Usage, overage and bandwidth
What’s measured
Section titled “What’s measured”| Metric | What counts |
|---|---|
| Build time | Minutes spent building your apps, including failed builds. Rollbacks and code Drone refuses before building are free. |
| HivePod vCPU-hours | vCPU × hours for running pods. Memory is included. |
| Database storage | GB actually used, averaged over the month (GB-months), not the limit you set. |
| Bandwidth | Data sent from DockHive to the internet. |
Overage rates (paid plans)
Section titled “Overage rates (paid plans)”Usage beyond your plan’s monthly allowance is billed at:
| Metric | Rate |
|---|---|
| Compute (HivePods) | $0.05 per vCPU-hour |
| Build time | $0.05 per build hour |
| Database storage | $0.10 per GB-month |
| Bandwidth | $0.02 per GB |
On the Free Tier, usage is capped and never billed.
Bandwidth
Section titled “Bandwidth”Bandwidth is the data your apps, databases, n8n workspaces, HivePods and tunnels send out to visitors and clients (egress), measured in GB (1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes). One allowance covers all products and all regions:
- Free Tier: 500 MB per month. When it’s used up: “Included bandwidth used up. Upgrade for more.”
- Developer Plan: 100 GB per month, then $0.02 per GB.
Data coming in (uploads to your app, requests) isn’t counted.
See your usage
Section titled “See your usage”The Billing & Usage page in the console shows:
- Real-Time Cost and Next Invoice estimates,
- Service Usage & Performance, per metric, against your allowance,
- Export Usage, which downloads this period’s usage as a CSV file.
From an AI assistant, the MCP server’s usage_and_cost tool returns the same figures.