hosted production is planned separately. When an organization reaches its project allowance, existing projects keep working; the customer can remove a project or add project slots at the current catalog price. The live catalog currently publishes an extra project slot at **$1/project/month**. Spala is free first: **Free** — build, test, preview, connect through project MCP, and export a working prototype within published fair-use limits. **Shared Staging** — included on-demand staging; inactive projects can have a short cold start. **Isolated Project Runtime** — currently available at the live catalog price. It keeps one staging project loaded in its own Node process, event loop, and restart boundary on shared physical hardware. Free usage quotas still apply. **Private Staging Runtime** — currently available at the live catalog price. It is an organization-exclusive Node process on a shared physical host. It is one process, not a pool of processes. Its target operational profile is up to 30 assigned projects and up to five loaded inside it at once; the others load automatically when used. **Production** — separate from staging. Export and deploy anywhere at no Spala runtime charge. Spala Production is a future managed option and is not yet purchasable. Databases, object storage, sites, workload capacity, collaboration, AI, and support are optional components. A Dedicated Host and Managed Customer Cloud are larger contracted infrastructure boundaries and are separate from Private Staging Runtime. The public catalog API is authoritative for current package descriptions, availability, limits, and display prices. This document is a versioned snapshot. Read the published catalog at: https://api.spala.ai/api/pricing/catalog The API returns only the currently published catalog. Draft records do not affect the public website. spala.ai/pricing/ renders that API and falls back to a bundled snapshot only during a temporary API failure. Purchase boundary spala.ai/pricing/ explains the free product, staging choices, production choices, and optional capacity. dashboard.spala.ai/billing is authoritative for what Source: pricing.md.