# Why we're giving away 100 times more cloud usage, free

DevFeed: [Why we're giving away 100 times more cloud usage, free](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/why-we-re-giving-away-100-times-more-cloud-usage-free-80446.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://posthog.com/blog/100-times-more-events>)

Author: James Hawkins

Published: 2021-05-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [PostHog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/posthog.md>)

Topics: [API Business Models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api-business-models.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>)

Tags: [business](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [developer-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-platform.md>)

## AI overview

PostHog is increasing its free Cloud allowance from 10,000 to 1 million ingested events per month. The article explains how free usage supports its open-core business model, when smaller teams may prefer Cloud to self-hosting, and how paid plans and self-hosted options fit as product usage grows.

## Source excerpt

Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free. That's up from 10k/month that we were offering...