How does per-app (per-instance) billing work?
- Topic
- Billing & plans
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- Teams with multiple apps
AdminUpdated Sep 11, 2026
Atlas bills per instance, and each app you build gets its own instance. That means:
One app can be on Free while another is on Pro or Enterprise.
MAU limits and usage are counted independently per instance.
Keys, users, settings and billing are all scoped to the instance, so there's no bleed between apps.
This lets you keep a side project on Free indefinitely while your production app runs on a paid plan. Manage each instance's plan from its own Billing section. See the billing docs.
Each application has its own Atlas instance, and plans and usage are tracked per instance. You can run one app on Free and another on Pro; billing and MAU limits apply independently to each.
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