Wallet or a plan?

Usage on BoxLite Cloud can be funded two ways: from a prepaid wallet alone, or from a plan whose included quota covers usage first and whose wallet picks up the rest. Which one costs less is arithmetic, and it turns on a single number — your monthly usage.

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How funding works

Quota covers first, the wallet funds the rest. A box draws on this cycle’s included quota until the quota is gone, and on your prepaid wallet balance from then on. An account does not have to carry a plan. With no plan there is no included quota, and every dollar of usage comes straight out of the wallet — pay-as-you-go, in the ordinary sense.

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The plans

Each plan buys more usage than it costs, which is where the saving comes from: The last column is the quota minus the price. Once your usage passes a plan’s quota, that is exactly what the plan saves you against paying full price from the wallet, every month. Enterprise is negotiated rather than self-serve: custom limits and compliance review, arranged through [email protected]. A negotiated plan carries no public price, and an unlimited quota or concurrency shows as unlimited rather than as a number.

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Which one costs less

Look up what the console reports as spent this month, and three thresholds decide it: The first threshold is a plan’s own price: past $20 of usage, Starter's flat$19 beats paying full price from the wallet. The other two are crossovers against the previous plan’s total cost at that usage level, not against their own price — Starter’s $19 plus overage reaches Pro's flat$149 at $160, and Pro's reaches Max's at$600. Below a plan’s own price you are buying quota you will not use. These thresholds assume a typical month. If your usage swings — a heavy month followed by a quiet one — the plan price is charged either way, so size against your steady level rather than your peak.

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Concurrency is a separate decision

Concurrency caps how many boxes run at the same time — not how many you create over a month, and not how much work each one does. It is independent of quota: you can hit the limit with quota to spare, and exhaust quota while running a single box. If you are building an agent fleet, size against your fan-out. An orchestrator that runs 40 parallel agents, one box each, needs a plan whose limit clears 40 — Starter’s 20 will stall it halfway through the batch. So concurrency alone can push you onto a larger plan well before the money says to move. A fleet of 40 short-lived Small boxes might spend $60 a month — Starter territory on cost — while needing Pro’s 100-box limit to run at all.

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Changing plans

The direction of the change decides when it lands and what you are charged: Two details worth knowing before you act:

• A downgrade does not cost you this cycle’s quota. The quota you already paid for stays available until the cycle rolls, along with the current plan’s concurrency limit.
• A queued change can be called off. While a downgrade or cancellation is scheduled, the console offers to keep your current plan instead, which discards the queued change.

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Troubleshooting

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Next steps