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Billing

Everything in Replicas is measured in minutes of workspace runtime. Every workspace session is logged with its source (manual vs. automated) and size, and each plan defines a single meter over that log:
  • Per-seat subscription (paid plans): covers unlimited manual workspaces (Dashboard, Slack, Linear, GitHub, GitLab, CLI).
  • Automated (API + Automation) minutes: metered against a monthly included allowance; overage is priced per active minute and size.
You only pay while a workspace is awake. Workspaces auto-sleep after 1 hour of inactivity and accrue no charges while sleeping or archived.

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Plans

Automations, warm pools, and the public API are available on every plan, including the free trial. Live pricing: tryreplicas.com/pricing. The free trial runs for 14 days from the moment your organization is created. No credit card is required. It includes unlimited manual workspace minutes, with up to 50 manual workspaces running or preparing per organization. Automated (API + Automation) minutes are capped at 15,000 for the trial and blocked at the cap rather than billed as overage. Every plan allows up to 100 automated workspaces running or preparing per organization. Automated workspaces do not consume manual concurrency slots, and manual workspaces keep working after the automated cap is reached. When the trial ends, new workspaces are blocked and running workspaces are suspended, not deleted, including manual ones. Their state is preserved and everything resumes the moment you subscribe to Developer or Team. Trial minutes do not reset or roll over. Repository cap is enforced inclusive of repository set membership; a repo in two repository sets consumes three slots toward the cap. Team and Enterprise extras. Paid Team and Enterprise customers get a shared Slack channel with the Replicas team for direct support and a dedicated forward-deployed engineer (FDE) included with the plan (the free trial does not include an FDE). The FDE runs a 60-minute onboarding call to learn your stack and codebase end-to-end, then sets up your environments for you or alongside you. Team workspaces are auto-upgraded to the higher CPU/disk/memory tier shown in the plan table. Book a session to get started. Enterprise plans also offer a data processing agreement (DPA), SCIM user provisioning, custom security and privacy settings, and custom sandbox CPU/memory/disk limits beyond the standard tiers.

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Seats

A seat is one unique user (by email) who creates a workspace from a manual surface (Dashboard, Slack, Linear, GitHub, GitLab, or the CLI, which authenticates as you). Seat totals are reconciled at the end of each billing period. Seats already paid through the subscription line item cover the next cycle; any additional seats from the period that just ended are added to that renewal invoice. Seats with @replicas.dev email addresses are excluded from billable seat totals and charges.

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Automated (API & Automation) minutes

Minutes from the public API and Automations are metered separately from seats on paid plans:
  • Paid plans include a per-cycle allowance (Developer 5,000 min, Team 15,000 min) before overage applies.
  • Overage is priced per active minute and size: Pass size on POST /v1/replica or set workspace_size on an automation; workspaces without an explicit size are small. Usage is rounded down to whole minutes (minimum 1 per session).
  • Mixed fleets bill correctly; a workspace charges at the rate of the size it was created with. e.g. an automation set to small always costs $0.008/min even if you also have large workspaces running.
  • Personal automations attach workspaces to the owner’s user account, but the workspace source remains Automation and its minutes are automated minutes.
  • No charges while a workspace sleeps or is archived. Workspaces auto-sleep after 1 hour idle, archive after 7 days asleep, and are deleted after 30 days dormant.
  • Metered totals are added to the next invoice.
Programmatic and automated use of Replicas is allowed only through the public REST API (with an organization API key) or Automations. Driving interactive surfaces from scripts or headless browsers is prohibited under our Terms of Service.

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Examples

  • Teammate on a paid plan opens the dashboard or runs replicas create → counts as a seat, no metered charge.
  • CI pipeline hits the API with "size": "small" for a 25-minute workspace → 25 automated minutes at $0.008/min (≈ $0.20) past the included allowance.
  • Nightly Automation with workspace_size: "large" runs for 90 minutes → 90 automated minutes, weighted 2x against the allowance, overage at $0.016/min.
  • Trial org runs a 30-minute dashboard workspace and a 30-minute large automation → the dashboard minutes are free (manual is unlimited); 60 automated minutes count against the 15,000 trial cap.
Questions? Email founders@replicas.dev.