10 credits = $1. A deployment costs a module fee plus the time its build actually ran, and in a project RAD created the Google Cloud bill is recharged in credits on top. You can work out what you will spend on this page.
You do not need a card to deploy something real.
Granted when you create an account. Enough to deploy several modules from the catalogue and see the whole path end to end.
Free credits refresh on the first of each month. They are assigned rather than accumulated, so an unspent free balance is replaced.
No card, no trial clock, no automatic conversion to a paid plan. You add a payment method when you want more credits, not before.
What credits pay for. Credits pay RAD for the deployment itself. Deploy into your own Google Cloud project and Google bills you directly for the resources, at your own rates. Without a Google Cloud account, RAD can create and govern a project for you instead.
The plans differ in one thing: how many credits you get for your money. Every plan reaches the whole catalogue of 350+ deployment options and all 60+ solutions.
210 credits a month — $0.0952 per credit, 4.8% below the base rate. Solo builders shipping their first cloud applications.
825 credits a month — $0.0909 per credit, 9.1% below the base rate. Active developers shipping across several projects.
2,875 credits a month — $0.0870 per credit, 13.0% below the base rate. Teams running Cloud Run and GKE workloads.
7,500 credits a month — $0.0800 per credit, 20.0% below the base rate. The lowest per-credit price.
There is no listed Enterprise price. Tell us the shape of what you need and we will quote it.
Prices are in US dollars, billed monthly. Subscription credits are granted when a payment succeeds.
Two components for a deployment, both visible before you confirm, with the arithmetic done — and, in a project RAD created, the cloud bill on top.
Set per module according to how much infrastructure it stands up, from a single container service to a full GKE platform. A handful of infrastructure and reference options carry no module fee at all. The figure is shown on the confirmation screen before you deploy.
Metered from how long the build actually ran, at one credit per minute. Most modules build in well under half an hour, so the build cost is usually the smaller half of the total.
If provisioning does not succeed, you are not charged for the module. The build time is still metered, because it consumed build capacity, but you do not pay for infrastructure you did not get.
A 40-credit module that builds in 12 minutes costs 40 + 12 = 52 credits, or $5.20. A 300-credit module that builds in 28 minutes costs 328 credits, or $32.80. Updating or tearing down later runs another build, metered the same way.
Credits are not one pot. Where a credit came from decides when it expires, and RAD spends the soonest-to-expire first.
Signup and monthly credits, plus anything granted through a referral. They refresh on the first of the month and do not accumulate: an unspent free balance is replaced, not topped up.
Granted when a plan payment succeeds, and unused credits currently roll over into the next cycle. Nothing except a successful renewal changes this balance: a failed card does not sweep it.
Credits you purchase as a one-off have no expiry date, and no code path that resets a balance is able to name this one. Subscriptions are discounted. Use this option when you run out of subscription credits.
A solution deploys several applications as one dependency-ordered unit, and the module fees are discounted by its size.
The whole cost is reserved as a single sum before the first member starts building, so you cannot run out mid-deployment. The confirmation screen itemises every member, applies the discount and shows the resulting balance.
You can deploy into a project RAD creates and governs for you, in one of eight regions, instead of bringing your own. That arrangement has its own rules.
A RAD-managed project is real Google Cloud infrastructure running on RAD's own billing account. You need a confirmed email address and a minimum balance of credits you have paid for; free credits do not count. The minimum depends on which project tier you choose.
Each tier carries a monthly Google Cloud budget that raises alerts as spend approaches and then exceeds it. Those alerts reach our administrators and finance team, not you, because the spend lands on our billing account. A Google Cloud budget sends notifications: it does not refuse an API call, and raising it does not permit more spend.
RAD pays Google for a managed project and recovers it from your balance: the project's real spend is read hourly from the billing export and converted to credits. Deploy into your own Google Cloud project instead and none of this applies — Google bills you directly, at your own rates.
RAD is designed to disable billing on a managed project if your purchased credit balance goes negative, and to restore it once you top up. It checks on a fifteen-minute schedule and only ever reverses a suspension it applied itself.
You can hold one managed project in each tier at a time, so a lab project does not consume your own sandbox. All but a short, named list can be deployed into a managed project; those that cannot are named on the modules page.
Two payment providers, chosen so that where you are does not decide whether you can buy.
Checkout happens on the provider's own hosted page, so card details never reach RAD. Credits are granted server-side only once the provider confirms the payment, in a single transaction carrying an idempotency key. A duplicated webhook cannot grant the same credits twice.
Two things worth saying out loud.
We run a first deployment with your team and hand it over; we author a Terraform module for software you already run; or we compose a solution around a stack you describe. These are priced per engagement rather than listed. Tell us what you need.
If you want one container running forever at the lowest monthly figure, a single-app host will beat this. RAD earns its fee when there is more than one thing to stand up, and when it has to be governed and reproducible.
There is one cloud here on purpose. Every module is Terraform, deployed into a Google Cloud project, with state in Cloud Storage. If your infrastructure lives somewhere else, this is not the product for you.
300 credits on signup, 100 more each month, no payment method. Deploy something real into your own project and see what it actually costs you.