Pricing

Updated on: July 24, 2026 LayerRail pricing is usage-based. A project is billed for the resources it creates, the time those resources run, and metered usage such as AI inference tokens, runner minutes, storage, cache, monitoring, and bandwidth.

Prices below are the public pricing guide for the current LayerRail platform surface. Final checkout pages and monthly invoices are the source of truth for exact totals because region, storage, HA options, promotions, taxes, and usage can change the final bill.

What LayerRail bills for

Product area	Billing model	Notes
Virtual machines	Per running resource	Compute, storage, public IPv4, GPUs where selected, and related usage.
Game VPS	Fixed plan pricing	Windows VPS plans billed by selected package.
Managed PostgreSQL	Per running resource	vCPU, storage, high availability replicas, backups, and related infrastructure.
Managed Kubernetes	Per cluster and worker capacity	Control plane, worker nodes, node storage, load balancers, and related usage.
Object storage	Per provisioned bucket storage	S3-compatible bucket storage billed by stored GB over time.
Block volumes	Per provisioned volume storage	Standalone block volumes billed by provisioned GB over time.
Backups	Per backup storage usage	Backup storage billed by retained GB over time.
Edge	Per provisioned Edge service	Edge services are billed while active. Bandwidth and request usage may be added as metering expands.
Monitoring	Per backend and rule	Metrics storage, log storage, ingestion, uptime checks, and alert rules are billable.
Networking	Per provisioned resource or usage	Load balancers, public IPv4, firewall-backed networking, and bandwidth where applicable.
GitHub runners	Per runner minute, cache, and concurrency	Project-scoped runner compute used for CI workloads.
AI inference	Per token or model operation	Premium Azure Foundry models are metered. Cloudflare Workers AI models are available through the LayerRail AI surface with project quota and usage tracking.

Billing rules

Duration-based resources are billed per minute and capped at 672 hours per monthly invoice window for the same resource slot.
Compute resources start billing when provisioning begins and stop billing when deletion is completed or the resource is marked deleted by the control plane.
Storage-backed resources bill by provisioned or retained GB over time until deleted.
Usage-based AI charges are recorded per project and attached to the project invoice.
Free AI quota is consumed before paid inference charges where eligible.
Premium AI usage is metered separately and can be charged through Polar usage metering.
GitHub runner projects receive a monthly $1.00 runner credit when runner usage exists.
Outstanding invoices remain visible until paid.
If a project has no valid payment method and has unpaid invoices, services can be restricted, suspended, or deleted according to the billing terms.
Coupons and discounts are not applied to outstanding invoice settlement unless LayerRail explicitly issues a billing credit.

Virtual machines

Virtual machines are billed from the selected plan, region, storage, public IP, and optional GPU configuration.

Component	How it is priced
vCPU and memory	Included in the VM plan shown during creation.
Storage	Included or metered depending on the plan and storage size.
Public IPv4	Included where marked, otherwise billed as a public IP resource.
GPU	Metered when a GPU plan is selected.
Bandwidth	May be metered where applicable.

Use the VM create page in the console for exact regional plan totals before launch.

Game VPS

Game VPS plans are fixed packages for game communities and Windows-based server workloads. Every package includes the same 128 GB Windows system SSD. Higher tiers add CPU and RAM instead of increasing storage.

Plan	vCPU	RAM	Windows system SSD	Monthly price
Starter	2	4 GB	128 GB	$3.00/mo
Community	2	8 GB	128 GB	$5.00/mo
Squad	4	8 GB	128 GB	$8.00/mo
Growth	4	16 GB	128 GB	$16.00/mo
Serious	8	32 GB	128 GB	$40.00/mo
Arena	16	64 GB	128 GB	$75.00/mo

Game VPS checkout shows the exact payment amount before provisioning.

Managed PostgreSQL

Managed PostgreSQL pricing is based on the selected database flavor, vCPU size, storage, region, and availability mode.

Component	How it is priced
Compute	vCPU-based pricing by selected database size.
Storage	Metered by provisioned storage size.
High availability	Additional standby capacity is billed when enabled.
Backups	Backup storage and retention may affect usage.
Networking	Public/private networking and firewall-related usage may apply.

PostgreSQL logs, backups, HA, and networking are part of the managed service experience. The create page and invoice show the exact selected size and usage.

Managed Kubernetes

Kubernetes billing includes the cluster control plane, worker nodes, node storage, and networking resources used by the cluster.

Component	How it is priced
Control plane	Billed for managed cluster control plane capacity.
Worker nodes	Billed by selected worker size and node count.
Node storage	Metered by provisioned worker storage.
Load balancers	Billed when services expose public traffic.
Public IPs and bandwidth	Metered where applicable.

