Back4app Containers free tier is designed to help you explore new tech, build personal projects, and preview the Back4app developer experience.
With Back4app Containers FREE limit, you can spin up your Dockerized software project at no charge(no credit card required). The FREE limit allows you to use up to 600 server hours monthly for your account (including the building and running hours for all your Containers).
We will notify you if your account exceeds the free limits and block your FREE Containers. At the beginning of each month of use, your free account limit will be reset.

Back4app Containers is an open-source platform as a service that offers simple and predictable pricing, including a FREE Plan. Containers is also built on top of the leading Cloud Services available (AWS, GCP, Azure, Alicloud), allowing you to scale your app globally and run your application closer to the end user. Other advantages include the following:

• No downtime deployments: New containers are always ready to work when deploying a new commit or changing container configurations, guaranteeing no downtime.
• Real-Time Monitoring: Monitor Deployment logs, application logs, and Container Metrics (RAM, CPU, Bandwidth) in Real Time.
• Acclaimed Customer Support: Our highly skilled support experts are always ready and are just one click away to help you at any stage of your project.
• GitHub Integration: Install Back4app Containers App into your Repo and start deploying.

We charge for the monthly plan you have for each Container. Each plan allows you to run one Container for that given capacity for the whole month. Building server hours will be charged from your free hours, and if you exceed that limit, we will charge you separately for building hours.

We will notify you if your account exceeds the free limits and block your FREE Containers. At the beginning of each month of use, your free account limit will be reset.

To track your Free limits usage for that free month, please send us a message at: [email protected].

Yes. Back4app Containers has a FREE tier(no credit card required) that allows you to explore new tech, build personal projects, and preview the Back4app developer experience at no charge.

As many as you want because the FREE limit counts against all your Containers considering building/deploying and running hours.

Yes, we charge per Container per month, and once you hire a plan, that plan will be associated with one specific Container.

If you want to cancel your subscription, please message [email protected].

You will receive support on Back4app official channels ([email protected] and slack community) and a dedicated slack channel for paid plans.

If you want to upgrade/downgrade your subscription, please message [email protected].

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