Manage your billing

Overview

Chainstack natively supports crypto payments. Your crypto balance is the first to be charged for subscription, support, and node usage costs. If the balance is insufficient, your credit card will be charged for the outstanding amount.

The billing page is available for users with the Admin role. Here you can:

  • Top up your balance.
  • Edit your credit card details.
  • Check for failed payments and settle them.
  • View your current metered usage by category and its cost.
  • Manage your organization subscription plan and support level.

Manage the pay-as-you-go setting

With the pay-as-you-go setting enabled in your Billing, your Chainstack services will stay operational on reaching your plan's quota limit. Going over the limit will trigger the pay-as-you-go charges.

With the pay-as-you-go setting disabled, you introduce a hard limit to your plan. On reaching the quota, your Chainstack services will stop and you won't be charged on going over the limit.

In both cases, you will receive at least two email notifications—on using up 80% of your plan's quota and on using up 100%.

Top up your balance with crypto

You can top up your balance with your Coinbase account or directly with cryptocurrency.

Top up with a Coinbase account

To top up the balance with your Coinbase account:

  1. Go to Billing.
  2. Click Top up with crypto.
  3. Select a predefined amount or type in your amount. Click Next.
  4. Click Pay with Coinbase.

This will sign you to your Coinbase account and use your account's crypto balance to top up the Chainstack account balance.

Top up with a non-custodial wallet

You can top up the balance using your preferred non-custodial wallet. For example, MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, and others.

To top up the balance with a non-custodial wallet:

  1. Go to Billing.
  2. Click Top up with crypto.
  3. Select a predefined amount or type in your amount. Click Next.
  4. Select the cryptocurrency.
  5. Send the cryptocurrency to the respective generated address.

Edit your credit card details

If you need to edit your credit card details, do the following:

  1. Go to Billing.
  2. Next to Credit card, click Edit.
  3. Enter new details.
  4. Click Update.

The billing page will reload automatically and show your new credit card details.

Settle failed payments

If both the crypto balance and credit card deduction tries were unsuccessful, a payment is considered failed. In this case, the next time you go to the billing page, you will see a warning with the failed payment details. There are the following ways to settle failed payments:

  • Add a new credit card. If its balance is sufficient, failed payments will be deducted automatically.
  • Retry your payment manually and deduct the due amount either from your balance or credit card.

To retry your payment manually:

  1. Make sure that a payment method of your choice has sufficient funds.
  2. Go to Billing > Balance.
  3. Next to the failed payment, click Retry with and select one of the following:
    • Credit card — to deduct the amount due from a credit card linked to your account.
    • Balance — to deduct the amount due from your crypto balance. See how to top it up.

The amount due will be deducted from your crypto or credit card balance and the payment status will change to Paid.

Manage your organization subscription plan and support level

You can manage two major options of your organization billing:

  • Your subscription plan
  • Your support level

Chainstack offers four types of subscription plans which differ depending on your Web3 objectives. The final price of each subscription plan is made up of a base charge for the features included and the number of API requests made to your deployed nodes.

Each subscription plan also has a default support level included into it. You can change your subscription plan any time, while the support level can be changed only for paid subscriptions. Switching between subscription plans and support levels occurs independently from each other.

Currently, Chainstack support levels are distributed between subscription plans as follows:

SubscriptionIncluded supportUpgrade option
DeveloperCommunityNot available
GrowthStandardProfessional or Premium for an extra charge
BusinessStandardProfessional or Premium for an extra charge
EnterpriseStandardProfessional or Premium for an extra charge

Changing your subscription plan

To change your subscription plan:

  1. In the left navigation bar, click Billing.
  2. Next to Plan, click Change.
  3. Select a new subscription plan and click Next.
  4. Check the details of your new subscription plan and click Confirm.

Your subscription plan changes immediately. Funds for the unused period of your previous subscription will be automatically returned to your balance. You will also be billed for any uninvoiced metered usage during the used period of your previous subscription.

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Rate limits for Developer plans

A free Developer plan has a rate limit of 30 request per second. However, this does not affect paid subscription plans.

Changing your support level

To change your support level:

  1. In the left navigation bar, click Billing.
  2. Next to Support level, click Change.
  3. Select a new support level and click Next.
  4. Check the details of your new support level and click Confirm.

Your support level changes immediately. Funds that you haven’t spent during your previous upgrade option will be automatically used as a part of your new support level charge if it’s Professional or returned to your balance if you have switched to Standard.

Chainstack Subgraphs billing details

You can view your Chainstack Subgraphs usage details in the Usage section. The Subgraphs requests table provides the number of requests included in your plan, the number that you have used, and the number that you have used in excess of your allowance. The Total subgraph hours shows the total number of hours that your subgraphs have been active.

For information about how to change your Chainstack subscription plan to increase your allowance of included requests, see Manage your organization subscription plan and support level.

Chainstack Marketplace billing details

Chainstack Marketplace is a collection of applications from third-party vendors. Each application can have its own pricing and billing scheme (free, paid subscription, or one-time payment), which will be applied on top of your main subscription plan.