Pricing

Storm Buckets is in invite-only alpha. There is no public signup, and no
account is billed. This page covers what alpha members get today and how
paid storage will work when billing turns on.

At a glance

Founding Alpha

Founding Alpha is the only way into Storm Buckets during alpha. It is
closed-invitation. Members receive:

• A 100 GB storage grant, permanent. It stays yours after alpha ends,
  on top of any paid storage you add later. It is never billed.

• All features unlocked during alpha: custom domains, static website
  hosting, no egress cap.

• The Founding Alpha marker on the account, permanently.

Post-alpha feature-access policy is captured in the alpha invitation.

What's always free

These never cost anything, during alpha or after:

• Ingress. Uploading data into Storm Buckets is free. No cap, no per-GB charge.

• API operations. GET, PUT, HEAD, LIST, DELETE, and admin calls are free,
  regardless of count.

• Buckets and keys. Creating them is free, and Storm does not charge by
  bucket or key count. Make the ones your project needs.

AWS and GCP meter S3 API calls at fractions of a cent per thousand requests.
Small money, but it means your bill moves with your request count. Storm does
not meter API calls, so yours never does.

How paid storage will work

Billing is not live during alpha. When it begins, paid storage is provisioned
in 1 TB blocks at $9 CAD per block, billed monthly.

$9 CAD for a full terabyte. Use what you need inside it. Whether you store
100 GB or 950 GB, the bill is the same: one $9 block. Cross 1 TB and a second
block kicks in at $9. A block is yours whether you fill it or leave it empty.

This is deliberate. Storm runs real Canadian hardware in discrete units, not a
fictional infinite cloud. Block pricing is the honest version of that: no
metered surprises, no overage bills. You pay for capacity Storm has actually
allocated to you, and nothing else. Per-byte daily proration is on the
post-alpha roadmap.

Currency and billing

Prices are CAD. ServaRica, the upstream infrastructure provider, bills Storm
in CAD, so Canadian customers see CAD on invoices end-to-end. Customers outside
Canada are charged the CAD rate; their card issuer handles the FX conversion.
Billing, once live, runs monthly.

What's TBD

• Paid-tier egress terms. Published before public launch.

• Storage classes (archive, cold). One class today. Cheaper-but-colder may
  come later.

Questions: contact@stormdevelopments.ca