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MeDo Now Bills Backends by Size, Daily — and Pauses Them When Credits Run Out

MeDo Now Bills Backends by Size, Daily — and Pauses Them When Credits Run Out
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MeDo Now Bills Backends by Size, Daily — and Pauses Them When Credits Run Out

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Disclosure: this post contains an affiliate link to MeDo. If you sign up through it we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Everything below was read from MeDo’s own changelog on 30 September 2026.

MeDo shipped a change on 23 September that most of its users will only notice when a bill arrives: backend resource plans. Instead of one backend size for everyone, Pro and Max users now pick between Low, Medium, High and Ultra, and the compute you get changes with the plan.

It is a small changelog entry with a lot of billing behaviour packed into it, and MeDo publishes no blog post about it. So here is what it actually means for your credits.

How the billing works now

The rules, as MeDo states them

  • Switching plan takes effect immediately — the new plan is billed from that day.
  • On a day the backend is used, you are charged that plan’s daily rate.
  • On a day it is not used, you are charged only for storage overage.
  • Assigned disk and object storage above the included quota are billed on top of the daily rate, whether or not the backend ran.
  • If your credits cannot cover the charge, the backend pauses.
  • The Free plan cannot switch backend plans at all.

The pause is the part worth planning around. MeDo does warn you: an email when your balance may not cover about seven more days, and another at roughly three days. But a paused backend is a stopped app, so if you have anything live on MeDo, those two emails are the ones you do not want filtered.

MeDo does not publish the daily rate for each tier in the changelog entry — you can see the current plan and switch it from the Backend panel in the editor. We are not quoting a figure we have not verified; check it against your own account before you budget.

Why a daily rate changes how you should build

Per-day billing on a per-size backend rewards a habit that per-month hosting does not: turning things off. A prototype you poke at twice a week costs roughly two days, not a month. A backend sized Ultra for a load test can go back to Low the same afternoon and the bill follows on the next day, not the next cycle.

It also means the cost of an idle project is not zero but close to it — storage overage only. That is a meaningfully different shape from platforms that charge a flat monthly fee per app, and it favours people who keep a lot of half-finished projects around.

The rest of MeDo’s September

The backend change was the biggest, but it was not the only one. Pulled from the changelog:

DateWhat shipped
23 SepBackend resource plans — Low / Medium / High / Ultra on Pro and Max, billed daily.
7 SepMobile Trash and payment recovery — Trash is reachable from mobile; a direct recovery action when a subscription payment fails; subscription cards now distinguish a billing-period issue from a failed payment.
7 SepSelf-service payment recovery — open the overdue invoice from Billing to pay or update the card, instead of being left with a disabled purchase button.
5 SepFixed lost replay state after an initial generation; notification indicator placement improved.
4 SepTrash and restore — deleted projects are kept for 30 days with a visible expiry countdown, then permanently deleted.
4 SepAsset library — folders, previews, and picking personal or official assets into chat.
4 SepConfigure Skills in chat — supply an API key or complete OAuth in a clarification card mid-conversation, then continue the same task.
4 SepBetter publishing errors and feedback dialogs.

Two of those are quietly significant. Trash with a 30-day window means a deleted MeDo project is recoverable, which was not previously true. And configuring a Skill without leaving the conversation removes the most annoying interruption in agent-style builders — being told mid-task to go and set up a credential somewhere else.

Worth knowing if you use MeDo

Do this now

  • Check which backend plan your projects are on — the default may not be what you want to pay for daily.
  • Make sure the email on your account is one you read. The 7-day and 3-day credit warnings are the only thing standing between you and a paused backend.
  • If you deleted a project in the last 30 days and regretted it, it is in Trash.

MeDo is at medo.dev if you want to look at the backend panel yourself.

What we could not verify

Open questions

  • The actual daily rate for Low, Medium, High and Ultra. The changelog names the tiers but not the prices.
  • What compute each tier includes — MeDo says “compute changes with the plan” without specifying CPU or memory.
  • The included storage quota, above which overage starts.
  • Whether a paused backend can be resumed instantly on top-up, or needs a redeploy.

If you have hit any of these in practice, tell us what you were charged — first-hand numbers are worth more than a changelog entry.

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