Billing FAQ
How BuiltForProd is bought and billed, from the offerings note. Prices are not published on this site; BuiltForProd gives an offer and, if you accept, an invoice or an AWS Marketplace private offer.
How do I buy?
Two ways. Direct: you contact BuiltForProd, or BuiltForProd contacts you, over email or through the website; you receive an offer and, on acceptance, an invoice to pay directly. AWS Marketplace: you log in to the AWS account you want to pay from, request a private offer for the product you want, BuiltForProd validates the request and shares the offer, you review and accept it in AWS Marketplace, and BuiltForProd reaches out to start onboarding and delivery. The steps are on purchasing and licensing.
Why buy through AWS Marketplace?
The offerings note lists the benefits: pay with your AWS account, AWS consolidated billing, the ability to apply AWS discounts, meeting AWS spending commitments faster, and supporting open source.
What are the deployment tiers?
| Tier | What it includes |
|---|---|
| Tier 1, Standard Deployment | The complete multi-account AWS environment set up by BuiltForProd's team, full handover of the customized repositories, and the documentation set |
| Tier 2, Full Deployment with Blueprints | Everything in Tier 1 plus any two Blueprints (Web App, Data and ETL, Secrets today; more over time) |
| Tier 3, Blueprint Deployment | For existing Baseline customers who want an additional Blueprint deployed |
All three are one-time deployments, fully executed by BuiltForProd's team.
What are the Managed tiers and how are they billed?
| Tier | Billing |
|---|---|
| On-Demand | Pay per hour, only when needed, minimum 10 hours |
| Support SLA | Fixed price, pre-paid per year, 100 hours minimum, hours expire after one year; 30% saving compared to On-Demand |
| Team Augmentation | Part-time (4 hours per day) or full-time (8 hours per day); 6 or 12 months, billed monthly; the 12-month commitment saves about 10%, the full-time option about 17% |
Details are under support tiers and BuiltForProd Managed.
Is Managed required?
No. It is optional and post-deployment. A Baseline or Blueprint purchase hands over the repositories and documentation whether or not you buy a Managed tier.
What does the AWS bill contain after deployment?
AWS charges are yours and separate from BuiltForProd's fees. The platform is built with cost-aware defaults: cheap resilience is on, expensive features are off behind a switch whose comment states the price. Examples from the code:
- One NAT Gateway per AZ in the hub, about $32 per month per additional gateway; no NAT in spokes.
- AWS Network Firewall off (about $865 per month for three AZ endpoints plus $0.065 per GB when on); Transit Gateway inter-region peering off (about $36 per month per peering).
- Shield Advanced off ($3,000 per month with a one-year commitment); Inspector, Macie and the extra Security Hub standards off until needed, each with a usage-based price beside its switch.
- Multi-AZ data stores and ArgoCD high availability in staging and prod only (about $60 per month per extra DocumentDB instance, about $12 per month per extra Redis node, one extra
t3.mediumnode about $30 per month per stage); dev stays single-instance. - S3 gateway endpoints instead of paid interface endpoints; Client VPN off, single-AZ and split-tunnel when on; self-hosted runners on Spot, scaling to zero.
- 28 of 29 conformance packs off until needed.
When the INFRACOST_API_KEY secret is set in the landing-zone repository, the plan workflow also prices the change and posts a single cost comment on the pull request, rewritten on each push. The key is optional; without it those steps are skipped and the plan still passes.
Can I see what a switch costs before turning it on?
Yes. Every paid feature switch in network.hcl and security.hcl, and every sizing choice in a stage file, carries its approximate price in the comment next to it. git grep "@optional: " lists them.
What does the license allow?
The code is licensed under the Polyform Internal Use License: deploy, manage and modify it for your internal infrastructure and share it with your employees and contractors. You may not resell or sub-license it, host it publicly, use it to provide managed services to third parties, or remove the notices. Support questions are on the support FAQ.