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Your workspace pays for the two products separately. API Management has a tier and Compute has a plan, and you can have either one without the other. Both use one payment method and one set of invoices. Manage both under Settings > Billing. Only admins can change plans or payment details. Everyone else sees the controls disabled with “Admin access required to manage billing”.
Billing settings page showing the Compute and API management plans with Change and Upgrade buttons, and the Compute cost control budget with its email alerts

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API Management tier

Every workspace starts on the Free tier: 150,000 billable operations per month, 1,000 API keys, 1 day of request log retention, and 3 days of audit log retention. Billable operations are key verifications and rate limit operations. See Usage for what counts. A paid tier raises the monthly quota and both retention periods, and includes team members. Each tier’s numbers are on Limits and unkey.com/pricing, and the billing page shows them when you choose.

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Compute plan

You need a Compute plan before you can deploy an . There are three:
  • Starter for hobby projects and testing ideas.
  • Pro for growing apps in production.
  • Business for teams scaling up.
Every plan includes git push to deploy, a preview per pull request, instant rollback, autoscaling, and a monthly usage credit. The plans differ in their resource limits (CPU, memory, disk, replicas, and custom domains), listed on Limits. Pro and Business also include team members, so they give a team to a workspace on the free API tier. Pick a plan under Settings > Billing in the Choose a Compute plan dialog. If you try to create a project or deploy without one, the dashboard opens the same dialog.
Change Compute plan dialog listing Starter, Pro, and Business with their monthly prices and what every plan includes
Usage above the included credit is billed on average actual vCPU and memory (not your configured ceilings), allocated ephemeral disk, egress, and active keys verified through Compute Key Auth. Details are on Usage and unkey.com/pricing. To cap it, set a monthly spend budget. It emails you at 50, 75, and 100 percent and can stop your usage at 100 percent.

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Add a payment method

You need a card on file before you can upgrade. Under Settings > Billing, click Add payment method and enter the card in Stripe checkout. Both products charge that card. To see invoices or change the card later, click Open Portal on the Billing Portal card.

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Change or cancel the API tier

Choose a tier under Settings > Billing.
  • Upgrade. Applies immediately.
  • Downgrade or cancel. Takes effect at the end of the current period. The page shows the date, and you can resume your current tier until then. While a cancellation is pending you can’t pick another tier, and you’ll see “Resume your API plan before changing it.”
When a cancellation takes effect, the workspace moves to the free tier, and the free tier’s quota and retention apply.

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Change or cancel Compute

Choose a new plan in the Change Compute plan dialog under Settings > Billing. The timing is different from the API tier:
  • Upgrade. You’re charged the prorated fee difference right away and get more usage credit for the rest of the period.
  • Downgrade. Your limits drop right away. The fee difference isn’t refunded, and you keep the usage credit the old fee gave you. The lower fee and credit start at the next renewal.
  • Cancel. Click Cancel Compute. It takes effect immediately, not at the end of the period. We tear down your running deployments right away and stop billing further usage. Usage up to that point is billed as normal, and the fee isn’t refunded.
If you pick a Compute plan again before the canceled period ends, we resume that subscription instead of charging a new fee. Picking a higher plan than the one you canceled charges the prorated difference. Your deployments don’t come back on their own, so deploy again once the plan is active. Canceling one product doesn’t affect the other. You can drop Compute and keep a paid API tier, or the reverse.

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What happens to your team when you downgrade

Team members come with any paid API tier, or with Compute Pro or Business. If the workspace loses all of these, we deactivate every member except the one who created the workspace. That happens when:
  • A paid API tier ends at the end of its period, and you don’t have Compute Pro or Business.
  • You’re on the free API tier and downgrade Compute to Starter or cancel it.
Last modified on September 30, 2026