Scaling worker nodes increases the project bill. Deleting a cluster stops new cluster billing after cleanup completes.

Storage

LayerRail now exposes S3-compatible object storage, standalone block volumes, and backup storage as billable platform primitives. Monthly equivalents below use the platform invoice cap of 672 hours per month. Exact invoices are calculated per minute.

Resource	Billing unit	Public guide price
Object bucket storage	Stored GB-month	$0.0187/GB-mo
Block volume storage	Provisioned GB-month	$0.0373/GB-mo
Backup storage	Retained GB-month	$0.0373/GB-mo

Object storage

Object storage is S3-compatible. Buckets are billed by storage used over time. Public bucket URLs and S3 endpoints do not change the storage rate.

Block volumes

Standalone block volumes are billed by provisioned size while the volume exists. Attaching a volume to a VM does not stop the volume storage charge.

Backups

Backups are billed by retained backup storage. Backup charges can apply to VMs, PostgreSQL, and other services where backup retention is enabled.

Networking

Networking resources can add cost when they reserve public capacity or process traffic.

Resource	Pricing behavior
Load balancers	Billed while provisioned.
Public IPv4	Billed when not included in the selected plan.
Firewalls	Included with networking controls unless attached usage requires billable infrastructure.
Bandwidth	May be metered depending on product and region.

Edge

LayerRail Edge services are billed while provisioned.

Resource	Billing unit	Public guide price
Standard Edge service	Active service-month	$5.60/mo

Edge services currently cover origin routing, hostname mapping, and cache mode configuration. Request, bandwidth, and cache egress metering may appear separately as the Edge product expands.

Monitoring

LayerRail Monitoring is billed separately for metrics, logs, uptime checks, and alerting. Metrics and log backends are managed resources, while uptime checks and alert rules are billed as always-on monitoring controls. Monthly equivalents below use the platform invoice cap of 672 hours per month. Exact invoices are calculated per minute.

Resource	Billing unit	Public guide price
Metrics storage	GB-month	$0.0373/GB-mo
Metrics ingestion	Backend-month	$2.80/mo
Log storage	GB-month	$0.0373/GB-mo
Log ingestion	Backend-month	$2.80/mo
Uptime check	Check-month	$0.93/mo
Alert rule	Rule-month	$0.47/mo

GitHub runners

LayerRail GitHub runners are billed by runner minutes, cache storage, and optional concurrency. Use them when you want CI workloads to run on project-managed infrastructure instead of shared hosted runners. Runner minutes are recorded after a GitHub job starts on a LayerRail runner. Standard and ARM standard runners share the same public minute pricing.

Runner label family	Price
`standard-2` / `standard-2-arm`	$0.0010/min
`standard-4` / `standard-4-arm`	$0.0020/min
`standard-8` / `standard-8-arm`	$0.0040/min
`standard-16` / `standard-16-arm`	$0.0080/min
`standard-30` / `standard-30-arm`	$0.0150/min
`standard-60` / `standard-60-arm`	$0.0300/min
`premium-2`	$0.0016/min
`premium-4`	$0.0032/min
`premium-8`	$0.0064/min
`premium-16`	$0.0120/min
`premium-30`	$0.0240/min

Additional runner item	Billing unit	Public guide price
GitHub runner cache storage	GB-month	$0.0400/GB-mo
Additional runner concurrency	Concurrency-month	$1.00/mo

Each project receives a monthly $1.00 GitHub runner credit when runner usage is present.

AI inference

LayerRail AI has two provider classes:

Provider	Use case	Billing
Azure Foundry	Premium GPT, Claude, DeepSeek, Mistral, Grok, Llama, and Phi models deployed through LayerRail.	Metered by input and output tokens.
Cloudflare Workers AI	Open and utility models for text, speech, embeddings, image, translation, and classification workloads.	Usage tracked through project quota and LayerRail billing policy.

Free quota

Projects currently receive 100,000 free inference tokens. Free quota refreshes monthly and is consumed before eligible paid inference usage.

Premium text model pricing

Prices are shown per 1M tokens.

