No egress fees

# Your data leaves when you say so, and it costs nothing to leave.

Egress is the fee that makes a database expensive in ways the price list does not show: every export, every backup you pull, every byte your app servers read from another network. Paid Lathe plans include 20 TB of traffic a month per instance, at the machine's full port speed; traffic is not separately billed. [Start Free - $0 ](https://app.lathe.live/login)[From $15 a month → ](https://lathe.live/pricing)

## The traffic is part of the machine. 20 TB a month, every paid plan The same allowance from Mini through Pro; Free has a smaller allowance. Inbound traffic is not counted at all. Full speed The allowance is not a throttle. The machine moves data at its port's speed until the allowance is used, not at a slower rate to save us money. Your own dumps and exports Run pg_dump, redis-cli, replication or a nightly export to storage you control whenever you like. It is your data and moving it is included. App servers anywhere Serve an app from another network, another cloud or another country and pay nothing per byte for the database traffic. Leaving If you move off Lathe, take your data the same way, at full speed, for nothing. A service you cannot afford to leave is not one you should stay with. Beyond the allowance Past 20 TB in a month we get in touch and talk. We do not bill for it.

## Good for

- Analytics and reporting jobs that read the whole database every night
- Pulling your own backups to storage you control
- App servers in another network or cloud reading from the database
- Moving a database in, or out, without a bill for the move

## Questions

**Is the allowance per instance or per account? **

Per paid instance, per month. Every paid instance carries its own 20 TB. Free has its own smaller allowance.

**Does inbound traffic count? **

Only outbound traffic counts toward the allowance; inbound doesn't.

**What if I go past it? **

We contact you and talk about what you are running. Overages aren't charged; the bill stays the same.

**Can I take my data out without paying anything? **

Yes. Dump it, replicate it or copy the backups. Outbound traffic within the allowance is included, and a move almost never comes close to it.

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## Related

- [Move a Postgres database with pg_dump and pg_restore ](https://docs.lathe.live/guides/migrate-postgres)

Moving a PostgreSQL database between providers in three commands: dump, restore, switch the connection string. What to check, and how to keep downtime short.
- [Plans, limits and policies ](https://docs.lathe.live/limits)

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## 20 TB of traffic included, from $15 a month.

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