Preview branches should be included, not metered
A preview environment per pull request is now standard practice. Charging ~$9.60/mo for each one running turns a good habit into a line item you ration.
Per-PR preview environments are one of the best habits a team can build. Every pull request gets an isolated, real environment; reviewers click a link instead of imagining the change; bugs get caught before they merge.
So it is strange to price the habit like a vice.
The meter on a good idea
A continuously-running preview branch costs roughly $9.60/mo, and compute credits explicitly do not apply. Three open PRs is $28.80/mo. A busy repo with ten is nearly $100/mo — for the privilege of reviewing your own code properly. Predictably, teams respond by rationing previews, which quietly defeats the point of having them.
Included, swept, and scrubbed
Scribase previews are part of Pro and Scale, within plan caps:
- PR-linked — each pull request gets its own environment.
- TTL-swept — environments expire automatically, so you do not pay for branches you forgot to close.
- Secret-scrubbed — a preview never carries production secrets. A preview from prod is created in minutes with zero cloned secrets.
The goal is to make the good habit the frictionless one. You should open a preview because it helps, not weigh it against the invoice.
See how previews fit the flat plan on the pricing page.