PRICING

Use First, Pay for What You Use

No plan to choose. No upfront commitment. Register, design your landing zones with any profile, and pay after 30 days based on actual usage.

🎁 First 2 tasks free for one week — try Merlin risk-free, no credit card required
free for preview period
Simple
$1 /day

~$30/month per landing zone

Single team, cloud-native workloads with secure defaults.

  • Flat project structure
  • Standalone VPC
  • Essential IAM & logging
  • Budget alerts
Advanced
$10 /day

~$300/month per landing zone

Enterprise-grade with full regulatory compliance.

  • Multi-BU organization structure
  • Hub-spoke networking
  • VPC Service Controls
  • FedRAMP / Government ready
  • Dedicated Interconnect

You don't choose a plan. Each landing zone task uses the profile that fits your requirements. You're billed based on the profile each task actually uses.

How Billing Works

Rule Description
Register & Use Sign up and start designing landing zones immediately. No plan selection needed.
First Week Free Your first 2 tasks are free for one week — enough to evaluate whether Merlin is right for you.
Pay After 30 Days After 30 days, you're billed for actual usage. Each task is charged at the daily rate of its profile.
Profile = Complexity The profile (Simple, Standard, Advanced) is determined by your landing zone requirements, not chosen upfront.
Daily Rate Charged per calendar day per active task. For example: 5 Simple tasks = $5/day. 2 Standard + 1 Advanced = $16/day.
$30 Monthly Minimum Keeps your account active even with minimal usage.

Example Monthly Costs

Customer Type Tasks Profile Mix Monthly Cost
Startup POC 1 Simple $30 (minimum)
Growing SaaS 2 Standard $180
Mid-size Enterprise 3 1 Advanced + 2 Standard $480
Consulting Partner 10+ Mixed $1,000+

Team Features Included

Team collaboration included at no extra cost, regardless of profile.

Unlimited team members
Role-based access control
Workload distribution dashboard
Audit logging

Pricing FAQ

No. There are no plans to choose from. You register, use Merlin according to your requirements, and after 30 days you pay for what you used. The profile (Simple, Standard, Advanced) is determined by each landing zone's complexity, not selected upfront.

Your first 2 tasks are completely free for one week. This gives you enough time to evaluate Merlin and decide if it fits your needs. No credit card required. If Merlin isn't for you, simply stop using it — no charges, no questions.

After 30 days from registration. Your first invoice covers actual usage during that period (excluding the free trial tasks). You'll see your accumulated usage in your dashboard at any time.

The minimum keeps your account active. If your usage exceeds $30, you just pay actual usage.

Yes. Deleting a task stops billing for that task immediately — you're only charged for the calendar days it existed. If you delete a task mid-month, the remaining days of that month aren't billed for it.

You pay the minimum only for the billing cycle in which the task was active. If you delete your last task and don't create new ones, your account stays active but you won't be charged a minimum in the following month. There's no cancellation fee or contract.

Yes. You can focus on the sections that matter most to you — skipped sections use profile-appropriate defaults. You'll always get a complete, deployable output regardless of how many sections you manually configure.

The profile determines the default values and which advanced options are shown — not what you can access. A Simple profile starts with fewer options visible, but you can always switch to Expert mode for full control. The profile affects the daily rate, so choose the complexity level that matches your actual needs.

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