Pricing
Operational monitoring,
priced for production teams.
Monitors are always free. Seats are always unlimited. You pay only for the runs your jobs actually fire.
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Enterprise
Need higher quotas, on-prem deployment, or a custom SLA?
We work with platform and infra teams on custom commercial terms.
Looking for a discount? There's a quiet thank-you for early supporters.
Plan Capacity at a Glance
Monitors are free. This table shows how many monitors each plan covers at different polling frequencies before overage kicks in.
| Interval | Beats / monitor | Free | Pro | Business |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 seconds | 86.4K | — | 11 | 34 |
| 1 minute | 43.2K | 4 | 23 | 69 |
| 5 minutes | 8.6K | 23 | 115 | 347 |
| 15 minutes | 2.9K | 50(cap) | 347 | 1,041 |
| 1 hour | 720 | 50(cap) | 1,388 | 4,166 |
| 6 hours | 120 | 50(cap) | 8,333 | 25,000 |
| 1 day | 30 | 50(cap) | 33,333 | 100,000 |
Uptime Monitoring Examples
Each uptime check costs 1 Beat. Retries on failure also consume 1 Beat each.
Calculation: monitors x (minutes in month / interval minutes). E.g. 5 x (43,200 / 5) = 43,200 Beats. You can mix cron job and uptime monitors on the same plan.
How Beats Work
Beats are Drumbeats' execution currency — they measure how much your monitors run, not how many you have.
Free includes 200K Beats, Pro includes 1M, and Business includes 3M. Choose the plan that fits your normal job load — monitors themselves are always free.
If you cross your included threshold, extra usage is billed at $0.00002 per Beat — that's $20 per extra 1M Beats. No rounding, no surprises.
Frequently asked questions
Yes — no credit card, no hidden fees, no time limits. The free tier is genuinely free for as long as you use it.
Yes. Monitors themselves never consume Beats. You only pay for job executions (pings). Create as many monitors as your plan allows.
Beats are Drumbeats' execution currency. Each job run costs 1 Beat before payload, and any attached payload adds more Beats in 25 KB chunks. A simple ping costs ~1 Beat. A run with both start ping and success/failure ping costs ~2 Beats before payload. Each uptime HTTP check also costs 1 Beat per check location — a monitor checked from a single location costs 1 Beat per cycle, and a monitor checked from 2 locations (Europe plus, in beta, US East) costs 2 Beats per cycle instead of 1. Retries on failure count as additional Beats.
Free includes 200,000 Beats/month, Pro includes 1,000,000 Beats/month, and Business includes 3,000,000 Beats/month.
Overage is a Business-plan feature. Once enabled, it is billed linearly after your included Beats at $0.00002 per Beat, which is the same as $20 per additional 1,000,000 Beats. There is no block rounding.
On Free and Pro, usage above your included Beats is blocked until the billing cycle resets or you move to a higher plan. On Business with PAYG disabled, the same hard cap applies.
PAYG is a Business-plan opt-in. On Business you can enable PAYG and optionally set a monthly spending limit in USD. Once that limit is reached, additional billable usage is blocked until the cycle resets or you raise the limit.
One subscription covers all projects you own. Their usage counts toward the same monthly allowance and the same PAYG cap.
No. Promo codes only reduce the fixed base subscription price. PAYG overage is always billed at the standard linear rate.
A small number of launch gifts are still available for early supporters who find them. See the founding members page for details.
No. Every plan, including Free, comes with unlimited team seats. Invite as many team members as you need across all your projects at no extra cost.
Yes. You can change plans from the billing settings. Upgrades take effect immediately, and cancelling to Free is scheduled for the end of the current billing cycle.
Public pages showing real-time uptime, execution duration, and incident history for your cron and interval monitors. Free plans include Drumbeats branding; paid plans get custom vanity URLs for clean, branded status page addresses.
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