Understanding Build Minutes
What are Build Minutes?
BuildGrid is Prepress’s integrated application builder. Whenever you build your application from source code you make use of a metered resource called Build Minutes.
Calculating Build Minutes
Usage of Build Minutes is calculated by measuring the exact time (to the nearest second) that it takes for your application(s) to build from code.
All other actions and functions do not consume BuildGrid minutes. This includes:
- Any time in the BuildGrid queue
- Time waiting for endpoints
- Time spent provisioning cloud resources
- Time spent publishing / deploying your application
Monthly Build Minutes
Each Prepress account has a quota of Build Minutes included which refreshes each month. The number of Minutes available depends on the kind of account you have:
- Trial accounts (4 weeks): 120 Build Minutes
- Paid accounts: 120 Build Minutes per month - shared across all your Prepress applications
Build Minute overages
All paid accounts can exceed their monthly quota of Build Minutes. You will be charged for overages based on the following formula:
(number of build minutes) x $0.005
So, for example, 4 extra hours of Build time would cost $1.20 (240 mins x half a cent per minute = $1.20).
Rounding up during billing
At the end of each billing period we add up all overages and then round up to the nearest dollar.
