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Sign up for Teams or Pro before October 15, 2023 to receive 20% off your first year of usage.

Community

Get to know what the BSR has to offer.
 

Free

 
  • One private repository
  • Unlimited public repositories
  • Community Slack channel support

Teams

20% off
Privately manage your team's APIs on the BSR.
 

$0.50

 $0.40

Everything in Community, plus:
  • Unlimited private repositories
  • Hosted custom plugins
  • Email support within 24 business hours

Pro

20% off
Have full control of a managed, private BSR instance.
 

$5.00

 $4.00

minimum spend of $1000/month
Everything in Teams, plus:
  • Private instance of the BSR
  • Unlimited organizations
  • Custom SSO with SAML and OIDC
  • Dedicated subdomain for your company
  • Email support within 4 business hours
  • Comprehensive audit logging
  • Server admin and bulk user management including SCIM

Enterprise

Rely on long term governance, deployment, and service commitments.
 

Custom

Everything in Pro, plus:
  • Full data isolation and dedicated resources
  • Custom resource & deployment commitments
  • White glove support with dedicated Slack channel
  • Dedicated Customer Engineer for your account
  • Robust governance, security, and admin features
  • Custom contract terms considered
  • Custom data retention policies
  • Custom maintenance windows

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Unlimited remote packages
Unlimited use of remote plugins
Runtime API access
Custom plugins
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Community Slack channel support
Email support response SLA*
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Uptime SLA
99%
99.5%
Security and Admin features
Custom subdomain
Access to SOC 2 Audit and Pen Test Reports
Single Sign-On with SAML and OIDC
Private instance
Server admin and bulk user management
SCIM
Comprehensive audit logging
Breaking change policy enforcement
Custom data retention requirements
Custom maintenance windows
Procurement support
Custom security and data privacy questionnaires
Custom contracting terms considered
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Frequently asked questions

What are Types?

Types are any of the following:

  • Messages
  • Enums
  • RPCs

For example, the following code has 6 types:

// 1
message Vehicle {
    string id = 1;
    Make make = 2;
}

// 2
enum Make {
    MAKE_UNSPECIFIED = 0;
    MAKE_ACME = 1;
}

// 3
message GetVehicleRequest {
    string id = 1;
}

// 4
message CreateVehicleRequest {
    Vehicle vehicle = 1;
}

service VehicleService {
    // 5
    rpc GetVehicle(GetVehicleRequest) returns (Vehicle);
    // 6
    rpc CreateVehicle(CreateVehicleRequest) returns (Vehicle);
}
What types are billed?
  • For Teams, any types within your organization that are in private repositories are billed.
  • For Pro, all types within your instance in public and private repositories are billed, as public repositories are still private to your instance. As an exception, all types within managed modules (such as googleapis) that Buf pushes to your instance on your behalf are not billed.
Why do you bill based on types?

We considered this carefully: types may not be the first thing that comes to mind in terms of how to charge. In the end, we chose types for one simple reason: we want to bill in the fairest manner possible. The value you get out of the BSR should be correlated to what you pay us, without worrying about how to structure your APIs for optimal billing. The volume of API definitions you have stored on the BSR correlates with your usage of the BSR, and messages, enums, and RPCs make up the core of a Protobuf API definition. While types are a bit more complicated to reason about, charging based on your actual usage of the BSR results in a fairer experience for everyone - no matter how many repositories or users you have, your billing remains correlated to how much you actually use the BSR.

How can I find out how many types I have?

Our CLI provides a tool to calculate this:

$ buf beta price

If your code works with buf lintbuf breaking, or buf generate, it will work with buf beta price. Run this command to estimate the cost of your APIs on the BSR, it's that simple. See the  installation instructions to get started with the Buf CLI. Note that the command is in beta, and may change - make sure you are using the latest version of the CLI for the most up-to-date pricing estimations!

How is usage calculated?

We calculate the average number of types over your billing cycle.

For example, on Teams:

  • If you have 100 types in private repositories during your billing cycle, you'll be billed $50 for the month.
  • If you have 100 types in private repositories for the first half of your billing cycle, and 200 types for the second half, you averaged 150 types over your billing cycle, and you'll be billed $75 for the month.

We want to ensure you're made aware when the number of types within your organization is higher than you expect. We know that mistakes happen, and we want you to be able to take corrective action as soon as possible. In order to receive notifications, you will need to configure usage alerts. Configure alerts on your organization settings page. Alerts will notify all organization admins via email when the configured threshold is exceeded.

Do nested types count?

Yes - in the Vehicle example below, your billing would be the same whether or not Make was nested within Vehicle:

// 1
message Vehicle {
    // 2
    enum Make {
        MAKE_UNSPECIFIED = 0;
        MAKE_ACME = 1;
    }
    string id = 1;
    Make make = 2;
}
Are there restrictions for private repos?

Community plan users and organizations may have 1 private repo with up to 100 types. Teams and Pro organizations are entitled to unlimited private repositories with no limit on the number of types.

Are there any paid plans for individual users?

Not yet— it's something we'd like to add in the future. For now, if you want to utilize the features of our paid plans, create an organization and use Teams or Pro.

Are types in drafts or tags counted?

No, types in drafts or tags are not currently counted toward your total types. If we count them in the future, we will ensure that types within drafts or tags are not double-billed.

Can I pay annually?

At this time we only offer annual billing on the Enterprise plan, but let us know if you'd like an annual option for Teams or Pro - we appreciate the feedback.

What if I have other questions?

Reach out to us! Email us at support@buf.build and we'd be happy to talk. Our business hours are 9am-5pm ET Monday to Friday, excluding holidays.