Region prices and the shared node credit

Avaloi runs your sites on servers in the region you pick. Servers cost a different amount in each region, so each region has its own price for each plan. You see the price for your region before you pay, and it is the most you will ever pay for that plan.

How a region price is set

Each price comes from one rule, the same for every plan and region:

1. Take Google Cloud's price for one server in the region.
2. Add 30 percent.
3. Divide by the number of sites of the plan's size a server holds when it is 70 percent full. A Starter site is small, so a server holds more of them; a Business site is larger, so it holds fewer.
4. Multiply by the plan's sites, and round up to the whole dollar.

Annual plans cost ten times the monthly price: two months free.

Prices in Ashburn, Virginia (us-east4) at launch:

Plan	Sites	Monthly	One more site slot
Starter	1	$17	$17
Pro	3	$84	$28
Business 1	5	$210	$42
Business 2	10	$559	$56
Business 3	20	$1,676	$84
Agency	25	$2,095	$84

These prices are drafts until Avaloi signs them off. The Start a plan modal always shows the current price for the region you pick.

Your price never goes up

When you start a plan, its price is locked. It never rises while the plan is active, even when the region price goes up for new customers.

When the region price falls, your plan moves to the lower price at your next renewal. There is no partial charge or credit for the rest of the month. Owners, Admins, and Billing members get a notice first, such as "Your Pro plan in Ashburn, Virginia drops from $84.00 to $70.00 a month from November 6."

A plan that is still in its free first month, or that has never been charged, moves to the lower price at once, so its first invoice already charges it. Avaloi checks every plan each day after it reads Google's prices, so a lower price is never missed. Plans bought before region prices (such as Starter at $35) move down the same way.

Changing a plan (for example from Business 1 to Business 2) takes the region's current price for the new plan, and locks that.

The shared node credit

Prices assume servers are 70 percent full. When the region is fuller than that, servers cost Avaloi less per site, and half of that saving comes back to you:

• The credit is worked out after each monthly billing period, from how full the region was on each day.
• It appears as a line on your next invoice, such as "Shared node credit, Ashburn, Virginia, October".
• It is at most 15 percent of your plan's price. The Start a plan modal shows that most: "You get up to $12.60 back each month when this region is busy."
• No credit is paid for a month when the region was 70 percent full or less, for the free first month, or on annual plans (they already get two months free).

The My plan tab shows each plan's region, its locked price, and its last credit.

A plan belongs to one region

A plan is bought for a region, and its sites go in that region. When you add a site, pick the region first; the Plan list then shows the plans for that region with a free slot. To put a site in another region, buy a plan for that region.

Which regions are open

At launch, plans are sold in Ashburn, Virginia (us-east4) only. A region opens only after Avaloi has started and checked a server there. Other regions stay in the region list, marked Not open yet, and cannot be picked for a site or a plan.

For scripts and agents

• GET /v1/billing/quote?region=us-east4&plan=pro returns the price of a plan in a region: amount_cents, site_slot_cents (one more site slot), share_credit.max_cents_per_month, capacity (ready, or new_node when the first site waits a few minutes for a new server), and stale (true when Google's price has not refreshed; the price is then the last good one). It needs billing:read. A region that is not open yet answers 409 with the code region_not_open.
• GET /v1/billing/plans?region=us-east4 lists the plans with the region's prices.
• POST /v1/billing/subscriptions takes region. The plan is charged that region's price and locked. A region that is not open answers 422 with the code region_closed.
• GET /v1/regions lists every region. A closed one has status: closed and a closed_reason. POST /v1/sites in a closed region answers 422 with the code region_closed.
• GET /v1/billing/subscriptions shows each plan's region, locked_amount_cents, and last_credit.
• POST /v1/sites with a subscription_id for another region answers 409 with the code plan_region_mismatch.
• The MCP tool quote_region_price returns the same quote.

Not yet

• Regions other than us-east4. They open one at a time once a first server there is paid for.
• Discounts for plans with many sites.

Quick answers

Why is my plan cheaper than my friend's in another region? Servers cost less in your region. Each region has its own price.

Can my price go up? No. Only new plans see a higher region price.

Why is there a credit on my invoice? Your region was busier than 70 percent last month, so part of the saving came back to you.

Related

• Billing and plans
• Payment methods