title: "Plan tiers & limits" description: "What you get on each BoxWatch plan: server count, push interval, retention, and per-feature caps." last_updated: "2026-05-24"
Plan tiers & limits
BoxWatch has four plans. Pricing scales with server count, but feature access — push interval, retention, TV dashboards, custom API endpoints — varies by tier.
Comparison
| Hobby | Pro | Team | Scale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $13/mo | $29/mo | $79/mo |
| Servers | 2 | 7 | 25 | 100 |
| Push interval | 60 min | 5 min | 5 min | 1 min |
| Retention | 24 hours | 7 days | 30 days | 90 days |
| TV dashboards | 0 | 3 | 6 | 25 |
| Custom API endpoints | 1 | 10 | 25 | Unlimited |
| Status pages | 0 | 3 | 10 | Unlimited |
| Cron checks | 20 | 100 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Watched processes / server | 10 | 50 | 100 | Unlimited |
| Uptime checks | 20 | 100 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Hobby — Free
Two servers, hourly push interval, 24 hours of retention. Cron checks, watched processes, and uptime checks are included with conservative caps. There are no TV dashboards or status pages on this tier.
Good for a personal VPS or a small home-lab. If you want to evaluate BoxWatch before paying, this is the tier to start on.
Pro — $13/mo
Seven servers, 5-minute push interval, 7 days of retention. TV dashboards (3), more custom endpoints (10), and synthetic uptime checks unlock here. Cron and process limits grow into "fits a small team" territory.
Pro is the typical sweet spot for indie hackers, freelancers running a handful of client servers, and small SaaS companies.
Team — $29/mo
Twenty-five servers, 5-minute push, 30 days of retention. Cron checks and uptime checks become unlimited, and TV dashboard count doubles. Status pages cap moves to 10.
Team is where most growing companies land — enough headroom for a typical fleet without thinking about per-resource caps.
Scale — $79/mo
A hundred servers, 1-minute push interval, 90 days of retention. Custom API endpoints and status pages become unlimited. Watched processes per server become unlimited.
Scale is built for production fleets where you want minute-level resolution and a long history for capacity planning.
Need more than 100 servers, or a longer retention window? Email [email protected] and we'll work something out.
What happens when you hit a cap?
- Server cap: adding a new server is blocked. Existing servers keep reporting.
- Cron / uptime / endpoint cap: creating new ones returns a
402from the API and shows an upgrade prompt in the dashboard. Existing ones keep working. - Process cap (per server): you can't add more watched processes to that server until you remove some.
Existing data is never deleted when you hit a cap. You just can't add more of the capped resource.
Downgrading
Downgrading is non-destructive. If you drop from Pro to Hobby with 5 servers, all 5 keep reporting — you just can't add a 6th until you upgrade or remove some. The same rule applies to cron checks, uptime checks, and watched processes.
A yellow banner in the dashboard will tell you when you're over the cap on your current plan.
Changing plans
Open Settings → Billing in the dashboard. Plan changes take effect immediately and are prorated by Stripe — you'll see the next invoice reflect the change.