Payara Cloud Pricing

Overview

Payara Cloud uses a simple pricing model based on virtual CPU (vCPU) core usage. Usage is measured per minute and billed in 30-day cycles.

  • Minimum allocation: 0.25 vCPU cores

  • Maximum allocation per application: 4 vCPU cores

  • Base rate: $0.005 per vCPU core per minute (with volume discounts available)

Available Plans

Pay As You Go

  • Perfect for development and testing

  • Scale from 0 to 2 vCPU cores

  • No upfront costs

  • Pay only for what you use at $0.005 per vCPU minute

Standard Plan

  • Ideal for production workloads

  • Pre-pay for 2 vCPU cores

  • Scale up to 32 vCPU cores

  • Monthly fee: $432

  • Volume discounts for additional usage

  • Includes horizontal scaling

Premium Plan

  • Designed for large scale enterprise applications

  • Minimum 16 vCPU cores

  • Scale up to 64 vCPU cores

  • Monthly fee: $3,300

  • Includes 10x5 technical support

  • Lower per-minute rates

  • Includes horizontal scaling

Feature Comparison

Feature Pay As You Go Standard Premium

vCPU Range

0-2 cores

2-32 cores

16-64 cores

Custom Domains

yes

yes

yes

Log Retention

30 days

30 days

30 days

Export Retention

7 days

7 days

7 days

Horizontal Scaling

no

yes

yes

Technical Support (10x5)

no

no

yes

Price Per vCPU Minute

Usage Band Pay As You Go Standard Premium

Fixed fee

$0

$432

$3.300

0-60 vCPU days

$0.005

$0.005 (included in fixed fee)

$0.00477 (included in fixed fee)

60-120 vCPU days

 — 

$0.00463

120-240 vCPU days

$0.00445

240-480 vCPU days

$0.00429

480+ vCPU days

$0.00413

$0.00477

Cost Examples

Minimal Development Setup

  • Configuration: 0.25 vCPU cores

  • Monthly cost: $54

  • Can be optimized by starting/stopping the application as needed

Single Production Application

  • Configuration: 2 vCPU cores

Monthly cost: $0.005 * 2 * 60 * 24 * 30 = $432

Recommended minimum for production workloads

Large Scale Application

Configuration:

  • 2 applications × 2 vCPU cores each

  • 1 application × 0.5 vCPU cores

Total: 4.5 vCPU cores

Monthly cost breakdown:

  1. First 2 cores: $0.005 * 2 * 60 * 24 * 30 = $432

  2. Next 2 cores: $0.00477 * 2 * 60 * 24 * 30 = $400

  3. Additional 0.5 cores: $0.00445 * 0.5 * 60 * 24 * 30 = $96.12

Total Monthly Cost: $928.12

Notes

  • All prices are in USD

  • Billing occurs in 30-day cycles

  • Usage is calculated per minute

  • Applications can be scaled up or down within plan limits

  • Consider automated start/stop (through pcl) scheduling to optimize costs