I asked the same question in a thread about Convox a few months ago (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10796165" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10796165</a>).  Their reply from that thread might help:<p>nzoschke 134 days ago<p>&gt; Thanks for your question. A much more thorough pricing page is in the works.<p>&gt; The most straightforward model, and where we are already making some money, is running a Convox as a managed service.<p>&gt; In this setup you and your team get Convox API keys. Convox installs, runs and updates everything for you in our accounts. You get a monthly bill that&#x27;s your AWS resource costs plus a percentage to Convox for management.<p>&gt; We will be tweaking this model to sell packages so bills are really easy to understand.<p>&gt; Some other experiments we&#x27;re doing...<p>&gt; We sell support packages and professional services for app setup, migration and custom feature development.<p>&gt; We have a per-seat model for productivity features. Private GitHub repos and Slack integrations are $19 &#x2F; user &#x2F; month. There are more closed SaaS tools like this coming.<p>&gt; Infra is trending to commodity prices industry wide.<p>&gt; We&#x27;ll be selling SLAs, support, productivity tools on top of that infra.<p>&gt; You&#x27;ll get a cutting edge private platform without hiring and managing your own devops team to build and maintain it.<p>&gt; Open source users will help grow the user base and make the platform better without us running a freemium platform.