#Billing & Plans

Pixault offers four subscription tiers designed for teams of every size. Every plan requires a payment method at signup and bills immediately — there is no free trial and no free tier.

Prices below are kept in step with the BillingPlans table, which is what actually bills you. pixault.io/pricing renders from that table directly, so treat it as authoritative if the two ever disagree.

#Plans

#Choosing a Plan

• Starter — For personal projects and small sites with a single project

• Growth — For agencies or apps with multiple brands/projects

• Pro — For production SaaS with heavy image traffic and Bring Your Own Storage

• Business — For enterprise with unlimited projects, keys, and BYOS

#Usage Metering

Pixault tracks three usage dimensions:

#Bandwidth

Measured as bytes transferred when serving images. Includes:

• Transformed images served to end users

• Original file downloads

• API responses

Does not include:

• CDN cache hits (these don't reach the origin)

• Upload traffic

#Storage

Measured as total bytes stored (originals only). Cached variants don't count against storage limits.

#Projects

The number of unique project identifiers you use. Each project has isolated storage and can have independent named transforms.

#Overages

Paid plans bill overages rather than stopping you at your included limit:

• Bandwidth overages are billed per GB at the plan's overage rate

• Storage overages are billed per GB at the plan's overage rate

• Overages appear on the next invoice as line items

There is a safety cap. So that a misconfiguration cannot produce an unbounded bill, usage is hard-capped at 10x your plan's included allowance. Past that, image delivery returns 429 Too Many Requests until you upgrade or the billing period resets. Processing time is capped the same way and is never billed as overage. Contact support if you need the cap raised.

#Managing Your Subscription

#Dashboard

Visit pixault.io → Billing to:

• View your current plan and usage

• See bandwidth and storage meters

• Manage API keys

• View invoice history

• Change or cancel your plan

#API Keys

An API key is a single secret (pk_ followed by 40 characters), shown only once at creation time. There is no separate client ID.

Send it in the X-Api-Key header:

X-Api-Key: pk_your_secret_key
                              

Keys can be scoped to specific projects for security.

#Cancellation

Cancel anytime from the billing dashboard. When you cancel:

• Access continues until the end of your billing period

• No further charges after the period ends

• Data is retained for 30 days after cancellation

• Re-subscribe within 30 days to retain all data

#Payment

Pixault accepts credit and debit cards. Card details are tokenized (PCI Level 1 compliant) — Pixault never stores raw card numbers.

#Invoices

Invoices are generated at the start of each billing period and include:

• Base plan charge

• Bandwidth overage charges (if applicable)

• Storage overage charges (if applicable)

• Applicable taxes

View and download invoices from the billing dashboard.

#Need Help?

Contact support at [email protected] for:

• Enterprise pricing or custom plans

• Volume discounts

• Technical questions about usage metering

• Billing disputes or refund requests