Alchemy Restructures Pricing Model, Introducing Usage-Based Pay As You Go Plan and Removing Subscription Tiers
What changed
Pay As You Go plan added with usage-based pricing starting at $0.40-$0.45/1M CUs, no monthly fees, 300 requests per second, 30 apps & 100 webhooks
Scale plan removed ($199/mo with 1.5B CUs per month, 3,000 CUs/s throughput)
Pricing model restructured from Free/Growth/Scale tiers to Free/Pay As You Go/Enterprise. Removed subscription-based Growth ($49/mo with 400M CUs) and Scale ($199/mo with 1.5B CUs) plans. Introduced usage-based Pay As You Go with transparent per-CU pricing ($0.40-$0.45/1M CUs).
Free plan base throughput increased from 330 CUs/s to 1000 CUs/s (30 requests per second unchanged)
Free plan Compute Units decreased from 300 Million CUs per month to 100M CUs per month
Growth plan removed ($49/mo with 400M CUs per month, 660 CUs/s throughput)
Before and after
Jan 1, 2025 vs Apr 1, 2025Pay As You Go plan added with usage-based pricing starting at $0.40-$0.45/1M CUs, no monthly fees, 300 requests per second, 30 apps & 100 webhooks
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Full history →- Week 38, 2026·increaseAlchemy: Pay as You Go rate hiked to flat $0.525/1M CU
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