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title: "Starter and spending caps"
description: "dply has no trial: Starter is $0 a month plus usage, with a card on file and a monthly spending cap you can raise."
---

dply no longer has a free trial. To try dply, choose Starter: it costs $0 a month, and you pay only for what you use, at the rates on [Plans & pricing](/docs/pricing). A spending cap keeps that usage at $25 a billing period unless you raise it. Static sites can also run on the [free tier](/docs/pricing#free-tier) with no card at all.

## Choose Starter

1. Open your organization's **Billing** page.
2. Under **Plan**, choose **Choose Starter**.
3. Enter a card on Stripe's checkout page.

Starter has 1 seat, 300 build minutes a billing period, and every kind of app: static, hybrid, Worker SSR and container apps, with databases, queues and realtime. See [Plans & pricing](/docs/pricing) for its limits.

> [!IMPORTANT]
> A card is required, even though the plan is $0. Usage bills to it in arrears.

## The spending cap

Starter always has a spending cap on usage: $25 a billing period by default. Everything with a price counts toward it, at the usual rates: delivery, build time past the included minutes, container compute, databases, Valkey, key-value, Edge SQL, queues, realtime and Workers usage.

When usage reaches the cap, new builds fail and the organization is paused until the next billing period: sites serve a paused page, container apps stop taking traffic, queue workers stop, and databases and Valkey sleep. Your data is kept.

To raise the cap, open the **Billing** page, choose **Limits**, enter a higher amount under **Spending cap** and choose **Save**. Raising it resumes the organization right away. See [Spending caps & alerts](/docs/spending-alerts).

## Move to Pro or Team

On the **Billing** page, under **Plan**, choose **Switch to Pro** or **Switch to Team**. The new plan bills from that day, with no trial. Pro and Team have no spending cap unless you set one, more seats, more build minutes and higher limits.

## Related

- [Plans & pricing](/docs/pricing)
- [Spending caps & alerts](/docs/spending-alerts)
- [Paused accounts](/docs/paused-accounts)