Axel Cloud pricing

Start free. $20 in monthly usage credit on Pro.

Start with 10,000 accepted inbound events free each month. Upgrade for more traffic. On Pro, your $20 monthly payment becomes usage credit, then accepted inbound events are metered at $0.015 per 1,000.

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For development, test webhooks, and sources with up to 10,000 events a month.

  • 10,000 accepted inbound events / month included
  • Webhook ingest with Postgres, Mongo, BigQuery, R2, S3, and HTTP destinations
  • Declarative filters & transforms
  • 30-day event search in ClickHouse
  • Community support
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Estimate usage

Your $20 plan is applied as monthly usage credit.

Only accepted inbound events are metered. Destination pushes and retries are included, so fan-out and broken endpoints do not multiply the bill.

Inbound events100k
Rate / million$15
Usage value$1.50
Monthly invoice$20.00

$1.50 credit applied, no usage above credit.

Cloud and self-hosting

Pay us to run it. Or run it yourself.

Cloud runs the same application code available under Apache-2.0. Your subscription covers managed infrastructure, updates, delivery monitoring, and searchable history. Self-hosting has no Axel license fee; you operate the stack and pay your providers.

How metering works

One billing unit: accepted inbound events.

The dashboard shows events received, events pushed, byte volume, and per-source breakdowns. Only accepted inbound events count toward your bill.

Counted at ingest

Each accepted inbound event counts once. Rate-limited and rejected requests do not count.

Destination pushes included

Initial pushes and delivery retries are included at no additional cost.

Monthly credit first

Your $20 Pro payment covers about 1.33 million inbound events each month before usage charges appear.

FAQ

Pricing questions

Can I self-host Axel?

Yes. Axel is Apache-2.0 software, including the connectors, routing, retries, and replay. Self-hosting has no Axel license fee. You run the Docker and Cloudflare infrastructure, backups, and upgrades. The small install omits ClickHouse; add it for event search and analytics. Cloud includes managed infrastructure and 30 days of searchable history.

What counts toward usage?

Only accepted inbound events are metered. Rejected requests do not count.

Are retries billed?

No. Destination pushes and retries are included at no additional cost.

Are destination pushes billed?

No. You pay only for accepted inbound events, regardless of how many destination pushes they produce.

What happens after the $20 credit?

Usage continues at $0.015 per 1,000 accepted inbound events, or $15 per million. The dashboard shows received events, delivery activity, metered usage, and the estimated invoice before the month closes.

Does unused monthly credit roll over?

No. The $20 payment is the Pro plan minimum and monthly usage credit. Any unused credit expires at the end of the billing month.

Ship your first webhook today.

Start with 10,000 accepted events per month free. Upgrade to Pro when you need more.