What happens when my available credits finish?
Does the project stops or it continues live and my billing is automatically incremented?
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depends on what plan type you are on
if you're on the credit based plan and you exhaust all your credits your services and plugins get shut down.
if you're on the usage based plan, railway will always use up the available credits first, then charge your card
of course they send you an email before the charge will occur
and they also send emails for usage alerts
can I switch from usage-based to the credit-based plan?
that requires canceling your current plan and then upgrading to hobby again this time choosing the credit based plan
but honestly, i really don't see the appeal of the credit based plan
you have to manually load credits every month
so I have the chance to stop my services before the charge, without getting billed?
you get billed for what you use
you are welcome to remove the deployments if something goes wrong, but you still have to pay lol
but the usage alert is something like "you're about to pass your quota blablabla"? or it only notifies me that I already used all of my credits?
I think you're over worrying
cause if it is a "pre-alert", I would be able to stop the deployments
example
I only paid the hobby plan because of a college project, and since I've already finished it, I don't need it anymore, so I just want to keep it live until my credits stop
but as I'm in the usage-based plan, that is not possible
either plan requires you to pay a monthly fee
but the credit-based is not automatically charged
so I could just ignore, and it would shut down my deploy
yeah so then they'd just deactivate your plan and then once you want to resume you'd have to pay the unpaid bills
there's no gaining the system, if you don't want to be charged for anything you would have to cancel the plan yourself
got it, my bad, I didn't meant to "cheat", I was just worried for being billed without knowing it
thanks, @Brody!