Unpaid beta

$0 for beta buyers.

Developers and buyers can create an account and run eligible jobs without a card or prepaid balance. Apple Silicon hosts participate voluntarily as unpaid testers.

Create free buyer accountJoin as unpaid host testerAPI docs
Beta terms: buyer charges are waived to $0. Host testers receive no wages, credits, reimbursements, earnings, or payouts. The beta is experimental, as-is, and has no SLA.

Bakeoff context: big Remotion jobs

Before a RenderMac quote, here is the measured host-power vs tiny-container rate-card contrast from our 2026-07-22 bakeoff. Use it to understand why wall-clock and Mac-native paths matter; do not treat it as our buyer price.

~$0.00017Mac elec · Remotion 3 min
~$0.0435CF rate-card · same 3 min job
~$0.001Mac elec · Remotion 20 min
~$0.29 PROJECTEDCF rate-card · Remotion 20 min

Mac $ = ABS package Wh × $0.1883/kWh. CF $ = published Workers Paid standard-1 rate-card math (~$0.00002/wall-s). Full duel: big Remotion job cost. Interactive presets: Remotion cost calculator. What changes a quote: cost estimation guide.

The beta flow

1. Create account

Verify your email and create a buyer organization at no charge.

2. Estimate

Estimate the exact named service and see the beta fee waiver.

3. Execute

Run under a lease with progress, retries, and output verification.

4. Learn

Use the result and help us learn from real workloads and host hardware.

What happens after beta?

We may later offer paid buyer plans and compensated hosting. Those programs will use separate commercial terms and require affirmative enrollment. Beta participation does not authorize future charges or create retroactive host compensation.

Read the video SaaS guide, beta terms, and the API quickstart.

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