Cloud Plans Comparison

We built Medusa Cloud to support your Medusa application development from day one. That is why we created plans designed to take you from initial development to launching with your first few customers, and eventually scaling to hundreds of thousands, without breaking the bank.

In this post, we will cover the differences between Medusa's Hobby and Pro plans, what they include, and which types of stores and development stages they are best suited for.

What does the Hobby plan give me?

The Hobby plan ($29/mo) is the perfect entry point for developers and small businesses looking to build and experiment with Medusa. It provides all the essential tools you need to get your project off the ground without any upfront infrastructure costs.

All core features are included on the Hobby plan, namely:

1. Always-on production environment
2. Database, Redis instance, and S3 provided out of the box
3. Github integration
4. Push-to-deploy flows
5. Preview environments
6. Built-in autoscaling

There are a few characteristics of the Hobby plan that are important to consider as you scale your business:

• Brief downtime during new deployments
• A single point of failure, which can result in occasional downtime
• Slower response times as traffic increases

So, with that in mind, when is the Hobby plan a good choice?

Imagine you run ACME Inc., selling personalized keychains. You are the sole developer on the project, building your dream business. After a month of development, you go live and start getting a few orders a day.

The Hobby plan can serve you well up to this point on your journey to a successful business, all without going over the $29 price tag.

When should I switch to the Pro plan?

The Pro plan ($299/mo) is engineered for production workloads. It includes everything in the Hobby plan, plus critical upgrades that ensure reliability and performance at scale.

The Pro plan adds support for:

1. Zero-downtime deployments
2. Automatically configured server/worker setup
3. High-availability with multiple instances running concurrently
4. More powerful instances, resulting in faster processing and response times

Going back to ACME Inc. you have now validated your business and you are ready to grow. To prepare for an anticipated surge in traffic, you upgrade to the Pro plan. You have also hired two more engineers to help you build.

A friend shares your business on socials, you go viral, and you start getting hundreds of orders a day. At this stage, uptime and speed are critical to your bottom line. Every minute of downtime directly affects revenue and brand image. On the Pro plan, your infrastructure scales automatically to ensure reliability, without needing a dedicated infrastructure team.

Example cases

Here are a few examples of customers that are running in production on Medusa Cloud.

B2B spare parts business, 400k products and real-time inventory

This business sells spare parts with an extensive product catalog and operates a modern ecommerce stack with multiple third-party integrations, including real-time inventory data from partners to manage fulfillment. They have a heavy reliance on preview environments, which allows them to test new features without a dedicated staging environment.

On the Pro plan, they pay monthly:

• $299 for the plan
• $50 for data transfer
• $10 for storage
• = $359 /mo

B2C clothing brand, 6k orders per month

This mid-sized ecommerce business sells high-end clothing products across multiple sales channels on Medusa, including POS and web. Their customers have high browsing activity, resulting in a large number of backend calls per order, and they process around 6,000 orders each month. The store is a strong example of a team that actively develops its commerce setup and deploys new features on a daily basis.

On the Pro plan, they pay monthly:

• $299 for the plan
• $500 for additional compute
• $20 for a staging environment
• $30 for a fourth team member
• = $849 in total

B2B hardware distributor, 1M products and price updates

This large B2B company sells electric and lighting products, managing over a million products and performing thousands of price updates daily through a sync with outside system of records for order history, inventory levels, and customer data. Their team consists of six developers actively working on the solution on a daily basis.

On the Pro plan, they pay monthly:

• $299 for the plan
• $120 for additional compute
• $90 for additional storage
• $90 for additional members
• = $599 in total

Custom plans with SLAs and Support

In addition to the Hobby and Pro plans, we offer an Enterprise option for companies with more advanced needs.

The Enterprise offering includes:

1. Dedicated support for your Medusa projects, including fast issue resolution and migration assistance.
2. SLA-backed guarantees on uptime, plus guidance on performance optimization
3. Flexible infrastructure pricing tailored to your specific needs

Get in touch to learn more about these offerings or get help with TCO estimates for your Medusa project.