# Upgrade Your Instance and Get More Capacities

04 Mar 2026 • 3 minutes

Junwen Feng

Engineer

Every InsForge project runs on a dedicated instance. As more developers build production-grade products on InsForge and their workloads continue to scale, the default NANO instance no longer meets everyone's needs. So we're introducing a range of more powerful instance types to help you build bigger and faster.

Beyond NANO, we now offer the following instance types:

| Instance Type | vCPU | RAM      | Price           |
|---------------|------|----------|-----------------|
| NANO          | 2    | 0.5 GB   | $0.0067 / hour  |
| Micro         | 2    | 1 GB     | $0.0134 / hour  |
| Small         | 2    | 2 GB     | $0.0268 / hour  |
| Medium        | 2    | 4 GB     | $0.0536 / hour  |
| Large         | 2    | 8 GB     | $0.1072 / hour  |
| XL            | 4    | 16 GB    | $0.2144 / hour  |
| 2XL           | 8    | 32 GB    | $0.4288 / hour  |
| 4XL           | 16   | 32 GB    | $0.8576 / hour  |
| 8XL           | 32   | 64 GB    | $1.7152 / hour  |
| 16XL          | 64   | 128 GB   | $3.4304 / hour  |

## How to Upgrade

For organizations on a paid plan, you can select your desired instance type when creating a new project — no separate upgrade step needed.

You can also upgrade an existing project at any time from the **Settings > Compute & Disk** page in your project dashboard.

## When Should You Upgrade?

Here are some signs it's time to move to a larger instance:

- **Database approaching row limits** — queries may start being throttled
- **Realtime connection count is high** — new subscribers may be dropped
- **The backend is running slow** — response times are climbing and your app needs more compute power

You can monitor all of these from the **Usage** tab in your project dashboard.

## Billing

Larger instances incur additional costs, but every paid organization receives **$10 / month in compute credits** that are automatically applied to offset instance usage. Upgrades are prorated — if you upgrade mid-cycle, you only pay the difference for the remaining days. Downgrades take effect at the start of the next billing cycle.

## What's Next

We're working on more infrastructure options including disk space customization and auto-scaling. Have feedback or questions? Reach out on our [roadmap](https://feedback.insforge.dev/roadmap) or at [support@insforge.com](mailto:support@insforge.com).