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Managing your bill

This guide explains how to manage your MotherDuck billing, including selecting a plan that suits your needs, keeping track of your usage, and understanding your invoices.

Choosing Your Billing Plan​

MotherDuck offers a variety of plans with different features and pricing. During your initial 21-day Free Trial of the Business Plan, you can explore the full set of MotherDuck's capabilities. Afterwards, or at any time during the trial, you can select a plan by navigating to the Plans page in Settings within the MotherDuck UI:

  • Continue with Lite Plan: If you select "Lite" your organization will continue on the Lite Plan. This plan includes 10 CU hours on Pulse and 10 GB of storage per month at no cost. Additional usage is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis.
  • Upgrade to Business Plan: Selecting "Business" moves your organization to the Business Plan, designed for teams with features like 10 users, unlimited service accounts, access to all five Duckling sizes, a 99.9% availability SLA, read scaling, and a configurable snapshot retention period of 0 - 90 days.

For details on the features and allowances of each plan, please refer to our Pricing Model documentation.

Monitoring Usage​

You can monitor your organization's Compute and Storage usage from the Billing page in the MotherDuck UI.

  • Compute usage is displayed in Compute Unit-hours (CU-hours). Learn more about how compute is priced.
  • Storage usage is displayed as your average storage in GB over the billing period. Learn more about how storage is priced.

Your storage bill is calculated based on your average daily storage over the month. For example, if you store 10 GB for half the month and 20 GB for the other half, your average is 15 GB. Historical data retention (default 1 day (Lite) or 7 days (Business) for new databases) also contributes to your storage usage.

Usage

Viewing Your Invoice​

The Billing page also enables you to view your past invoices, as well as the current month's invoice thus far.

  • Lite Plan users see invoices for any usage beyond the included 10 CU hours and 10 GB storage.
  • Business Plan users see their actual invoices reflecting their usage and the $250/month platform fee.
  • Free Trial users see estimated invoices, which are fully discounted during the trial period.

Incurred Storage and Compute costs are broken down per-user and per-service-account, as well as aggregated for the entire organization.

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For organizations with more than 500 users and service accounts, invoices may show aggregated usage rather than a full per-user breakdown to maintain clarity.