Sevalla pricing & rate limits

• Sevalla scales from a hobbyist entry point at $5.00/mo with 0.25 GB of RAM, reaching enterprise-grade hardware at $3250.00/mo with 229 GB of RAM.
• The platform enforces a strict $0.30/GB penalty for storage exceeding the allocated 1 GB to 100 GB base limits.
• Egress consumption beyond included tiers is billed at a flat rate of $0.10/GB, which is consistent with regional pricing seen at Linode or Vultr.
• Compute resources scale linearly from 0.25 vCPU cores up to 58.5 vCPU cores, typically backed by standard EPYC or Xeon virtualized threads.

Managing database costs on Sevalla requires careful attention to the storage ceiling, as the maximum included 100 GB of disk space is quite restrictive for production-grade PostgreSQL or MySQL deployments. Once you exceed this threshold, the $0.30/GB overage rate accumulates quickly, making it a poor choice for high-volume logging or time-series data where tables grow indefinitely. While the memory allocations are generous and scale well for complex, memory-resident query sets, the storage bottleneck forces teams to implement aggressive archival or partitioning strategies early in the lifecycle. The hardware provides predictable performance, but the lack of high-capacity storage tiers forces a choice between paying significant overage fees or migrating to a block-storage-heavy provider.

These instances are best suited for small-to-medium application databases where the primary requirement is high memory availability for caching or complex joins rather than massive persistent storage. Avoid using this platform for data-heavy workloads where the cost per gigabyte of disk space will quickly erode the benefits of the lower-tier compute pricing. Teams running lean, compute-intensive microservices will find the resource-to-dollar ratio effective as long as they keep their dataset size within the initial 100 GB limit.