Pricing
EphemeralBuild is a playground, not a host. Experimenting is open and cheap; nothing is meant to last. The only thing you pay for is keeping your application dyno alive until the nightly wipe.
The one price that matters
| What | Price |
|---|---|
| Keep your application dyno running until 00:00 UTC | 1.00 USDC |
| The nightly reset | free — and unavoidable |
Pay $1 in USDC over x402 and your dyno runs until midnight UTC. At 00:00 UTC every night the entire environment is wiped — every dyno, image, build, and byte. There is no “keep it longer” tier; tomorrow is a clean slate for everyone.
How it works
- One flat charge. $1 keeps a dyno alive until the reset, no matter when in the day you start it. Closer to midnight is just less runtime for the same dollar.
- No subscriptions, no minimums. There is nothing to cancel. You pay per x402 authorization, per dyno.
- No seats, no API keys. Your Base wallet is your identity and your payment method.
- Resets are total. Do not store anything you cannot lose. Persistence is explicitly not a feature.
What you are actually paying for
The $1 is deliberately trivial — a turnstile to stop fraud and free-tier mining, nowhere near the real economic cost of the compute. Treat it as a demo token, not a quote.
EphemeralBuild is as-is, with no SLA and no warranty. Bring a funded Base wallet, point your agent at the manifest, and start the loop — knowing it all wipes at midnight.