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Your tests. Your compute. Your plan.

Self-host with no license fee for permitted use, or let Playrunner Cloud manage your workflows. One monthly subscription, with credits for the orchestration and compute you use.

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Choose how you run

Start self-hosted or use Playrunner Cloud.

Keep everything on your infrastructure, or connect your team to managed orchestration with Cloud or your own runners.

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Self-hosted

Full control on your laptop or infrastructure.

$0license fee
  • Download and install Playrunner locally
  • Deploy it in your own cloud environment
  • Use it for your own internal business operations, or for personal, educational, evaluation, and other non-commercial purposes
  • Keep control of your infrastructure and data
  • Your infrastructure and provider costs are separate
Install Playrunner
Hosted plan

Playrunner Cloud

Managed workflows for your account.

$30per monthbefore tax
  • 2,000 shared credits each paid month
  • 14-day trial with 200 credits for eligible new subscribers
  • Hosted orchestration with Cloud or your own runners
  • $10 for 1,000 extra credits, with optional auto top-up
  • Usage reporting and billing management
Start your Cloud trial

Payment method required. Then $30/month before tax. Cancel before your trial ends to avoid the subscription charge.

How credits work

Pay for the work your workflows do.

Cloud usage combines hosted orchestration and any Cloud runner compute. Bringing your own runners removes the Playrunner compute charge; hosted orchestration still applies.

Coordinate the workflow

Hosted orchestration

0.25 credits / minute

Charged once per workflow while hosted orchestration is active, including workflows using your own runners.

Rounded up to 0.1 seconds. No minimum duration.
Run the tests

Cloud runner compute

1 credit / minute

Per runner at 2 vCPU / 4 GiB. Usage adds up across hosted nodes, shards, child runners and retries.

Rounded up to 0.1 seconds, with a one-minute minimum per started task. Other sizes have adjusted rates.
Keep running

Extra credits

$10 / 1,000 credits

Top up when you need more. Purchased credits carry forward; trial and included monthly credits expire.

Before tax. Optional auto top-up lets you set a spending limit. An eligible subscription is still required.
A practical example

A ten-minute workflow. Four standard runners.

If the workflow is active for ten minutes and each 2 vCPU / 4 GiB runner runs for ten minutes, you use:

Orchestration · 10 × 0.25
2.5 credits
Runner compute · 4 × 10 × 1
40 credits
Total
42.5 credits

Using your own runners for the same ten-minute workflow uses 2.5 orchestration credits, plus your own infrastructure costs. Custom Cloud runner sizes use (9 × vCPU + memory GiB) ÷ 22 credits per billable minute.

Sustainable Use

Free to use under the Sustainable Use License.

Self-hosting is available under the Playrunner Sustainable Use License. It permits internal business use and personal, educational, evaluation, and other non-commercial uses. It does not permit selling Playrunner, monetizing access to it, or offering a service substantially based on it to third parties without separate written permission.

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Questions

Common questions about cost and licensing.

How much does Playrunner Cloud cost?
The Hosted plan is $30 per month, before tax, with 2,000 credits each paid billing period. Credits are shared across the account for hosted orchestration and Cloud runners. Additional credits cost $10 for 1,000 credits.
How does the free trial work?
Eligible new subscribers receive a 14-day trial with 200 credits. A payment method is required. After the trial, the subscription is $30 per month, before tax. Cancel through Stripe before the trial ends to avoid the subscription charge. An account that has already used its trial does not receive another one.
What uses credits?
Hosted orchestration uses 0.25 credits per active workflow minute, charged once per workflow. Cloud runners use 1 credit per minute at 2 vCPU and 4 GiB of memory, with resource-adjusted rates for other sizes. Each hosted node, shard, child runner and retry adds its own compute usage. Orchestration and runner charges are added together.
Can I use my own runners?
Yes. Your own runners have no Playrunner compute charge, but hosted orchestration still uses 0.25 credits per active workflow minute. You pay your own infrastructure costs. Fully self-hosting Playrunner has no Playrunner subscription or credit charges for uses permitted by the Sustainable Use License.
Do unused credits carry forward?
Trial credits expire at the end of the trial. Included monthly credits reset each paid billing period and are used before purchased credits. Purchased credits carry forward. Starting Cloud runs still requires an eligible subscription and enough available credits.
What happens when I run low on credits?
Buy 1,000 credits for $10, or enable optional automatic top-ups with a spending limit. Credits are added after payment succeeds. Credits are reserved before work starts, and unused reservations are released. Without enough credits, new work is blocked and existing runs remain limited to their funded budget.
Is Playrunner open source?
Playrunner is source-available, not open source. It is distributed under the Playrunner Sustainable Use License, which is not an OSI-approved license. You can read, modify and self-host the code for permitted uses; selling it or offering a service substantially based on it requires separate written permission.
Are infrastructure and third-party services included?
Self-hosted infrastructure and compute on your own runners are your responsibility. Provider charges for services connected through your own accounts, such as AI model APIs, are separate from Playrunner Cloud pricing. All listed Cloud prices are in US dollars, before applicable tax.

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