Why we bill per instance, not per seat
Most hosted git platforms charge per seat. Add a collaborator, pay more. We decided early that Fjord would charge per instance instead, and that the people inside an instance would never be metered.
Per-seat pricing taxes collaboration
The whole point of a forge is to get more people working in the same place. A per-seat meter works directly against that: every new contributor is a line item, so teams ration access, share logins, and leave drive-by contributors locked out. The pricing model ends up shaping the engineering culture, and not for the better.
The instance is the natural unit
A Fjord instance has a real, predictable cost: storage, runner capacity, the backup pipeline, and support. That maps cleanly onto tiers, and it means the bill doesn’t move just because you added a teammate. You provision the instance you need, and you grow the team inside it for free.
See Plans and billing for the current rate card.