Model	Provider	Context	Input	Output
GPT-5	Azure Foundry	400K	$1.75	$14.00
GPT-5 Mini	Azure Foundry	400K	$0.35	$2.80
GPT-5 Nano	Azure Foundry	400K	$0.08	$0.60
GPT-5.5	Azure Foundry	400K	$2.50	$20.00
GPT-5.4	Azure Foundry	400K	$2.00	$16.00
GPT-5.4 Mini	Azure Foundry	400K	$0.45	$3.60
GPT-5.4 Nano	Azure Foundry	400K	$0.12	$0.90
GPT-5.2	Azure Foundry	400K	$1.80	$14.40
GPT-4.1	Azure Foundry	1M	$2.80	$11.20
GPT-4.1 Mini	Azure Foundry	1M	$0.55	$2.20
GPT-4o	Azure Foundry	128K	$3.50	$14.00
GPT-4o Mini	Azure Foundry	128K	$0.21	$0.84
o3	Azure Foundry	200K	$2.80	$11.20
o4 Mini	Azure Foundry	200K	$0.55	$2.20
Claude Opus 4.8	Azure Foundry	1M	$7.00	$35.00
Claude Fable 5	Azure Foundry	1M	$21.00	$105.00
Claude Sonnet 5	Azure Foundry	1M	$4.20	$21.00
Claude Sonnet 4.6	Azure Foundry	1M	$4.20	$21.00
Claude Sonnet 4.5	Azure Foundry	1M	$4.20	$21.00
Claude Haiku 4.5	Azure Foundry	200K	$1.40	$7.00
Claude Opus 4.1	Azure Foundry	1M	$21.00	$105.00
DeepSeek V4 Flash	Azure Foundry	128K	$0.40	$1.60
DeepSeek V4 Pro	Azure Foundry	128K	$0.80	$3.20
Mistral Large 3	Azure Foundry	128K	$2.80	$8.40
Grok 4	Azure Foundry	256K	$3.00	$15.00
Llama 4 Scout 17B	Azure Foundry	128K	$0.30	$0.90
Phi-4 Mini	Azure Foundry	128K	$0.10	$0.40

Cloudflare Workers AI model catalog

Cloudflare Workers AI models are exposed through the same LayerRail AI surface for eligible projects.

Capability	Available models
Text generation	Llama 3.2 3B Instruct, GPT OSS 20B, GPT OSS 120B, Gemma SEA-LION v4 27B IT, Kimi K2.5, DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B, Gemma, Granite, Llama 2, Llama 3, Llama 3.1, Llama 3.2, Llama 3.3, Llama 4 Scout, Phi-2, SQLCoder, Mistral, Hermes, Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code, NVIDIA Nemotron, Qwen, QwQ, GLM.
Embeddings	BGE Base English v1.5, BGE Large English v1.5, BGE M3, BGE Small English v1.5, EmbeddingGemma 300M, PLaMo Embedding 1B, Qwen3 Embedding 0.6B.
Speech to text	Flux, nova-3, Whisper, Whisper Large v3 Turbo, whisper-tiny-en.
Text to speech	aura-1, Aura 2 English, Aura 2 Spanish, MeloTTS.
Text to image	Flux 1 Schnell, Flux 2 Dev, Flux 2 Klein, SDXL Lightning, Lucid Origin, Phoenix 1.0, DreamShaper, Stable Diffusion.
Vision and image understanding	LLaVA 1.5 7B, UForm Gen2 Qwen 500M, ResNet-50, DETR ResNet-50.
Classification and reranking	BGE Reranker Base, DistilBERT SST-2.
Summarization	BART Large CNN.
Translation	IndicTrans2 EN to Indic 1B, M2M100 1.2B.
Voice activity detection	Smart Turn v2.

Invoices and payment

LayerRail invoices show the resources, usage period, unit price, usage amount, and total cost for the billing period. Previous invoices remain available in the billing page. If an invoice is unpaid, the project owner can pay it from the billing page. Outstanding invoice payments use fixed invoice amounts.

Questions

For pricing, invoices, credits, or payment issues, contact support@layerrail.com.

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Virtual machines

Game VPS

Managed PostgreSQL

Managed Kubernetes

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Object storage

Block volumes

Backups

Networking

Edge

Monitoring

GitHub runners

AI inference

Free quota

Premium text model pricing

Cloudflare Workers AI model catalog

Invoices and payment

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​What LayerRail bills for

​Billing rules

​Virtual machines

​Game VPS

​Managed PostgreSQL

​Managed Kubernetes

​Storage

​Object storage

​Block volumes

​Backups

​Networking

​Edge

​Monitoring

​GitHub runners

​AI inference

​Free quota

​Premium text model pricing

​Cloudflare Workers AI model catalog

​Invoices and payment

​Questions

What LayerRail bills for

Billing rules

Virtual machines

Game VPS

Managed PostgreSQL

Managed Kubernetes

Storage

Object storage

Block volumes

Backups

Networking

Edge

Monitoring

GitHub runners

AI inference

Free quota

Premium text model pricing

Cloudflare Workers AI model catalog

Invoices and payment

Questions