Simple BYOC pricing

Pay for control, not marked-up compute.

Chalupa's local CLI remains free. Hosted plans add fleet history, managed hours, CI evidence, and operational visibility. Your DigitalOcean invoice remains yours.

Billing beta is observation-only

Chalupa records managed-hour usage and shows balance alerts, but an empty balance does not block signed activity today. Prepaid packs and overages are not enabled.

Community

The complete local CLI and TUI for your own infrastructure.

$0 / month

Developers running Chalupa locally

Local CLI and TUI
Bring your own cloud
1 organization seat
Local history

Install the CLI

Recommended start

Solo

Hosted operations and visibility for an individual developer.

$15 / month

Independent developers and maintainers

500 managed hours
3 concurrent environments
1 organization seat
7-day retention

Start with Solo

Crew

More capacity, collaborators, and history for small teams.

$49 / month

Teams coordinating preview environments

2,500 managed hours
10 concurrent environments
5 organization seats
30-day retention

Start with Crew

What a managed hour means

One managed hour is one hour in which the hosted control plane receives signed activity from an environment. Sunk compute does not consume hours. Safety signals and teardown remain available even when the included balance is exhausted.

DigitalOcean is separate

Droplets and persistent volumes run in your own DigitalOcean account. Chalupa displays provider estimates, but never resells or adds a margin to that infrastructure.