An event is one payload reaching the pipeline. If it never reaches us, you don't pay for it. If we drop it at the gate, you don't pay for it. The meter ticks once per event. Not once per destination, not once per step. We charge for the work we do.
USD, monthly·12% off annual·cancel from the dashboard·no call to sales
starterfree
1,000 events / mo · shared, Frankfurt
For prototypes, weekend hacks, the first hundred users. No card. No call. The cap resets the first of every month.
events / mo
1,000
sources
all
destinations
all
classify
bring your own model
redact
full
entity store
100
seats
1
regions
shared (Frankfurt)
support
community
team[ default ]$49/ mo
150,000 events / mo · shared, Frankfurt + Dublin
Everything starter is, plus a ten-thousand-entity store and PII redaction policies you can audit. The default for teams of two through twelve.
events / mo
150,000
sources
all
destinations
all
classify
BYOM or pooled inference
redact
per-destination policies
entity store
10,000
seats
unlimited
regions
shared (FRA + DUB)
sla
best effort
support
email, business hours
scale$199/ mo
1,000,000 events / mo · dedicated, your choice
Dedicated tenancy, SOC 2 on tap, a real SLA. Move here when audit asks who else runs on your hardware.
events / mo
1,000,000
sources
all
destinations
all
classify
BYOM, pooled, or co-located
redact
per-destination, signed
entity store
unlimited
seats
unlimited
regions
dedicated (FRA or DUB)
sla
99.9% · 4h response
support
shared Slack channel
unlimited[ enterprise ]custom
any volume · dedicated, your choice
For volumes beyond scale, dedicated servers, or contracts your procurement team needs to see. Email ben@ingestlayer.com and we'll get back to you by the end of the day.
Overage
What happens above the cap.
$0.0002 per event over your monthly allowance. Billed once, at the end of the month, on the same invoice. No auto-upgrades, no surprise tier bumps. If you cross your cap by accident, you'll hear from a person first.
100k overage
$20
500k overage
$100
1M overage
$200
beyond a few million
move up a tier
Counting
What is, and isn't, an event.
One payload arriving at one of our intake nodes is one event. A 200-byte page view costs the same as a 12KB invoice payload. Routing to four destinations from one event is still one event. The work multiplies; the meter does not.
counts
+Events accepted at the typed gate.
+Events that fail later (we already did the work).
+Replays you trigger from your dead-letter queue.
doesn't
—Schema mismatches dropped at the door.
—Rate-limited bursts beyond your cap (you get a 429).
—Internal retries on our side.
—Health checks and ping endpoints.
Reference
So you can guess your tier.
Rough order of magnitude. Real numbers depend on which event families you ingest and how much classify/enrich you opt into per family. If you're between two tiers, start lower and let overage decide.
1k/mo
a side project on the weekend
10k/mo
a beta cohort of one or two hundred users
100k/mo
a launched SaaS with a few events per session
500k/mo
a mid-market product or a chatty consumer app
5M/mo
telemetry-grade, a big consumer app
50M+/mo
ask us
Annual
Annual is twelve percent off.
The toggle is on the dashboard. There is no annual-only call. There is no annual-only feature. The discount is the discount.
Q&A
Questions we get, answered.
Q.What exactly is an event?
A.One payload reaching the pipeline. A user.signup, a webhook fire, an inbound email. We meter intake, not outputs. One event can fan out to four destinations and still costs one event.
Q.What doesn't count?
A.Anything dropped before the typed contract is met: schema mismatches, rate-limited bursts, internal retries on our side, health checks. Free.
Q.Is there a free trial?
A.Starter is free, indefinitely, up to 1,000 events a month. That is the trial. Run it for as long as you need; upgrade the month you need more.
Q.Annual pricing?
A.Twelve percent off across the board. The toggle is on the dashboard. There is no annual-only call, and no annual-only feature. The discount is the discount.
Q.Is any of it open source?
A.The SDK is — it runs in your code, so every line is on npm and GitHub. The pipeline engine and the dashboard are ours, run for you in the EU. You point the SDK at us; we run the rest.
Q.Volumes above 1M / mo?
A.Email us. We won't put you in a sequence. We'll draft a contract by the end of the day.
Q.How EU-hosted is EU-hosted?
A.Frankfurt (Hetzner) and Dublin (AWS eu-west-1). All processing, all storage, all backups, all logs. No vendor in the loop with US-side incident response.
Q.Refunds?
A.We refund unused event allowance, prorated to the day. No questions. Cancel from the dashboard.
Access
Ready when you are.
Start on starter. Upgrade the month you need more. Cancel from the dashboard the day you don't. The button below is the entire flow.