Pricing

Storm Cellar is in invite-only alpha. There is no public signup, and no
account is billed. This page covers what alpha members get today. The paid
rate is published before the alpha opens to the public.

At a glance

Founding Alpha

Founding Alpha is the only way into Storm Cellar 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 Cellar 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. You add a block when you need the room; your bill changes
only when you do. 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. The per-block rate is published before
public launch.

Currency and billing

Prices are USD. ServaRica, the upstream infrastructure provider, bills in USD,
and Storm passes that through. Canadian customers see USD on invoices. CAD
billing is on the roadmap, not committed. Billing, once live, runs monthly.

What's TBD

• The per-block rate and block egress terms. Published before public launch.

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

• CAD billing for Canadian customers. On the roadmap.

Questions: contact@stormdevelopments.ca