Managing your bill
This guide explains how to manage your MotherDuck billing, including selecting a plan that suits your needs, keeping track of your usage, and understanding your invoices.
Choosing Your Billing Plan
MotherDuck offers a variety of plans with different features and pricing. During your initial 21-day Free Trial, you can explore MotherDuck's capabilities. Afterwards, or at any time during the trial, you can select a plan by navigating to the Plans page in Settings within the MotherDuck UI:
- Transition to Free Plan: If you select "Free" upon completion of the Free Trial (or if selected during), your organization will be placed on the Free Plan, subject to its specific limitations on storage, compute, and users.
- Upgrade to Lite Plan: If you select "Lite" your organization will transition to the Lite Plan. This plan offers unlimited compute and storage on a pay-as-you-go basis. You will be prompted to add payment information if you haven't already.
- Upgrade to Business Plan: Selecting "Business" moves your organization to the Business Plan, designed for more extensive use with features like unlimited users and access to all instance types. Payment information will be required.
For details on the features and allowances of each plan, please refer to our Pricing Model documentation.
Monitoring Usage
You can monitor your organization's Compute and Storage usage from the Billing page in the MotherDuck UI.
- Compute usage is displayed in Compute Unit-hours (CU-hours). Learn more about how compute is priced.
- Storage usage is displayed in prorated GB-days. Learn more about how storage is priced.
GB-days are calculated based on the amount of data stored per day. For example, storing 10 GB of data for a full 30-day month would equate to 300 GB-days. Data recoverability for the past 7 days also contributes to your storage bill.
Viewing Your Invoice
The Billing page also enables you to view your past invoices, as well as the current month's invoice thus far.
- Lite & Business Plan users see their actual invoices reflecting their usage and any plan fees.
- Free Trial users see estimated invoices, which are fully discounted during the trial period.
- Invoices are not generated for organizations on the Free Plan.
Incurred Storage and Compute costs are broken down per-user and per-service-account, as well as aggregated for the entire organization.
For organizations with more than 500 users and service accounts, invoices may show aggregated usage rather than a full per-user breakdown to maintain clarity.